Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
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…
Check out this JPS article by Carol Hernández (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). How do subsistence communities conceptualize their seed sovereignty? What do peasants perceive to be the principal threats to their seed sovereignty and how do they respond to these threats?; and How do local seed sovereignty initiatives relate to the…
Check out this Geoforum article by Carol Hernandez (National Autonomous University of Mexico & CASAS member). Abstract Violent conflicts are frequently associated with detrimental or neutral effects on economic, social, and environmental development; by extension, one might expect similar effects on agrobiodiversity. However, as this study suggests, the impacts of conflicts are not necessarily all…