Soledad Castro-Vargas, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies
Abstract: Where does a plantation begin, and where does it end? This article analyzes the making of the Diquís deltaic region in Costa Rica to interrogate temporal and spatial relationships in and through plantations. Grounded on ethnographic fieldwork, I trace the material accumulation, flows, and overflows of water, sediment, and pesticides that shape sociological relationships in the delta. The paper explores how the waterscape has been dialectically produced by the logic and legacies of plantations since the United Fruit Company banana enclave, permeating people’s everyday lives. Plantations, I argue, (re)make subjects and territories in the waterscape far from their formal boundaries.
Read the full article here: https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2025.2452384
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The Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the Global South (CASAS) is a community of Scholar-Activists working in critical agrarian studies.