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…
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…
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,…
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…
Alonso Gutiérrez Navarro is studying for the Ph.D. in Rural Development and is a professor at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana -Xochimilco. He studied Biology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He received his Master’s degree from the Colegio de la Frontera Sur, where he researched peasant perspectives on fire management in an environmental conservation…