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Islamic Law and Empire (2018)
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(2018). Islamic Law and Empire. Leiden

Studies of Empire, as a mode of governance, a trans-historical reality and an enduring legacy of European colonialism, continue to generate an influential body of academic literature. Yet, accounts of multiple Muslim and non-Muslim imperial reformula... Read More about Islamic Law and Empire.

The modulus of elasticity: Islam, art and populism in postcolonial securitized Europe (2018)
Journal Article
Scott-Baumann, A. (2018). The modulus of elasticity: Islam, art and populism in postcolonial securitized Europe. Francosphères, 7(2), 147-162. https://doi.org/10.3828/franc.2018.11

Current public and political interactions are becoming increasingly populist, illustrating the great success of an approach that creates the belief that majority populations in Europe and USA are in fact beleaguered, as if they are a minority threate... Read More about The modulus of elasticity: Islam, art and populism in postcolonial securitized Europe.

Introduction. The Misleading Discovery of Japanese National Cinema (2018)
Journal Article
Centeno, M. (2018). Introduction. The Misleading Discovery of Japanese National Cinema. Arts, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.3390/arts7040087

The Western ‘discovery’ of Japanese cinema in the 1950s prompted scholars to articulate essentialist visions understanding its singularities as a result of its isolation from the rest of the world and its close links to local aesthetic and philosophi... Read More about Introduction. The Misleading Discovery of Japanese National Cinema.