CASAS’ members publications
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Expansion of the agricultural frontier in Matopiba and Amela in the Laranjeiras territory (Piauí)
Anderson Silva, a member of CASAS, and colleagues have recently published their latest book chapter on the Sustainable Futures Collaborative website. Abstract: The book chapter discusses the expansion of agricultural frontiers in the Matopiba region and the r-existence (historical resistance) of the Akroá Gamela people in the Laranjeiras territory of South Piauí, Brazil. It highlights…
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Land, natural resources and the social reproduction of South Africa’s ‘relative surplus population’
Sithandiwe Yeni, a member of CASAS, has recently published her latest article in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: In the past few decades, there has been a renewed interest by feminist scholars in social reproduction. Global South scholars have argued that in agrarian societies of the global South that are marked by a high…
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Making Climate-Smart Cocoa Inclusive: Towards a Framework for Gender Transformation
New publication alert! Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey, Fautstina Adomaa, CASAS members, and colleagues have just published an article in the South African Review of Sociology. Abstract: Climate-Smart Cocoa (CSC), a strategic offshoot of the wider Climate-Smart Agriculture, is gaining ground in Ghana, a cocoa export-dependent country. CSC is imperative, given the rapidly declining forests, prolonged periods…
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Everyday processes of state-building in the Colombian Caribbean
New publication alert! In a new article in the Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Camilo Eduardo Espinosa Díaz (CASAS member) discusses the processes of state-building in the Colombian Caribbean. Abstract: This article focuses on the case of the community of Villa Gloria, located in the northern part of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia)…