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Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work (2024)
Book Chapter
Okech, A. (2024). Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work. In SAGE Research Methods Cases: Diversifying and Decolonizing Research (1-16). Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781529691009

This case study proposes an expanded model of shadow research for collaborative field research. I draw on my experience on a collaborative pilot study on women associated with armed groups in Maiduguri, Northern Nigeria. This case study draws on the... Read More about Adaptive Shadow Research for Collaborative Field Work.

Subjects and Actors (2024)
Book Chapter
Engström, V., Green, A., Viswanath, R., Baranowska, G., Phillipa Paige, T., T. Theilen, J., Santos de Carvalho, J., Kahl, V., Chi, H., González Hauck, S., Peters, A., & Kunz, R. (2024). Subjects and Actors. In S. González Hauck, R. Kunz, & M. Milas (Eds.), Public International Law: A Multi-Perspective Approach. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003451327-9

States and international organisations are by tradition the main legal subjects of international law. In addition, a number of actors can also be identified that display limited features of international legal personality. In recent decades an acknow... Read More about Subjects and Actors.

Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice (2024)
Book Chapter
Mosse, D. (2024). Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice. In E. Gilberthorpe (Ed.), Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges (1-28). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003460954-8

This chapter uses the immersive experience of Open Dialogue, an innovative approach to mental healthcare, as the pretext for reflection on the stance of anthropologists in relation to our interlocutors, fieldwork as ethical practice and the personal... Read More about Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice.

Eat the Rich: A Rethinking of the Heritage-Crime-Development Nexus (2024)
Book Chapter
Viswanath, R., & Wiseman, J. (2024). Eat the Rich: A Rethinking of the Heritage-Crime-Development Nexus. In G. Mastandrea Bonaviri, & M. M. Sadowski (Eds.), Heritage in War and Peace: Legal and Political Perspectives for Future Protection (371-390). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47347-0_24

Since the late 1990s, criminal law solutions have come to play an increasingly important role in the international policy realms of both cultural heritage protection and sustainable development. At the same time, cultural heritage protection has beco... Read More about Eat the Rich: A Rethinking of the Heritage-Crime-Development Nexus.

Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia (2024)
Book Chapter
Sharrock, P. (2024). Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia. In R. K. Payne, & G. A. Hayes (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies (557-580). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197549889.013.47

Fierce Herukas, emitted by the supreme buddhas of the Vajrayāna “thunderbolt vehicle,” emerged toward the end of the first millennium CE to bolster Buddhist kings outside India with supernatural powers to defend their territory, repel their enemies,... Read More about Mandalas and Landscape in Maritime Asia.

Upgrading and multi-scalar industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sector value chain (2024)
Book Chapter
Boys, J., & Andreoni, A. (2024). Upgrading and multi-scalar industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sector value chain. In O. Morrisey, J. Semboja, & M. Were (Eds.), Sustaining Tanzania’s Economic Development: A Firm and Household Perspective (37-60). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192885746.003.0003

Policy makers are increasingly turning from global value chains to regional and national value chains as drivers of structural transformation in the global South. This chapter examines economic and social upgrading in the Tanzanian textile and appare... Read More about Upgrading and multi-scalar industrial policy in the Tanzanian textile and apparel sector value chain.

A (presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin (2024)
Book Chapter
Dolce, L. (2024). A (presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin. In J. Chen (Ed.), Esoteric Buddhism and Texts: Volume I, Manuscript Culture and Transborder Transmission. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003434955-9

The Yuqi jing [Sūtra of the Yogin] is often listed as one of the most important scriptures of Tantric Buddhism in East Asia, but its content and contribution to the esoteric system have so far been little understood. Traditionally regarded as a trans... Read More about A (presumably Chinese) tantric scripture and its Japanese exegesis: the Yuqi Jing 瑜祇經 and the practices of the Yogin.

Theory and Practice of Armored War during the Two World Wars (2024)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2024). Theory and Practice of Armored War during the Two World Wars. In K. Roy, & M. W. Charney (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429437915-32

From a technology that was practically non-existent prior to World War I, the tank had emerged by the end of World War II as the main battle weapon of land armies, as it has remained until the present. Tanks reoriented all other branches of the milit... Read More about Theory and Practice of Armored War during the Two World Wars.

Firearms and Maritime Gunpowder States of Asia (2024)
Book Chapter
Charney, M. W. (2024). Firearms and Maritime Gunpowder States of Asia. In K. Roy, & M. W. Charney (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429437915-27

Gunpowder weapons would have a significant effect on Asian warfare. Changes in their application in warfare manifested themselves in different ways depending upon local climate, geography, and the density of the population. However, the same kind of... Read More about Firearms and Maritime Gunpowder States of Asia.

Introduction: The Evolution of Warfare: Global Perspectives (2024)
Book Chapter
Roy, K., & Charney, M. W. (2024). Introduction: The Evolution of Warfare: Global Perspectives. In K. Roy, & M. W. Charney (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429437915-1

Warfare as organised violence can be traced back to the New Stone Age. In the words of historian Azar Gat, ‘For once humans had evolved agriculture, they set in train a continuous chain of developments that have taken them further and further away fr... Read More about Introduction: The Evolution of Warfare: Global Perspectives.

Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Mapunda, G. (2024). Introduction. In H. Gibson, R. Guérois, G. Mapunda, & L. Marten (Eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (1-13). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10663761

Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili (2024)
Book Chapter
Marten, L., Gibson, H., Guérois, R., & Jerro, K. (2024). Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili. In H. Gibson, R. Guérois, G. Mapunda, & L. Marten (Eds.), Morphosyntactic variation in East African Bantu languages: Descriptive and comparative approaches (383-420). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10663785

The comparative and historical study of Bantu and other African languages is often based on contemporary, synchronic data since many African languages do not have a long-written record. In contrast, for Swahili such a record exists in the form of an... Read More about Morphosyntactic variation in Old Swahili.

Cosmopolitanism (2024)
Book Chapter
Levy, O., & Lee, H.-J. (2024). Cosmopolitanism. In C. G. Asmussen, N. Hashai, & D. Minbaeva (Eds.), Encyclopaedia of International Strategic Management (37-39). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800884045.ch11

Cosmopolitanism is a complex, multilevel, and multi-layered phenomenon manifested in a variety of social spheres. A vast body of literature on cosmopolitanism spans multiple disciplines (e.g., sociology, anthropology, political science, philosophy, m... Read More about Cosmopolitanism.

Consumer law in Ghana (2024)
Book Chapter
Yidana, N., & Nkansah, L. A. (2024). Consumer law in Ghana. In E. Ghio, & R. Perlingeiro (Eds.), Are Legal Systems Converging or Diverging? Lessons from Contemporary Crises (101-125). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38180-5_7

This chapter examines the evolution of consumer law and policy in Ghana, focusing on reforms induced by crises over the last two decades. It considers whether such reforms converge with or diverge from, international, supranational, and sub-regional... Read More about Consumer law in Ghana.

Ceramics (2024)
Book Chapter
Tan, H. (2024). Ceramics. In H. Njoto, & N. Hidalgo Tan (Eds.), Archaeology and Art History of Southeast Asia: An Introductory Resource Guide (33-36). Temasek History Research Centre