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Saharan Sediment: Nation formation, urban development, and alter-imaginaries in the desert of Mauritania (2022)
Journal Article
Ould Moctar, H. (2022). Saharan Sediment: Nation formation, urban development, and alter-imaginaries in the desert of Mauritania. L'Ouest saharien (Revue. En ligne), 17(2), 67-90. https://doi.org/10.3917/ousa.222.0067

This article details the relationship between the Sahara Desert and the prominent national imaginary of Mauritania as “bridge”. It highlights four sedimented layers of this relationship. Firstly, the Sahara Desert provided the architects of the Mauri... Read More about Saharan Sediment: Nation formation, urban development, and alter-imaginaries in the desert of Mauritania.

The Role of Islam in Peace and Development in Somalia (Continuity and Change) (2022)
Journal Article
Omar, Y. S. (2022). The Role of Islam in Peace and Development in Somalia (Continuity and Change). Religions, 13(11), 1074. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13111074

Since 11 September 2001, Islam has been viewed as a threat to global stability rather than as a potential factor for peacebuilding and development. Therefore, most studies on Islam have been framed around security. Although research on the security t... Read More about The Role of Islam in Peace and Development in Somalia (Continuity and Change).

How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability? (2022)
Digital Artefact
Kinthaert, L., Bayrak, M., Dawson, A., Ekhator, E., Harman, O., Harvey, B., Ojino, J., Pereira, L., Schipper, E. L. F., Tanner, T., Telli, H., & Verdini, G. How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability?

Many people in North America or Europe experience the concept of sustainability as one of limits: limiting air travel, limiting consumption or type of goods, limiting choices – choices around what we eat, wear, or do. These sorts of attitudes, unfort... Read More about How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability?.

How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability? (2022)
Digital Artefact
Kinthaert, L., Bayrak, M., Dawson, A., Ekhator, E., Harman, O., Harvey, B., Ojino, J., Pereira, L., Schipper, E. L. F., Tanner, T., Telli, H., & Verdini, G. How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability?

Many people in North America or Europe experience the concept of sustainability as one of limits: limiting air travel, limiting consumption or type of goods, limiting choices – choices around what we eat, wear, or do. These sorts of attitudes, unfort... Read More about How can policy makers be globally inclusive when it comes to sustainability?.

Just transitions in cities and regions: a global agenda (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Phillips, J., Bouzarovski, S., Boamah, F., Fuller, S., Furlong, K., Knuth, S., Mould, I., Thomson, H., & Zheng, W. Just transitions in cities and regions: a global agenda. London

This report provides a global synthesis of evidence on justice in transitions to low-carbon energy systems and processes of urbanization. While cities are important sites of energy consumption, analysis of urbanisation offers explanations of how soci... Read More about Just transitions in cities and regions: a global agenda.

Just transitions in cities and regions: a global agenda (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Phillips, J., Bouzarovski, S., Boamah, F., Fuller, S., Furlong, K., Knuth, S., Mould, I., Thomson, H., & Zheng, W. Just transitions in cities and regions: a global agenda. London

This report provides a global synthesis of evidence on justice in transitions to low-carbon energy systems and processes of urbanization. While cities are important sites of energy consumption, analysis of urbanisation offers explanations of how soci... Read More about Just transitions in cities and regions: a global agenda.

The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour (2022)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A. (2022). The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour. Development and Change, 53(6), 1230-1253. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12736

This article proposes a reading of the COVID‐19 crisis through a social reproduction lens, with a focus on the restructuring of reproductive sectors, the world of work and the generation of differentiated surplus populations, and considers the implic... Read More about The Social Reproduction of Pandemic Surplus Populations and Global Development Narratives on Inequality and Informal Labour.