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Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject (2017)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2017). Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject. In A. Lacey (Ed.), Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance (43-65). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95182-6_3

In a scenario resembling that within many urban settings across the globe, intensive commercial investment supported by a state evictions regime is rapidly displacing the urban poor from their ‘kampung’ neighbourhoods in Jakarta. This chapter turns a... Read More about Immanent Politics in the Kampungs: Gendering, Performing and Mapping the Jakarta Economic Subject.

Japanese Studies at SOAS, University of London (2017)
Book Chapter
Gerstle, A., & Cummings, A. (2017). Japanese Studies at SOAS, University of London. In N. Guo (Ed.), 世界の日本研究2017: 国際的視野からの日本研究 (128-147). International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices (2017)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2017). Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices. In C. M. Moreman (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying (119-132). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315723747

Jaina metaphysics is dualistic. Living beings are regarded as products of the amalgamation of the immortal substances, soul and matter. From the point of view of Jaina doctrine, the approaching disintegration of a gross body is not a calamity, but an... Read More about Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices.

Sudan (2017)
Book Chapter
Felix da Costa, D. (2017). Sudan. In A. Voronkova (Ed.), Armed Conflict Survey 2017 (209-216). International Institute for Strategic Studies

Introduction: Tracing Poverty Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress and Future Challenges (2017)
Book Chapter
Nissanke, M. (2017). Introduction: Tracing Poverty Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress and Future Challenges. In M. Nissanke, & M. Ndolo (Eds.), Poverty Reduction in the Course of African Development (3-38). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198797692.003.0001

The recent sustained growth posted by sub-Saharan African countries has led to a surge in investment flows and given rise to high hopes for Africa’s future prospects at the backdrop of the narratives of ‘Africa Rising’. The growth has produced a redu... Read More about Introduction: Tracing Poverty Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: Recent Progress and Future Challenges.

A Quest for Institutional Foundations towards Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2017)
Book Chapter
Nissanke, M. (2017). A Quest for Institutional Foundations towards Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In M. Nissanke (Ed.), Poverty Reduction in the Course of African Development (293-332). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780198797692.003.0012

The chapter explores the paths towards institutional foundations for inclusive development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). After introducing institutional configurations as a system of multiple equilibria, it presents a critical review of the thesis pro... Read More about A Quest for Institutional Foundations towards Inclusive Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.

What Happened to the American Dream? (2017)
Book Chapter
Weeks, J. (2017). What Happened to the American Dream?. In R. S. Rycroft (Ed.), The American middle class: an economic encyclopedia of progress and poverty. Greenwood Press

The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space (2017)
Book Chapter
Cornwall, A. (2017). The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space. In S. E. Alvarez, J. W. Rubin, M. Thayer, G. Baiocchi, & A. Laó-Montes (Eds.), Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America (63-80). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822373353-004

Narratives of civil society participation often paint an overly rosy picture of engaged citizens enlivening democratic deliberation and democratizing decision-making. In this chapter, I draw on ethnographic research in a “new democratic space” in nor... Read More about The Making and Unmaking of a New Democratic Space.