Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
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Papers, books, book chapters and reports published by CASAS’ members
Amod Shah, CASAS` member, has a chapter in the just-released book Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. Abstract: Communities resisting large coal mining projects navigate the significant tensions between imperatives of urgent climate action and economic growth in complex and contingent ways. Drawing on empirical research in a mining region of Central-Eastern India, this paper…
New publication alert! Check out this recent article by Rama Dieng, CASAS member: This piece reviews the ‘Talking back: African feminism in dialogue’ interview series I conducted with 15 African feminist activists, policymakers, researchers and artists of diverse ages, genders, sexualities, ability and nationality in which they shared their visions, personal and institutional biographies and…
Suravee Nayak (CASAS member) has just published a new book chapter titled ‘Uneven and Combined Development and the Politics of Labour in an Eastern Indian Coalfield: Shifts and Changes from Late Colonialism to Neoliberalism’. Check out the full chapter here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111311418-008/html
Check out this critical new publication on “The Politics of Green Colonialism” co-edited by CASAS member Mary Ann Manahan: The time for denial is over. Across the Global North, the question of how we should respond to the climate crisis has been answered: with a shift to renewables, electric cars, carbon trading and hydrogen. Green…
New publication alert! In her article in The Journal of Peasant Studies, Sinem Kavak (CASAS member) provides insightful analyses of cross-class alliances in Turkey. Abstract: This article explores the complexities of agency in contemporary territory-based mobilisations in the countryside by focusing on water struggles in Turkey. Using a historical-spatial approach, it combines agrarian political economy…