CASAS’ members publications
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Immigrant farm workers, self-exploitation and social reproduction: the Lesotho–South African land-labour questions
Mnqobi Ngubane, CASAS’ member, has published an article in the Review of African Political Economy. Abstract: This article explores social relations of production and reproduction on redistributed farmland by examining capital–wage relations and social reproduction impacts of land redistribution induced small- and medium-scale capitalist farming on fragmented classes of gendered labour. Such diverse, historically determined,…
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The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile
Carlos Bolomey Córdova, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Rural Sociology. Abstract: This article seeks to challenge essentialist comprehensions of rural Indigenous communities through examining one particular Mapuche community who were the recipients of a land subsidy. Mapuche people are the largest Indigenous group in Chile. Since the 1990s, the Chilean government, responding to…
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Oral History, Collective Memories, and Class Identity in Agrarian Struggles in Baixada Fluminense
CASAS’ member, Gabriel Souza Bastos, has published this article in Portuguese in Resgate: Revista Interdisciplinar de Cultura Abstract: This article analyzes the persistence of a peasant class identity in a rural area of the Baixada Fluminense, manifested through oral history and reproduced by the local population over decades, based on conceptions of spontaneous philosophies and…
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The ‘Colombian Cerrado’ under construction: influences of the Brazilian agribusiness model on Altillanura production expansion
Afonso Henrique de Menezes Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Spanish with Juanita Cuéllar Benavides in Revista Campo-Território. Abstract: During the first decades of the 21st century, there has been a growing interest in land investments for agricultural production, extractivist activities or speculative purposes, leading to global land grabbing processes. In Colombia, since…