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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.

Symbolic Power (2025)
Book Chapter
Hoffmann, A. (2025). Symbolic Power. In S. E. Goddard, G. Lawson, & O. J. Sending (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology (717-734). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854708.013.34

Studying symbolic power is a commitment of international political sociology (IPS). This chapter analyzes the roots of symbolic power in Pierre Bourdieu’s work on Algeria, language, and critical engagement with Max Weber before surveying its uses in... Read More about Symbolic Power.

The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development (2025)
Book Chapter
Volz, U., & Aitken, D. (2025). The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development. In J. A. Mathews, & A. Oqubay Metiku (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook on the Greening of Economic Development (295-318). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198883487.013.19

This chapter discusses the role of the financial sector in greening economic development and the need to align finance with climate and other sustainability goals. Starting with a discussion of prevailing market failures in finance, the chapter makes... Read More about The Role of Finance in Greening Economic Development.

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 (456-469). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198854708.013.22

This chapter explores the structural order of neoliberal racial capital as both replacement for and continuation of the colonial order of value extraction from Global South to North. Neoliberalism is presented as a counter-revolution against decoloni... Read More about The Structural Order of Neoliberal Racial Capital.

Klaus Bruhn's "Commentary" on the Jaina-Concordance and Chandrabhal B. Tripathi's Notebooks at the British Library (2025)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2025). Klaus Bruhn's "Commentary" on the Jaina-Concordance and Chandrabhal B. Tripathi's Notebooks at the British Library. In J. Petit, & G.-J. Pinault (Eds.), Praśasti: Studies in Indology Presented to Nalini Balbir by Colleagues, Students and Friends (207-219). Universitätsverlag Halle-Wittenberg

The British Library holds a precious resource for Jaina Studies that is not recorded in the Catalogue of the Jain Manuscripts nor in any other reference source. The aim of this contribution to Nalini Balbir’s Festschrift is to make its existence mor... Read More about Klaus Bruhn's "Commentary" on the Jaina-Concordance and Chandrabhal B. Tripathi's Notebooks at the British Library.

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

Jews and Slavery (2025)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2025). Jews and Slavery. In C. Cobb, & K. A. Shaner (Eds.), Ancient Slavery and Its New Testament Contexts (51-65). William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

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 C. Oya, R. Ramtohul, & V. Tandrayen-Ragoobur (Eds.), 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. (2025). 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.

Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua (2025)
Book Chapter
Tilley, L. (2025). Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua. In M. Dhanda (Ed.), Oxford Intersections: Racism by Context (1-29). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198945246.003.0094

European colonialism in the Pacific brought racial taxonomies and hierarchies to the shores of West Papua and the wider Melanesian region. Since this formal colonial era, the peoples of West Papua have been subject to shifting discourses and structur... Read More about Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua.