Extractivism
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Increased Chinese investments in Zimbabwe’s lithium megaprojects: energy colonialism, geopolitics and new patterns of accumulation in Africa’s critical minerals
New publication alert! CASAS member Kennedy Manduna has just published this article in the Review of African Political Economy Abstract: Given China’s expanding presence in Africa’s extractive industry, this article considers why China is benefiting more than Zimbabwe from the significant increase in Chinese investment in the latter’s lithium megaprojects. The article explores energy colonialism…
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Body-Territory Mapping and Feminist Critical Outreach: Lessons from Uruguay
New publication alert! CASAS member Lorena Rodríguez Lezica has recently published this article in Agrarian South Network Research Bulletin with colleagues Gabriela Veras Iglesias, Nat Tommasino Comesaña, and Alicia Migliaro González. This contribution draws on a feminist experience developed in 2025 as part of the Omega Resilience Awards initiative and rooted in a broader process…
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Paguyuban Petani Lahan Pantai Opposing the Neoliberal Policy in the Kulon Progo Coastal Area
CASAS’ member Eka Zuni Lusi Astuti has published this article in Jurnal HAM 17. Abstract: The Government of Kulon Progo Regency and Jogja Magasa Iron, Ltd. announced its sand iron mining plan to the coastal community in Kulon Progo, Yogyakarta in 2006. The coastal farmers refused the plan due to the loss of agricultural land…
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Revisiting Deere in an Extractivist Era: Agrarian Reform and Feminist Legacies in Coastal Ecuador
CASAS’ member Natalia Landívar has published this article with Lynne Phillips in the Journal of Agrarian Change. Abstract: This article examines how campesinas in coastal Ecuador have navigated shifting labour roles, financial precarity and ecological degradation under Plan Tierras, a state-led land redistribution policy embedded in an extractivist model of agriculture. While Plan Tierras formally recognized women as land beneficiaries,…