CASAS’ members publications
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Values and knowledges in decision-making on environmentally disruptive infrastructure projects: insights from large dams and mines
New publication alert!In their recently published article, Sharachchandra Lele, Daniela Del Bene, Duygu Avcı (CASAS member), Tatiana Roa-Avendaño, Brototi Roy, Geetanjoy Sahu, Maureen Harris, and Deborah Moore. Abstract: Large infrastructure projects generate irreducible trade-offs between different societal values towards nature. We asked what kinds of values and knowledges are articulated in decision-making around these projects,…
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Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector
New publication alert! Michael B. Dwyer and Vong Nanhthavong (CASAS member) have a new article in World Development titled ‘Making concessions pay? Historical vs. potential tax revenues from Laos’s rubber sector’. Abstract: Under-taxation has been a prominent feature of the global land rush, figuring centrally in early concerns that transnational land deals constitute a new…
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No Option but to Settle! The Community Land Act, Devolution and Pastoralism in Samburu County, Kenya
Rahma Hassan, CASAS’ member, and colleagues have just published a new article in Nomadic People. Their article examines the process of securing land rights for pastoralists in Kenya, applying the concept of sedentism to understand the impact of two recent changes in Kenyan land governance. Drawing on fieldwork among pastoralists living in Samburu County in…
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Al-ʿUcha: A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco
New publication alert! Fayrouz Yousfi, CASAS’ member, has published a new article in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, called “Al-ʿUcha: A Women Farmworkers’ Strategy for Gendering Workers’ Rights in Southern Morocco”. In this paper, she examines how women agricultural workers mobilize for their right to fair, and fairly compensated, work. Check this article: https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-abstract/19/1/112/343820/Al-UchaA-Women-Farmworkers-Strategy-for-Gendering