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Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia (2024)
Book Chapter
Whitham, B. (2024). Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia. In A. Easat-Daas, & I. Zempi (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia (29-53). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52022-8_3

Women disproportionately bear the brunt of Islamophobic racism in the UK. Scholarly explanations of this compound inequality, influenced by Jasmine Zine’s pioneering work on gendered Islamophobia in Canada, often point to the fact that women may bear... Read More about Political, Colonial, and Libidinal Economies of Gendered Islamophobia.

Taiwan in 2023: Sandwiched between Local and National Elections (2024)
Journal Article
Fell, D. (2024). Taiwan in 2023: Sandwiched between Local and National Elections. Asian Survey, 64(2), 246-255. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2024.64.2.246

This article reviews the key political developments in Taiwan in 2023. Although no elections were held this year, elections dominated the political agenda. Once the candidates were selected, the main parties debated a range of issues, including Taiwa... Read More about Taiwan in 2023: Sandwiched between Local and National Elections.

How to Think Xi Jinping Thought (2024)
Book Chapter
Mittelstaedt, J. C., & Thornton, P. M. (2024). How to Think Xi Jinping Thought. In D. Lynch, & S. Rosen (Eds.), Chinese Politics: The Xi Jinping Difference (142-160). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257943-8

This chapter explores how Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is being developed and promoted at the grassroots of contemporary Chinese society. Two projects piloted in 2018 to propagate and disseminate Xi Jinpi... Read More about How to Think Xi Jinping Thought.

Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work (2024)
Book Chapter
Okech, A. (2024). Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work. In SAGE Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research (1-16). Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529691009

This case study proposes an expanded model of shadow research for collaborative field research. I draw on my experience on a collaborative pilot study on women associated with armed groups in Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria. This case study draws on the... Read More about Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work.

What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea (2024)
Journal Article
Hoffmann, A. (2024). What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea. European Journal of International Relations, 30(1), 27-51. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231151233

This article argues that spokespersons who claim to speak on behalf of a social group cannot escape the structural problem of delegation whereby speaking in someone’s name entails speaking instead of someone. This form of delegated and authorised sil... Read More about What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea.

The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage (2024)
Journal Article
Adamson, F. (2024). The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage. International Studies Quarterly, 68(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqad060

This article introduces and lays out a conflict assemblage framework for understanding the political geography of globalized civil wars. It suggests the utility of conceptualizing Turkey’s Kurdish conflict as an assemblage in which networked actors u... Read More about The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage.

Climate Change as Political Catastrophe: Before Collapse (2024)
Book
Mittiga, R. (2024). Climate Change as Political Catastrophe: Before Collapse. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192868879.001.0001

In a 2018 special report, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the world’s leading climate research body—warned of “catastrophic” outcomes unless states were to undertake “unprecedented” action “across all sectors of society” before 2030.... Read More about Climate Change as Political Catastrophe: Before Collapse.