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The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions (2023)
Journal Article
Essex, S., Caprotti, F., de Groot, J., Phillips, J., Baker, L., Wolpe, P., & Reddy, Y. (2024). The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions. Urban Research & Practice, 14(4), 515-542. https://doi.org/10.1080/17535069.2023.2261899

Critical to the trajectory and outcome of urban sustainable energy transitions is the ability of government institutions to foster conditions for change and innovation. In this paper, a theoretical perspective combining state power and local governan... Read More about The ‘capability’ of South African energy governance to deliver urban sustainable transitions.

Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda (2023)
Journal Article
Goodhand, J., Ballvé, T., & Meehan, P. (2024). Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 801-825. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2258808

A defining character of drugs-affected frontier regions is their dynamic instability and their boom-and-bust cycles. These are violent and disturbed landscapes, in which illicit drug economies play a transformative role. But not all frontiers are the... Read More about Drugs, frontier capitalism and illicit peasantries: towards a comparative research agenda.

Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe (2023)
Journal Article
Newsham, A., Naess, L. O., Mutabazi, K., Shonhe, T., Boniface, G., & Bvute, T. (2024). Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Climate and Development, 16(5), 395-409. https://doi.org/10.1080/17565529.2023.2229775

Smallholder agricultural commercialization is a central objective across Africa, one linked to poverty reduction, sectoral transformation and increasingly, climate resilience and adaptation. There is much attention given to the extent to which agricu... Read More about Precarious prospects? Exploring climate resilience of agricultural commercialization pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba (2023)
Journal Article
Axelby, R. (2023). How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 42(2), 21-35. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.7819

This article uses decisions about voting, including the decision not to vote, as a prism to consider what it means to be Gaddi in 21st-century Himachal Pradesh (H.P.). While the results of polls can tell us how people voted, they say little about the... Read More about How Gaddi Vote their Identity: political representation, participation, and citizenship in Lower Chamba.

The communal question and partition in British India and Mandate Palestine (2023)
Book Chapter
Shodhan, A. (2023). The communal question and partition in British India and Mandate Palestine. In V. Kattan, & A. Ranjan (Eds.), The Breakup of India and Palestine: The causes and legacies of partition (113-137). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170323.00015

In this chapter, the superficial similarity between the partitions of India and Palestine are probed and examined to reveal the structures of knowledge and the mentalities of governance that treated the populations of the two lands very similarly. It... Read More about The communal question and partition in British India and Mandate Palestine.

Formal versus Informal Institutional Distance Impact on Strategic Assets Seeking Foreign M and A (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, H., Shi, X., Chen, W., Chen, Z., & Wang, Z. (2023). Formal versus Informal Institutional Distance Impact on Strategic Assets Seeking Foreign M and A. Proceedings - Academy of Management, 2023(1), https://doi.org/10.5465/amproc.2023.16829abstract

This study intends to probe into the influence of different specific dimensions under formal versus informal institutional distances on sub-motives of emerging-market (EM) multinational enterprises (MNEs) strategic-asset seeking (SAS), in order to ga... Read More about Formal versus Informal Institutional Distance Impact on Strategic Assets Seeking Foreign M and A.

Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon (2023)
Journal Article
Thomson, F. (2024). Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 51(4), 826-860. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2224772

The illicit coca economy has become a bulwark for smallholder farming in Colombia. This article helps explain why. Analysis of the social relations surrounding coca production in one of the country’s most important coca-producing municipalities shows... Read More about Escaping capitalist market imperatives: commercial coca cultivation in the Colombian Amazon.

Migration governance and agrarian and rural development: Comparative lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand (2023)
Report
Lamba, A., Sugden, F., Aderghal, M., Fengbo, C., Pagogna, R., Masotti, M., Dessalegn, M., Murzakulova, A., Kharel, A., Lahoucine, A., Stirba, V., Kuznetsova, I., Vittuari, M., Jian, C., Crivellaro, F., Naruchaikusol, S., Lucasenco, E., Mogilevskii, R., Mollinga, P., Phalkey, N., & Bhattarai, S. (2023). Migration governance and agrarian and rural development: Comparative lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand

The purpose of this policy brief is to draw together key comparative lessons on different types of migration governance interventions in the AGRUMIG project research regions and examine how they support positive feedback loops between migration and a... Read More about Migration governance and agrarian and rural development: Comparative lessons from China, Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Morocco, Nepal and Thailand.

The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation, funnelling and financialisation (2023)
Book Chapter
Lindley, A. (2023). The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation, funnelling and financialisation. In A. Pécoud, & H. Thiollet (Eds.), Research Handbook on the Institutions of Global Migration Governance (357-376). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789908077.00033

Migrants’ remittance flows have caught the attention of a wide range of governmental, private sector, and civil society actors, and have been at the centre of global policy interventions aiming to ‘make migration work for development’ over the last t... Read More about The global ordering of remittance flows: formalisation, facilitation, funnelling and financialisation.

Left behind: emerging oil and gas producers in a warming world (2023)
Journal Article
Marcel, V., Gordon, D., Ogeer, N., & Omonbude, E. (2023). Left behind: emerging oil and gas producers in a warming world. Climate Policy, 23(9), 1151-1166. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2231398

The push for decarbonization is dampening resource prospects in nations with undeveloped oil and gas. It is critical to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the petroleum sector, but there are equity issues related to requiring a shift away fro... Read More about Left behind: emerging oil and gas producers in a warming world.

Internal Displacement in Ethiopia: Towards a New Policy and Legal Framework for Durable Solutions (2023)
Report
Tsegay, B., & Gezahegne, K. (2023). Internal Displacement in Ethiopia: Towards a New Policy and Legal Framework for Durable Solutions

Ethiopia has experienced an unprecedented increase in forced displacement within its borders over the last four decades, with the highest number recorded in 2021, when over 5.38 million people were displaced. Although the nature and dynamics of inter... Read More about Internal Displacement in Ethiopia: Towards a New Policy and Legal Framework for Durable Solutions.

An historical analysis of state capitalism through structural transformation: the case of Uzbekistan (2023)
Journal Article
Lombardozzi, L. (online). An historical analysis of state capitalism through structural transformation: the case of Uzbekistan. Globalizations, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2221094

Structural transformation is widely recognized for being instrumental to the betterment of socio-economic conditions of low and middle-income countries. Yet, its transformative outcome is often conditional on the creation and distribution of surplus... Read More about An historical analysis of state capitalism through structural transformation: the case of Uzbekistan.

The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime (2023)
Report
Mezzadri, A., & Rakhi, S. (2023). The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime

This report describes the nature of labour relations from a perspective of worker grievances in three garment production clusters of India, namely the National Capital Region, Bengaluru and Tiruppur. It establishes a connection between the evolution... Read More about The social life of industrial disputes: Exploring workers-centred industrial relations in India’s garment labour regime.

Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan (2023)
Journal Article
Felix da Costa, D. (2024). Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 18(1), 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2023.2212993

This article investigates contestations over the roles and legitimacy of gangs within the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Protection of Civilians (PoC) site in Bentiu, South Sudan. Drawing on qualitative interviews, it argues that ‘gan... Read More about Youth Gangs and overcoming waithood in a United Nations Protection of Civilians Site in South Sudan.