CASAS’ members publications
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‘This settlement is just a launch pad to move to better city spaces’: radical sense of place and migration aspirations among youth migrants in the diaspora
CASAS’ member, Johannes Bhanye, has published an article with Abraham Matamanda & Ruvimbo Shayamunda in Comparative Migration Studies journal. Abstract: This ethnographic study investigates the perceptions of place and migration aspirations among young migrants within the Malawian diaspora in Lydiate, an informal settlement in Zimbabwe. Unlike traditional conceptions of diaspora that emphasize long-term settlement and…
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Book Review: “Recycling Class: The Contradictions of Inclusion in Urban Sustainability” by Manisha Anantharaman
Nikhil Deb, CASAS’ member, has published a book review in Contemporary Sociology. Abstract: In this book, Manisha Anantharaman scrutinizes consumer–driven environmentalism embraced by the affluent classes and elucidates how this variant of environmentalism falls short in effecting essential transformations, instead contributing to the marginalization, condescension, and stigmatization of the underprivileged and their environmental advocacy. To…
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Limits and possibilities of contemporary land struggles by Indigenous Peoples, Black Communities and Campesinxs in the Colombian Amazon
Itayosara Rojas Herrera, CASAS’ member, has published this article in the Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: In Colombia, rural working people’s struggles are led by Indigenous Peoples, Afro-Colombians, and Campesinxs, each with platforms for land claims. While these efforts have yielded significant titles and land areas, contradictions arise as the state’s and capital’s attempts to…
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The persistence of swidden cultivation and upland autonomyin Laos
Lamphay Inthakoun, CASAS’ member, has published in the Journal of Peasant Studies with her colleague Miles Kenney-Lazar. Abstract: Historically, swidden cultivation has been practiced sustainably in upland Southeast Asia. However, it has been condemned by governments as environmentally destructive and impoverishing, leading to a general decline. Nonetheless, swidden continues to be practiced in many upland…