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What happens to patterns of food consumption when food prices change? Evidence from a systematic review and meta analysis of food price elasticities globally. (2014)
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Cornelsen, L., Green, R., Turner, R., Dangour, A. D., Shankar, B., Mazzocchi, M., & Smith, R. D. (2015). What happens to patterns of food consumption when food prices change? Evidence from a systematic review and meta analysis of food price elasticities globally. Health Economics, 24(12), 1548-1559. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3107

Recent years have seen considerable interest in examining the impact of food prices on food consumption and subsequent health consequences. Fiscal policies targeting the relative price of unhealthy foods are frequently put forward as ways to address... Read More about What happens to patterns of food consumption when food prices change? Evidence from a systematic review and meta analysis of food price elasticities globally..

Contemporary Climate Change Art as the Abstract Machine: Ethico-Aesthetics and Futures Orientation (2014)
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Taplin, R. (2014). Contemporary Climate Change Art as the Abstract Machine: Ethico-Aesthetics and Futures Orientation. Leonardo, 47(5), 509-510. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00827

The fusion of visual art and climate science to produce something new to mediate the urgency of the climate change issue is explored in relation to Simon O’Sullivan’s conception of contemporary art invoking Deleuze and Guattari’s ethico-aesthetics an... Read More about Contemporary Climate Change Art as the Abstract Machine: Ethico-Aesthetics and Futures Orientation.

Political Protest in Japan, Part II 戦間期日本の政治的抗議活動 (下） (2014)
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Gerteis, C., & Dower, J. W. (2014). Political Protest in Japan, Part II 戦間期日本の政治的抗議活動 (下）. Japan focus, 12(37.2),

Between 2002 and 2013, the Visualizing Cultures (VC) project at M.I.T. produced a number of “image-driven” online units addressing Japan and China in the modern world. Co-directed by John Dower and Shigeru Miyagawa, VC tapped a wide range of hitherto... Read More about Political Protest in Japan, Part II 戦間期日本の政治的抗議活動 (下）.

Beyond Technocratic Debates: The Significance and Transience of Political Incentives in the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP) (2014)
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Chinsinga, B., & Poulton, C. (2014). Beyond Technocratic Debates: The Significance and Transience of Political Incentives in the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP). Development Policy Review, 32(s2), 123-150. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12079

The Malawi FISP resurrected debates about the role of subsidies in African agricultural policy. Recent literature has highlighted the social and political interests that influence the distribution of input‐subsidy vouchers, often tending to reduce th... Read More about Beyond Technocratic Debates: The Significance and Transience of Political Incentives in the Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme (FISP).

Keeping labour mobility informal: the lack of legality of Central Asian migrants in Kazakhstan (2014)
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Dave, B. Keeping labour mobility informal: the lack of legality of Central Asian migrants in Kazakhstan. Central Asian Survey, 33(3), 346-359. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2014.953814

Kazakhstan's legal–regulatory framework provides for a small number of quotas for highly skilled foreign workers but has no provisions for legal employment of semi-skilled or low-skilled migrants from the Central Asian states, who enter under the Com... Read More about Keeping labour mobility informal: the lack of legality of Central Asian migrants in Kazakhstan.

The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development (2014)
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Perry-Kessaris, A. (2014). The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development. Current Legal Problems, 67(1), 169-198. https://doi.org/10.1093/clp/cuu016

Legal development work suffers from a general lack of interdisciplinarity and from the associated dominance of economics. A more sociologically informed meta-framework, such as that offered by the emergent field of economic sociology of law (ESL), is... Read More about The Case for a Visualized Economic Sociology of Legal Development.

Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society (2014)
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Were, G. (2014). Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society. Museum Anthropology, 37(2), 133-143. https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.12058

This article investigates digital heritage technologies from a Melanesian perspective. It explores—in the context of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea—the types of values placed on digital surrogates as a means to engage critically with recent debates on... Read More about Digital Heritage, Knowledge Networks, and Source Communities: Understanding Digital Objects in a Melanesian Society.