CASAS’ members publications
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On financing social security in the shadow of the digital age
Ruth Castel-Branco (CASAS’ member) has published an article with Sarah Cook, Arabo K Ewinyu, and Thokozile Madonko in Global Social Policy. Abstract: Over the last decades, there has been a growing interest in the role of social protection as an instrument of inclusive growth. Much of the scholarship on the expansion of social protection has…
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Resilience from Below: Rethinking Development in Northern Kenya’s Pastoral Drylands
CASAS’ members Rahma Hassan & Jackson Wachira have published this article with Tahira Mohamed, Ian Scoones & Hussein Wario in The Journal of Development Studies Abstract: Based on in-depth field research in northern Kenya over three years, this article makes the case for a new approach to building resilience in the pastoral drylands. Past approaches…
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Science, movement and practice? Analytical keys to identifying the “social dimension” of agroecology
CASAS’ member Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach has published this article in Portuguese in Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura. Abstract: Although it has been agreed that agroecology can be understood as a movement, science and/or practice, this classification is insufficient in sociological terms. We sought to identify the political and ideological content of what is claimed…
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Agri-labour mobility in a changing climate: A systems approach to vulnerability and precarity among migrant farmworkers
Sinem Kavak (CASAS’ member) has published this article with Mine Işlar & Lennart Olsson in World Development. Abstract: This research explores the climate vulnerability of migrant farmworkers within the climate-sensitive commercial agriculture of the Mediterranean Basin, through a case study of Turkey. In Turkey a vast majority of the farmworkers belong to Kurdish and Arab…