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The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions (2023)
Journal Article
Essex, S., Caprotti, F., de Groot, J., Phillips, J., Baker, L., Wolpe, P., & Reddy, Y. (2024). The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions. Urban Research & Practice, 14(4), 515-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2023.2261899

Critical to the trajectory and outcome of urban sustainable energy transitions is the ability of government institutions to foster conditions for change and innovation. In this paper, a theoretical perspective combining state power and local governan... Read More about The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions.

Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda (2023)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., Ballvé, T., & Meehan, P. (2024). Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 801-825. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2258808

A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the... Read More about Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda.

Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe (2023)
Journal Article
Newsham, A., Naess, L. O., Mutabazi, K., Shonhe, T., Boniface, G., & Bvute, T. (2024). Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Climate and Development, 16(5), 395-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2229775

Smallholder agricultural commercialization is a central objective across Africa, one linked to poverty reduction, sectoral transformation and increasingly, climate resilience and adaptation. There is much attention given to the extent to which agricu... Read More about Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2023). How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 42(2), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.7819

This article uses decisions about voting, including the decision not to vote, as a prism to consider what it means to be Gaddi in 21st-century Himachal Pradesh (H.P.). While the results of polls can tell us how people voted, they say little about the... Read More about How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.

Formal versus Informal Institutional Distance Impact on Strategic Assets Seeking Foreign M and A (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Shi, X., Chen, W., Chen, Z., & Wang, Z. (2023). Formal versus Informal Institutional Distance Impact on Strategic Assets Seeking Foreign M and A. Proceedings - Academy of Management, 2023(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2023.16829abstract

This study intends to probe into the influence of different specific dimensions under formal versus informal institutional distances on sub-motives of emerging-market (EM) multinational enterprises (MNEs) strategic-asset seeking (SAS), in order to ga... Read More about Formal versus Informal Institutional Distance Impact on Strategic Assets Seeking Foreign M and A.