Kunal Munjal is a Senior Research Fellow at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore, and a Ph.D. Scholar in Development Studies at IIT Hyderabad. His research focuses on class relations, rural industrialisation, agricultural commercialisation, and the role of the state, particularly the interactions between agrarian, merchant, and industrial classes. He is a research collaborator with…
Raya Das (CASAS’ member) has published with Sanchit Gupta & Ashok Gulati this report in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) Report. Abstract: Placing India’s experience in the global context, the report shows that China remains the dominant producer of fisheries, accounting for 39.7 per cent of global production in the…
CASAS’ members Huiying Ng & Dimas D. Laksmana have published this article with Christina Maria Cecilia M. Sayson in “Grassroots. Journal of Political Ecology”. Abstract: This visual essay offers a closer look at the relations shaping nature’s transformation into a commodity. By tracing reproductive relations of struggle, death, and resurgence, we underscore how commodity production…
CASAS’ member Fathun Karib has been interviewed by Jemma Purdey, Elisabeth Kramer, Tito Ambyo, Jacqui Baker, and Clara Siagian for Indonesia at Melbourne about a recent book. Bacaan Bumi is a book that emerged from conversations sparked by a groundbreaking summer school on critical environmental history at Gadjah Mada University—Indonesia’s first university program of its…
Guolin Gu (CASAS’ member) has published with Wen Fan an article in Land Use Policy. Abstract: Debates over state-led land expropriation in rural China often center on whether it constitutes victimization or empowerment. This paper reconciles these competing narratives by examining the health and well-being impacts of land expropriation on two groups: (1) individuals who…