Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South
agrarian studies, global south, scholar-activists
CASAS’ member Dimas D Laksmana has published this chapter in the book “Revisiting Reflexivity Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond”. Abstract: Why is reflexivity needed to transform coloniality in participatory research? In this chapter I critically reflect on my shifting positionalities as an Indonesian field researcher and a doctoral researcher in Germany to argue that…
CASAS’ member, Bosman Batubara has published this article in Capitalism Nature Socialism. Abstract: This article uses value-based analysis to examine how landscape is subsumed under capital in Indonesia’s new capital city. It identifies three distinct yet interrelated phases which show the deepening processes of landscape subsumption under capital. First, on the basis of cutting down…
Dimas Dwi Laksmana has published this article in Engaging Science, Technology, & Society. Abstract: The Indonesian government has promoted several forms of alternative agriculture in response to the productivity orientation and top-down bureaucratic institutions in intensive agriculture. Implemented in the late 1980s, the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) marked a paradigm shift in that it focused…
Bosman Batubara, CASAS’ member, has published this article with Marie Belland & Michelle Kooy in Asia Pacific Pointview. Abstract: This article brings degrowth into conversation with urbanisation through our analysis of environmental transformations in the coastal Southern city of Semarang, Indonesia. We analyse two collective activisms to build a theoretical dialogue between degrowth and provincialised…
New book review! Bosman Batubara, CASAS’ member, has published a book review of “The Pulse of the Earth, Political Geology in Java” by Adam Bobbette in the Journal of Anthropological Research. Read his review here: https://doi.org/10.1086/729737