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Partition violence, Mountbatten and the Sikhs: A reassessment (2024)
Journal Article
Singh, G. (online). Partition violence, Mountbatten and the Sikhs: A reassessment. Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2024.2318874

Despite major advances in the historiography of the partition, the causes of violence remain poorly understood. Drawing on new archival material, this article argues that violence in the Punjab resulted from the failure of the British Sikh policy fro... Read More about Partition violence, Mountbatten and the Sikhs: A reassessment.

Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria (2023)
Journal Article
Ojebode, A. O. (2023). Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 27(3), 371-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2272942

Contemporary critics of ecocriticism have explored ecologies dynamically across different genres in postcolonial African literature, especially in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. However, they overlook African Eco-spirituality underpinned by indigenous... Read More about Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria.

Tourism Demand in the Face of Geopolitical Risk: Insights From a Cross-Country Analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Papagianni, E., Evgenidis, A., Tsagkanos, A., & Megalooikonomou, V. (2024). Tourism Demand in the Face of Geopolitical Risk: Insights From a Cross-Country Analysis. Journal of Travel Research, 63(8), 2094-2119. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875231206539

This paper develops a novel Bayesian heterogeneous panel vector autoregressive model (B-HP-VAR) that quantifies the impact of geopolitical risk shocks on the tourism industry of 14 emerging market and developing economies (EMDE). We find that increas... Read More about Tourism Demand in the Face of Geopolitical Risk: Insights From a Cross-Country Analysis.

Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question (2023)
Journal Article
Yemelianova, G. (2024). Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question. Caucasus survey, 12(1), 73-102. https://doi.org/10.30965/23761202-bja10020

The article addresses the discursive, political and geopolitical evolution of the so-called Eastern Question by focusing on its Armenian dimension from the nineteenth century until the present. It examines major stages of the Question’s historical re... Read More about Turkey, the Karabakh Conflict and the Legacy of the Eastern Question.

Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security. (2022)
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Bentley, A. R., Donovan, J., Sonder, K., Baudron, F., Lewis, J. M., Voss, R., Rutsaert, P., Poole, N., Kamoun, S., Saunders, D. G. O., Hodson, D., Hughes, D. P., Negra, C., Ibba, M. I., Snapp, S., Sida, T. S., Jaleta, M., Tesfaye, K., Becker-Reshef, I., & Govaerts, B. (2022). Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security. Nature Food, 3(7), 483-486. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00559-y

The Ukraine–Russia war will impact global food security over months if not years. In the wake of COVID-19 and in the face of increasing climate change, we propose responses to a multi-layered global food crisis that mitigate near-term food security r... Read More about Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security..

Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project (2022)
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Axelby, R., Worku-Dix, B., & Crewe, E. (2022). Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project. Journal of International Development, 34(8), 1496-1508. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3649

This article describes the bureaucratic processes required to establish and manage a single international capacity-development project that brought together a funding council (AHRC), UK University (SOAS University of London) and universities and othe... Read More about Global partnerships on paper and in practice: Critical observations from inside a Global Challenge Research Fund capacity-development project.

Assessing vulnerability of remittance-recipient and non-recipient households in rural communities affected by extreme weather events: Case studies from south-west China and northeast India (2018)
Journal Article
Banerjee, S., Black, R., Mishra, A., & Kniveton, D. (2019). Assessing vulnerability of remittance-recipient and non-recipient households in rural communities affected by extreme weather events: Case studies from south-west China and northeast India. Population, Space and Place, 25(2), Article e2157. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2157

Migration is one way in which rural households can seek to reduce their vulnerability to climate change. However, migration also carries risks and costs, such that vulnerability may not be reduced. This article constructs an index of rural households... Read More about Assessing vulnerability of remittance-recipient and non-recipient households in rural communities affected by extreme weather events: Case studies from south-west China and northeast India.

The role of evidence in nutrition policymaking in Ethiopia: institutional structures and issue framing (2018)
Journal Article
Walls, H., Johnston, D., Vecchione, E., Adam, A., & Parkhurst, J. O. (2019). The role of evidence in nutrition policymaking in Ethiopia: institutional structures and issue framing. Development Policy Review, 37(2), 293-310. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12385

Malnutrition is the single greatest contributor to the global burden of morbidity and mortality, with most cases arising in low‐ and middle‐income countries. However, the multi‐sectoral nature of nutrition policy‐making adds considerable complexity t... Read More about The role of evidence in nutrition policymaking in Ethiopia: institutional structures and issue framing.

From kitchen to classroom: Assessing the impact of cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstoves on primary school attendance in Karonga district, northern Malawi (2018)
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Kelly, C., Crampin, A., Mortimer, K., Dube, A., Malava, J., Johnston, D., Unterhalter, E., & Glynn, J. (2018). From kitchen to classroom: Assessing the impact of cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstoves on primary school attendance in Karonga district, northern Malawi. PLoS ONE, 13(4), Article 0193376. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193376

Household air pollution from burning solid fuels is responsible for an estimated 2.9 million premature deaths worldwide each year and 4.5% of global disability-adjusted life years, while cooking and fuel collection pose a considerable time burden, pa... Read More about From kitchen to classroom: Assessing the impact of cleaner burning biomass-fuelled cookstoves on primary school attendance in Karonga district, northern Malawi.

Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences (2015)
Journal Article
Adger, W. N., Arnell, N. W., Black, R., Dercon, S., Geddes, A., & Thomas, D. (2015). Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences. Environmental Research Letters, 10, Article 060201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/10/6/060201

Environmental change poses risks to societies, including disrupting social and economic systems such as migration. At the same time, migration is an effective adaptation to environmental and other risks. We review novel science on interactions betwee... Read More about Focus on environmental risks and migration: causes and consequences.

The Last Rites for Humanitarian Intervention: Darfur, Sri Lanka and R2P (2014)
Journal Article
Hopgood, S. (2014). The Last Rites for Humanitarian Intervention: Darfur, Sri Lanka and R2P. Global Responsibility to Protect, 6(2), 181-205. https://doi.org/10.1163/1875984X-00602006

The politics of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) are interwoven with the ghosts of Rwanda and Srebrenica. Although R2P can clearly be seen as an attempt to legitimate intervening in sovereign states to protect human rights, the post-2001 emphasis... Read More about The Last Rites for Humanitarian Intervention: Darfur, Sri Lanka and R2P.

Dynamic, small-world social network generation through local agent interactions (2014)
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De Caux, R., Smith, C., Kniveton, D., Black, R., & Philippides, A. (2014). Dynamic, small-world social network generation through local agent interactions. Complexity, 19(6), 44-53. https://doi.org/10.1002/cplx.21528

To model agent relationships in agent‐based models, it is often necessary to incorporate a social network whose topology is commonly assumed to be “small‐world.” This is potentially problematic, as the classification is broad and covers a wide‐range... Read More about Dynamic, small-world social network generation through local agent interactions.

Climate related migration in rural Bangladesh: a behavioural model (2014)
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Martin, M., Billah, M., Siddiqui, T., Abrar, C. R., Black, R., & Kniveton, D. Climate related migration in rural Bangladesh: a behavioural model. Population and Environment, 36(1), 85-110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-014-0207-2

Research into the climate change and migration nexus has often focussed solely on how people move in response to the impacts of variability and change in climate. This notion often ignores the nature of migration as a tried and tested livelihood choi... Read More about Climate related migration in rural Bangladesh: a behavioural model.