Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
CASAS’ member Daren Shi-Chi Leung has published this review of the book Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang in the Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: With intellectual rigor and ethnographic richness, Amy Zhang offers her much -anticipated monograph, Circular Ecologies: Environmentalism and Waste Politics in Urban China. In this…
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…