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The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities. In L. W. C. van Lit, & J. H. Morris (Eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction (157-175). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747607-008

How can the blind spots in Jaina social and intellectual history be investigated in a systematic fashion given the fragmentary nature of the evidence? The idea of a prosopographical database with a sociological focus emerged organically from a SOAS C... Read More about The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.

The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran (2023)
Book Chapter
Tahmasebian, K., & Gould, R. R. The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran. In M. Reynolds (Ed.), Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel across Languages (451-491). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0319.12

This essay examines how twentieth century Iranian readers situated Jane Eyre within the classical genre of romance literature (adabiyāt-i ʿāshiqāna), originating from the tradition of love narratives in verse (ʿishq-nāma) pioneered by the twelfth cen... Read More about The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran.

Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality (2023)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2023). Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality. In L. Corti, & J.-G. Schülein (Eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy (343-363). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41558-6_19

My aim in this chapter is argue that aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics, as an example of ‘speculative naturalism’, can and should be seen as offering a powerful conceptual resource for explicating the cognitive pathology of scientism, and for also contr... Read More about Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality.

Taiwan History (2023)
Book Chapter
Fell, D. Taiwan History. In The Far East and Australasia 2024 (55th Edition). Europa Publications

Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own (2023)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2023). Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own. In O. Kasmani (Ed.), Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (125-145). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6305466.13

This chapter engages the temporality of khwajasara communal experience by examining a variety of ways in which this Pakistani gender nonconforming subjectivity has shared in the larger South Asian and/or Muslim memories and performance of gender and... Read More about Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own.

Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons (2023)
Book Chapter
Crewe, E. (2023). Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons. In S. Psarra, C. S. Sternberg, & U. Staiger (Eds.), Parliament Buildings: The architecture of politics in Europe (49-62). UCL Press

Parliamentary scholars tend to classify the work of Members of Parliament (MPs) into roles and measure their activities, votes and outputs. They thereby miss the contradictory, performative and ambivalent processes in politics. Influenced by Goffman’... Read More about Rhythms of navigating time and space in the UK House of Commons.

The UNRRA: the ambiguity of 'rehabilitation', suppressed discourses, and unlearned lessons from FDR's post-war assistance operation (2023)
Book Chapter
Plesch, D., & Schneider, G. (2023). The UNRRA: the ambiguity of 'rehabilitation', suppressed discourses, and unlearned lessons from FDR's post-war assistance operation. In S. K. Knapton, & K. Rossy (Eds.), Relief and Rehabilitation for a Postwar World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA (175-193). Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350182707.ch-8

Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular (2023)
Book Chapter
Orsini, F. (2023). Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular. In U. Anjaria, & A. Nerlekar (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Indian Literatures (21-36). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197647912.013.1

Despite the powerful reimagining of the multilingual landscape of South Asia into monolingual regions beginning in the early 19th century, and the aspiration toward one overarching national language, multilingualism has continued to inform South Asia... Read More about Literary Multilingualism in the Age of the Vernacular.

Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work (2023)
Book Chapter
Atzeni, M., Azzellini, D., Mezzadri, A., Moore, P., & Apitzsch, U. (2023). Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work. In Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (1-32). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00007

The exploitation of work and workers within capitalism continues to be reproduced according to the political economy of capital: profitability. This drive for profitability produces different forms of domination and control within the employment rela... Read More about Introduction: what is work and what is the political economy of work.

Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work (2023)
Book Chapter
Mezzadri, A. (2023). Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work. In M. Atzeni, D. Azzellini, A. Mezzadri, P. Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (64-73). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00012

Orthodox Marxist analyses have generally excluded social reproduction activities and realms from the study of labour exploitation and value generation. This exclusion has implied that the contributions and hardship of reproductive workers has gone un... Read More about Social reproduction, labour exploitation and reproductive struggles for a global political economy of work.

Exploitation and Global Value Chains (2023)
Book Chapter
Selwyn, B., Campling, L., Mezzadri, A., Baglioni, E., Miyamura, S., & Pattenden, J. (2023). Exploitation and Global Value Chains. In M. Atzeni, D. Azzellini, A. Mezzadri, P. Moore, & U. Apitzsch (Eds.), Handbook of Research on the Global Political Economy of Work (125-135). Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781839106583.00018

Concerns about exploitation in global supply chains are increasingly central to public and academic agendas. These issues have been investigated over the last 15 years from global value chain and global production network perspectives (henceforth 'ch... Read More about Exploitation and Global Value Chains.

Mandalas Intertwined: Why Minor Goddesses in the Tabo Main Temple Matter (2023)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C. (2023). Mandalas Intertwined: Why Minor Goddesses in the Tabo Main Temple Matter. In V. Eltschinger, J. Kramer, P. Patil, & C. Yoshimizu (Eds.), Burlesque of the Philosophers. Indian and Buddhist Studies in Memory of Helmut Krasser (363-393). Projektverlag

Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real (2023)
Book Chapter
Hezser, C. (2023). Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real. In S. Luther, P. B. Hartog, & C. E. Wilde (Eds.), Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Travel Experiences, 3rd c. BCE - 8th c. CE (251-268). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110717488-013

This article discusses rabbinic perceptions of space and geography, showing how geographical information in rabbinic writings reflects the “local color” of these writings or rabbinic perceptions of the Land of Israel or other regions. This leads to t... Read More about Rabbinic Geography: Between the Imaginary and Real.