agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
Malvern Kudakwashe Marewo has published this article in Africa Review. Abstract: This article examines how small-scale (A1 villagised model) farmers in Zimbabwe’s Fast-Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) are using social capital as a form of resilience in the context of an economic precarity. With limited state support, fiscal instability and the near absence of formal…
CASAS’ member Yunan Xu has published with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco & Tsegaye Moreda this article in the journal Globalizations. Abstract: The spectacular land rush is over, but land grabbing continues. It is likely to gain greater momentum in the near future. In this paper, we caution against conflating several key terms…
CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…
CASAS’ member Carlo John B. Arceo has published with Diana Peters this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This article analyses the social reproduction of undocumented migrant workers within a stringent labour regime in an enclosed Malaysian oil palm plantation. It illustrates how capital and institutions tolerate irregular migration, creating an intergenerational labour…
Ruth Castel-Branco, CASAS’ member, has published with Thabang Sefalafala this article in South African Review of Sociology. Abstract: Amidst global labour insecurity and rising unemployment, a growing body of scholarship has called for the decentring of wage-work from the social and political imagination. For some scholars, this has involved a recentring of the study of…