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“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. (2025)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (online). Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251344229

Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases (2025)
Journal Article
Fajrini, R. (in press). Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 129 - 156. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506562

This paper analyses 321 civil environmental cases in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, identifying patterns and trends over the past decade. The findings reveal a growing public interest dimension in these civil cases, marked by the rise of public interes... Read More about Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases.

Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Grijalva, A. (in press). Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 110 - 128. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506557

In this essay I analyse some relationships among the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment. I show these relationships describing several rulings of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, and specially the Los Cedros judgement,... Read More about Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.

Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Morales Naranjo, V. (in press). Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 62 - 85. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506543

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize the rights of nature (RoN) in the Constitution. Seventeen years later, it is necessary to analyse the work carried out by nature defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court to deve... Read More about Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.

A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics (2025)
Journal Article
Solsø, K., Crewe, E., & Chauhan, K. (2025). A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics. International Journal of Action Research, 21(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v21i1.04

The influence of complexity theory on action research scholarship and practice has been kaleidoscopic. Further integrating ideas derived from the complexity sciences could enrich this research tradition, but there are choices to be made about what to... Read More about A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics.

Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment (2025)
Journal Article
Borda, R. D., & Oette, L. (2025). Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 17(2), Article huaf008. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaf008

Human rights non-governmental organizations played a critical role in the struggle for accountability for crimes against humanity committed by Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976–83). Notably, this impetus has also been brought to bear in focusin... Read More about Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment.

The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7 (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731653

South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. It is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists out of the globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation of the economy in general and of its Minerals-Ener... Read More about The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7.

Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making (2025)
Book Chapter
Mohamed, S., & Fine, B. (2025). Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making. In R. Herrera (Ed.), Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism (141-167). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020250000040010

In absolute terms, and relative to both hopes and potential, post-apartheid economic and social reproduction has been a disaster. A key element in explaining this is to situate it within an extraordinarily rapid and full adjustment, albeit with pecul... Read More about Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making.

Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Ngonge, D. N., Muigua, K., & Nyukuri, E. (in press). Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 001-015. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00505190

Historically, the semi-arid and dry regions of the Kenyan borders have experienced perennial conflicts that revolve around the scarce water-related resources both on land and in water but spread around Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in Africa.... Read More about Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya.

Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement (2025)
Journal Article
Yadav, P., Pillai, S., & Narayanan, N. (in press). Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 86 - 109. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506550

Water governance involves multiple challenges that are difficult to address with a single solution. This complexity in governing water resources in India, which makes it a wicked problem illustrated through two cases – first, groundwater exploitation... Read More about Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement.

Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities (2025)
Journal Article
Pranjol, M. Z. I., & Amir, A. (2025). Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities. Frontiers in Education, 10, Article 1550711. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1550711

This perspective paper draws attention toward an urgent issue, that is, decolonizing mental health language for South Asian communities. A quarter of the world speaks at least one South Asian language including the global South Asian diaspora and the... Read More about Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities.

Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Brandon, C., Kratzer, B., Aggarwal, A., & Heubaum, H. (2025). Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach

The paper shows how using the Triple Dividend of Resilience framework to evaluate the full benefits of 320 climate adaptation investments reveals their full value. Covering adaptation and resilience investments across 12 countries, the study finds th... Read More about Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach.

Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Kimani, P. (in press). Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 42 - 61. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506538

This article explores how Kenya’s carbon trading framework can be leveraged to support a Just Energy Transition (JET) that aligns climate action with socio economic equity. While Kenya is a leader in Africa’s voluntary carbon market, exemplified by i... Read More about Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya.