New publication alert! In a new article in the Australian Journal of Human Rights, Camilo Eduardo Espinosa Díaz (CASAS member) discusses the everyday human rights practices of Villa Gloria, a Black community located in the Colombian Caribbean. Abstract: This article addresses the everyday human rights practices of Villa Gloria, a Black community located in the…
Who is who in CASAS? Atakan Büke
Atakan Büke is a research affiliate at the Research Centre GlobalDynamics (ReCentGlobe) at Leipzig University, where he has recentlycompleted a three-year post-doc. He holds a PhD in sociology fromMiddle East Technical University (Ankara, Türkiye). Informed by socialtheory, sociological theories of capitalist modernity and development,critical agrifood studies, and more recently science and technologystudies, he works especially…
Intimate exclusion and pastoralist elites’ role in large scale-land acquisition in Kenya
Jackson Wachira, a member of CASAS, Paul Stacey, and George Oura have recently published their latest article in The Journal of Modern African Studies. Abstract: Many large-scale land acquisition studies focus on the role of powerful transnational corporations, foreign and domestic governments. Instead, we shift the focus to the role of local actors, in this…
Market–community collaborative wildlife management in Malawi: subjectivities and shifting configurations of protests and celebrations
New publication alert! Sane Zuka, a CASAS member, and Brenda Zuka have just published an article in GeoJournal. Abstract: Although wildlife management models across the world have since the early 1980s shifted from top-down fortress conservation to different labels of people-friendly community-based conservation, their outcomes remain contested. This paper explores how, and in whose interests,…
From banned bonds to hungry homes: Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among migrants
Johannes Bhanye, a member of CASAS have recently published his latest article in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food! Abstract: This paper examines the impacts that the COVID-19 pandemic and related bans on associational life had on the food security of migrants residing in informal settlements. Through ethnographic fieldwork at Lydiate informal…