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Cultural Activism and the Politics of Place-Making (2013)
Journal Article
Buser, M., Bonura, C., Fannin, M., & Boyer, K. (2013). Cultural Activism and the Politics of Place-Making. City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action, 17(5), 606-627. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2013.827840

In this paper, we explore the relationship between creative practice, activism and urban place-making by considering the role they play in the construction of meaning in urban spaces. Through an analysis of two activist groups based in Stokes Croft,... Read More about Cultural Activism and the Politics of Place-Making.

A Progressive International Monetary System: Growth Enhancing, Speculation-Reducing and Cross-Country Equity (2013)
Book Chapter
Weeks, J. (2013). A Progressive International Monetary System: Growth Enhancing, Speculation-Reducing and Cross-Country Equity. In P. Arestis, & M. Sawyer (Eds.), Economic Policies, Governance and the New Economics (40-86). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137023513_2

After the government of the United States unilaterally ended the postwar monetary system of fixed exchange rates and capital controls in 1970, discussion waxed and waned over what should replace it. The various ad hoc responses have left the world in... Read More about A Progressive International Monetary System: Growth Enhancing, Speculation-Reducing and Cross-Country Equity.

Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic in an Age of Austerity (2013)
Book Chapter
O'Connell, P. (2013). Let Them Eat Cake: Socio-Economic in an Age of Austerity. In A. Nolan, R. O'Connell, & C. Harvey (Eds.), Human Rights and Public Finance : Budgets and the Promotion of Economic and Social Rights. Hart

Structural Learning: Embedding discoveries and the dynamics of production (2013)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A. (2014). Structural Learning: Embedding discoveries and the dynamics of production. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 29, 58-74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2013.09.003

Production and learning of productive knowledge are profoundly intertwined processes as the activation of either process triggers the other, very often implying interdependent transformations. The paper aims to open the ‘production black box’ by prop... Read More about Structural Learning: Embedding discoveries and the dynamics of production.

The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B.R. Ambedkar. Itineraries of Subalterns and Dalits (2013)
Book
Zene, C. (2013). C. Zene (Ed.). The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B.R. Ambedkar. Itineraries of Subalterns and Dalits. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203762035

Bridging two generations of scholarship on social inequality and modern political forms, this book examines the political philosophies of inclusion of subalterns/Dalits in Gramsci and Ambedkar’s political philosophies. It highlights the full range of... Read More about The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B.R. Ambedkar. Itineraries of Subalterns and Dalits.

The cost-effectiveness of supported employment for adults with autism in the United Kingdom (2013)
Journal Article
Mavranezouli, I., Megnin-Viggars, O., Cheema, N., Howlin, P., Baron-Cohen, S., & Pilling, S. (2014). The cost-effectiveness of supported employment for adults with autism in the United Kingdom. Autism, 18(8), 975-984. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361313505720

Adults with autism face high rates of unemployment. Supported employment enables individuals with autism to secure and maintain a paid job in a regular work environment. The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of supported em... Read More about The cost-effectiveness of supported employment for adults with autism in the United Kingdom.

Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality (2013)
Journal Article
Hawthorne, S. (2013). Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality. Religion and Gender, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1163/18785417-00302002

This paper examines the uneasy intersection between ‘religion’, ‘gender’ and ‘postcoloniality’ as it is staged in the field of religion and gender. Noting the lack of sustained attention in the field to those postcolonial challenges that might questi... Read More about Displacements: Religion, Gender, and the Catachrestic Demand of Postcoloniality.

Ainu 2009-2013 (2013)
Exhibition / Performance
Centeno, M., & Liverani, L. Ainu 2009-2013. [Photography Exhibition]. 14 October 2013 - 24 October 2013. (Unpublished)

The Ainu, the native people of Japan, were officially recognized as an ethnicity in 2008, after more than a century of discrimination and oppression which almost completely effaced their language, society and culture. Today several individuals and gr... Read More about Ainu 2009-2013.

Policy climates and climate policies: Analysing the politics of building urban climate change resilience (2013)
Journal Article
Bahadur, A., & Tanner, T. (2014). Policy climates and climate policies: Analysing the politics of building urban climate change resilience. Urban Climate, 7, 20-32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2013.08.004

This paper examines the process of building resilience to climate change in urban areas by scrutinising the manner in which initiatives to build resilience interact with the urban policy environments in which they unfold. The urban policy environment... Read More about Policy climates and climate policies: Analysing the politics of building urban climate change resilience.

Diversification by Urbanization: Tracing the Property-Finance Nexus in Dubai and the Gulf (2013)
Journal Article
Buckley, M., & Hanieh, A. (2013). Diversification by Urbanization: Tracing the Property-Finance Nexus in Dubai and the Gulf. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 38(1), 155-175. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12084

This article explores the role of liberalized real estate markets in shaping financial-sector development in the Arab Gulf region. Since 2001, record oil revenues and the inflow of repatriated wealth into the region have generated immense demand for... Read More about Diversification by Urbanization: Tracing the Property-Finance Nexus in Dubai and the Gulf.

A first account of tone in Myebon Sumtu Chin (2013)
Journal Article
Watkins, J. (2013). A first account of tone in Myebon Sumtu Chin. Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman area, 36(2), 97-127

Sumtu Chin is spoken by some 20–30,000 people in four townships southeast of Sittwe in Arakan State, western Burma. Close analysis of tone systems in other southern Chin languages has proved difficult because the tones vary greatly between dialect; t... Read More about A first account of tone in Myebon Sumtu Chin.

Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective (2013)
Journal Article
Ismail, S. (2013). Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective. Comparative Studies in Society and History, 55(4), 865-894. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417513000443

This paper investigates the role of urban subalterns both as participatory agents in the Arab revolutions and as mediating forces against revolutionary action. It argues that during revolutionary periods the positioning of subalterns as a political f... Read More about Urban Subalterns in the Arab Revolutions: Cairo and Damascus in Comparative Perspective.