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Tracks: temporal shifts and transnational networks of sentiment in Uyghur song (2012)
Journal Article
Harris, R. (2012). Tracks: temporal shifts and transnational networks of sentiment in Uyghur song. Ethnomusicology, 56(3), 450-475. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.56.3.0450

This paper explores constructs of memory and history through music in the transnational networks maintained by Central Asian Muslim Uyghurs. The paper is based on fieldwork with the Uyghur diaspora in Kazakhstan in 2003, and also direct involvement i... Read More about Tracks: temporal shifts and transnational networks of sentiment in Uyghur song.

The Avant-Garde is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre (2012)
Journal Article
Ferrari, R. (2012). The Avant-Garde is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre. positions: asia critique, 20(4), 1127-1157. https://doi.org/10.1215/10679847-1717690

The article examines the trope of the “death of the avant-garde” in the context of contemporary Chinese theatre. It addresses comparable “death discourses” such as the so-called theatre crisis of the late 1980s and early 1990s and critiques of “pseud... Read More about The Avant-Garde is Dead, Long Live the (Pop) Avant-Garde! Critical Reconfigurations in Contemporary Chinese Theatre.

Implementing the New UN Corporate Human Rights Framework: Implications for Corporate Law, Governance and Regulation (2012)
Journal Article
Muchlinski, P. (2012). Implementing the New UN Corporate Human Rights Framework: Implications for Corporate Law, Governance and Regulation. Business Ethics Quarterly, 22(1), 145-177. https://doi.org/10.5840/beq20122218

The UN Framework on Human Rights and Business comprises the State’s duty to protect human rights, the corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and the duty to remedy abuses. This paper focuses on the corporate responsibility to respect. It c... Read More about Implementing the New UN Corporate Human Rights Framework: Implications for Corporate Law, Governance and Regulation.

Is Water Policy the New Water Law? – Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms (2012)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2012). Is Water Policy the New Water Law? – Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms. IDS Bulletin, 43(2), 69-78. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2012.00309.x

Water law and policy are in principle clearly distinct at the national and international levels. The
former is binding while the latter is not. Yet, over the past two decades, the respective space of water law
and water policy has evolved to the po... Read More about Is Water Policy the New Water Law? – Rethinking the Place of Law in Water Sector Reforms.

The Groundwater Model Bill - Rethinking Regulation for the Primary Source of Water (2012)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2012). The Groundwater Model Bill - Rethinking Regulation for the Primary Source of Water. Economic and political weekly, 47(45), 40-47

Groundwater is now the main source of water for all major water uses in India and needs to be given greater policy attention. The fact that it is a politically sensitive topic because any reform will affect some powerful constituencies cannot be an e... Read More about The Groundwater Model Bill - Rethinking Regulation for the Primary Source of Water.

Review of H. Marquardt, Hethitische Logogramme. Funktion und Verwendung. (DBH 34, Wiesbaden, 2011). (2012)
Journal Article
Weeden, M. (2012). Review of H. Marquardt, Hethitische Logogramme. Funktion und Verwendung. (DBH 34, Wiesbaden, 2011). Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, 102(2), 347-350. https://doi.org/10.1515/za-2012-0016

A review of H. Marquardt's book on the function and use of logograms in Hittite cuneiform, which isolates two main motivations for logogram-use: tachygraphy and the avoidance of varying syllabic writings. Broad agreement is found with these results.... Read More about Review of H. Marquardt, Hethitische Logogramme. Funktion und Verwendung. (DBH 34, Wiesbaden, 2011)..

On the Cross-Country Relationship between Poverty, Income Distribution and Growth (2012)
Journal Article
Karshenas, M., & Pyatt, G. (2012). On the Cross-Country Relationship between Poverty, Income Distribution and Growth. Journal of income distribution, 21(3-4), 1-46. https://doi.org/10.25071/1874-6322.38670

The familiar cross-country relationship between the incidence of poverty and the level of development is derived via a three-stage process which avoids restrictive parametric assumptions regarding the shape of income distribution. It starts with the... Read More about On the Cross-Country Relationship between Poverty, Income Distribution and Growth.