Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (28603)

Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems (2025)
Journal Article
Graf, S., Blaschke, N., & Oya, C. (online). Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems. Journal of Agrarian Change, Article e70022. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.70022

This paper synthesizes and systematizes existing empirical knowledge on agrarian class relations in West Africa. It contributes to the debate on agrarian transitions, which largely neglects coexisting diverse forms of class relations in land, labour... Read More about Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems.

Contested essential concepts in international relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Berenskoetter, F., & Guzzini, S. (2025). Contested essential concepts in international relations. In C. Thies, & J. M. Dean (Eds.), Handbook of International Relations (89-105). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366130.00013

This chapter explores the notion of “essential concepts” and their contestation with an eye on the field of International Relations (IR). The title plays on W.B. Gallie's famous essay to pursue the argument that a debate over the meaning of an essent... Read More about Contested essential concepts in international relations.

One Tune, Two Egypts (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Hammond, M. One Tune, Two Egypts. [Film]. 15 June 2025. (Unpublished)

The film sets Umm Kulthum’s performance of “Hubb Eyh?” (What is this Love?) into dialogue with the song’s interpretation by the comic actor Muhammad Saad in the 2002 film El-Limby. The juxtaposition accentuates Saad’s parody of the diva at the same t... Read More about One Tune, Two Egypts.

“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. (2025)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (online). Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251344229

Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases (2025)
Journal Article
Fajrini, R. (in press). Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 129 - 156. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506562

This paper analyses 321 civil environmental cases in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, identifying patterns and trends over the past decade. The findings reveal a growing public interest dimension in these civil cases, marked by the rise of public interes... Read More about Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases.

Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Grijalva, A. (in press). Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 110 - 128. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506557

In this essay I analyse some relationships among the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment. I show these relationships describing several rulings of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, and specially the Los Cedros judgement,... Read More about Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.

Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Morales Naranjo, V. (in press). Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 62 - 85. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506543

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize the rights of nature (RoN) in the Constitution. Seventeen years later, it is necessary to analyse the work carried out by nature defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court to deve... Read More about Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.

A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics (2025)
Journal Article
Solsø, K., Crewe, E., & Chauhan, K. (2025). A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics. International Journal of Action Research, 21(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v21i1.04

The influence of complexity theory on action research scholarship and practice has been kaleidoscopic. Further integrating ideas derived from the complexity sciences could enrich this research tradition, but there are choices to be made about what to... Read More about A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics.

Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment (2025)
Journal Article
Borda, R. D., & Oette, L. (2025). Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 17(2), Article huaf008. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaf008

Human rights non-governmental organizations played a critical role in the struggle for accountability for crimes against humanity committed by Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976–83). Notably, this impetus has also been brought to bear in focusin... Read More about Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment.

Debt, Climate, and Development in Asia and the Pacific: Breaking the Vicious Circle (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Volz, U., Akhtar, S., & Dryden, A. (2025). Debt, Climate, and Development in Asia and the Pacific: Breaking the Vicious Circle

Developing countries in the Asia and Pacific region are at the forefront of climate change, and addressing urgent climate challenges requires substantial financial commitment. At the same time, the region is struggling under mounting debt burdens. Th... Read More about Debt, Climate, and Development in Asia and the Pacific: Breaking the Vicious Circle.

The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7 (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731653

South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. It is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists out of the globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation of the economy in general and of its Minerals-Ener... Read More about The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7.