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Deploying air wings in biosecurity: the Nigerian Air Force’s crisis management response to the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Aina, F. (2025). Deploying air wings in biosecurity: the Nigerian Air Force’s crisis management response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 19-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/02589001.2024.2414009

Across the world, governments attempted to mitigate the effects of the crisis posed by the COVID-19 global pandemic following its outbreak. In some instances, these efforts have involved deploying the military in the enforcement of containment measur... Read More about Deploying air wings in biosecurity: the Nigerian Air Force’s crisis management response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists (2024)
Journal Article
Mukherjee, A. (online). Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00472336.2024.2433738

Considering the June 2024 general parliamentary election results in India, this article undertakes a broad discursive analysis of the parliamentary Communists, tracing their trajectory from the inception of independent India to the present day. It ar... Read More about Governmentality or Class Politics: The Path Ahead for Indian Communists.

Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question (2024)
Journal Article
Tilley, L. (online). Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2024.2400352

The question of materialism – what it is, how it is studied and practised, and who takes it seriously enough – has long animated debates among Marxists and scholars of race and the colonial question. Today, our contemporary socioecological crises cha... Read More about Horizons of Liberation: Materialism, Ecology, and the Colonial Question.

Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana (2024)
Journal Article
Asafu-Adjaye, P., & Rizzo, M. (2024). Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana. Review of African political economy, 51(182), 573-591. https://doi.org/10.62191/ROAPE-2024-0038

This article analyses donor-funded aid programmes to support trade unions’ work in the informal street food sector in Accra, also known as ‘chop bars’. It reviews the programmes that this aid entailed, against the backdrop of socioeconomic stratifica... Read More about Going entrepreneurial: the dark side of donors and trade union support to informal workers in Accra, Ghana.

Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places (2024)
Journal Article
Cobarrubias, S., & Novak, P. (2025). Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places. Geopolitics, 30(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2024.2409857

Over the past twenty years, research into border externalisation has developed a rich spatial vocabulary to understand these bordering practices as well as critical analyses that challenge the often North-centric views towards externalisation. In thi... Read More about Embedding Externalisation: How Bordering Practices Transform Places.

'Leave no one behind': A power-capabilities-energy justice perspective on energy transition in remote rural communities in Cambodia (2024)
Journal Article
Siciliano, G., Cantoni, R., Lonn, P., Por, N., Kry, S., Morn, C., & Oudom, H. (2025). 'Leave no one behind': A power-capabilities-energy justice perspective on energy transition in remote rural communities in Cambodia. World Development, 185, Article 106793. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106793

Over the past two decades electricity access in Cambodia has increased considerably. The Electricity Authority of Cambodia has announced that the country expanded energy access from 34% in 2010 to 98% by mid-2022, but that 245 villages still lack acc... Read More about 'Leave no one behind': A power-capabilities-energy justice perspective on energy transition in remote rural communities in Cambodia.

After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania (2024)
Book
Ould Moctar, H. (2024). After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350376816

In this open access book, Hassan Ould Moctar offers an original analysis of the European Union's tendency to extend its border and migration control operations into the Global South. Rather than approaching this “border externalization” in analytical... Read More about After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania.

Decolonising humanitarian health: A scoping review of practical guidance (2024)
Journal Article
Clarke, A., Richter, K., Lokot, M., Rivas, A., Hafez, S., & Singh, N. S. (2024). Decolonising humanitarian health: A scoping review of practical guidance. PLOS Global Public Health, 4(10), Article e0003566. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0003566

Despite growing calls and efforts to decolonise global and humanitarian health, there is limited practical guidance for researchers, educators and practitioners on how to do so. This paper fills this gap by offering a narrative exploration of key rec... Read More about Decolonising humanitarian health: A scoping review of practical guidance.

Living Democracy: Open Conversations (2024)
Book
Massoumian, A., Bernardes, C., Leston-Bandeira, C., Crewe, E., Fontes, G., Kaur, J., Gabrehiwot, M., Van der Maarel, S., & Haddis, T. (2024). R. Axelby, & T. Hoyler (Eds.). Living Democracy: Open Conversations. SOAS University of London Books

English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage: Parental investment and gendered aspirations in Nepal (2024)
Journal Article
Kristina Hultgren, A., Upadhaya, A., O'Hagan, L., Wingrove, P., Adamu, A., Greenfield, M., Lombardozzi, L., Sah, P. K., Tsiga, I. A., Umar, A., & Wolfenden, F. (2024). English-medium education and the perpetuation of girls’ disadvantage: Parental investment and gendered aspirations in Nepal. English Today, 40(3), 219-225. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0266078424000075

From Power to Women’s Empowerment: The Missing Links (2024)
Book Chapter
Polar, V., & Poole, N. From Power to Women’s Empowerment: The Missing Links. In J. Njuki, H. Tufan, V. Polar, H. Campos, & M. Morgan-Bell (Eds.), Gender, Power and Politics in Agriculture: Revisiting Theory and Practice (115-136). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-60986-2_7

This chapter explores the instrumentalization of women’s empowerment in agricultural research for development, with particular attention on critically examining how the concept of empowerment has become understood as an externalized process that can... Read More about From Power to Women’s Empowerment: The Missing Links.

India's Farmers' Movement and the Agrarian Questions: Authoritarian Populism vs Agrarian Questions (2024)
Book Chapter
Sinha, S. (2024). India's Farmers' Movement and the Agrarian Questions: Authoritarian Populism vs Agrarian Questions. In C. Moliner, & D. Singh (Eds.), The Indian Farmers’ Protest of 2020–2021 Agrarian Crisis, Dissent and Identity (23-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003515050-4

India’s farmers’ movement (Kisan Andolan) of 2020–2021 has been the most successful movement against Narendra Modi’s authoritarian populist government since it came to office in 2014, forcing a reversal of the three farm bills that aimed at an accele... Read More about India's Farmers' Movement and the Agrarian Questions: Authoritarian Populism vs Agrarian Questions.

Searching for a home: the bitter experiences of Afghanistani 'returnees' (2024)
Journal Article
Abbasi, K. (2024). Searching for a home: the bitter experiences of Afghanistani 'returnees'. Soundings, 76-90. https://doi.org/10.3898/soun%3A87.04.2024

Negotiating the language, culture and social norms of one’s ‘homeland’ can be a painful and difficult experience In 2004, Khadija Abbasi became part of the generation forced by the Iranian state to ‘return’ to Afghanistan, though they had been born i... Read More about Searching for a home: the bitter experiences of Afghanistani 'returnees'.