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Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real. In S. Luther, P. B. Hartog, & C. E. Wilde (Eds.), Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences, 3rd c. BCE - 8th c. CE (251-268). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717488-013

This article discusses rabbinic perceptions of space and geography, showing how geographical information in rabbinic writings reflects the “local color” of these writings or rabbinic perceptions of the Land of Israel or other regions. This leads to t... Read More about Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real.

The role of language in diversifying knowledge production: Reflecting on the experience of Decolonial Subversions as a multilingual publishing platform (2023)
Journal Article
Istratii, R., & Hirmer, M. (2023). The role of language in diversifying knowledge production: Reflecting on the experience of Decolonial Subversions as a multilingual publishing platform

Decolonial Subversions was envisioned as a platform for the dissemination of decolonial perspectives by implementing a model that subverts current practices of knowledge production, validation and dissemination—both within and outside of academia. It... Read More about The role of language in diversifying knowledge production: Reflecting on the experience of Decolonial Subversions as a multilingual publishing platform.

Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan (2023)
Journal Article
Mustafa, D., Khan, M. S., De Nardi, H., Caron, J., Naz, A., Shinwari, M., & Gul, A. (2024). Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(2), 498-516. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486231203854

Water has been formulated as a resource or a hazard within water resources geography. We propose that reframing of water as hydro-heritage opens up richer analytical possibilities for examining the pluriverses and multiple ontologies that animate gen... Read More about Hydro-heritage for healing? Examining the gendered experience of water in post-conflict Swat, Pakistan.

Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law (2023)
Book
Bartles-Smith, A., Crosby, K., Harvey, P., Tilakaratne, A., Ratheiser, D., Trew, N. M., Travagnin, S., Harris, E. J., Deegalle, M., & Kilby, C. A. (Eds.). (2023). Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003439820

What guidance can Buddhism provide to those involved in armed conflict and to belligerents who must perhaps kill or be killed or defend their families, communities or countries from attack? How, moreover, does Buddhism compare with international huma... Read More about Buddhism and International Humanitarian Law.

Vernacularising Jainism: The Dharmaparīkṣā by Manohardās (2023)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2023). Vernacularising Jainism: The Dharmaparīkṣā by Manohardās. Religions of South Asia, 17(2), 183-204. https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.23301

This article argues that the religious and social developments of seventeenth-century Jain communities in northern India can be characterized as vernacularization. This is a process in which religious expression turns towards the quotidian, the local... Read More about Vernacularising Jainism: The Dharmaparīkṣā by Manohardās.

The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893 (2023)
Thesis
Lu, J. The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to overcome the essentialist conception of Chinese politics as inherently authoritarian, the modernist view of statism as representing a rupture in Chinese political culture, and the teleological reconstruction of modern Chinese hist... Read More about The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893.