CASAS’ members publications
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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.…
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Between ‘Liquids’ and ‘Poisons’: Sensory-Practical Rationality within the Social Representations of Pesticide Risk among Chilean Farmworkers
“Between ‘Liquids’ and ‘Poisons’: Sensory-Practical Rationality within the Social Representations of Pesticide Risk among Chilean Farmworkers” is the new article of CASAS’ member Grettel Navas & colleagues in the journal Social Science & Medicine. The article examine how 20 Chilean farmworkers in the Maule Region construct and organise their understanding of occupational pesticide exposure. Pesticides…
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Food, fuel, or forest? Interrogating the resource nexus dilemma behind deforestation through community-lived experiences in southern Malawi
CASAS’ member Yamikani Harry Makwinja has published this article with Patrick John O’Farrell, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Edeltraud Guenther in the journal Land Use Policy. Abstract: Local communities are widely blamed for the increasing deforestation in Malawi, primarily due to agricultural expansion and the increased use of biomass energy. Yet, there is limited evidence to…
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Book review: Migrant Workers in Turkish Agriculture: Patterns of Mobility and Dispossession (1990–2018) by Deniz Pelek
Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy (CASAS’ member) has reviewed this book authored by Deniz Pelek (also a CASAS’ member) in The Journal of Agrarian Change. Zeynep wrote in her review: “Rural Turkey has long been grappling with multiple crises. Neoliberal restructuring, forced displacement, conflict and war have resulted in the mass migration and dispossession of groups…