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Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012 (2015)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P. (2015). Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012. In O. Charnoz (Ed.), Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales (79-104). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592862-11

This chapter shows how the emergence of new international poverty reduction strategies at the turn of the 2000s put governance issues and their key principles at the forefront of the development agenda. It analyzes the transposition and customization... Read More about Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012.

Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate? (2015)
Journal Article
Sinha, S., & Varma, R. Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?. Critical Sociology, 43(4-5), 545-558. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920515616263

This article provides an introduction to the special issue, ‘Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What’s Left of the Debate?’ It casts a critical glance at the long history of engagements between Marxism and postcolonial theory that have been both collab... Read More about Marxism and Postcolonial Theory: What's Left of the Debate?.

A Brief History of ISIS (2015)
Journal Article
Hanieh, A. (2015). A Brief History of ISIS. Jacobin (Bronx, New York, N.Y. Print),

A Brief History of ISIS (2015)
Journal Article
Hanieh, A. (2015). A Brief History of ISIS. Jacobin (Bronx, New York, N.Y. Print),

Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika (2015)
Book Chapter
Jennings, M. (2015). Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (153-173). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089671.003.0008

Histories of colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa have tended to focus on the role of the colonial state in establishing and running health systems. Where voluntary agency roles have been considered, it has presented them as operating outside that... Read More about Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika.

The geography of poverty and climate extremes (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Wilkinson, E., Tanner, T., Simonet, C., & Pichon, F. The geography of poverty and climate extremes. London

This chapter presents the challenge of reducing extreme poverty under climate change. It argues that climate extremes are the manifestations of climate change most likely to affect poverty over the next 25 years, with impacts on lives, livelihoods an... Read More about The geography of poverty and climate extremes.

Livelihood resilience in a changing world – 6 global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future (2015)
Preprint / Working Paper
Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Tanner, T., van der Geest, K., & Warner, K. Livelihood resilience in a changing world – 6 global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future

2015 is a time for opportunity. The coming years will witness the development of three inter-related international policy frameworks around sustainable development, climate change and disasters. An international policy window for climate change and d... Read More about Livelihood resilience in a changing world – 6 global policy recommendations for a more sustainable future.