Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…
CASAS’ member Carlo John B. Arceo has published with Diana Peters this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyses the social reproduction of undocumented migrant workers within a stringent labour regime in an enclosed Malaysian oil palm plantation. It illustrates how capital and institutions tolerate irregular migration, creating an intergenerational labour…
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has published with Thabang Sefalafala this article in South African Review of Sociology. Abstract: Amidst global labour insecurity and rising unemployment, a growing body of scholarship has called for the decentring of wage-work from the social and political imagination. For some scholars, this has involved a recentring of the study of…
Kapil Yadav, CASAS’ member, has published an article in International Journal of the Commons. Abstract: Changing fire regimes amidst the planetary ecological crisis demand a rethinking of human-fire relationships. This rethinking has led to growing calls for moving away from anti-fire strategies and recognising the necessity of living with fire. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya,…
CASAS’ members Rahma Hassan, Mercedes Ejarque, Aayushi Malhotra, Carlos Bolomey Córdova, Leon Brenya Yeboah & Jackson Wachira have published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies as a part of the Forum: Food Sovereignty and Systems Change. Abstract: Pastoral systems are globally significant for their invaluable contributions to food systems and socio-economic and environmental…