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The Franc Zone: Can the operations account mechanism survive the push for financial deepening? (2017)
Book Chapter
Laskaridis, C. The Franc Zone: Can the operations account mechanism survive the push for financial deepening?. In A. Gemzik-Salwach, & K. Opolski (Eds.), Financialization and the Economy (96-109). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315281537-7

This chapter presents the growing literature on financialization in developing countries, and specifically low income countries, by exploring the particularities of financial sector development in the Franc Zone. The Franc Zone consists of a common c... Read More about The Franc Zone: Can the operations account mechanism survive the push for financial deepening?.

Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making in Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice (2017)
Book Chapter
Lwabukuna, O. Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making in Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice. In J. I. Lahai, & K. Moyo (Eds.), Gender in Human Rights and Transitional Justice (45-72). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54202-7_3

Kenya has borne memories and scars of colonial hegemonies, repressive and kleptocratic post-independence regimes, and bitter ethnic politicization of inequality, poverty, land issues and exclusion resulting in intermittent strife and volatile politic... Read More about Power, Prejudice and Transitional Constitution-Making in Kenya: The Gender of Law and Religious Politics in Reproductive Choice.

The Christian Manchu Missions during the Qing period (1644-1911) – Perceptions and Political Implications (2017)
Book Chapter
Laamann, L. (2017). The Christian Manchu Missions during the Qing period (1644-1911) – Perceptions and Political Implications. In R. Hertel, M. Keevak, & T. Weststeijn (Eds.), Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe: Telling Failures (101 -122). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315578385-7

From both a numerical and a political viewpoint, the Christian missions to the Manchu populations of the Qing empire proved ineffectual. However, the missionary enterprise to the Manchus differed in significant aspects from that to the Chinese and wa... Read More about The Christian Manchu Missions during the Qing period (1644-1911) – Perceptions and Political Implications.

International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other (2017)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2017). International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other. In D. Otto (Ed.), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks (77-90). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315266787-5

This paper analyses the would-be paradox of international law’s continuous evolution towards evermore-diverse forms of juridical violence. From the falsehood of imperial pacifism, through the perils of its multiple turns to ‘pragmatism’ and quasi-pro... Read More about International Law as Violence: Competing Absences of the Other.

The curious question of the PYD-PKK relationship (2017)
Book Chapter
Kaya, Z., & Lowe, R. (2017). The curious question of the PYD-PKK relationship. In G. R. V. Stansfield, & M. Shareef (Eds.), The Kurdish Question Revisited (275-287). Hurst and Co

Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Reflections (2017)
Book Chapter
Bajpai, R. (2017). Secularism and Multiculturalism in India: Some Reflections. In A. Triandafyllidou, & T. Modood (Eds.), The Problems of Religious Diversity: European Challenges, Asian Approaches (204-227). Edinburgh University Press

Friendship and Foreign Policy (2017)
Book Chapter
Berenskoetter, F., & van Hoef, Y. (2017). Friendship and Foreign Policy. In C. Thies (Ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228637.013.429

This article discusses how international friendship affects the making and conduct of foreign policy, an angle that is largely neglected in the FPA and IR literature. Because friendship constitutes the Other as familiar rather than foreign and implie... Read More about Friendship and Foreign Policy.

NFVCB's Ban of Fuelling Poverty (2012): Political Move or National Security? (2017)
Book Chapter
Agina, A. (2017). NFVCB's Ban of Fuelling Poverty (2012): Political Move or National Security?. In A. Agina, B. Knorpp, & W. Mano (Eds.), African Film Cultures: Contexts of Creation and Circulation (223-240). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This chapter offers an account of the political, social and cultural contexts that led to the production of Ishaya Bako’s 28-minute documentary, Fuelling Poverty (2012). With two awards and an official prohibition, Fuelling Poverty has redefined acti... Read More about NFVCB's Ban of Fuelling Poverty (2012): Political Move or National Security?.

Carceral Seas (2017)
Book Chapter
Khalili, L. (2017). Carceral Seas. In D. Zyman, & C. Scozzari (Eds.), Allan Sekula: Okeanos (50-59). Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary; Sternberg Press

A tale of two atonements (2017)
Book Chapter
Rao, R. (2017). A tale of two atonements. In D. Otto (Ed.), Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities, Risks (15-34). Routledge

Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie (2017)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2017). Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie. In G. Necipoğlu, & F. B. Flood (Eds.), A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture, Vol. 1 (431-452). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119069218.ch17

From the reports of travelers and historians, people learn of the crafting of beautiful rock crystal and metalwork objects in the Cairo bazaar and, during the later Mamluk period, of beautiful gilded and enameled glass being produced in commercial ar... Read More about Patronage and the Idea of an Urban Bourgeoisie.

Introduction: Class dynamics of development: a methodological note (2017)
Book Chapter
Campling, L., Miyamura, S., Pattenden, J., & Selwyn, B. (2017). Introduction: Class dynamics of development: a methodological note. In Class Dynamics of Development (1-23). Routledge

This article argues that class relations are constitutive of development processes and central to understanding inequality within and between countries. Class is conceived as arising out of exploitative social relations of production, but is formulat... Read More about Introduction: Class dynamics of development: a methodological note.

Buildings That Fill My Eye: An introduction to the architectural heritage of Yemen (2017)
Book Chapter
Marchand, T. H. (2017). Buildings That Fill My Eye: An introduction to the architectural heritage of Yemen. In T. H. Marchand (Ed.), Architectural Heritage of Yemen: Buildings that Fill my Eye (11-27). Gingko. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt201mpg0.5

Architecture is one of Yemen’s greatest cultural achievements. A staggering array of building styles and traditions has evolved in remarkable harmony with the diverse topographies and challenging climatic conditions of southern Arabia. Every setting... Read More about Buildings That Fill My Eye: An introduction to the architectural heritage of Yemen.

The Minarets of Sanaa (2017)
Book Chapter
Marchand, T. H. (2017). The Minarets of Sanaa. In T. H. Marchand (Ed.), Architectural Heritage of Yemen: Buildings that Fill my Eye (119-127). Gingko. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt201mpg0.15

In his mid-eighteenth-century poem titledThe Mosques of Sanaa,¹ the author Ali ibn al-Hasan al-Khafanji tells the tale of a visit paid by the Great Mosque of the city to the tiny ʿAddil Mosque, located in the former Ottoman suburb of Bir al-ʿAzab. Th... Read More about The Minarets of Sanaa.