Africa
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Rethinking humanitarianism: reflections from northern Kenya
‘What is the future of humanitarian aid and development?’ is central question today. The article written by CASAS’ member Rahma Hassan, Ian Scoones and Hussein Wario examines the limitations of both ‘classical humanitarianism’ and project-based ‘resilience humanitarianism’ approaches and compares these with ‘everyday humanitarianism’ where resilience is built from below in northern Kenya. Read the…
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Persistent indebtedness in the global cocoa chain: a socio-material perspective
CASAS’ member Faustina Obeng and Sietze Vellema have published “Persistent indebtedness in the global cocoa chain” in The Journal of Peasant Studies. This paper critically examines the conditions and practices that produce and reproduce relations of lending and borrowing and consequently indebtedness, which are closely linked to the question of what complicates changing this indebtedness.…
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Food, fuel, or forest? Interrogating the resource nexus dilemma behind deforestation through community-lived experiences in southern Malawi
CASAS’ member Yamikani Harry Makwinja has published this article with Patrick John O’Farrell, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi and Edeltraud Guenther in the journal Land Use Policy. Abstract: Local communities are widely blamed for the increasing deforestation in Malawi, primarily due to agricultural expansion and the increased use of biomass energy. Yet, there is limited evidence to…
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Increased Chinese investments in Zimbabwe’s lithium megaprojects: energy colonialism, geopolitics and new patterns of accumulation in Africa’s critical minerals
New publication alert! CASAS member Kennedy Manduna has just published this article in the Review of African Political Economy Abstract: Given China’s expanding presence in Africa’s extractive industry, this article considers why China is benefiting more than Zimbabwe from the significant increase in Chinese investment in the latter’s lithium megaprojects. The article explores energy colonialism…