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Graphological foregrounding in contemporary Yorùbá newspapers (2016)
Journal Article
Osunnuga, T. (2016). Graphological foregrounding in contemporary Yorùbá newspapers. Ihafa : a journal of African studies, 8(1), 54-72

the way and manner they exploit the paralinguistic resources of the language. The malleability of the language exploitation is achieved through the symbiotic relationship between the language structure and language function. Employing the theory of f... Read More about Graphological foregrounding in contemporary Yorùbá newspapers.

Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature. Anthropology and Humanism, 41(1), 86-101. https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12109

This essay chronicles a journey through the Caucasus toward the end of the second Russo-Chechen war. It focuses in particular on the discovery of a little-known Soviet-era work of historical fiction by the Ingush author Idris Bazorkin (1910-1991). In... Read More about Finding Bazorkin in the Caucasus: A Journey from Anthropology to Literature.

Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān. Journal of Persianate Studies, 9(1), 19-44. https://doi.org/10.1163/18747167-12341296

This article examines how the Persian prison poem (habsiyāt) incorporated Islamic legal norms for governing non-Muslim peoples into its poetics. By tracing how Khāqāni of Shirvān (d. 1199) brought the aesthetics of incarceration to bear on Islamic le... Read More about Wearing the Belt of Oppression: Khāqāni's Christian Qasida and the Prison Poetry of Medieval Shirvān.

Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015 (2016)
Journal Article
Fine, B., Johnston, D., Santos, A., & Van Waeyenberge, E. (2016). Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015. Development and Change, 47(4), 640-663. https://doi.org/10.1111/dech.12240

The 2015 World Development Report, Mind Society and Behaviour (World Bank, 2015), seeks a redesign of development policy on the basis of insights emerging from behavioural economics. This paper offers a critical assessment of the Report across four d... Read More about Nudging or Fudging: The World Development Report 2015.

Prevention and Control of Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollutions in UK and Suggestions to China (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, K., Ren, T., Wu, W., Meng, F., Bellarby, J., & Smith, L. (2016). Prevention and Control of Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollutions in UK and Suggestions to China. 农业环境科学学报 = Nong ye huan jing ke xue xue bao = Journal of Agro-Environment Science, 35(5), 817-823

Currently, the world is facing challenges of maintaining food production growth while improving agricultural ecological environmental quality. The prevention and control of agricultural non-point source pollution, a key component of these challenges,... Read More about Prevention and Control of Agricultural Non-Point Source Pollutions in UK and Suggestions to China.

New Directions for Transcendental Claims (2016)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2016). New Directions for Transcendental Claims. Grazer philosophische Studien, 93(2), 212-231. https://doi.org/10.1163/18756735-09302006

This article aims to provide an account of the relationship between transcendental claims and the project of using transcendental argumentation that differs from the mainstream literature. In much of the literature, such claims are said to have as th... Read More about New Directions for Transcendental Claims.

Many Rivers to Cross: Evaluating the Benefits and Limitations of Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Koshi River Basin (2016)
Journal Article
King, H., & Smith, L. (2016). Many Rivers to Cross: Evaluating the Benefits and Limitations of Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Koshi River Basin. Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, 18(2), Article 1650011. https://doi.org/10.1142/S1464333216500113

This paper assesses the value of using Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) to account for the spatially and temporally diverse and diffuse impacts of hydropower development in South Asia’s Koshi basin. A policy and practice review and key stakeh... Read More about Many Rivers to Cross: Evaluating the Benefits and Limitations of Strategic Environmental Assessment for the Koshi River Basin.

Religion in Contemporary Senegal (2016)
Journal Article
Gifford, P. Religion in Contemporary Senegal. Journal of Contemporary Religion, 31(2), 255-267. https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2016.1152684

Senegal is usually classified as 90% Muslim and 5% Christian. But Senegal’s dominant religious imagination is far different from anything suggested by classical labels like ‘Muslim’ or even ‘Sufi Brotherhoods’. The pervasive religious imagination see... Read More about Religion in Contemporary Senegal.

Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada (2016)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2016). Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada. Darkmatter (Uxbridge), 14,

In the mid to late nineteenth century, as English and French settlers were in the process of consolidating their colonial Dominion over vast First Nations’ territories in the form of a Canadian federal state, the government enacted legislation to cre... Read More about Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada.

Building the New Socialist Countryside: Tracking Public Policy and Public Opinion Changes in China (2016)
Journal Article
Han, E., Stepan, M., & Reeskens, T. (2016). Building the New Socialist Countryside: Tracking Public Policy and Public Opinion Changes in China. The China Quarterly, 226, 456-476. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741016000369

Ever since the introduction of the national political programme of “Building a new socialist countryside” (BNSC) in the early 2000s, renewed focus has been cast on how the Chinese government manages the gap between its rural and urban areas in the ne... Read More about Building the New Socialist Countryside: Tracking Public Policy and Public Opinion Changes in China.