Africa
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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…
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Politicising agricultural transformation through farmer groups’ everyday collective practices
CASAS’ member Sinem Kavak has published an article in the Journal of Rural Studies with Ronald Byaruhanga & Ellinor Isgren. Abstract: Farmer collectives, such as farmer groups, play a crucial role in advancing struggles for inclusive and sustainable rural development. Yet their potential to influence agricultural policies and practices remains undervalued. Drawing on focus group…
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Book Review: “The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968–1990” By Benedito Machava
CASAS’ member Boaventura Monjane has published this book review in South African Historical Journal. This book review states that: “In The Morality of Revolution, Benedito Luís Machava offers a groundbreaking and unsettling exploration of the carceral imagination of the Mozambican post independence state.(…) This work stands as a major contribution to Africal political history, the…
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Food Curtailed: Austerity, Socioeconomic Crises and Ghana’s School Feeding Programme
CASAS’ member, Dzifa Torvikey, has published a book chapter with Sylvia Ohene Marfo. Abstract: We study the effects of the programme’s discontinuation in 2020 on households, women and girls as well as the predominantly female farmers, vendors and caterers involved in the programme’s supply chain. We argue that the government’s responses exacerbated entrenched gender norms…