Aayushi Malhotra has published this report with her colleagues in the CGIAR Issue Brief Series for Informing COP 29. Abstract: Women can be drivers of climate change responses when solutions like climate-smart agriculture are co-designed, for better productivity, adaptation and mitigation outcomes. Inclusive climate action needs more gender-disaggregated data. Gender data gaps severely limit design…
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Reimagining Travellers’ Airport Experience: Innovative Approaches for a Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Future
Johannes Bhanye, CASAS’ member, has published a chapter in the book Making Sense of Planning and Development for the Post-Pandemic Cities with his colleagues Mareli Hugo, Abraham Matamanda & Kgosi Mocwagae. Abstract: As the aviation industry recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, the ability of African airports to adapt and innovate has become even more critical….
Centering Emission Rights Expropriation and the Role of Unpaid Women’s Labour: Rethinking Climate Justice from an African Feminist Perspective
CASAS’ member, Natacha Bruna, has published a new article in Feminist Africa. Abstract: The implementation of market-based top-down climate mitigation policies is resulting in the expropriation of emission rights of non-polluters while fuelling accumulation by powerful actors. Redirecting political energy from African feminism to alternative non-extractivist climate solutions requires the recognition of the role of…
Doing urban research on ‘hard-to-reach’ populations during the COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and ethical dilemmas using digital ethnography as a new alternative
CASAS’ member, Johannes Bhanye, has recently published this article in Discover Global Society with Lameck Kachena, Abraham Matamanda & Ruvimbo Shayamunda. Abstract: This paper presents insights on conducting urban research amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the adoption of digital ethnography as an innovative and flexible approach. Drawing from an expanding body of literature on fieldwork…
The forgotten repression: peasants and the dictatorship in a rural area of the Baixada fluminense
Gabriel Souza Bastos, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese in the journal Ruris. Abstract: In this article, I analyze the memorialistic dynamics of repressive events carried out after the coup of 1964, whose target was peasant populations in a locality known as Pedra Lisa, currently in the municipality of Japeri, where land struggles…