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Barnstorming Frenchmen: the impact of Paris Université Club's U.S. tours and the role of the individual in sports diplomacy (2018)
Book Chapter
Krasnoff, L. S. (2018). Barnstorming Frenchmen: the impact of Paris Université Club's U.S. tours and the role of the individual in sports diplomacy. In J. S. Rofe (Ed.), Sport and diplomacy: Games within games (130-146). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526131058.003.0008

Meet Martin Feinberg, the sole American basketball player on the storied Paris Université Club (PUC) roster in 1956. That December, Feinberg organized a team tour through the American Midwest, the first such journey undertaken by a French basketball... Read More about Barnstorming Frenchmen: the impact of Paris Université Club's U.S. tours and the role of the individual in sports diplomacy.

The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria (2018)
Book
Ismail, S. (2018). The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139424721

Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on political power. In this book, Salwa Ismail examines the rationalities and mechanisms of governing throug... Read More about The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria.

Post-Colonial Republicanism and the Revival of a Paradigm (2018)
Journal Article
Ramgotra, M. (2018). Post-Colonial Republicanism and the Revival of a Paradigm. The Good Society: A Journal of Civic Studies, 26(1), 34-54. https://doi.org/10.5325/goodsociety.26.1.0034

Why did republicanism enjoy a revival in interest in the sixties and seventies and a “rediscovery” in the history of Western political thought? Over the twentieth century, many new states created through processes of decolonization conceptualized the... Read More about Post-Colonial Republicanism and the Revival of a Paradigm.

Disseminating the Policy Narrative of ‘Heritage under Threat’ in China (2018)
Journal Article
Maags, C. (2020). Disseminating the Policy Narrative of ‘Heritage under Threat’ in China. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 26(3), 273-290. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2018.1500559

Originating from within the UNESCO, narratives on ‘heritage under threat’ tell the story of how and why intangible cultural heritage (ICH) practices are valuable, why are they disappearing, and how they can be protected from destruction. Focusing on... Read More about Disseminating the Policy Narrative of ‘Heritage under Threat’ in China.