Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
Check out this paper in The Journal of Peasant Studies by George T. Mudimu (CASAS member & PLAAS) et al. Abstract: There is no doubt that Zimbabwe’s Fast Track Land Reform Program resulted in repeasantization. As several studies point out, it also resulted in accumulation from below by a majority of the resettled peasantry. Our…
Check out this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies by Andrea P. Sosa Varrotti ( CONICET & CASAS member). 2021. Abstract: This article aims to examine the role of custom farming in the expansion of the agribusiness model in Argentina, and more specifically, of machinery contractors incorporated into productive ‘networks’ led by large-scale sowing…
Check out this article in the Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies by Daniela Ayelén Marini (Grand Valley State University & CASAS member). 2022. Abstract: This paper addresses whiteness in environmental imaginaries underpinning mainstream agroecology activism in Argentina. It examines the cultural politics of race and nature articulated by intellectual leaders during the period of…
Check out this open-access article in the Journal of Asian and African Studies by Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo (Center of African Studies, University of Cape Town, SA & CASAS members) et al. (2022). Abstract: This article examines the evolving nature of social and agrarian relations between A1 villagised beneficiaries of the Fast Track Land Reform in…
Check out this article at AGRO É FOGO by Diana Aguiar (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and CASAS member) and Mauricio Torres. From the infamous “Day of Fire” in August 2019 – when rural producers orchestrated a joint attack with fire against the forest – to the fires covering the sky of São Paulo with…