Check out this new article by Mercedes Ejarque (CASAS member), María Guadalupe Lamisón and María Virginia Nessi. To face increasingly exclusive development models, collective and self-managing forms of production, work and access to food have appeared. In this article, we seek to understand how identity and organizational processes contribute to the persistence of these experiences…
Carlos Bolomey Córdova is a rural sociologist based in the Centre for Rural Economy at Newcastle University, UK. His interests lie at the intersection of family farming, agrarian change, agri-food systems, and ethnography. He has extensive experience conducting ethnographic and collaborative work within indigenous territories in Southern Chile. During his PhD, he researched farmers’ and…
Check out this new article by Mariana Reinach, from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and CASAS member. The article denounces that the indigenous Xokleng people of Brazil suffered death threats, discrimination, physical and verbal aggression from the population and municipal authorities of Rio do Oeste (Santa Catarina) when they opposed the…
Check out this research article by Amrita Sharma & Peerzada Raouf Ahmad in History of the Present. Link: https://doi.org/10.1215/21599785-10253358 Histories of contagion reveal penetrating schisms in societies. Xenophobia, fear, and violence undergird such histories. Entwined with histories of colonialism, fears of contagion engender racism, casteism, objectification, sexism, misogyny, and religious and ethnic persecution. Crisis becomes…
Check out this chapter by Nikhil Deb (CASAS member) & Avijit Chakrebarty, part of the Palgrave Studies in Green Criminology book series. Abstract This chapter analyses the Phulbari Movement, the largest ever anti-mining resistance in Bangladesh, and which forced the government to jettison a multi-billion dollar open-pit coal mining project in Phulbari, a region known…