Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
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…
Check out this JPS article by Zeynep Ceren Eren Benlisoy (Sabanci University & CASAS member). Abstract: This article focuses on the particular intersection of crises and change in gender- and generation-based social reproduction with agrarian change in the form of a large-scale land grab/investment from a feminist perspective. Based on a case study, it interrogates…