Asia
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When Climate Risk Meets Green Development: Rethinking Climate Justice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH)
CASAS’ member Somashree Das wrote this piece about an intriguing question: to what extent can green development become true climate action when it is increasingly exposed to the climate crisis? The Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) is increasingly on the front lines of the climate crisis. In recent years, the region has witnessed a succession of…
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When Plantations Stop Looking Like Plantations: Fire, Plantation Logics, and Forest Use in the Uttarakhand Himalaya
Kapil Yadav (CASAS’ member) has published this article in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. Abstract: This study examines forest fires in the Indian Himalayan state of Uttarakhand by shifting attention from ignitions to the historical production of flammable landscapes. It situates contemporary fire regimes within longer histories of landscape transformation and everyday…
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Between compliance and contestation: Entanglements of co-option and resistance in the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
CASAS’ member Usman Ashraf has published this article in The Extractive Industries and Society journal. Abstract: This research demonstrates that co-option and resistance in extractive sectors are not mutually exclusive, but rather, they are co-produced and coexist as messy entanglements. The type of resistance analyzed here did not seek a mine closure but was instead…
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Epistemic evictions of nomadic pastoralists: policy promises for the children of the Bakarwal tribe in Jammu & Kashmir
New publication alert! CASAS’ member Afreen Gani Faridi has just published this article in Third World Quarterly. This paper explores the issue of hegemonic bias in education policies which invisibilises the lived environment of pastoralists Abstract: The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir is home to one of the largest pastoral transhumance communities in the…