Yikwab Yikwabs, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Zenodo with Usman Umoru, Arokoyo Jacob Eniola & Moses Danjum Musa. Abstract: Nigeria has been thrown into a quagmire by a vicious cycle manifested in different forms of criminalities. The appalling carnage perpetrated by Boko Haram in the north and the wanton mayhem unleashed by militants…
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Book review: Recasting Workers’ Power Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age by Edward Webster and Lynford Dor
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has recently published a book review in the journal Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa. Abstract: The book reviewed, Recasting Workers’ Power by Eddie Webster with Lynford Dor, offers a hopeful respite from the millenarian narratives of the end of labour that have come to dominate contemporary debates on work in…
Waste commons in motion
Daren Shi-Chi Leung, CASAS’ member, has just published this article in Cultural Studies journal. Abstract: In thinking biowaste at the heart of commoning, this article juxtaposes the alarming escalation of the global waste crisis with the quiet history of repurposing food waste as pigswills in Hong Kong. It develops the notion of waste commons, in…
Gramsci’s relevance in the study of entrepreneurs and rural landowners’ representative organizations during Brazilian redemocratization (1986-1991)
Afonso Henrique de M. Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Portuguese in the journal Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios Agrarios. Abstract: The present work aims to discuss and present how Antonio Gramsci’s concept of extended State contributed as a theoretical and methodological tool for studying organizations of businessmen and rural landowners between 1986 and…
‘I Was Here Before You’: Politics of Belonging in A1 Villagised Farms of Zimbabwe
CASAS’ member, Malvern Marewo, has published an article with Senzeni Ncube in the Journal of Asian and African Studies. Abstract: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) of 2000 redistributed land previously owned by White farmers to the majority Black Zimbabweans. In understanding the dynamics of land ownership, various studies have been conducted, and these…