agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
This article by Gabriel Souza Bastos[i], CASAS’ member, has originally been published in Portuguese in Boletim Memória No. 2, May 2025, a monthly outreach publication of the Research, Documentation, and Reference Center on Social Movements and Public Policies in Rural Areas (NMSPP), part of the Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences in Development, Agriculture, and Society…
Claudia Oviedo Rodríguez, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Development Studies with Kees Jansen and Sietze Vellema. Abstract: This paper analyses a political debate that has emerged in Mexico regarding cultivation of two coffee species: arabica, which generates high quality coffee, and robusta, which generates high yields, but is of lower…
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…