Outputs (145)

What the Russian Interventions in Syria and Ukraine Tell Us About the Relationship Between Putin and the West (2022)
Digital Artefact
Huland, G. What the Russian Interventions in Syria and Ukraine Tell Us About the Relationship Between Putin and the West

Since the Russian army crossed the Ukrainian border on February 24 – launching an unprovoked invasion that most analysts had deemed highly unlikely – Ukrainians have received sympathy from across the world. The acts of solidarity abound: thousands of... Read More about What the Russian Interventions in Syria and Ukraine Tell Us About the Relationship Between Putin and the West.

What's 'Left' of Lulism? (2022)
Newspaper / Magazine
Calvete Portela Barbosa, L. (2022). What's 'Left' of Lulism?. Steyning, West Sussex

Setting the sun on off-grid solar?: policy lessons from the Bangladesh solar home systems (SHS) programme (2022)
Journal Article
Hellqvist, L., & Heubaum, H. (2023). Setting the sun on off-grid solar?: policy lessons from the Bangladesh solar home systems (SHS) programme. Climate Policy, 23(1), 88-95. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2022.2056118

After decades of growth, the Bangladesh Solar Home Systems (SHS) programme, the world’s largest domestic solar off-grid electrification scheme which has frequently been heralded as a model for other developing countries, is in danger of collapsing as... Read More about Setting the sun on off-grid solar?: policy lessons from the Bangladesh solar home systems (SHS) programme.

When rainy day funds run dry: corruption and mismanagement of Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Roy, P., Watkins, M., Adenikinju, A., Oranye, N., Osagu, F., Omotosho, Y., Olubusoye, O., & Falobi, E. When rainy day funds run dry: corruption and mismanagement of Nigeria’s Excess Crude Account. London

Mitigation and transformation solutions to networked corruption in artisanal refining in the Niger Delta: retooling anti-corruption analysis for effective policy (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Roy, P., Sewell, A., & Dumnamene, F. Mitigation and transformation solutions to networked corruption in artisanal refining in the Niger Delta: retooling anti-corruption analysis for effective policy. London

A Commentary on Disruption as a State of Being and (Anti)Practice: Challenging ‘Resilience’ as the Late-Modern Recipe for Happiness (2022)
Journal Article
Edwards, N. (2022). A Commentary on Disruption as a State of Being and (Anti)Practice: Challenging ‘Resilience’ as the Late-Modern Recipe for Happiness. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 14(2020-2021), 14-24. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00037051

In this commentary, I challenge the popular notion of ‘resilience’ as the 21st century recipe for happiness. I do so through exploring ‘disruption’ as a political imaginary and practice, by which the narrative of resilience-equals-happiness can be di... Read More about A Commentary on Disruption as a State of Being and (Anti)Practice: Challenging ‘Resilience’ as the Late-Modern Recipe for Happiness.

Shared Fortunes: Why Britain, the European Union, and Africa Need One Another (2022)
Report
Westcott, N. (2022). Shared Fortunes: Why Britain, the European Union, and Africa Need One Another

The alternative to capitalism for global sustainability: Interview with The Know Show Podcast (2022)
Digital Artefact
Albert, M. (2022). The alternative to capitalism for global sustainability: Interview with The Know Show Podcast. [podcast]

Can we have an alternative system to Capitalism that enhances global sustainability? Is it possible to have capitalism that is not built on never ending capital growth?

Societal Contestations and Adaptations to the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan (2022)
Book Chapter
Dave, B. (2022). Societal Contestations and Adaptations to the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan. In D. Pavlićević, & N. Talmacs (Eds.), The China Question: Contestations and Adaptations (113-136). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9105-8_6

China’s launch of the Silk Road Economic Belt, part of its Belt and Road Initiative, has raised hopes as well as anxieties about China’s ever widening engagement in economic, political, security and sociocultural spheres and questions about the promi... Read More about Societal Contestations and Adaptations to the Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan.

Locke's Consuming Individual: A Theory of the Mixing Body (2022)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2022). Locke's Consuming Individual: A Theory of the Mixing Body. Theory and Event, 25(2), 419-443. https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0018

This article proposes that Locke’s basic property-making unit, and thus also contracting unit, is the household rather than the individual. Progressing through two parallel arguments concerning Locke’s theory of property—one focuses on the theory of... Read More about Locke's Consuming Individual: A Theory of the Mixing Body.