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The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4 (2024)
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Fine, B., Bayliss, K., Robertson, M., & Saad-Filho, A. (2024). The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004706293

Drawing upon comprehensive research across five countries, including case studies of housing, water, and health, comprehensive theoretical and empirical accounts are offered of the impact of financialisation on economic and social reproduction, along... Read More about The Financialisation of Social Reproduction in the Age of Neoliberalism: From Theory to Case Studies: Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy, Volume 4.

Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa: Thematic Perspectives (2024)
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Brenner, L. (2024). Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa: Thematic Perspectives. James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.17072709

This book is a richly detailed comparative analysis of endogenous, Muslim, and Christian religious thought and practice in sub-Saharan Africa. Organized thematically, the book presents a conceptual and analytical framework for the study of religious... Read More about Histories of Religious Thought and Practice in Africa: Thematic Perspectives.

Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi (2024)
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Hezser, C. (2024). Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350421011

Based on an understanding of scholasticism as a cross-cultural phenomenon, undertaken by rabbinic, Graeco-Roman, and Christian scholars in late antiquity, this book examines the development of Palestinian rabbinic compilations from social-historical... Read More about Rabbinic Scholarship in the Context of Late Antique Scholasticism: The Development of the Talmud Yerushalmi.

Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu (2024)
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Bloom Ström, E.-M., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Marten, L. (Eds.). (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821359.001.0001

This volume explores the rich and complex pattern of morphosyntactic variation in the Bantu languages, providing a comprehensive overview of the wealth of empirical and conceptual work in the field. The chapters discuss data from some 80 Bantu langua... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu.

After Border Externalization: Migration, Race, and Labour in Mauritania (2024)
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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.

Living Democracy: Open Conversations (2024)
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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

Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media (2024)
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Tawil-Souri, H., & Matar, D. (Eds.). (2024). Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755654291

Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palesti... Read More about Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media.

Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation (2024)
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Akkoyunlu, F. K. (2024). Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399506120

This book offers the first comparative study of the foundations, consolidation and contestation of regime guardianship in the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Turkey. For decades, the military in Turkey and the clergy in Iran acted as the... Read More about Guardianship and Democracy in Iran and Turkey: Tutelary Consolidation, Popular Contestation.

The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (2024)
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Cullet, P., Bhullar, L., & Koonan, S. (Eds.). (2024). The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198884682.001.0001

Environmental law is a broad discipline covering issues such as nature conservation, the prevention or abatement of pollution, and waste management. It also encompasses concerns related to natural resources, such as forests, minerals, and fisheries,... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India.

The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market (2024)
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Horlyck, C. (2024). The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003016564

Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to i... Read More about The Emergence of the Korean Art Collector and the Korean Art Market.

Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict (2024)
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Janson, M., Kresse, K., Pontzen, B., & Mwakimako, H. (Eds.). (2024). Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict. James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11589133

Grounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Ch... Read More about Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict.

Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice (2024)
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Birch, J. (2024). Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice. École française d'Extrême-Orient

Writing in Varanasi in the sixteenth century, when the Mughal empire was at the height of its power, the monk Śivānandasarasvatī composed an extensive Sanskrit compendium on yoga entitled “The Wish-fulfilling Gem of Yoga” (Yogacintāmaṇi). Śivānanda w... Read More about Āsanas of the Yogacintāmaṇi: The Largest Premodern Compilation on Postural Practice.

The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law (2024)
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Oette, L. (2024). The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191994098.001.0001

The book analyses the nature, significance, and implications of the transformation of the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment in international law. It demonstrates how this fundamental human rights no... Read More about The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law.