Environmental justice
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Resisting fossil fuel extractivism: mapping diverse perspectives and their transformative possibilities
CASAS’ member Amod Shah has recently published this article in Third World Quarterly’. It argues that contemporary resistance to fossil fuel extractivism tends to be characterised by either a supply-side policy, just transition, or environmental justice oriented perspective. It also applies this typology of perspectives to analyse the diversity of anti-coal mobilisations in India, and…
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Waste pickers against pollution and public policy
Grettel Navas, CASAS’ member, has published this chapter with Francisco Venes in the book Contested Waste. Abstract: The favela of Cidade Estrutural in Brazil’s Federal District, home to a major landfill, has long relied on waste picking as a critical source of income for its inhabitants. However, the landfill poses severe health risks due to…
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The political ecology of oil and gas corporations: TotalEnergies and post-colonial exploitation to concentrate energy in industrial economies
Grettel Navas has published with Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Roberto Cantoni & Joan Martínez-Alier n Energy Research & Social Science. Abstract: Industrial economies require a steady supply of energy to reproduce and grow. Oil and gas companies fulfil that socio-economic function by constantly finding, extracting and transporting energy sources. The steady extraction and concentration of fossil resources…
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Bhopal disaster (India)
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…