Asia
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New Waves of Sugarcane Commercialisation: Unequal Forms of Exchange in a North Indian Village
CASAS’ member Kunal Munjal has published this article with Madhura Swaminathan in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: In Uttar Pradesh, the largest producer of sugarcane in India, the crop is grown on family farms and marketed under an outgrower model with state regulation. Higher productivity and production from a new ‘wonder’ variety, an expansion…
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Does “Feminization U Hypothesis” Hold? A Discussion on Women’s Work Participation in Rural India
CASAS’ member C. R. Yadu has published this paper in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy. Abstract: The Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Claudia Goldin in 2023 has renewed attention on issues of women’s work. In this context, this article critically revisits the debate on the declining participation of women in the rural labor…
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Review of “Circular ecologies: environmentalism and waste politics in Urban China by Amy Zhang”
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…
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Who is who in CASAS? Kunal Munjal
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…