Mercedes Ejarque (CASAS’ member) has published with Liliana Barbosa this paper in Spanish in the journal Identidades. Abstract: This paper reconstructs the origins of organic production in the Comarca Andina del Paralelo 42º (Chubut – Río Negro) up to its institutionalisation, identifying the motivations and tensions involved in this process. Environmental history and political ecology…
Customary land tenure institutions and private capital relations in peri-urban Malawi: Intra-communal land commodification, institutional disruption, and land dispossession
CASAS’ member Sane Zuka has published an article in Cities journal. Abstract: Despite extensive research on the phenomenon of capitalist transformation of land use, debates over commodification of land into capitalist modes of relations persist. This paper responds to this ongoing debate that highlights how, while adequately engaging with large-scale land deals, the scholarship on…
The poverty debate in Kerala: Why eradication is never the end of the story
CR Yadu, CASAS’ member, has published this article in The News Minute. Abstract: A positive outcome of the current debate on poverty is that it has moved beyond academic discussions and into the realm of public political engagement. The discourse needs to move past individual deprivation and engage with the deeper inequalities in the distribution…
Rethinking exploitation and control in migrant labour regimes: The case of Filipino workers in a Malaysian oil palm plantation
CASAS’ member Carlo Arceo has published this article with Caroline Hambloch & Helena Pérez Niño in Agriculture and Human Values. Abstract: The expansion of oil palm farming in Southeast Asia has been premised on the mobilisation of both internal and transborder migrant labour. This paper examines labour relations on an oil palm plantation in Sabah,…
From Corvée to Wage Labor: Hybrid Labor Regimes in Egypt’s Sugar Industry, 1870s
Amr Khary, CASAS’ member has published this article in the International Labor and Working-Class History journal. Abstract: This article examines the large and modern sugar factories established in Egypt in the 1870s as multi-phased production sites that combined coerced peasant labor with the deployment of state of the art steam technology. These factories possessed the…





