CASAS’ members publications
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The spectacular global land rush: its character, extent and consequences
CASAS’ member Yunan Xu has published with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco & Tsegaye Moreda this article in the journal Globalizations. Abstract: The spectacular land rush is over, but land grabbing continues. It is likely to gain greater momentum in the near future. In this paper, we caution against conflating several key terms…
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Revisiting Deere in an Extractivist Era: Agrarian Reform and Feminist Legacies in Coastal Ecuador
CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…
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Palawan and Sabah in the oil palm frontier: undocumented Filipino migrant workers and the social reproduction of labour
CASAS’ member Carlo John B. Arceo has published with Diana Peters this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyses the social reproduction of undocumented migrant workers within a stringent labour regime in an enclosed Malaysian oil palm plantation. It illustrates how capital and institutions tolerate irregular migration, creating an intergenerational labour…
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Reclaiming Wage-Work: Power, Subordination and Contestation among Africa’s Precarious Workers
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has published with Thabang Sefalafala this article in South African Review of Sociology. Abstract: Amidst global labour insecurity and rising unemployment, a growing body of scholarship has called for the decentring of wage-work from the social and political imagination. For some scholars, this has involved a recentring of the study of…