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What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy (2025)
Book Chapter
Asquer, A. (2025). What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy. In I. Roberge, H. McKeen-Edwards, & M. Campbell-Verduyn (Eds.), Ineffective Policy: Causes and Consequences of Bad Policy Choices (46-66). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447371564.ch004

This chapter aims to develop a framework for the analysis of arguments about what constitutes ‘bad policies’ during the policy-making stage. The framework provides a way to categorize bad policies, spanning from ideal policies to disastrous policies,... Read More about What a Bad Policy Idea! Exploring Views on Wind Farms in Italy.

The Structural Order of Neoliberal Racial Capital (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). The Structural Order of Neoliberal Racial Capital. In S. Goddard, G. Lawson, & O. J. Sending (Eds.), Oxford Handbook on International Political Sociology (1-13). Oxford University Press

Boîte à Documents (Bunko) (2025)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (in press). Boîte à Documents (Bunko). In Une Passion Chinoise –Monsieur Thiers’ China. Louvre Museum

Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India (2025)
Book Chapter
Srivastava, S. (2025). Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India. In S. Rau, & J. Rüpke (Eds.), Handbook of Religion and Urbanity. De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/urbrel.13901298

The city of Gurugram, the administrative headquarters of a district of the same name, is located in the state of Haryana. Gurugram adjoins the southern borders of Delhi and has been the site of intense urban development over the past two decades. Rap... Read More about Urban Theo-topias: Religious Claims to Space and the Language of Administrative Rationality in the New City of Gurugram, India.

A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services (2025)
Book Chapter
Peeroo, A., & Bayliss, K. (2025). A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (384-411). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.18

Mauritian drinking water services are in urgent need of investment. Yet, tariffs are among the lowest in the region, despite relatively high-income levels. This chapter offers a political economy analysis, drawing on the systems of provision (SoP) ap... Read More about A Political Economy Perspective on Mauritian Water Services.

Why Mauritius? The Political Economy of Structural Transformation in a Small Island (2025)
Book Chapter
Campling, L., & Oya, C. (2025). Why Mauritius? The Political Economy of Structural Transformation in a Small Island. In C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (20-45). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.2

This chapter explores the significance of the Mauritian economic development trajectory by connecting the experience of Mauritius to debates on structural economic transformation and on the perceived vulnerabilities and prospects of Small Island Deve... Read More about Why Mauritius? The Political Economy of Structural Transformation in a Small Island.

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Oya, C., Ramtohul, R., & Tandrayen-Ragoobur, V. (2025). Introduction. In The Oxford Handbook of the Mauritian Economy (3-19). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192856494.013.1

Mauritius’s development pathway as a small island economy and part of the sub-Saharan African region is considered as an example for other countries. Its economic, social, and political landscape has been very dynamic over the past decades since inde... Read More about Introduction.

Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid (2025)
Book Chapter
Harris, R. (in press). Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid. In N. Manabe, & E. Drott (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Protest Music. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190653866.013.0034

This chapter takes a medium-term view of developments in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region over a period of twenty years, during which the indigenous Turkic Muslim Uyghurs were collectively transformed in official discourse from “ethnic separ... Read More about Dissonant Voices in China’s Harmonious Society: From Cassettes to WeChat, Nation to Anashid.

Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili (2025)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., & Gibson, H. (2025). Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili. In H. Kennard, E. Lindsay-Smith, A. Lahiri, & M. Maiden (Eds.), Historical Linguistics 2022. Selected papers from the 25th ICHL, Oxford, 1–5 August 2022 (184-197). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.369.12mar%3Flocatt%3Dmode%3Alegacy

The paper examines contact-induced morphosyntactic change in Swahili, where material which had historically been lost is ‘reintroduced’ through contact with closely related languages which have retained the original feature. The paper discusses three... Read More about Morphosyntactic borrowing in closely related varieties: “False cognates” in Swahili.

Diaspora (2025)
Book Chapter
Adamson, F. B. (2025). Diaspora. In B. Jahn, & S. Schindler (Eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations (90-91). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035312283.00044

This entry discusses the meaning of diaspora, its evolution and different usages of the term. It provides an overview of the main categories and types of diaspora found in the literature. Key areas of empirical research and policy debate are introduc... Read More about Diaspora.

Trust Matters: The governance of private and public services organizations' external relationships (2025)
Book Chapter
Bachmann, R. (in press). Trust Matters: The governance of private and public services organizations' external relationships. In F. Six, J. A. Hamm, D. Latusek, E. van Zimmeren, & K. Verhoest (Eds.), Handbook on Trust in Public Governance (76-84). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781802201406.00010

This chapter focuses on the external relationships of private and public sector organisations and puts trust in the focus of a comparative analysis. It starts with identifying the function of trust and suggests that it is a governance mechanism that... Read More about Trust Matters: The governance of private and public services organizations' external relationships.

Confidence Game: Intelligence, Deception and Subterfuge (2025)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2025). Confidence Game: Intelligence, Deception and Subterfuge. In M. K. Barbier, & D. Showalter (Eds.), A Cultural History of War. Vol. 3: A Cultural History of War in the Renaissance. Bloombury

Race/Economy (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). Race/Economy. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. J. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Connection/Relation (2025)
Book Chapter
Nisancioglu, K. (2025). Connection/Relation. In R. Crilley, N. Manchanda, L. Shepherd, C. Wilkinson, C. Biddolph, & S. Fishel (Eds.), Thinking World Politics Otherwise: A Diverse Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Fronteras (2025)
Book Chapter
Novak, P. (2025). Fronteras. In Á. Iranzo, I. Ruiz-Giménez Arrieta, & M. Íñiguez de Heredia (Eds.), Manual de estudios críticos: cartografías disidentes para comprender las relaciones internacionales (615-642). Editorial Tirant Lo Blanch

Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics (2025)
Book Chapter
Bernardes, C., Cornwall, A., Crewe, E., & Hoyler, T. (2025). Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics. In J. Chibois, & S. Shapiro (Eds.), Fieldwork in centres of power, a longitudinal perspective. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003356349-12

In August 2022, a group of four ethnographers assembled in São Paulo to undertake a collaborative inquiry with politicians, each with their own different identities, positions of power, rhythms of work and sensibilities. By researching as a team, we... Read More about Collaborative reflexive inquiry into parliaments: Ethnographers negotiating during research on politics.