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Middle Eastern diasporas in Portugal and the Portuguese empire, c. 1750-1975 (2015)
Book Chapter
Clarence-Smith, W. (2015). Middle Eastern diasporas in Portugal and the Portuguese empire, c. 1750-1975. In J. Batou, F. Beauvois, T. David, M. Humbert, & C. Lutzelschwab (Eds.), Deux mondes, une planète/ Two worlds, one planet: mélanges offerts à Bouda Etemad/ essays in honor of Bouda Etemad (199-209). Éditions d’en Bas

Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012 (2015)
Book Chapter
Meehan, P. (2015). Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012. In O. Charnoz (Ed.), Local Politics, Global Impacts: Steps to a Multi-Disciplinary Analysis of Scales (79-104). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315592862-11

This chapter shows how the emergence of new international poverty reduction strategies at the turn of the 2000s put governance issues and their key principles at the forefront of the development agenda. It analyzes the transposition and customization... Read More about Drugs, local politics and the subversion of global counter-narcotics ideology in Burma’s eastern borderlands, 1988-2012.

Innovation in Japan: An Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Jackson, K., & Debroux, P. (2015). Innovation in Japan: An Introduction. In K. Jackson, & P. Debroux (Eds.), Innovation in Japan: Emerging Patterns, Enduring Myths (1-7). Routledge

Trevor Marchand On Craft (2015)
Book Chapter
Marchand, T. H. (2015). Trevor Marchand On Craft. In D. Edmonds, & N. Warburton (Eds.), Big Ideas in Social Science (118-127). Sage

It’s an unusual approach for an academic: a hands-on approach. Literally a hands-on approach. Trevor Marchand is an anthropologist interested in how information about crafts is transferred from expert to novice. This has led him to Nigeria, Yemen, Ma... Read More about Trevor Marchand On Craft.

Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika (2015)
Book Chapter
Jennings, M. (2015). Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika. In A. Greenwood (Ed.), Beyond the State: The Colonial Medical Service in British Africa (153-173). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719089671.003.0008

Histories of colonial medicine in sub-Saharan Africa have tended to focus on the role of the colonial state in establishing and running health systems. Where voluntary agency roles have been considered, it has presented them as operating outside that... Read More about Cooperation and competition: missions, the colonial state and constructing a health system in colonial Tanganyika.

2015: A failing fiscal policy (2015)
Book Chapter
Weeks, J. (2015). 2015: A failing fiscal policy. In The Cracks Begin to Show: A Review of the UK Economy in 2015 (7-9). Economists for Rational Economic Policies

Mirror of the Buddha: An Early Tibetan Portrait (2015)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C. (2015). Mirror of the Buddha: An Early Tibetan Portrait. In A. Bergmann, S.-L. Hertel, J. Noth, A. Papist-Matsuo, & W. Schrape (Eds.), Elegante Zusammenkunft im Gelehrtengarten. Studien zur Ostasiatischen Kunst zu Ehren von Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch / Elegant Gathering in a Scholar’s Garden: Studies in East Asian Art in Honor of Jeong-hee Lee-Kalisch (56-62). VDG

Introduction (2015)
Book Chapter
Fuehrer, B. (2015). Introduction. In B. Fuehrer, & L. W.-C. Wong (Eds.), Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries (xi-xx). The Chinese University Press

‘Representing Theatre: Text and Image in Kabuki and Bunraku’ (2015)
Book Chapter
Gerstle, A. (2015). ‘Representing Theatre: Text and Image in Kabuki and Bunraku’. In H. Shirane, T. Suzuki, & D. Lurie (Eds.), Cambridge History of Japanese Literature (424-436). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CHO9781139245869.045

Since the fourteenth century, theater has been at the center of cultural life in Japan to an extent rare in the world. several Japanese theatrical traditions, noh, kyogen, bunraku, and kabuki, continue to the present as living lineages of actors pass... Read More about ‘Representing Theatre: Text and Image in Kabuki and Bunraku’.

Virtual Environments as an experimental tool for studies of surveillance (2015)
Book Chapter
Rosa Maria, M. R., & Al-Attili, A. (2015). Virtual Environments as an experimental tool for studies of surveillance. In Project Information for Interaction (355-362). SIGraDi. https://doi.org/10.5151/despro-sigradi2015-80186

Space accepts pervasive technologies as an architectural feature inherent to design. As such, architecture is developing various links to video surveillance, crafting a new use and a new user of space. Consequently, a new type and layer of interactio... Read More about Virtual Environments as an experimental tool for studies of surveillance.