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Concepts and Institutions for a New Buddhist Education: Reforming the Saṃgha between and within State Agencies (2014)
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Travagnin, S. (2014). Concepts and Institutions for a New Buddhist Education: Reforming the Saṃgha between and within State Agencies. East Asian history (Canberra, A.C.T. Online), 39, 88-101

Education reforms have played a key role in the turning points of Chinese history. Slogans like jiaoyu jiuguo 教育救國 became well-known when the first Republic succeeded the Empire, at the dawn of the Mao era, and with Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. Ch... Read More about Concepts and Institutions for a New Buddhist Education: Reforming the Saṃgha between and within State Agencies.

Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels (2014)
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Hutt, M. (2014). Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels. Himalaya (Portland, Or.), 34(2), 18-30

In his seminal book Literature, Popular Culture and Society, Leo Lowenthal argues that studies of the representation of society, state, or economy in the literature of a particular country or time contribute to our knowledge of ‘the kind of perceptio... Read More about Writers, Readers, and the Sharing of Consciousness: Five Nepali Novels.

Social, Religious, and Political Change in Pakistan (2014)
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Nelson, M. J. (2014). Social, Religious, and Political Change in Pakistan. Seminar (New Delhi.1959), 664, 20-23

TYPICALLY, those with an interest in the politics of Pakistan focus on macro-level trends at the level of high politics. Occasionally, some attention is paid to regional, ethnic and sectarian politics. In what follows, I turn to grassroots trends roo... Read More about Social, Religious, and Political Change in Pakistan.

Capital Fixity and Mobility in Response to the 2008-09 Crisis: Variegated Neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey (2014)
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Muñoz-Martínez, H., & Marois, T. (2014). Capital Fixity and Mobility in Response to the 2008-09 Crisis: Variegated Neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32(6), 1102-1119. https://doi.org/10.1068/d13165p

This paper examines the responses to the 2008–09 global financial crisis in Mexico and Turkey as examples of variegated neoliberalism. The simultaneous interests of corporations and banks in the national fixing of capital and their mobility in the fo... Read More about Capital Fixity and Mobility in Response to the 2008-09 Crisis: Variegated Neoliberalism in Mexico and Turkey.

I compensi agli amministratori esecutivi nelle società quotate: uno sguardo comparatistico a Regno Unito, Germania e Stati Uniti d’America (2014)
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Mucciarelli, F. (2014). I compensi agli amministratori esecutivi nelle società quotate: uno sguardo comparatistico a Regno Unito, Germania e Stati Uniti d’America. Analisi Giuridica dell'Economia, 13(2), 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1433/78512

This article critically compare directors' remuneration regimes in the U.K., Germany and the U.S. After the crisis, these countries have differently reacted to the huge increase of directors' remunerations over the last decades (which was not stopped... Read More about I compensi agli amministratori esecutivi nelle società quotate: uno sguardo comparatistico a Regno Unito, Germania e Stati Uniti d’America.

Evidentiality in Lamjung Yolmo (2014)
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Gawne, L. (2014). Evidentiality in Lamjung Yolmo. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 7, 76-96

German Policing at the Intersection: Race, Gender, Migrant Status and Mental Health (2014)
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Bruce-Jones, E. (2014). German Policing at the Intersection: Race, Gender, Migrant Status and Mental Health. Race & Class, 56(3), 36-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396814556223

Germany not only avoids using the term ‘race’, but its institutions, such as the police, refrain from collecting statistics according to race, gender, ethnicity and so on, which makes it hard to prove that police actions, and particularly violence, d... Read More about German Policing at the Intersection: Race, Gender, Migrant Status and Mental Health.

Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran (2014)
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Gould, R. R. (2014). Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran. Feminist Theory, 15(3), 221-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464700114544610

This article considers how state-mandated veiling and unveiling reinforce modern capitalism. State regulations regarding veiling incorporate the female body into the political economy of the commodity form. In addition to serving as an empty signifie... Read More about Hijab as commodity form: Veiling, unveiling, and misveiling in contemporary Iran.

Economic Policies, Structural Change and the Roots of the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt (2014)
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Bargawi, H. (2014). Economic Policies, Structural Change and the Roots of the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 10(3), 219-246. https://doi.org/10.1515/rmeef-2014-0034

This paper analyses the economic challenges facing Egypt in the post-Mubarak period, demonstrating the ways in which economic policy choices over the 2000s have contributed to the economic and social outcomes witnessed in the run up to the 2011 upris... Read More about Economic Policies, Structural Change and the Roots of the ‘Arab Spring’ in Egypt.

SCA-UK Newsletter, vol. 10 (November 2014) (2014)
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Khur-Yearn, J. (2014). SCA-UK Newsletter, vol. 10 (November 2014). SCA-UK Newsletter: Shan Cultural Association in the United Kingdom, 10, 1-30

The newsletter covers some latest news and articles on Shan cultural activities and updates on Shan studies.