Papers, books, book chapters and reports from CASAS’ members
CASAS’ member, Gabriel Souza Bastos, has published this article in Portuguese in Resgate: Revista Interdisciplinar de Cultura Abstract: This article analyzes the persistence of a peasant class identity in a rural area of the Baixada Fluminense, manifested through oral history and reproduced by the local population over decades, based on conceptions of spontaneous philosophies and…
Afonso Henrique de Menezes Fernandes, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Spanish with Juanita Cuéllar Benavides in Revista Campo-Território. Abstract: During the first decades of the 21st century, there has been a growing interest in land investments for agricultural production, extractivist activities or speculative purposes, leading to global land grabbing processes. In Colombia, since…
Sandeepan Tripathy, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Contemporary South Asia. Abstract: Many economic and historical accounts mention the forms of capitalism in Surat. The paper argues that while capitalism has always been central to examining Surat, existing literature mainly focuses on the owners of capital and the relationships among them. The notions of…
Nikhil Deb, CASAS’ member, has published this book chapter in the Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences, edited by Duane A. Gill , Liesel A. Ritchie & Nnenia M. Campbell. Abstract: A noxious white cloud from a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, floated over nearby shanty towns…
Johannes I. Bhanye, CASAS’ member, has just published an article with Fidelis Udo, Balkissa Daouda Diallo & Maheshvari Naidu in Sustainable Development. Abstract: This paper employs a feminist political ecology and an intersectionality framework to examine the multiple dimensions of local women’s vulnerability and adaptation to climate change impacts in selected locations in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal…