Qinhong Xu is a researcher with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands. She earned her PhD from the Water Resources Management Group at the same university, focusing on rural water governance in China. Her research includes political ecology, governmentality, and science and technology studies in water and environmental governance. Currently, she investigates the…
Nikhil Deb, CASAS’ member, has published this book chapter in the Encyclopedia of Technological Hazards and Disasters in the Social Sciences, edited by Duane A. Gill , Liesel A. Ritchie & Nnenia M. Campbell. Abstract: A noxious white cloud from a Union Carbide Corporation (UCC) pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, floated over nearby shanty towns…
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…
CASAS’ member, Phuong Hao Phan, has published a brief report with Yi’En Cheng in Asian Population Studies. Abstract: Vietnam and China have a shared history of collaboration and conflict, with economic interdependence becoming an important pillar in recent decades. China’s larger worldwide policy of economic and cultural expansion (or the ‘go-out strategy’) is crucial in…
New publication alert! Raouf Ahmad Peerzada and Amrita Sharma, CASAS’ members, have recently published an article in the Journal Human Geography with their colleagues Achintya Anita Gurumurthy, and Amulya Anita Gurumurthy. Abstract: Analyzing the trope of “light but tight” education frequently used in India’s New Education Policy 2020, this paper examines the mutually reinforcing ideological…