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GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain (2025)
Journal Article
Andreoni, A., & Anzolin, G. (online). GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain. Innovation and Development, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/2157930x.2025.2468060

The paper contributes to the fast-growing literature on the structural dynamics of digitalization with a focus on robotization, and its heterogeneous diffusion and impact along and within global value chains. Specifically, building on an innovative g... Read More about GVCs meet robots: smiling, smirking or flattening? The case of the automotive value chain.

Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab (2025)
Book
Ouyang, W.-C. (2025). Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab. I. B. Tauris in Association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755657520

Literature has for thousands of years served as a space in which people have negotiated the ethics of daily life. In the Islamic tradition, the broad concept of adab spans ethical instruction and literary culture. Literature classified asadab was int... Read More about Ethical Living Through Stories: Encounters with Adab.

The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation (2025)
Journal Article
McCain, C. (2025). The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation. Journal of the African Literature Association, 19(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21674736.2025.2464416

In February 2023, Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho tweeted a cover of Muddassir S. Abdullahi’s yet-to-be-published Hausa-language translation of Coelho’s bestselling novel The Alchemist to his 15.2 million followers. At the same time Ibrahim Sheme was... Read More about The alchemy of translation in Hausa: cosmopolitanism, gatekeeping, and infrastructure in English-Hausa translation.

Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians (2025)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (online). Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462787

This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped defi... Read More about Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians.

Experiencing Posthuman Technoculture in Virtual Reality: A Theatrical Exploration of Kuro Tanino’s Emergency Rework (2025)
Journal Article
Proietti, L. (2025). Experiencing Posthuman Technoculture in Virtual Reality: A Theatrical Exploration of Kuro Tanino’s Emergency Rework. Body, space and technology journal, 24(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.16995/bst.18305

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted performing artists, compelling them to rethink how to create and present works. Many artists turned to digital technologies, maintaining a connection with audiences despite physical distancing. Virtual events emerged as... Read More about Experiencing Posthuman Technoculture in Virtual Reality: A Theatrical Exploration of Kuro Tanino’s Emergency Rework.

Confidence Game: Intelligence, Deception and Subterfuge (2025)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2025). Confidence Game: Intelligence, Deception and Subterfuge. In M. K. Barbier, & D. Showalter (Eds.), A Cultural History of War. Vol. 3: A Cultural History of War in the Renaissance. Bloombury

The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Lo, Y., & Volz, U. The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders. London

This study investigates empirically the effect of disasters on capital flows, international reserves and exchange rates, and discusses implications for risk management and potential mitigation strategies. We define major disaster quarters as quarterl... Read More about The Impacts of Disasters on Capital Flows, International Reserves and Exchange Rates: Implications for Public Sector Financial Risk Management and Development Lenders.

"Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World (2025)
Report
Kobayashi, Y. (2025). "Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World. German Council for Foreign Relations

We live in a challenging geoeconomic environment. Economic resilience and economic security have replaced globalization, yet Covid-19 and Deepseek have shown that the world is borderless. Geopolitically, tensions between the like-minded states of the... Read More about "Global Germany” in a Fragmented and Interconnected World.

Race/Economy (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). Race/Economy. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. J. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Connection/Relation (2025)
Book Chapter
Nisancioglu, K. (2025). Connection/Relation. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Further Old Khotanese Texts in ‘Metre B’ (2025)
Journal Article
Sims-Williams, N. (2025). Further Old Khotanese Texts in ‘Metre B’. Indo-Iranian Journal, 68(1), 15-33. https://doi.org/10.1163/15728536-06801008

Old Khotanese poetry makes use of three metres, conventionally referred to as A, B and C. The metre of the longest surviving Old Khotanese poem, the Book of Zambasta (Z) was analysed in detail in Sims-Williams 2022, which was followed by a series of... Read More about Further Old Khotanese Texts in ‘Metre B’.

Fronteras (2025)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2025). Fronteras. In Á. Iranzo, I. Ruiz-Giménez Arrieta, & M. Íñiguez de Heredia (Eds.), Manual de estudios críticos: cartografías disidentes para comprender las relaciones internacionales (615-642). Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch

International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters? (2025)
Report
Dryden, A., & Volz, U. (2025). International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?

While capital markets hold great potential for mobilising the vast sums required for climate mitigation and adaptation, their volatility presents significant risks to emerging and developing economies (EMDEs). This study examines the role that intern... Read More about International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?.

Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ (2025)
Journal Article
Sehlikoglu, S., Caron, J., & Polat, A. (online). Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’. History and Anthropology, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2025.2460787

This introduction examines the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying imaginative elements in Islamic politics while proposing new frameworks for understanding intangible realms in political formation. Moving beyond traditional approac... Read More about Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’.