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“Sounds like” redemption? On the musicality of species and the species of musicality (2025)
Journal Article
Rudge, A., & Yamin, T. (2025). “Sounds like” redemption? On the musicality of species and the species of musicality. Environmental Humanities, 16(3), 65-87. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11543407

Popular and academic studies of music frequently claim that human musicality arose from the so-called natural world of nonhuman species. And, amid the anxieties produced by the Anthropocene, it is thought that the possibility of reconnecting with the... Read More about “Sounds like” redemption? On the musicality of species and the species of musicality.

Torture’s Bureaucracy and the 'Legitimacy Effect' (2025)
Journal Article
Kotef, H., & Amir, M. (online). Torture’s Bureaucracy and the 'Legitimacy Effect'. Perspectives on Politics, https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592724001105

This article tells the story of one small department in the Israeli Ministry of Justice: “The Inspector for Complaints Against General Security Service (GSS) Interrogators” (in Hebrew: Mavtan). Tasked with examining complaints of torture in GSS inter... Read More about Torture’s Bureaucracy and the 'Legitimacy Effect'.

GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain (2025)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Anzolin, G. (online). GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain. Innovation and Development, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930x.2025.2468060

The paper contributes to the fast-growing literature on the structural dynamics of digitalization with a focus on robotization, and its heterogeneous diffusion and impact along and within global value chains. Specifically, building on an innovative g... Read More about GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain.

Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab (2025)
Book
Ouyang, W.-C. (2025). Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab. I. B. Tauris in Association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755657520

Literature has for thousands of years served as a space in which people have negotiated the ethics of daily life. In the Islamic tradition, the broad concept of adab spans ethical instruction and literary culture. Literature classified asadab was int... Read More about Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab.

The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2025). The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation. Journal of the African Literature Association, 19(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2025.2464416

In February 2023, Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho tweeted a cover of Muddassir S. Abdullahi’s yet-to-be-published Hausa-language translation of Coelho’s bestselling novel The Alchemist to his 15.2 million followers. At the same time Ibrahim Sheme was... Read More about The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation.

Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians (2025)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (online). Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462787

This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped defi... Read More about Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians.

Muslim Personal Law Reform in the Arab Region: 25 years into the 21st Century (2025)
Journal Article
Welchman, L., & Sharafeldin, M. Muslim Personal Law Reform in the Arab Region: 25 years into the 21st Century. Manuscript submitted for publication

This article reviews and analyses the fast-moving developments in Muslim Personal Status Law reform in the Arab region since the beginning of the 21st Century in light of extreme political contingencies occasioned inter alia by wars (often directly i... Read More about Muslim Personal Law Reform in the Arab Region: 25 years into the 21st Century.

Experiencing Posthuman Technoculture in Virtual Reality: A Theatrical Exploration of Kuro Tanino’s Emergency Rework (2025)
Journal Article
Proietti, L. (2025). Experiencing Posthuman Technoculture in Virtual Reality: A Theatrical Exploration of Kuro Tanino’s Emergency Rework. Body, space and technology journal, 24(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.18305

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted performing artists, compelling them to rethink how to create and present works. Many artists turned to digital technologies, maintaining a connection with audiences despite physical distancing. Virtual events emerged as... Read More about Experiencing Posthuman Technoculture in Virtual Reality: A Theatrical Exploration of Kuro Tanino’s Emergency Rework.

Confidence Game: Intelligence, Deception and Subterfuge (2025)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2025). Confidence Game: Intelligence, Deception and Subterfuge. In M. K. Barbier, & D. Showalter (Eds.), A Cultural History of War. Vol. 3: A Cultural History of War in the Renaissance. Bloombury

The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lo, Y., & Volz, U. The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders. London

This study investigates empirically the effect of disasters on capital flows, international reserves and exchange rates, and discusses implications for risk management and potential mitigation strategies. We define major disaster quarters as quarterl... Read More about The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders.

"Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World (2025)
Report
Kobayashi, Y. (2025). "Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World. German Council for Foreign Relations

We live in a challenging geoeconomic environment. Economic resilience and economic security have replaced globalization, yet Covid-19 and Deepseek have shown that the world is borderless. Geopolitically, tensions between the like-minded states of the... Read More about "Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World.

Race/Economy (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). Race/Economy. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. J. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Connection/Relation (2025)
Book Chapter
Nisancioglu, K. (2025). Connection/Relation. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press