Africa
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Governance at the margins of the state: contextualising the spatial and temporal realities of illegal mining in contemporary South Africa
Kennedy Manduna, CASAS’ member, has published this article in The Extractive Industries and Society journal. Abstract: This paper profiles the everyday experiences of illegal miners (zama zamas) in South Africa, with special emphasis on their efforts to govern at the margins of the state. Through deploying forms of peasant resistance against the state, zama zamas…
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Who is who in CASAS? Antoinette Danebaï Lamana
Antoinette Danebaï Lamana work focuses on the political economy of rural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa. She currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship at HUMA – Institute for Humanities in Africa at the University of Cape Town, where she expands her research on land governance, agrarian change, and the ethics of development. Her doctoral research, conducted at…
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Women smallholders build an agroecology food system: the construction of empowerment and food sovereignty
CASAS’ member, Chukwuma Ume, has published with Stefan Wahlen, Ernst-August Nuppenau & Stéphanie Domptail in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: We investigate how a group of women smallholder farmers built a food system alongside the industrial and the corporate-state-led global agri-food system. The paper shows how the adoption of agroecological practices makes possible the…
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The US-South Africa land appropriation dispute is shifting international alliances
CASAS’ member, Kennedy Manduna has published an article in Global Labour Column. The article analyses South Africa’s Expropriation Act enacted on 23 January 2025 and how it contrasts to Donald Trump’s aggressive foreign policy. Read the full text here: https://global-labour-university.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Manduna-South-Africa-PDF.docx.pdf