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Small-scale solar is a big player in China’s clean energy mix (2014)
Digital Artefact
Urban, F. (2014). Small-scale solar is a big player in China’s clean energy mix. [China Dialogue]

The success story of solar water heaters is unlikely to get much attention. However, more than 30 million households in China are using them.

Cash transfers can work better than subsidies (2014)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2014). Cash transfers can work better than subsidies. The Hindu,

Capital Fixity and Mobility in Response to the 2008-09 Crisis: Variegated Neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey (2014)
Journal Article
Muñoz-Martínez, H., & Marois, T. (2014). Capital Fixity and Mobility in Response to the 2008-09 Crisis: Variegated Neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(6), 1102-1119. https://doi.org/10.1068/d13165p

This paper examines the responses to the 2008–09 global financial crisis in Mexico and Turkey as examples of variegated neoliberalism. The simultaneous interests of corporations and banks in the national fixing of capital and their mobility in the fo... Read More about Capital Fixity and Mobility in Response to the 2008-09 Crisis: Variegated Neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey.

Patriarchy, Power Distance, and Female Presidency in Liberia (2014)
Book Chapter
Pailey, R. N. (2014). Patriarchy, Power Distance, and Female Presidency in Liberia. In B. G. Jallow (Ed.), Leadership in Post-Colonial Africa: Trends Transformed by Independence (169-187). Palgrave Macmillan

Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace in Eastern Sri Lanka (2014)
Book
Spencer, J., Goodhand, J., Hasbullah, S., Klem, B., Korf, B., & de Silva, T. (2014). Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace in Eastern Sri Lanka. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt183p5r9

Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque is based on fieldwork in Sri Lanka’s most religiously diverse and politically troubled region in the clo... Read More about Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace in Eastern Sri Lanka.

On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from Egypt (2014)
Book Chapter
Banaji, J. (2014). On the Identity of Shahrālānyōzān in the Greek and Middle Persian Papyri from Egypt. In A. T. Schubert, & P. M. Sijpesteijn (Eds.), Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World (27-42). Brill

Economic Policies, Structural Change and the Roots of the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt (2014)
Journal Article
Bargawi, H. (2014). Economic Policies, Structural Change and the Roots of the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 10(3), 219-246. https://doi.org/10.1515/rmeef-2014-0034

This paper analyses the economic challenges facing Egypt in the post-Mubarak period, demonstrating the ways in which economic policy choices over the 2000s have contributed to the economic and social outcomes witnessed in the run up to the 2011 upris... Read More about Economic Policies, Structural Change and the Roots of the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt.

Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil (2014)
Book Chapter
Vergara-Camus, L. (2014). Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil. In T. Marois, & L. Pradella (Eds.), Polarising development : alternatives to neoliberalism and the crisis (169-179). Pluto Press

Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil (2014)
Book Chapter
Vergara-Camus, L. (2014). Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil. In T. Marois, & L. Pradella (Eds.), Polarising development : alternatives to neoliberalism and the crisis (169-179). Pluto Press

From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project (2014)
Journal Article
Brading, R. (2014). From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project. Latin American Perspectives, 41(6), 48-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X14521991

In December 2001, Hugo Chávez and others changed Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolutionary project, which consisted of replacing a corrupt and elitist constitution with a fair and popular one, into a radical one. In its early stages the project correspond... Read More about From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project.