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The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination (2021)
Book
Gould, R. R. (2021). The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474484015.001.0001

The Persian Prison Poem is the first study of the prison poem genre (habsiyyat) across twelfth-century Central, South, and West Asia. While documenting the emergence of a concept of poetry as a form of political resistance, the book shows the profoun... Read More about The Persian Prison Poem: Sovereignty and the Political Imagination.

Recycling European Narratives in South Korea’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Islamophobia, #MeToo, and Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island (2021)
Journal Article
Sheikh, F. (2021). Recycling European Narratives in South Korea’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Islamophobia, #MeToo, and Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island. Asiascape: Digital Asia, 8(3), 211-239. https://doi.org/10.1163/22142312-bja10015

2018 was a politically tempestuous time for South Korea as a little over 500, mostly male, Yemeni asylum-seekers landed on Korea’s Jeju Island. Their unexpected arrival caught Korean society, already in the midst of its own #MeToo wave off guard, res... Read More about Recycling European Narratives in South Korea’s ‘Refugee Crisis’: Islamophobia, #MeToo, and Yemeni Refugees on Jeju Island.

Arbitrary Constellations: Writing the Imagination in Medieval Persian Astrology, with Translations from Tanklūshā (11th – 12th century) (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Tahmasebian, K. Arbitrary Constellations: Writing the Imagination in Medieval Persian Astrology, with Translations from Tanklūshā (11th – 12th century). Birmingham

The book we read today in the name of Tanklūshā in Arabic and Persian versions is pseudepigraphic––most likely an imaginary reconstruction of an astrological work by Teukros, rich with images of everyday life appearing in supernatural tints as conste... Read More about Arbitrary Constellations: Writing the Imagination in Medieval Persian Astrology, with Translations from Tanklūshā (11th – 12th century).

Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence (2021)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2021). Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence. Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe, 11, 443-461. https://doi.org/10.18778/2084-140x.11.22

The outbreak and Balkan and Anatolian trajectories of the rebellions of Borkluce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin in 1416 still pose a series of religio-historic problems which still do not allow a satisfactory and detailed reconstruction of their chrono... Read More about Christian Heretical Participation in the Rebellion of Börklüce Mustafa and Sheikh Bedreddin – Reappraising the Evidence.

Exploring Framing Categories in Language Learners' Intercultural Positioning: 'Asia' and 'the West' (2021)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2021). Exploring Framing Categories in Language Learners' Intercultural Positioning: 'Asia' and 'the West'. In T. McConachy, & A. J. Liddicoat (Eds.), Teaching and Learning Second Language Pragmatics for Intercultural Understanding (60-82). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003094128-4

Intercultural perspectives on the process of learning and using a foreign language underscore the importance of interpretation – an inevitably ideologically reflexive activity – in the structuring of sociocultural knowledge. An encounter with new cul... Read More about Exploring Framing Categories in Language Learners' Intercultural Positioning: 'Asia' and 'the West'.

Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj's Le Lutteur [The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’s Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil’s Memory] (2021)
Journal Article
Goikolea-Amiano, I., & Simour, L. (2022). Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj's Le Lutteur [The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’s Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil’s Memory]. Social Identities, 28(1), 108-138. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504630.2021.1987873

Nation in Moroccan historiography writings has traditionally been described as culturally, ethnically and racially homogeneous; an all-encompassing discourse that silences episodes about the historical legacy of slavery and racism in the country, and... Read More about Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj's Le Lutteur [The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’s Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil’s Memory].

Development of an intervention to support reproductive health of garment factory workers in Cambodia: a qualitative study (2021)
Journal Article
Smith, C., Sokhey, L., Tijamo, C. F. E., McLaren, M., Free, C., Watkins, J., Amra, O., Masuda, C., & Oreglia, E. (2021). Development of an intervention to support reproductive health of garment factory workers in Cambodia: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 11(11), Article e049254. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-049254

Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the development of an intervention to support the reproductive health of garment factory workers in Cambodia. Design: A qualitative study informed by intervention mapping which included semistructured... Read More about Development of an intervention to support reproductive health of garment factory workers in Cambodia: a qualitative study.

Should commercial sex workers have unrestricted healthcare access across the world? (2021)
Journal Article
Taylor-Robinson, S., Harrison, R., De Souza Lopes, P. A., & Zdravkov, J. (2021). Should commercial sex workers have unrestricted healthcare access across the world?. International Journal for Equity in Health, 20(237), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01575-3

We argue commercial sex workers have rights to healthcare and psychosocial support. While decriminalization is not legally enacted in most countries, we would suggest these workers rights include freedom from harassment and opportunities to lead heal... Read More about Should commercial sex workers have unrestricted healthcare access across the world?.

Reverse complex predicates or something else?: The case of Hindi de ‘give’ and jaa ‘go’ (2021)
Journal Article
Koumbarou, A., Srivastava, S. K., & Biswas, S. B. (2021). Reverse complex predicates or something else?: The case of Hindi de ‘give’ and jaa ‘go’. SOAS working papers in linguistics, 20, 72-94. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00035586

“Aspectual” complex predicates (ACPs) in Hindi are formed by a sequence of two verbs that together describe a single event. The main verb is realised in root form and contributes lexical meaning, followed by a light verb which carries TAM morphology... Read More about Reverse complex predicates or something else?: The case of Hindi de ‘give’ and jaa ‘go’.

Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō (2021)
Journal Article
Cervelli, F. (2021). Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō. Nihon bungaku (Tokyo. 1952), 70(10), 22-32

This article proposes obsession as an important trait in considering narrative representations of alienated youth over the last twenty years. The study focuses on two novels: Nipponia Nippon (2001), by Abe Kazushige, and Oshi, moyu (2020), by Usami R... Read More about Shūnen to iu kibō: Abe Kazushige to Usami Rin ni yoru wakamono shōzō.