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From Constantine the Great to Emperor Wu of the Liang: The rhetoric of imperial conversion and the divisive emergence of religious identities in Late Antique Eurasia. (2015)
Book Chapter
Palumbo, A. (2015). From Constantine the Great to Emperor Wu of the Liang: The rhetoric of imperial conversion and the divisive emergence of religious identities in Late Antique Eurasia. In A. Papaconstantinou, N. McLynn, & D. Schwartz (Eds.), Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond. Papers from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Oxford, 2009–2010 (95-122). Ashgate

Middle East (2015)
Book Chapter
Edge, I. (2015). Middle East. In L. Garb, & J. Wood (Eds.), International Succession, 4th edition (561-578). Oxford University Press

Burning Balochistan: Bombay Blowback and Pakistani Perfidy (2015)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2015). Burning Balochistan: Bombay Blowback and Pakistani Perfidy. In I. Petkovic (Ed.), Buried Human Rights, Global Geopolitics and Regional Repercussions; Balochistan in the Shadows (28-44). Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO)

Yoga and physical culture: Transnational history and blurred discursive contexts (2015)
Book Chapter
Singleton, M. (2015). Yoga and physical culture: Transnational history and blurred discursive contexts. In K. A. Jacobsen (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India (172-184). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315682570

We might consider yoga in contemporary India under three rubrics: 1) non-English speaking renouncer traditions, such as the Nāths, Rāmānandīs or Daśanāmi Saṃnyāsins, in which yoga sādhana plays a greater or lesser role and in which foreigners are rar... Read More about Yoga and physical culture: Transnational history and blurred discursive contexts.

Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf (2015)
Book Chapter
Hanieh, A. (2015). Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf. In A. Ghazal, & J. Hanssen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Middle-Eastern and North African History. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199672530.013.3

The Middle East’s pivotal position in a hydrocarbon-based global capitalism carries enormous ramifications for the region and the Gulf Arab states in particular. This chapter aims to present key debates associated with this transformation. It begins... Read More about Capital, Labor, and State: Rethinking the Political Economy of Oil in the Gulf.

What's in a plant leaf? a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand (2015)
Book Chapter
Were, G. (2015). What's in a plant leaf? a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand. In A. Drazin, & S. Küchler (Eds.), The Social Life of Materials: Studies in Materials and Society (31-47). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003087175-4

Materials are ubiquitous. They help shape - through their experiential and agentive capacity - human thought and action. Through their innovation and use in society and industry, materials play a significant role in social change. The innovation of m... Read More about What's in a plant leaf? a case study of materials innovation in New Zealand.

Language ideologies, practices and policies in Kanaky/New Caledonia (2015)
Book Chapter
Sallabank, J. (2015). Language ideologies, practices and policies in Kanaky/New Caledonia. In M. C. Jones (Ed.), Policy and Planning for Endangered Languages (31-47). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316162880.004

From colonisation by France in 1853 until the Accords of 1989 and 1998, the indigenous Kanak people of New Caledonia, and their culture and languages, were marginalised and children were forbidden from speaking their home languages at school. Educati... Read More about Language ideologies, practices and policies in Kanaky/New Caledonia.

Post-Fukushima discourses on nuclear power in Japan (2015)
Book Chapter
Pizziconi, B. (2015). Post-Fukushima discourses on nuclear power in Japan. In P. Calvetti, & M. Mariotti (Eds.), Contemporary Japan - Challenges for a world economic power in transition (161-188). Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing

The critical damage to the Fukushima nuclear plant, triggered by the unprecedented earthquake and tsunami of 11 March, caused radioactive contamination to a vast area and large-scale evacuation. Both its short- and long-term consequences are still re... Read More about Post-Fukushima discourses on nuclear power in Japan.

How Many Monks? Quantitative And Demographic Archaeological Approaches To Buddhism In Northeast Thailand And Central Laos, 6th-11th Centuries Ce (2015)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A. (2015). How Many Monks? Quantitative And Demographic Archaeological Approaches To Buddhism In Northeast Thailand And Central Laos, 6th-11th Centuries Ce. In D. C. Lammerts (Ed.), Buddhist Dynamics in Premodern and Early Modern Southeast Asia (80-119). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1355/9789814519076-005

This article explores a number of ways in which to reconstruct the possible extent of monastic Buddhism in the Khorat Plateau during the Dvaravati period. In an attempt to so, it is consequently multidisciplinary in its conception, being primarily ar... Read More about How Many Monks? Quantitative And Demographic Archaeological Approaches To Buddhism In Northeast Thailand And Central Laos, 6th-11th Centuries Ce.

India in Climate Change – the view from Tokyo (2015)
Book Chapter
Kobayashi, Y. (2015). India in Climate Change – the view from Tokyo. In K. Sullivan (Ed.), Competing Visions of India in World Politics: India’s Rise Beyond the West (49-65). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398666_4

This chapter first examines Indo-Japanese relations to place the relationship in a wider context and then moves on to examine how Tokyo views New Delhi in relation to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It introduces the ‘China pr... Read More about India in Climate Change – the view from Tokyo.

Accounting Performance Inflated by Private Equity before IPOs: Evidence from Chinese Firms (2015)
Book Chapter
Bo, H., & Xu, B. (2015). Accounting Performance Inflated by Private Equity before IPOs: Evidence from Chinese Firms. In D. Cumming, M. Firth, W. Hou, & E. Lee (Eds.), Sustainable Entrepreneurship in China: Ethics, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Reforms (127-157). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137412539_6

How does private equity (PE) investment affect recipient firms? Existing research based on firms in mature financial markets (hereafter mature firms) has documented three possible mechanisms: First, PE investment brings in new financing to the firm,... Read More about Accounting Performance Inflated by Private Equity before IPOs: Evidence from Chinese Firms.

India in the Iranian imagination: Between Culture and Strategic Interest (2015)
Book Chapter
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2015). India in the Iranian imagination: Between Culture and Strategic Interest. In K. Sullivan (Ed.), Competing Visions of India in World Politics India’s Rise Beyond the West (145-159). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398666_10

In the course of building a modern nation-state, a project that was given impetus by the Safavid dynasty in the sixteenth century, the political classes governing Iran have developed a civilisational discourse and a historical imagination that casts... Read More about India in the Iranian imagination: Between Culture and Strategic Interest.

Buddhism (2015)
Book Chapter
Padoan, T. (2015). Buddhism. In J. P. Laycock (Ed.), Spirit Possession around the World: Possession, Communion, and Demon Expulsion Across Cultures (54-59). ABC-CLIO

Climate and Climate Change. (2015)
Book Chapter
Kelman, I., Colbourn, T., Costello, A., Georgeson, L., Kovats, S., Maslin, M., Newsham, A., Sammonds, P., Urban, F., Waage, J., & Wilkinson, P. (2015). Climate and Climate Change. In J. Waage, & C. Yap (Eds.), Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development (11-17). Ubiquity Press. https://doi.org/10.5334/bao.b