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Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The Bui Dam in Ghana and the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia. (2015)
Journal Article
Urban, F., Nordensvard, J., Siciliano, G., & Li, B. (2015). Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The Bui Dam in Ghana and the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia. Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, 2(3), 573-589. https://doi.org/10.1002/app5.103

There is a shortage of empirical studies on the relationship between Chinese hydropower dams and social sustainability. Comparative research on Chinese-funded and Chinese-built hydropower projects is rare. This article aims to fill parts of this gap... Read More about Chinese Overseas Hydropower Dams and Social Sustainability: The Bui Dam in Ghana and the Kamchay Dam in Cambodia..

Class struggle, the Maoists and the Indigenous Question in Nepal and India (2015)
Journal Article
Ismail, F., & Shah, A. (2015). Class struggle, the Maoists and the Indigenous Question in Nepal and India. Economic and political weekly, 50(35), 112-123

This article compares the Maoist movements in Nepal and India, with a focus on their respective relationship to indigenous politics. The unprecedented rise of indigeneity and ethnicity in post-war Nepal was, in large part, a consequence of the Maoist... Read More about Class struggle, the Maoists and the Indigenous Question in Nepal and India.

Class struggle, the Maoists and the Indigenous Question in Nepal and India (2015)
Journal Article
Ismail, F., & Shah, A. (2015). Class struggle, the Maoists and the Indigenous Question in Nepal and India. Economic and political weekly, 50(35), 112-123

This article compares the Maoist movements in Nepal and India, with a focus on their respective relationship to indigenous politics. The unprecedented rise of indigeneity and ethnicity in post-war Nepal was, in large part, a consequence of the Maoist... Read More about Class struggle, the Maoists and the Indigenous Question in Nepal and India.

Ensuring climate information guides long-term development (2015)
Journal Article
Jones, L., Dougill, A., Jones, R. G., Steynor, A., Watkiss, P., Kane, C., Koelle, B., Moufouma-Okia, W., Padgham, J., Ranger, N., Roux, J.-P., Suarez, P., Tanner, T., & Vincent, K. (2015). Ensuring climate information guides long-term development. Nature Climate Change, 5, 812-814. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2701

Many sub-Saharan countries are failing to include climate information in long-term development planning. Ensuring climate-resilient development requires a step change in how medium- to long-term climate information is produced, communicated and utili... Read More about Ensuring climate information guides long-term development.

Constructing identity through symbols by groups demanding self-determination: Bosnian Serbs and Iraqi Kurds (2015)
Journal Article
Kaya, Z., & Keranen, O. (2015). Constructing identity through symbols by groups demanding self-determination: Bosnian Serbs and Iraqi Kurds. Ethnopolitics, 14(5), 505-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449057.2015.1051817

This contribution revisits the question over which much ink has been spilled in the study of national self-determination; who are the people? More specifically, the authors ask how national identity in self-determination claims is constructed. Drawin... Read More about Constructing identity through symbols by groups demanding self-determination: Bosnian Serbs and Iraqi Kurds.

Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf (2015)
Book Chapter
Hanieh, A. (2015). Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf. In A. Ghazal, & J. Hanssen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672530.013.3

The Middle East’s pivotal position in a hydrocarbon-based global capitalism carries enormous ramifications for the region and the Gulf Arab states in particular. This chapter aims to present key debates associated with this transformation. It begins... Read More about Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf.