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Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine (2025)
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Kadhum, O. (2025). Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Comparative Migration Studies, 13(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40878-025-00491-7

This paper examines the role of morality in migration and transnationalism, focussing on the case of Russian anti-war migration and activism against the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Putin’s regime. Drawing on moral philosophy and psychology, I... Read More about Moral migration and transnationalism: Russian anti-war resistance after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt (2025)
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Kling, G., Lo, Y. C., Murinde, V., & Volz, U. (online). Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt. Oxford Open Economics, Article odaf003. https://doi.org/10.1093/ooec/odaf003

We present the first systematic investigation of the impact of climate vulnerability on the cost of sovereign debt using a sample of 46 developing and advanced countries from 1996-2016. We find that a subgroup of 25 developing countries with higher e... Read More about Climate Vulnerability and the Cost of Debt.

The arduous path to moneyness: Cryptocurrencies compared to mobile money (2025)
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Lapavitsas, C. (online). The arduous path to moneyness: Cryptocurrencies compared to mobile money. The Japanese Political Economy, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/2329194x.2025.2541950

Privately created money based on Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) emerged in the late 2000s at the same time as mobile money. The latter, exemplified by M-Pesa, has become a prevalent form of money in several countries, especially in Africa. DLT-b... Read More about The arduous path to moneyness: Cryptocurrencies compared to mobile money.

Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa (2025)
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Nolan, J. (2025). Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa. Cadernos de Linguística, 6(1), Article 791. https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n1.id791

This paper details the spread of two pidgins in North and West Africa in the 19th century. It highlights the contributions of two individuals, the US State Department envoy, William Brown Hodgson and the French colonialist, Louis Faidherbe. Although... Read More about Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa.

Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary (2025)
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Apaydin, F., Piroska, D., & Coban, M. K. (online). Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251361208

This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically control credit allocation. We argue that both leaders have instrumentalized the banking s... Read More about Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary.

Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta (2025)
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Williams, R. D. (online). Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1356186325000045

To this day, Wajid ‘Ali Shah (1822-1887), the last Nawab of Awadh, is either remembered as a hedonist and political failure who was forced to surrender his kingdom to the British East India Company, or as a musical genius and important patron of the... Read More about Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta.

Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains (2025)
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Thakur, G. (in press). Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains. Law, environment and development journal, 21(2), 635-651. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596804

The Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway Project is a major infrastructure project being undertaken in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh that is characterised by its limited railway connectivity. Keeping aside its nature as a public transit projec... Read More about Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains.

Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora (2025)
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Baley, J. (online). Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora. Language and linguistics = 語言暨語言學, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00246.bal

Large annotated corpora of Chinese rhymed poetry have recently become available, in part due to the development of automatic annotation techniques, such as Baley (2022). The availability of such annotated corpora makes possible the computer-assisted... Read More about Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora.

Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine (2025)
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Hafez, S., Clarke, A., Richter, K., Lokot, M., Rivas, A.-M., & Singh, N. S. (in press). Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(7), Article e0004833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004833

Despite a burgeoning discourse within the humanitarian health community regarding decolonisation, there remains lack of practical guidance for researchers seeking to decolonise their work. We conducted a qualitative study which aimed to explore the p... Read More about Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine.

Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels (2025)
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Hou, T. (online). Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels. South East Asia Research, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2025.2517550

This article examines the depiction of modern Burmese women in the novels of author Kyi Aye (1929–2016). To achieve this, it explores the interplay between gender, modernity and tradition in both her career as a writer and in the specific portrayals... Read More about Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels.

The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets (2025)
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Bruno, C. (2025). The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets. Chinese Literature and Thought Today, 56(1/2), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2025.2479345

By recognizing interconnectedness in the coexistence of multiple forms of life and by supporting the distinction and singularity of identities, models of ecological consciousness have been defining fruitful frameworks to analyze not only the relation... Read More about The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets.

Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law (2025)
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Suresh, M. (in press). Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law. Asian Journal of Law and Society,

This article argues that contemporary Indian law is animated by two intertwined imaginings of law: as a rational, rule-bound process and as a power that makes decisions as a normless act of prerogative. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Delhi's terro... Read More about Between Rule and Prerogative: Petitions by terror-accused individuals and the imaginings of Indian law.

Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs (2025)
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Lerche, J. (online). Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs. Forum for Development Studies, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1080/08039410.2025.2528797

The 2024 election result in Uttar Pradesh (UP) was a shock for the BJP. The party had expected to increase its vote share significantly but instead, its support fell, and it was beaten by the Samajwadi Party (SP)-Congress alliance when it came to par... Read More about Uttar Pradesh: BJP and the Mobilisation of Dalits and OBCs.

Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries) (2025)
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Phillips, J., & Tribe, T. (online). Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries). Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270x.2025.2529113

This paper explores how the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa between the second and sixteenth centuries played a central and often complex role in the dissemination of colonialism. Initially introduced to first- or second-century Egypt,... Read More about Coexistence and colonialism: religious conversion and the expansion of Christianity in Northeast Africa (second–sixteenth centuries).

Mine clearance in aid of post conflict peacebuilding; The role of Humanitarian Mine Clearance Pioneer Corps (HMCPC) in Somaliland (1991-1994) 1 (2025)
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Njeri, S. (online). Mine clearance in aid of post conflict peacebuilding; The role of Humanitarian Mine Clearance Pioneer Corps (HMCPC) in Somaliland (1991-1994) 1. Conflict, Security and Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2025.2510684

Somaliland’s post-conflict recovery and reconstruction, particularly its state-building process, has been extensively analyzed. However, a crucial yet largely undocumented aspect of this process was the landmine clearance program, which enabled human... Read More about Mine clearance in aid of post conflict peacebuilding; The role of Humanitarian Mine Clearance Pioneer Corps (HMCPC) in Somaliland (1991-1994) 1.

A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey (2025)
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Coban, M. K., & Yesilkagit, K. (online). A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey. Policy Studies, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442872.2025.2530057

The rise of populism and the authoritarian shift has triggered a debate on the politics-administration nexus with a focus on the politics of democratic backsliding and the role of the bureaucracy. Recent studies have increasingly concentrated on the... Read More about A coalitional perspective on democratic backsliding: elite coalitions and the bureaucracy in Turkey.