Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
New publication alert! Check out this just-published article by Gabriel Bastos (CASAS member), Luana Mariani de Aguiar Furtado, Maria Clara Pinho Valente, and Thales Arcoverde Treiger: Abstract: This article aims to demonstrate the importance of seeking truth, memory, and reparation for the peasants of Pedra Lisa, a rural area in Baixada Fluminense, in Rio de…
New publication alert! Check out this just-published article by Anderson Silva (CASAS member), Thais Lombardi, and José Wylk. Abstract: This article contributes to the current debate on the violation of human rights through the practice of green grabbing. The study reflects upon the situation of territorial insecurity and the struggle for territorial rights of the…
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…