Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
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…
Chequen esta publicación por Saturnino Borras, Martha Carvajalino, Sergio Coronado (miembro de CASAS), Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín e Itayosara rojas Herrera (miembro de CASAS). Link: https://www.cinep.org.co/producto/reformar-la-reforma/ La reforma agraria vuelve a ser tema central en el debate político colombiano. Con un gobierno de izquierda por primera vez, existe la posibilidad de tomar medidas efectivas contra la concentración…