Central America
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Contested Coffees: Arabica, Robusta, and the Narrative of High-Quality Coffee in Mexico
Claudia Oviedo Rodríguez, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Development Studies with Kees Jansen and Sietze Vellema. Abstract: This paper analyses a political debate that has emerged in Mexico regarding cultivation of two coffee species: arabica, which generates high quality coffee, and robusta, which generates high yields, but is of lower…
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Building Hype: libertarian cities, fictitious development, and speculative dispossession in El Salvador’s “Bitcoin City”
Julio Gutiérrez, CASAS’ member, has published this article in Antipode. Abstract: Libertarian city projects are emerging as a new trend in capitalist urbanisation. One aspect about this trend is their location in rural Global South regions. The former raises questions about the role of these projects in the global land grab. This paper analyses the…
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Thinking within and beyond the plantation: the making of a waterscape in Costa Rica
Soledad Castro-Vargas, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies Abstract: Where does a plantation begin, and where does it end? This article analyzes the making of the Diquís deltaic region in Costa Rica to interrogate temporal and spatial relationships in and through plantations. Grounded on ethnographic fieldwork, I trace the…