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Curating the Return: What happens after restitution - a case study from Thailand (2025)
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Murphy, S. A. (2025). Curating the Return: What happens after restitution - a case study from Thailand. Museum and Society, 23(2), 35-53. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v23i2.4412

This paper examines the curatorial strategies employed in the wake of the restitution of two lintels from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco (AAMSF) to Thailand in 2021. Much of the debate and analysis on restitution focuses on the process itself.... Read More about Curating the Return: What happens after restitution - a case study from Thailand.

The Revamping of India’s ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ Regime: A Gateway to Inclusive Biodiversity Governance? (2025)
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Joshi, E., Patodi, I., & Pathak Broome, N. (2025). The Revamping of India’s ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ Regime: A Gateway to Inclusive Biodiversity Governance?. Law, environment and development journal, 21(2), 176-194. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00597394

Codified for the first time in the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992 (CBD), ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ (ABS) is a mechanism for ensuring that indigenous people and local communities (IPs & LCs) receive a share of the monetary benefits arising... Read More about The Revamping of India’s ‘Access and Benefit Sharing’ Regime: A Gateway to Inclusive Biodiversity Governance?.

Co-operation in polarized legislatures: (2025)
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Crewe, E., & Taylor-Robinson, M. (in press). Co-operation in polarized legislatures:. American Political Science Review,

Political work requires alliance-building, but antagonism and divisions dominate legislatures and society in many democracies. How do legislators handle being pulled in both directions simultaneously? We use the anthropological method of ethnography... Read More about Co-operation in polarized legislatures:.

Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine (2025)
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Kadhum, O. (2025). Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Comparative Migration Studies, 13(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00491-7

This paper examines the role of morality in migration and transnationalism, focussing on the case of Russian anti-war migration and activism against the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Putin’s regime. Drawing on moral philosophy and psychology, I... Read More about Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Mutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda (2025)
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Dasi Mariani, R., Rosati, F. C., & Scaramozzino, P. (in press). Mutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda. The Journal of Development Studies,

Refugees are mainly hosted in low-income countries, where they often remain for a long time. Therefore, it is important to assess whether they can integrate with the local economy, and whether their presence can contribute to the transition to a more... Read More about Mutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda.

Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt (2025)
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Kling, G., Lo, Y. C., Murinde, V., & Volz, U. (online). Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt. Oxford Open Economics, Article odaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/ooec/odaf003

We present the first systematic investigation of the impact of climate vulnerability on the cost of sovereign debt using a sample of 46 developing and advanced countries from 1996-2016. We find that a subgroup of 25 developing countries with higher e... Read More about Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt.

The arduous path to moneyness: Cryptocurrencies compared to mobile money (2025)
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Lapavitsas, C. (online). The arduous path to moneyness: Cryptocurrencies compared to mobile money. The Japanese Political Economy, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/2329194x.2025.2541950

Privately created money based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) emerged in the late 2000s at the same time as mobile money. The latter, exemplified by M-Pesa, has become a prevalent form of money in several countries, especially in Africa. DLT-b... Read More about The arduous path to moneyness: Cryptocurrencies compared to mobile money.

Towards an integrated model of change: Language contact, dialect contact, internal variation (2025)
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Lucas, C. (in press). Towards an integrated model of change: Language contact, dialect contact, internal variation. Transactions of the Philological Society,

This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, d... Read More about Towards an integrated model of change: Language contact, dialect contact, internal variation.

Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa (2025)
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Nolan, J. (2025). Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa. Cadernos de Linguística, 6(1), Article 791. https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n1.id791

This paper details the spread of two pidgins in North and West Africa in the 19th century. It highlights the contributions of two individuals, the US State Department envoy, William Brown Hodgson and the French colonialist, Louis Faidherbe. Although... Read More about Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa.

Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary (2025)
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Apaydin, F., Piroska, D., & Coban, M. K. (online). Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251361208

This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically control credit allocation. We argue that both leaders have instrumentalized the banking s... Read More about Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary.

Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta (2025)
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Williams, R. D. (online). Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1356186325000045

To this day, Wajid ‘Ali Shah (1822-1887), the last Nawab of Awadh, is either remembered as a hedonist and political failure who was forced to surrender his kingdom to the British East India Company, or as a musical genius and important patron of the... Read More about Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta.

Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains (2025)
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Thakur, G. (2025). Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains. Law, environment and development journal, 21(2), 635-651. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596804

The Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway Project is a major infrastructure project being undertaken in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh that is characterised by its limited railway connectivity. Keeping aside its nature as a public transit projec... Read More about Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains.

A Review of End-of-Life Vehicle Legal Framework in China (2025)
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Yang, J. (2025). A Review of End-of-Life Vehicle Legal Framework in China. Law, environment and development journal, 21(2), 616-634. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596779

Despite being the largest vehicle owner in the world, China faces significant challenges with its end-of-life vehicle (ELV) management. In its early stages, Chinese ELV legislation focused primarily on simple metal recycling, with limited considerat... Read More about A Review of End-of-Life Vehicle Legal Framework in China.

Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law (2025)
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Byer, A. (2025). Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law. Law, environment and development journal, 21(2), 157-175. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00593925

Recent scholarship on the environment has involved an examination of the role of Empire in shaping our relations with the natural world. Parks and protected areas were some of the earliest conservation mechanisms deployed by colonial authorities to p... Read More about Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law.

Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora (2025)
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Baley, J. (online). Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora. Language and linguistics = 語言暨語言學, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00246.bal

Large annotated corpora of Chinese rhymed poetry have recently become available, in part due to the development of automatic annotation techniques, such as Baley (2022). The availability of such annotated corpora makes possible the computer-assisted... Read More about Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora.

Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine (2025)
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Hafez, S., Clarke, A., Richter, K., Lokot, M., Rivas, A.-M., & Singh, N. S. (in press). Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(7), Article e0004833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004833

Despite a burgeoning discourse within the humanitarian health community regarding decolonisation, there remains lack of practical guidance for researchers seeking to decolonise their work. We conducted a qualitative study which aimed to explore the p... Read More about Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine.

Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels (2025)
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Hou, T. (online). Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels. South East Asia Research, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2025.2517550

This article examines the depiction of modern Burmese women in the novels of author Kyi Aye (1929–2016). To achieve this, it explores the interplay between gender, modernity and tradition in both her career as a writer and in the specific portrayals... Read More about Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels.

The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets (2025)
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Bruno, C. (2025). The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets. Chinese Literature and Thought Today, 56(1/2), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2025.2479345

By recognizing interconnectedness in the coexistence of multiple forms of life and by supporting the distinction and singularity of identities, models of ecological consciousness have been defining fruitful frameworks to analyze not only the relation... Read More about The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets.