CASAS’ member, Natacha Bruna, has published a new article in Feminist Africa. Abstract: The implementation of market-based top-down climate mitigation policies is resulting in the expropriation of emission rights of non-polluters while fuelling accumulation by powerful actors. Redirecting political energy from African feminism to alternative non-extractivist climate solutions requires the recognition of the role of…
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Doing urban research on ‘hard-to-reach’ populations during the COVID-19 pandemic: advantages and ethical dilemmas using digital ethnography as a new alternative
CASAS’ member, Johannes Bhanye, has recently published this article in Discover Global Society with Lameck Kachena, Abraham Matamanda & Ruvimbo Shayamunda. Abstract: This paper presents insights on conducting urban research amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the adoption of digital ethnography as an innovative and flexible approach. Drawing from an expanding body of literature on fieldwork…
Action Research for Climate Justice: Challenging the Carbon Market and False Climate Solutions in Mozambique
Natacha Bruna and Boaventura Monjane, CASAS’ members, has written this chapter, which has been included in the book “Climate Justice and Participatory Research: building climate-resilient commons” edited by Patricia E. Perkins. This chapter seeks to highlight a new element in the rush for natural resources in countries like Mozambique: carbon. This new commodity, which is…
Implications of peri-urban land reform programs on urban land markets: a case study of Harare, Zimbabwe
Johannes Bhanye, CASAS’ member, has published an article with Abraham R. Matamanda, Jennilee Kohima & Elmond Bandauko in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications volume. The article addresses how Zimbabwe implemented the Fast-Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in the year 2000. This program has had far-reaching implications on urban development, especially on urban land markets in…
Farmer-Herder Conflict and International Crimes in Benue State, Nigeria
CASAS’ member Yikwab P. Yikwabs has published a new article with Nucha Suntai Gambo, Elyon E.S Maigoge, Alabura Mohammed Abdullahi in JALINGO, Journal of Social and Management Sciences. Abstract: From 2013-2018, the farmer-herder conflict in Benue State escalated to an unprecedented level with attendant destruction of lives and property. The gravity of the crimes committed…