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Deploying air wings in biosecurity: the Nigerian Air Force’s crisis management response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Aina, F. (2025). Deploying air wings in biosecurity: the Nigerian Air Force’s crisis management response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2414009

Across the world, governments attempted to mitigate the effects of the crisis posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic following its outbreak. In some instances, these efforts have involved deploying the military in the enforcement of containment measur... Read More about Deploying air wings in biosecurity: the Nigerian Air Force’s crisis management response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (2025). Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 55(4), 699-710. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2433738

Considering the June 2024 general parliamentary election results in India, this article undertakes a broad discursive analysis of the parliamentary Communists, tracing their trajectory from the inception of independent India to the present day. It ar... Read More about Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists.

Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question (2024)
Journal Article
Tilley, L. (online). Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2024.2400352

The question of materialism – what it is, how it is studied and practised, and who takes it seriously enough – has long animated debates among Marxists and scholars of race and the colonial question. Today, our contemporary socioecological crises cha... Read More about Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question.

Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana (2024)
Journal Article
Asafu-Adjaye, P., & Rizzo, M. (2024). Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana. Review of African political economy, 51(182), 573-591. https://doi.org/10.62191/ROAPE-2024-0038

This article analyses donor-funded aid programmes to support trade unions’ work in the informal street food sector in Accra, also known as ‘chop bars’. It reviews the programmes that this aid entailed, against the backdrop of socioeconomic stratifica... Read More about Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana.