New publication alert! Atakan Büke, a CASAS member, and colleagues have just published an article in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Abstract: COVID-19 sharply exposed the vulnerabilities of capitalist-industrial agri-food relations and significantly intensified them. At the same time, we have also seen that agri-food relations can be resilient, that some…
Atakan Büke, a member of CASAS, M. Fatih Tatarİ, and Orkun Doğan have recently published their latest article in The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Abstract: This research examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Istanbul fresh fruit and vegetable provisioning between March and September 2020. In line with global…
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…
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…