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Violence, Conflict, Development: What's new? Shifting ideas and practice, 1989-2023 (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Cramer, C. Violence, Conflict, Development: What's new? Shifting ideas and practice, 1989-2023. London

Thinking and practice related to the connections between ‘development’ and violent conflict has evolved since the early 1990s. While giving some quantitative indication of trends, this paper primarily draws on a set of interviews with individuals wit... Read More about Violence, Conflict, Development: What's new? Shifting ideas and practice, 1989-2023.

Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka (2025)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., & Walton, O. (2025). Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka. Cultural Studies, 39(2), 269-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2437439

In this article we focus on human rights brokerage in Nepal and Sri Lanka – two countries undergoing different kinds of post-war crises, which opened spaces and demands for brokers. We zoom in on the lives of two individuals who became human rights b... Read More about Fixing the past, mediating the future? Human rights brokers in Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Europeanisation, border violence, counterinsurgency: Expanded geographies and reconnected histories across the Sahelo-Sahara and the Mediterranean (2025)
Book Chapter
Ould Moctar, H. (2025). Europeanisation, border violence, counterinsurgency: Expanded geographies and reconnected histories across the Sahelo-Sahara and the Mediterranean. In K. Aparna, D. Krivonos, & E. Pascucci (Eds.), Europeanisation as violence: Souths and Easts as method (51-67). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526174741.00009

Over the past two decades, the Mediterranean and the Sahelo-Sahara have seen levels of violence that are unprecedented in the recent history of these two regions. While the Mediterranean was converted into a mass grave post-2015, the Sahel has become... Read More about Europeanisation, border violence, counterinsurgency: Expanded geographies and reconnected histories across the Sahelo-Sahara and the Mediterranean.

A Synthesis and the Future of Moroccan Economy (2025)
Book Chapter
El Eynaoui, K., & Metiku, A. (in press). A Synthesis and the Future of Moroccan Economy. In K. El Eynaoui, & A. Metiku (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Moroccan Economy. Oxford University Press

The Introduction to the Moroccan Economy (2025)
Book Chapter
El Eynaoui, K., & Metiku, A. (in press). The Introduction to the Moroccan Economy. In K. El Eynaoui, & A. Metiku (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Moroccan Economy. Oxford University Press

A configurational comparative approach to unpuzzling social strain in refugee, asylum-seeking and host communities in Lebanon and Germany (2025)
Thesis
Rogers, T. A configurational comparative approach to unpuzzling social strain in refugee, asylum-seeking and host communities in Lebanon and Germany. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research investigates the negative experiences of refugee, asylum-seeking, and host communities in Lebanon and Germany and their vulnerability to Cognitive Opening, a response to a catalytic experience where individuals become willing to expose... Read More about A configurational comparative approach to unpuzzling social strain in refugee, asylum-seeking and host communities in Lebanon and Germany.

Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India (2025)
Thesis
Chakma, S. B. Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Conservation projects and displacement are two facets of the relationship between the state and the environment. Conservation projects aim to address the threats to the environment and its biodiversity that are undoubtedly real in contemporary times.... Read More about Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India.

Performance, consumption and production: state governance and the uses and meanings of water in the Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat, India (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Mollinga, P. M., & Deekshit, P. (2025). Performance, consumption and production: state governance and the uses and meanings of water in the Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat, India. Bonn and London

This paper analyses the performative, consumptive and productive uses and meanings of water in and of the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), a large dam with reservoir on the Narmada river, located at the border of Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh States, India... Read More about Performance, consumption and production: state governance and the uses and meanings of water in the Sardar Sarovar Project, Gujarat, India.