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The South African Negrophobia: Sub-imperial Blowback, Scapegoating and a Major Threat to Continental Unity
CASAS’ member Kennedy Manduna has published this post in the site of the International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies. Abstract: South Africa’s recurring xenophobic violence is not an isolated outbreak but a symptom of deeper structural fractures — economic inequality, political scapegoating, and the legacy of sub-imperial dominance. As retaliatory boycotts and legal challenges…
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When Climate Risk Meets Green Development: Rethinking Climate Justice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)
CASAS’ member Somashree Das wrote this piece about an intriguing question: to what extent can green development become true climate action when it is increasingly exposed to the climate crisis? The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is increasingly on the front lines of the climate crisis. In recent years, the region has witnessed a succession of…
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Rethinking humanitarianism: reflections from northern Kenya
‘What is the future of humanitarian aid and development?’ is central question today. The article written by CASAS’ member Rahma Hassan, Ian Scoones and Hussein Wario examines the limitations of both ‘classical humanitarianism’ and project-based ‘resilience humanitarianism’ approaches and compares these with ‘everyday humanitarianism’ where resilience is built from below in northern Kenya. Read the…
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Persistent indebtedness in the global cocoa chain: a socio-material perspective
CASAS’ member Faustina Obeng and Sietze Vellema have published “Persistent indebtedness in the global cocoa chain” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. This paper critically examines the conditions and practices that produce and reproduce relations of lending and borrowing and consequently indebtedness, which are closely linked to the question of what complicates changing this indebtedness.…