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¿Empoderamiento y sumisión a Dios? La acción pía en las nuevas musulmanas del siglo XXI (2016)
Journal Article
Goikolea-Amiano, I. (2016). ¿Empoderamiento y sumisión a Dios? La acción pía en las nuevas musulmanas del siglo XXI. Feminismo/s (San Vicente del Raspeig), 191-211. https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2016.28.08

La ‘agencia’ o la capacidad de decisión y acción ha constituido un tema central en el seno de los estudios y el activismo feminista. Tomando como punto de partida la propuesta de Saba Mahmood este artículo tiene como objetivo, por un lado, mostrar la... Read More about ¿Empoderamiento y sumisión a Dios? La acción pía en las nuevas musulmanas del siglo XXI.

The Google voter: search engines and electoral information flows in the new media ecology (2016)
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Trevisan, F., Hoskins, A., Oates, S., & Mahlouly, D. (2018). The Google voter: search engines and electoral information flows in the new media ecology. Information, Communication and Society, 21(1), 111-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1261171

This paper explores key Internet search trends for electoral information vis-à-vis the broader media ecology in the UK and the US. An innovative methodology is introduced that maps the informational trajectories of key election events by combining Go... Read More about The Google voter: search engines and electoral information flows in the new media ecology.

Associated motion constructions in African languages (2016)
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Belkadi, A. (2016). Associated motion constructions in African languages. Africana Linguistica (Imprimé), 22, 43-70. https://doi.org/10.2143/AL.22.0.3197351

The aim of this paper is to highlight the frequent occurrence of associated motion and compare the construction in 20 languages from the four main linguistic phyla of Africa. Associated motion is a strategy typical of Australian and South American la... Read More about Associated motion constructions in African languages.

Uncovering Small-Scale Multilingualism (2016)
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Lüpke, F. (2016). Uncovering Small-Scale Multilingualism. Critical multilingualism studies, 4(2), 35-74

This paper uncovers a particular type of multilingualism: small-scale multilingualism, meant here to designate communicative practices in heteroglossic societies in which multilingual interaction is not governed by domain specialization and hierarchi... Read More about Uncovering Small-Scale Multilingualism.

Introduction to Special Issue on the Material Cultures of Financialisation (2016)
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Bayliss, K., Fine, B., & Robertson, M. (2016). Introduction to Special Issue on the Material Cultures of Financialisation. New Political Economy, 22(4), 355-370. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259304

This paper offers a wide-ranging introduction to the symposium on the material culture of financialisation. It begins by addressing the nature of financialisation itself, drawing on a tight definition in order to distinguish the phenomenon of financi... Read More about Introduction to Special Issue on the Material Cultures of Financialisation.

A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese (2016)
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Hill, N. W. (2016). A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics, 3(2), 270-281. https://doi.org/10.1075/ijchl.3.2.04hil

Song (2014) draws renewed attention to the problem of groups of Chinese words in which the character used to write one of the words has a stop final reading in Middle Chinese but the character used to write another of the words has an open syllable r... Read More about A refutation of Song's (2014) explanation of the 'stop coda problem' in Old Chinese.

Discourses of Power and State Formation: The State of Emergency from Protectorate to Post-Uprising Tunisia (2016)
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Mullin, C., & Rouabah, B. Discourses of Power and State Formation: The State of Emergency from Protectorate to Post-Uprising Tunisia. Middle East Law and Governance, 8(2/3), 151-178. https://doi.org/10.1163/18763375-00802003

Extending the timeframe of analysis beyond the post-uprising period, Corinna Mullin and Brahim Rouabah retrace the way in which the state of emergency has functioned as a discourse of power and a modality of governance throughout the colonial and pos... Read More about Discourses of Power and State Formation: The State of Emergency from Protectorate to Post-Uprising Tunisia.

Antecedents and Consequences of Liking in Retail Service Relationships in China and Greece (2016)
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Abosag, I., Baker, T., Hall, K., Voulgari, A., & Zheng, X. (2017). Antecedents and Consequences of Liking in Retail Service Relationships in China and Greece. International Business Review, 26(3), 566-578. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2016.11.003

The marketing literature has provided a limited examination of the concept of liking, and even this has mainly occurred within business-to-business or advertising contexts. In this paper, the authors propose a model of the intervening role of liking... Read More about Antecedents and Consequences of Liking in Retail Service Relationships in China and Greece.

Material cultures of water financialisation in England and Wales (2016)
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Bayliss, K. (2016). Material cultures of water financialisation in England and Wales. New Political Economy, 22(4), 383-397. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2017.1259300

The ownership structure of the water and sewerage sector has changed substantially in England and Wales (EW) since the 10 companies were listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1989. The majority of firms are now delisted and a number of companies are... Read More about Material cultures of water financialisation in England and Wales.

Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection (2016)
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El-Merheb, M. (2016). Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection. Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 28(3), 282-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2016.1243780

This article examines the portrayal of Louis IX in medieval Arabic historiography to show the importance of cross-cultural Mediterranean interaction. It argues that the image of Louis was influenced by information originating from the Sicilian Hohens... Read More about Louis IX in Medieval Arabic Sources: The Saint, the King, and the Sicilian Connection.

Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer (2016)
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Smith, L., Inman, A., Xin, L., Haifang, Z., Meng, F., Zhou, J., Burke, S., Rahn, C., Siciliano, G., Haygarth, P., Bellarby, J., & Surridge, B. (2016). Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer. Land Use Policy, 61, 208-219. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.09.028

This paper evaluates the existing policy frameworks for mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture (DWPA) in England and China. With reference to a conceptual model of the process of policy transfer or international lesson drawing, and po... Read More about Mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture in England and China, and the scope for policy transfer.

Sex, Statistics, Peacekeepers and Power: UN Data on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and the Quest For Legal Reform (2016)
Journal Article
Grady, K. (2016). Sex, Statistics, Peacekeepers and Power: UN Data on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and the Quest For Legal Reform. Modern Law Review, 79(6), 931-960. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12225

The UN Secretariat provides annual statistics on allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse made against peacekeeping personnel, with reduced numbers of allegations leading to claims of success for the UN’s ‘zero tolerance’ policy. This article exp... Read More about Sex, Statistics, Peacekeepers and Power: UN Data on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse and the Quest For Legal Reform.

Potential negative consequences of geoengineering on crop production: a study of Indian groundnut (2016)
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Yang, H., Dobbie, S., Ramirez-Villegas, J., Feng, K., Challinor, A. J., Chen, B., Gao, Y., Lee, L., Yin, Y., Sun, L., Watson, J., Koehler, A.-K., Fan, T., & Ghosh, S. (2016). Potential negative consequences of geoengineering on crop production: a study of Indian groundnut. Geophysical Research Letters, 43, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071209

Geoengineering has been proposed to stabilise global temperature, but its impacts on crop production and stability are not fully understood. A few case studies suggest that certain crops are likely to benefit from solar dimming geoengineering, yet we... Read More about Potential negative consequences of geoengineering on crop production: a study of Indian groundnut.