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Race and Racism in Political Ecology (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (in press). Race and Racism in Political Ecology. In A Handbook for Decolonizing International Affairs (16). Palgrave Macmillan

In recent years, a rich and informative literature on race and racism in political ecology has emerged which challenges mainstream understandings of climate breakdown and forms of environmental harm. This chapter reviews and builds on these contribu... Read More about Race and Racism in Political Ecology.

"'The Work is Blessed, Unique': The Fatimid Silver Casket of Sadaqa b. Yusuf" (2025)
Book Chapter
Contadini, A. (2025). "'The Work is Blessed, Unique': The Fatimid Silver Casket of Sadaqa b. Yusuf". In G. Bilotto, F. Daftary, & S. Jiwa (Eds.), Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: history, material culture politics and religion (335-371). I.B. Tauris and IIS

This paper contributes to the literature on Fatimid art and its connections with the broader Mediterranean art, through a focused study of an important and beautiful silver casket.

Windows of digital innovation in South Africa: digital capabilities for product, process, and service development (2025)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A., & Anzolin, G. (2025). Windows of digital innovation in South Africa: digital capabilities for product, process, and service development. In P. N. Figueiredo, & S. A. Zahra (Eds.), Building Digital Technological Capabilities: A Global South Perspective (122-140). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781803922362.00011

The chapter explores the transformative role of digitalisation in South Africa's manufacturing sectors, focusing on how companies are developing capabilities to seize digital innovation opportunities. The chapter introduces a ‘digital capability matr... Read More about Windows of digital innovation in South Africa: digital capabilities for product, process, and service development.

Foreword (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (in press). Foreword. In J.-C. N. Ashukem (Ed.), Handbook on Human Right to a Healthy Environment: International, Regional, and Comparative Pathways for Policy Intervention in Cameroon. Springer

Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China (2025)
Book Chapter
Boretti, V. (2025). Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China. In M. Zaborskis (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood (165-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003431923-17

This chapter explores the making of girls and boys in twentieth-century China, utilizing sources produced between the 1910s and the 1970s. Prescribing how to raise or educate “new” subjects, these materials outlined the ideal child persona: the rescu... Read More about Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China.

Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies (2025)
Book Chapter
Rao, A. (2025). Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies. In A. A. E. Joubin, & N. Khomenko (Eds.), The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Reparative Shakespeare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003499831-15

This chapter is a survey of scholarly works published in 2022–2023 within the field of Shakespeare studies. It is divided into four sections: Shakespeare and Race, Shakespeare and Pedagogy, Adaptation and Appropriation, and Global Shakespeare. The go... Read More about Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies.

Introduction: Problematizing political communication theory and praxis in the Middle East and North Africa: Reframing Western-centric debates in times of excessive war (2025)
Book Chapter
Matar, D. (2025). Introduction: Problematizing political communication theory and praxis in the Middle East and North Africa: Reframing Western-centric debates in times of excessive war. In D. Matar (Ed.), Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa (i-18). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755653850.ch-I

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P., & Shree, R. (in press). Introduction. In P. Cullet, & R. Shree (Eds.), River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. Routledge

River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (in press). River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond. In River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. Routledge

This chapter starts by engaging with the conceptual framing of river rights. It highlights some of the potential that the river rights discourse offers as an alternative to the dominant paradigm of sustainable development. A river rights framing prov... Read More about River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond.

Contested essential concepts in international relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Berenskoetter, F., & Guzzini, S. (2025). Contested essential concepts in international relations. In C. Thies, & J. M. Dean (Eds.), Handbook of International Relations (89-105). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366130.00013

This chapter explores the notion of “essential concepts” and their contestation with an eye on the field of International Relations (IR). The title plays on W.B. Gallie's famous essay to pursue the argument that a debate over the meaning of an essent... Read More about Contested essential concepts in international relations.

Kin, Herd, Connection: A Meditation (2025)
Book Chapter
Leite, N. (2025). Kin, Herd, Connection: A Meditation. In D. Blamey, & S. Hebert (Eds.), Together (151-160). Open Editions

Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making (2025)
Book Chapter
Mohamed, S., & Fine, B. (2025). Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making. In R. Herrera (Ed.), Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism (141-167). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020250000040010

In absolute terms, and relative to both hopes and potential, post-apartheid economic and social reproduction has been a disaster. A key element in explaining this is to situate it within an extraordinarily rapid and full adjustment, albeit with pecul... Read More about Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making.

Co-watching as Feminist Transformative Pedagogy (2025)
Book Chapter
Krishnakumar, J., Saxena, S., & Date, R. (2025). Co-watching as Feminist Transformative Pedagogy. In E. Romero-Hall, C. M. Daniel, N. Bond, & L. K. Newman (Eds.), Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (37-53). Athabasca University Press

Greening of Economic Development: The Next Great Transformation: Conclusions and Pathways to the Future (2025)
Book Chapter
Mathews, J. A., & Metiku, A. (2025). Greening of Economic Development: The Next Great Transformation: Conclusions and Pathways to the Future. In J. A. Mathews, & A. Metiku (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development (798-808). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198883487.013.34

The Handbook frames the process of the greening of economic development as the next major transformation of the global economy, demonstrated using empirical evidence across frameworks, regions, and sectors in the thirty chapters as finalized. The tra... Read More about Greening of Economic Development: The Next Great Transformation: Conclusions and Pathways to the Future.

Greening of Economic Development: An Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Mathews, J. A., & Metiku, A. (2025). Greening of Economic Development: An Introduction. In J. A. Mathews, & A. Oqubay (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development (3-12). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198883487.013.1

As opposed to traditional accounts of economic development, framed in terms of stocks of available energy (fossil fuels), resources, and finance, a new paradigm is emerging based on greening as a viable strategy. This is based on restorative strategi... Read More about Greening of Economic Development: An Introduction.