Guolin Gu, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Why do peasants refrain from resisting dispossession, even when faced with the loss of subsistence, minimal compensation, and limited state enforcement? This paper examines an ethnographic case of decade-long intra-village conflicts following partial land expropriation for railway construction in southwest…
CASAS’ member, Duygu Avci, has published this paper in English and Turkish with Fikret Adaman, Hande Paker, and Gökçe Yeniev. Abstract: In traditional land grabbing, an area is expropriated under the pretext of “common good. ”It is then typically sold or leased to for profit enterprises. You are left without your land, your home, or…
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has published with Seipati Mokhema & Edward Webster a chapter in the book Digital capitalism and its limits. Abstract: This chapter explores the transformative possibilities and limitations of emerging forms of organisation among workers on digital labour platforms. The chapter draws on an impressive collection of interdisciplinary research undertaken by the…
Antoinette Danebaï Lamana work focuses on the political economy of rural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. She currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, where she expands her research on land governance, agrarian change, and the ethics of development. Her doctoral research, conducted at…
Amaya Carrasco-Torrontegui, CASAS’ member, has published an article in Earth System Governance with her colleagues Carlos Andres Gallegos-Riofrío, Mario A. Moncayo-Altamirano, Andrea Terán-Valdez, Gustavo Redin-Guerrero, Carlos Varela, & Stephen Posner Abstract: Pachamama, Mother Earth, faces a mass extinction threat. A radical transformation in human systems is essential, guided by equity and justice at local and…