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New publication alert! Check out this recent article by Angela Serrano, CASAS member: Abstract: This paper investigates how some small-scale palm oil growers in northeast Colombia have managed to exercise partial autonomy from global markets while still participating in them. By comparing the varied experiences of these farmers, I find that, state-led land access and…
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…
Check out this research article by Amrita Sharma & Peerzada Raouf Ahmad in History of the Present. Link: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10253358 Histories of contagion reveal penetrating schisms in societies. Xenophobia, fear, and violence undergird such histories. Entwined with histories of colonialism, fears of contagion engender racism, casteism, objectification, sexism, misogyny, and religious and ethnic persecution. Crisis becomes…
Check out this chapter by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) & Avijit Chakrebarty, part of the Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology book series. Abstract This chapter analyses the Phulbari Movement, the largest ever anti-mining resistance in Bangladesh, and which forced the government to jettison a multi-billion dollar open-pit coal mining project in Phulbari, a region known…
The latest volume in the ICAS small book series has just been released today: Borras and Franco (2023) Scholar-Activism and Land Struggles. It’s in paperback but also in Open Access ebook edition.This book is about scholar-activism and political struggles for land. Scholar-activism is a way of working that tries to change society by combining the best…