CASAS’ members publications
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Reproducing Operational Landscapes: The Rock Mining for Indonesia’s New Capital City
CASAS’ member Bosman Batubara has published this article with Kei Otsuki, Femke Van Noorloos, Michelle Kooy, Annelies Zoomers in International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Abstract: Indonesia’s new capital city is designed to become a green and sustainable city. In this article, we examine the (un)sustainability of the process through which the city is…
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Private Land Ownership, Race and Class Consideration (1964-1985)
CASAS’ member Ricardo Brito has just published this article in Novos Estudos Cebrap, both in Portuguese and English. Abstract: Through the analysis of official documents, the notion of security is identified as central to characterizing the corporate-military dictatorship. By examining the conceptions and demands put forward by rural landowners, bureaucratic technicians, and military officials, we…
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New Waves of Sugarcane Commercialisation: Unequal Forms of Exchange in a North Indian Village
CASAS’ member Kunal Munjal has published this article with Madhura Swaminathan in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: In Uttar Pradesh, the largest producer of sugarcane in India, the crop is grown on family farms and marketed under an outgrower model with state regulation. Higher productivity and production from a new ‘wonder’ variety, an expansion…
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The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya
CASAS’ member Kapil Yadav has published this paper in Political Geography. Abstract: Recurrent disasters such as wildfires are increasingly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but this broad explanation often obscures the political choices that shape how disasters are recognised, governed, and instrumentalised. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya in India, where forest fires have become a…