Enrique Castañón Ballivián is a Lecturer in International Development at the Institute of the Americas, University College London. He researches the dynamics, theory and politics of agrarian change and environmental governance in Latin America, with a focus on agribusiness expansion and resource politics. Enrique is an Editor of the Journal of Agrarian Change. To know…
Kapil Yadav (CASAS’ member) has published this article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: This study re-examines the role of fire in the Uttarakhand Himalaya through political ecology and critical agrarian studies. It emphasises the importance of understanding fire regimes in relation to ongoing agrarian change. Drawing on fieldwork conducted with rural communities, the…
Fizza Batool, CASAS’ member, has published with Rabia Nadir, Huda Javaid, Munir Ghazanfar, Soha Bashir & Huma Naeem an article in Geographien Südasiens. Abstract: This essay is based on the findings of a research started in 2018 to interrogate the rising number of rural migrant women working as maids in middle class homes in the…
Jens Lerche (SOAS, London), Surinder Jodhka (JNU), and Satendra Kumar (Inst. of Advanced Studies, Shimla), in conversation with Michael Levien (Johns Hopkins University). The Forum is organised by the Journal of Peasant Studies in partnership with the Department of Environmental Studies, Ashoka University, and the Department of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.