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Introduction: Anthropology, Food and Modern Life (2016)
Book Chapter
Watson, J. L., & Klein, J. A. (2016). Introduction: Anthropology, Food and Modern Life. In J. A. Klein, & J. L. Watson (Eds.), The Handbook of Food and Anthropology (1-27). Bloomsbury Academic

Religious Exemptions and Freedom of Conscience (2016)
Book Chapter
Salam, D. (2016). Religious Exemptions and Freedom of Conscience. In A. Bardon, M. Birnbaum, L. Lee, & K. Stoeckl (Eds.), Religious pluralism : a resource book. European University Institute. https://doi.org/10.2870/860588

In this chapter, I discuss the question of religious exemption as an inescapable implication of religious pluralism. It is discussed from the point of view of political philosophy and the debate it has created surrounding the issue of religious freed... Read More about Religious Exemptions and Freedom of Conscience.

Making the Case for a Gender-aware, Investment-led Recovery for Europe (2016)
Book Chapter
Bargawi, H., & Cozzi, G. (2016). Making the Case for a Gender-aware, Investment-led Recovery for Europe. In H. Bargawi, G. Cozzi, & S. Himmelweit (Eds.), Economics and Austerity in Europe: Gendered Impacts and Sustainable Alternatives (137-154). Routledge

Using the Cambridge Alphametrics Model (CAM), a structuralist macroeconomic model, this chapter compares and contrasts the economic and social consequences of continuing with business-as-usual austerity policies versus implementing a gender-equitable... Read More about Making the Case for a Gender-aware, Investment-led Recovery for Europe.

Needs Versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development inPost-Conflict Countries (2016)
Book Chapter
Addison, T., Gisselquist, R. M., Niño-Zarazúa, M., & Singh, S. (2016). Needs Versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development inPost-Conflict Countries. In A. Langer, & G. K. Brown (Eds.), Building Sustainable Peace: Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding (32-50). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198757276.003.0003

This chapter explores the issues around the need to strengthen and sustain peace in post-conflict societies. These issues include the amount of focus to be given to absolute poverty reduction versus broader social inclusion, including the reduction o... Read More about Needs Versus Expediency: Poverty Reduction and Social Development inPost-Conflict Countries.

Unpacking Concepts (2016)
Book Chapter
Berenskoetter, F. (2016). Unpacking Concepts. In F. Berenskoetter (Ed.), Concepts in World Politics (1-19). Sage

Peace (2016)
Book Chapter
Berenskoetter, F., & Richmond, O. (2016). Peace. In F. Berenskoetter (Ed.), Concepts in World Politics (107-124). Sage

Die Kosmogonie des alten Mesopotamien (2016)
Book Chapter
George, A. (2016). Die Kosmogonie des alten Mesopotamien. In M. Gindhart, & T. Pommerening (Eds.), Anfang und Ende: vormoderne Szenarien von Weltentstehung und Weltuntergang (7-25). Philipp von Zabern

Martial-Body in Akira Kurosawas frühen Filmen (2016)
Book Chapter
Lee, H. (2016). Martial-Body in Akira Kurosawas frühen Filmen. In K. Adachi-Rabe, & A. Becker (Eds.), Körperinszenierungen im Japanischen Film (107-121). Büchner-Verlag

Revolution (2016)
Book Chapter
Rao, R. (2016). Revolution. In F. Berenskoetter (Ed.), Concepts in World Politics (253-270). Sage

Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong (2016)
Book Chapter
Tan, C. G. (2016). Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. In J. Elias, & L. Rethel (Eds.), The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (218-236). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316402092.011

There are currently over 320,000 full-time, live-in migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Hong Kong, the vast majority of whom are from Southeast Asia. In recent years, women from the Philippines and Indonesia have constituted 48 per cent and 49 per cen... Read More about Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.

Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016)
Book Chapter
Marriage, Z. (2016). Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In C. Anderton, & J. Brauer (Eds.), Economic Aspects of Genocide, Mass Killing, and Their Prevention (356-377). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199378296.003.0016

The trade of mineral resources contributed to the mechanisms of mass killing in the Democratic Republic of Congo during the war that started in 1998. The peace agreed in 2002 moved to reverse the economic logic of the violence by incentivizing bellig... Read More about Peace and the Killing: Compatible Logics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Risk and Social Transformation: Gender and forced migration (2016)
Book Chapter
Kaiser, T. (2016). Risk and Social Transformation: Gender and forced migration. In S. Sharoni, J. Welland, L. Steiner, & J. Peders (Eds.), Handbook on Gender and War (194-212). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781849808927.00019

As conflict has transformed in the decades since the end of the cold war, civilian populations have borne the brunt of chronic, protracted and unpredictable conflict dynamics. Forced migration is one of the most visible and disruptive consequences of... Read More about Risk and Social Transformation: Gender and forced migration.

Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror (2016)
Book Chapter
McCausland, S. (2016). Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror. In M. J. Powers, & K. R. Tsiang (Eds.), A Companion to Chinese Art (115-135). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118885215.ch5

In recent years the discipline of the History of Art has witnessed attempts to devise theories that can illuminate artistic practices on a global scale. As one of a few traditions with a long history of self-reflexive writing on theory and practice,... Read More about Figure Painting: Fragments of the Precious Mirror.

Firdawsi: a Scholium (2016)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B., & Sharma, S. (2016). Firdawsi: a Scholium. In S. Sharma, & B. Waghmar (Eds.), Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011 (7-18). K. R. Cama Oriental Institute

An Annotated Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama. (2016)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2016). An Annotated Micro-history and Bibliography of the Houghton Shahnama. In S. Sharma, & B. Waghmar (Eds.), Firdawsii Millennium Indicum: Proceedings of the Shahnama Millenary Seminar, K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai, 8-9 January, 2011 (144-180). K. R. Cama Oriental Institute

International Law, Kelsen and the Aberrant Revolution: Excavating the Politics and Practices of Revolutionary Legality in Rhodesia and Beyond (2016)
Book Chapter
Kumar, V. (2016). International Law, Kelsen and the Aberrant Revolution: Excavating the Politics and Practices of Revolutionary Legality in Rhodesia and Beyond. In N. M. Rajkovic, T. Aalberts, & T. Gammeltoft-Hanse (Eds.), The Power of Legality: Practices of International Law and their Politics (157-187). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781316535134.007

Although there have been many attempts to decipher the enigmas which inhere in Kelsen’s unfathomably vast body of work on international law, I explore a different mystery in this Chapter namely: how revolution - a homeless, aberrant, and pathological... Read More about International Law, Kelsen and the Aberrant Revolution: Excavating the Politics and Practices of Revolutionary Legality in Rhodesia and Beyond.