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A Cultural History of East Asia (6 vol) (2025)
Book
Gerteis, C., Nakajima, T., Pablo, B., Masaaki, I., Mio, K., Yasushi, O., Osamu, T., Zhang, X., & Shigeto, S. (Eds.). (in press). A Cultural History of East Asia (6 vol). Bloomsbury

Disentangling China's Infrastructure Investment in Africa: A Symbiotic Partnership or an Unequal Substitute for African Resources? (2025)
Journal Article
Bo, H., Johan, S., Lawal, R., & Sakariyahu, R. (online). Disentangling China's Infrastructure Investment in Africa: A Symbiotic Partnership or an Unequal Substitute for African Resources?. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12912

This paper examines how China's infrastructure investment influences African exports to China. We analyse data from 46 African countries and 14 industries that have received China's infrastructure investment from 2005 to 2019. Our results show that C... Read More about Disentangling China's Infrastructure Investment in Africa: A Symbiotic Partnership or an Unequal Substitute for African Resources?.

Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India (2025)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2025). Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India. In S. Rau, & J. Rüpke (Eds.), Handbook of Religion and Urbanity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.13901298

The city of Gurugram, the administrative headquarters of a district of the same name, is located in the state of Haryana. Gurugram adjoins the southern borders of Delhi and has been the site of intense urban development over the past two decades. Rap... Read More about Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India.

Competing visions of international order: responses to US power in a fracturing world (2025)
Book
Vinjamuri, L., Aydin-Duzgit, S., Bajpaee, C., Cooley, A., de Hoop Scheffer, A., Emmers, R., Fravel, M. T., Lind, J., Nasr, V., Quencez, M., Stelzenmuller, C., Stuenkel, O. D. C., Vakil, S., & Zarakol, A. (2025). L. Vinjamuri (Ed.). Competing visions of international order: responses to US power in a fracturing world. Chatham House. https://doi.org/10.55317/9781784136383

The ‘liberal international order’ that has been predominant, if often controversial, since 1945 is being challenged as never before. This reflects factors both long-standing and recent: the rise of China; the frustrations and ambitions of countries –... Read More about Competing visions of international order: responses to US power in a fracturing world.

The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence (2025)
Journal Article
Hoffmann, A. (online). The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence. Review of International Studies, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210525000117

Independent experts are routinely appointed by international organisations for specific short-term assignments. Existing scholarship has studied their career trajectories, accumulation of resources, and mobility across occupational settings to explai... Read More about The plural professional: How UN human rights experts construct their independence.

On the Final Days of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: A Study, Edition and Translation of an Anonymous Obituary (2025)
Journal Article
Shihadeh, A. (2025). On the Final Days of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: A Study, Edition and Translation of an Anonymous Obituary. Oriens: Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies, 52(3/4), 181-208. https://doi.org/10.1163/18778372-12340036

This article presents a study, edition and translation of a hitherto unpublished and overlooked source, shedding new light on the final days and death of the celebrated Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210). An anonymous obituary, the text was composed... Read More about On the Final Days of Faḫr al-Dīn al-Rāzī: A Study, Edition and Translation of an Anonymous Obituary.

Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present (2025)
Book
Cervelli, F. (2025). Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003472384

This book analyzes the theme of immediacy and the supremacy of the present in contemporary Japanese fiction. Examining immediacy in literary works by a diverse body of authors and works in popular culture released during the major social and economic... Read More about Immediacy in Contemporary Japanese Literature and Popular Culture: The Supremacy of the Present.

Learning from Mauritius’s Economic Transformation: A Policymaker’s Perspective (2025)
Book Chapter
Metiku, A. Learning from Mauritius’s Economic Transformation: A Policymaker’s Perspective. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (435-462). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.20

Mauritius’s remarkable economic performance has earned it a reputation as Africa’s outlier performer. From 1970 to 2020, the country sustained economic growth, demonstrated structural transformation, and adapted to a constantly changing and turbulent... Read More about Learning from Mauritius’s Economic Transformation: A Policymaker’s Perspective.

A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services (2025)
Book Chapter
Peeroo, A., & Bayliss, K. (2025). A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (384-411). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.18

Mauritian drinking water services are in urgent need of investment. Yet, tariffs are among the lowest in the region, despite relatively high-income levels. This chapter offers a political economy analysis, drawing on the systems of provision (SoP) ap... Read More about A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services.

Why Mauritius? The Political Economy of Structural Transformation in a Small Island (2025)
Book Chapter
Campling, L., & Oya, C. (2025). Why Mauritius? The Political Economy of Structural Transformation in a Small Island. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (20-45). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.2

This chapter explores the significance of the Mauritian economic development trajectory by connecting the experience of Mauritius to debates on structural economic transformation and on the perceived vulnerabilities and prospects of Small Island Deve... Read More about Why Mauritius? The Political Economy of Structural Transformation in a Small Island.

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Oya, C., Ramtohul, R., & Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. (2025). Introduction. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (3-19). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.1

Mauritius’s development pathway as a small island economy and part of the sub-Saharan African region is considered as an example for other countries. Its economic, social, and political landscape has been very dynamic over the past decades since inde... Read More about Introduction.

Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid (2025)
Book Chapter
Harris, R. (2025). Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid. In N. Manabe, & E. Drott (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190653866.013.0034

This chapter takes a medium-term view of developments in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region over a period of twenty years, during which the indigenous Turkic Muslim Uyghurs were collectively transformed in official discourse from “ethnic separ... Read More about Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid.

Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili (2025)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., & Gibson, H. (2025). Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili. In H. Kennard, E. Lindsay-Smith, A. Lahiri, & M. Maiden (Eds.), Historical Linguistics 2022. Selected papers from the 25th ICHL, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022 (184-197). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.369.12mar%3Flocatt%3Dmode%3Alegacy

The paper examines contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Swahili, where material which had historically been lost is ‘reintroduced’ through contact with closely related languages which have retained the original feature. The paper discusses three... Read More about Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili.

Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua. In M. Dhanda (Ed.), Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context (1-29). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945246.003.0094

European colonialism in the Pacific brought racial taxonomies and hierarchies to the shores of West Papua and the wider Melanesian region. Since this formal colonial era, the peoples of West Papua have been subject to shifting discourses and structur... Read More about Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua.

Book Review: 'Histories of Children’s Television Around the World' GozanskYuval (ed), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023; 289 pp. ISBN 9781433196720, £84 (hbk), 9781433199028, £32 (pbk), 9781433198939 £32 (pdf), 9781433198946 £32 (epub) (2025)
Journal Article
Horsley-Heather, E. (2025). Book Review: 'Histories of Children’s Television Around the World' GozanskYuval (ed), New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2023; 289 pp. ISBN 9781433196720, £84 (hbk), 9781433199028, £32 (pbk), 9781433198939 £32 (pdf), 9781433198946 £32 (epub). Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies, 20(2), 269-271. https://doi.org/10.1177/17496020251325373