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The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law (2016)
Journal Article
Shah, M. (2016). The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique, 29(2), 285-311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-016-9461-1

The qirāʾāt or variae lectiones represent the vast corpus of Qurʾānic readings that were preserved through the historical processes associated with the textual codification and transmission of the Qurʾān. Despite the fact that differences among certa... Read More about The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law.

「春画における男色の描写」‘The Representation of male-male Sex in Shunga’ (2016)
Book Chapter
Gerstle, A. (2016). 「春画における男色の描写」‘The Representation of male-male Sex in Shunga’. In T. National Institute of Japanese Literature (Ed.), 『もう一つの日本文学史』(An Alternative History of Japanese Literature) (149-170). Bensei Shuppan

The representation of male-male sex in Japanese 18th century erotic art and literature

Introduction (2016)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2016). Introduction. In A. George, & T. M. Oshima (Eds.), Ancient Mesopotamian Religion and Mythology: Selected Essays by W. G. Lambert [author] (1-8). Mohr Siebeck

Ethnic Cleansing and the Formation of Settler Colonial Geographies (2016)
Journal Article
Gordon, N., & Ram, M. (2016). Ethnic Cleansing and the Formation of Settler Colonial Geographies. Political Geography, 53, 20-29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2016.01.010

Taking into account that ethnic cleansing not only undoes the legal and spatial formations within a given territory but also is a productive force aimed at securing and normalizing a new political order within a contested territory, we examine its im... Read More about Ethnic Cleansing and the Formation of Settler Colonial Geographies.

A review of Klaus Zimmerman and Birte Kellemeier-Rehbein (eds.), Colonialism and missionary linguistics (Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics 5). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2015. pp. x+266. (2016)
Journal Article
Gibson, H. (2016). A review of Klaus Zimmerman and Birte Kellemeier-Rehbein (eds.), Colonialism and missionary linguistics (Colonial and Postcolonial Linguistics 5). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2015. pp. x+266. Journal of Linguistics, 52(1), 236-241. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226715000407

Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome. Life Writing, 13(4), 415-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2015.1124742

This essay builds on the work of Wolfgang Iser, Janice Radway, E. H. Gombrich, and other theorists of reading to argue for a new approach to the reading encounter, which I call vested reading. Vested reading is a means of engaging with the literary t... Read More about Vested Reading: Writing the Self through Ethan Frome.

The transformation of the Chosŏn economy in the Open Port Period, 1876–1910 (2016)
Book Chapter
Miller, O. (2016). The transformation of the Chosŏn economy in the Open Port Period, 1876–1910. In M. Seth (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Modern Korean History (81-94). Routledge

Korea’s relative isolation from the emerging world system during the latter centuries of the Chosŏn Dynasty (1392-1910)1 was a double-edged sword. It protected Chosŏn from outside interference and helped the dynasty to last an exceptionally long time... Read More about The transformation of the Chosŏn economy in the Open Port Period, 1876–1910.

Sheng: The Expanding Domains of an Urban Vernacular (2016)
Journal Article
Githiora, C. Sheng: The Expanding Domains of an Urban Vernacular. Journal of African Cultural Studies, 30(2), 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2015.1117962

Contemporary African multilingualism is changing the languages and identities of urban communities. Sheng is a non-standard form of Kenyan Swahili closely associated with Nairobi’s urban youth, and it continues to evolve. Sheng involves much code-mix... Read More about Sheng: The Expanding Domains of an Urban Vernacular.