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Strategic Control and the Role of Executive Compensation in the Innovation or Financialization of Firms (2024)
Thesis
Hopkins, M. Strategic Control and the Role of Executive Compensation in the Innovation or Financialization of Firms. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Economists look to the middle of the 20th century as a period wherein the U.S. economy, driven by “Old Economy” firms, produced greater economic equality and strong economic growth. Since the 1980s, in spite of the development of “New Economy” firms,... Read More about Strategic Control and the Role of Executive Compensation in the Innovation or Financialization of Firms.

The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam (2024)
Book
Dyt, K. (2024). The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam. University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.14203768

The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the intricate workings of the Nguyễn court and its interact... Read More about The Nature of Kingship: The Weather-World in Nineteenth-Century Vietnam.

Imaging and imagining critical regionalism in Southeast Asian modern art during and beyond the Bandung Spirit (2024)
Thesis
Mey, V. A. C. Imaging and imagining critical regionalism in Southeast Asian modern art during and beyond the Bandung Spirit. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Many scholars, including the eminent Southeast Asian art historian TK Sabapathy, have criticised a lack of a critically regionalist approach to understanding modern art from Southeast Asia. However, within art and art history, little scholarship pers... Read More about Imaging and imagining critical regionalism in Southeast Asian modern art during and beyond the Bandung Spirit.

The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide (2024)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2024). The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide. Diacritics, 52(1), 140-150. https://doi.org/10.1353/dia.2024.a955192

This essay examines the pro-Palestine student encampment movement of 2024 within the framework of political debates concerning comparisons between Palestinian and Jewish historical experience. I turn to recent efforts to compare Gaza with the Warsaw... Read More about The Utility of Comparison in Resisting the Gaza Genocide.

Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody (2024)
Journal Article
Prabhudesai, A. (2024). Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(4), 1-11

The article aims to introduce the unpublished text Chandonuśāsana by Vāgbhaṭa, accompanied by his own commentary titled vivaraṇa. Two manuscripts of this text are available. The main points covered in this article include an overview of the manuscrip... Read More about Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody.

The Terāpanth's work on the Jain Āgamas (2024)
Journal Article
Balbir, N. (2024). The Terāpanth's work on the Jain Āgamas. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(5), 1-48

This paper is an attempt to show how strong and diverse the presence of the Āgamas has always been and remains in Terāpanthin scholarship. It starts with the earliest phases of its history, exploring the writings of the founder Ācārya Bhikṣu and then... Read More about The Terāpanth's work on the Jain Āgamas.

Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920 (2024)
Journal Article
Wright, M. (2024). Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920. Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, 4(2), https://doi.org/10.13169/jofstudindentleg.4.2.0021

Indian women represented something of a persistent problem for colonial officials. The Indian Government consistently emphasized the importance of obtaining high numbers of indentured women, as the lack of women on plantations was portrayed as leadin... Read More about Promiscuous, diseased and unfit: Discourses and embodiments of Indian indentured women across the British Empire, c. 1840–1920.

Reimagining History Learning: How AI could Empower Historians (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Gerteis, C. Reimagining History Learning: How AI could Empower Historians. London and Minneapolis

Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies offer the opportunity to reimagine how history is learned. These tools have the potential to empower non-technical historians to create engaging and personalized learning environments. Yet, the field remains... Read More about Reimagining History Learning: How AI could Empower Historians.

Multi-contextual perspectives on silence: a narrative case study (2024)
Journal Article
Seiko, H. (2024). Multi-contextual perspectives on silence: a narrative case study. Neofilolog, 63(2), 265-292. https://doi.org/10.14746/n.2024.63.2.3

This narrative case study explores ways a Japanese learner of English utilised multiple silences as an interactional resource, enhancing collaborative second language (L2) interaction beyond the classroom while studying abroad in the United Kingdom.... Read More about Multi-contextual perspectives on silence: a narrative case study.

Military Reform in Siam (2024)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2024). Military Reform in Siam. In H. Chehabi, & D. Motadel (Eds.), Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age (90-102). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198863298.003.0003

The evolution of secular military institutions in Siam drew heavily upon what were identified as the best models in the West, heavy investments in officer training (including sending Thais abroad for officer training) and technical training among the... Read More about Military Reform in Siam.

'Haptic games': the display of Qajar playing cards in the British Museum (2024)
Journal Article
Morris, N. 'Haptic games': the display of Qajar playing cards in the British Museum. Museum History Journal, 17(2), 186-206. https://doi.org/10.1080/19369816.2024.2440341

This article reviews the display furniture used to present Iranian playing cards in the British Museum's Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World. It examines the need for alternative approaches to Perso-Islamic material, as distinct from Eu... Read More about 'Haptic games': the display of Qajar playing cards in the British Museum.

From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric (2024)
Journal Article
Tahmasebian, K. (2024). From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric. Philological Encounters, 9(3/4), 346-374. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10060

This article explores the vernacularization of Arabic rhetorical embellishments by Persian rhetoricians, presenting it as an early instance of comparative literary theory emerging through translation. Focusing on the organizational figurative device... Read More about From Explication to Order: The Persian Vernacularization of Arabic Rhetoric.

Putting power in perspective: a systematic review of power dynamics in social-ecological traps (2024)
Journal Article
Lambert-Peck, M., Echaubard, P., Saito, O., & Nishi, M. (2024). Putting power in perspective: a systematic review of power dynamics in social-ecological traps. Discover Sustainability, 5, 515. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-024-00766-6

This paper explores the use of power and politics in empirical literature on social-ecological traps. Social-ecological traps describe conditions where self-reinforcing interactions between social and ecological elements perpetuate a system in an unf... Read More about Putting power in perspective: a systematic review of power dynamics in social-ecological traps.

Metaphors of Kingship in Ancient Jain Literature and Art (2024)
Journal Article
Krüger, P. F. (2024). Metaphors of Kingship in Ancient Jain Literature and Art. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(3), 1-21

Religion has no vocabulary to address its ultimate subject, the transcendent. Instead, religions draw on their immediate environment to address the subject metaphorically. In a metaphor, meaning is transferred from a tangible environment (source doma... Read More about Metaphors of Kingship in Ancient Jain Literature and Art.

Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century) (2024)
Journal Article
Restifo, A. (2024). Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century). International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(2), 1-22

In his Alaṅkāra-cintāmaṇi (“Wish-Granting Jewel of Ornament”), Ajitasena, a fifteenth-century Jain monk from the Digambara Senagaṇa lineage, connects the rise of sthāyi-bhāva (stable emotion) with different types of material karmas. This paper invest... Read More about Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century).