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…
Category: CASAS’ members publications
Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
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…
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…
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)…
Enabling the energy transition technology politics institutions in indias energy system
Suravee Nayak, a member of CASAS, and colleagues have recently published their latest article on the Sustainable Futures Collaborative website. Abstract: This policy perspective paper makes a case for rethinking the configuration of technology,politics and institutions in Indian energy as a necessary complement to techno-economicsolutions for enabling the transition. To explain the configuration and suggest…