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The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya
CASAS’ member Kapil Yadav has published this paper in Political Geography. Abstract: Recurrent disasters such as wildfires are increasingly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but this broad explanation often obscures the political choices that shape how disasters are recognised, governed, and instrumentalised. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya in India, where forest fires have become a…
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The spectacular global land rush: its character, extent and consequences
CASAS’ member Yunan Xu has published with Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Jennifer C. Franco & Tsegaye Moreda this article in the journal Globalizations. Abstract: The spectacular land rush is over, but land grabbing continues. It is likely to gain greater momentum in the near future. In this paper, we caution against conflating several key terms…