José Sobreiro Filho, CASAS’ member, has published a book in Portuguese with Fernando Luiz Araújo Sobrinho, Maria do Socorro Ferreira da Silva, Aline Albuquerque Jorge, Maria Luiza Araújo Lopes, Pedro Mendonça Carvalho Santos. Abstract: This publication addresses a set of elements that contribute to understanding not only the reality of populations affected by dams in…
Tag: Land reform
‘Capital grabs back’: towards a global research agenda on the land grabbing-land reform/restitution nexus
CASAS’ members Enrique Castañón Ballivián, George Tonderai Mudimu & Mnqobi Ngubane have published with Melanie Sommerville in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Capital is grabbing back land allocated through diverse national land reform and land restitution programmes globally. This article critically analyses this trend, which has so far received insufficient attention from land grab…
Factionalized Mobilization: Development Paradigm Shifts and Marginalization in Colombia
CASAS’ member Isabel Güiza-Gómez has published this article in Studies in Comparative International Development with Laura García-Montoya, & Arturo Chang. Abstract: Under which conditions do social movement coalitions factionalize under parallel, and possibly contending, frames? We argue that social movements split along opposing collective action frames when development paradigm shifts create distinct opportunities or threats…
‘I Was Here Before You’: Politics of Belonging in A1 Villagised Farms of Zimbabwe
CASAS’ member, Malvern Marewo, has published an article with Senzeni Ncube in the Journal of Asian and African Studies. Abstract: The Fast Track Land Reform Programme (FTLRP) of 2000 redistributed land previously owned by White farmers to the majority Black Zimbabweans. In understanding the dynamics of land ownership, various studies have been conducted, and these…




