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Resistance and Consistent: Access to Medicines and Patent Law Reforms in India and China (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hu, Y. Q. (2013, December). Resistance and Consistent: Access to Medicines and Patent Law Reforms in India and China. Paper presented at Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2013 ‘Law, Individual, Community’, University of Edinburgh

The paper starts with reviewing the debates on patent in access to medicines in the context of globalization of TRIPS regime. It then looks at the issue of resistance related to patent theories, mechanism and the linkage with social movement during l... Read More about Resistance and Consistent: Access to Medicines and Patent Law Reforms in India and China.

Another look at right-detached NPs (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Simard, C. (2013, December). Another look at right-detached NPs. Presented at Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 4 Conference (LDLT4), London, United Kingdom

This paper proposes an analysis of right-detached NPs constructions in Jaminjung, a language of Northern Australia, in which right-detached NPs serve different discourse functions, either as reactivated topics or as afterthoughts, a distinction estab... Read More about Another look at right-detached NPs.

Prospects for Inclusive Growth in the MENA Region (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hakimian, H. (2013, November). Prospects for Inclusive Growth in the MENA Region. Presented at International Parliamentary Conference on ‘The Post-2015 Development Agenda’, House of Parliament, London

The Foundation of Hallyu – K-Pop's Coming of Age (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howard, K. (2013, October). The Foundation of Hallyu – K-Pop's Coming of Age. Presented at First World Congress for Hallyu Studies, Korea University, Seoul

We are still, collectively struggling to come to terms with Hallyu, Korean Wave. This is seen in the multitude of contrasting perspective that have been applied by journalists and academics alike since the turn of the new millennium. This article exp... Read More about The Foundation of Hallyu – K-Pop's Coming of Age.

The Search for Inclusive Growth in the MENA Region (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hakimian, H. (2013, September). The Search for Inclusive Growth in the MENA Region. Presented at Next Left Economic Circle, 11th Roundtable, European Union, Brussels

Muslims and Normativities (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, September). Muslims and Normativities. Presented at Comparative Approaches to Islamic Law and Economy, Amman, Jordan

The thematic focus of this project can be described as an attempt to critically reconsider various historical and present-day forms of social and legal normativity, within and without the Islamic legal tradition, that have influenced Muslim polities... Read More about Muslims and Normativities.

The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, September). The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj. Presented at Dogs, Pigs and Children: Changing Laws in Colonial Britain, Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law, SOAS, University of London

In the post-1857 colonial era, the Indian social and legal landscape underwent a seismic shift, caused by an evermore direct and forceful British rule in many spheres of life, including human-animal and gender relations. This paper provides a brief a... Read More about The (Un)Conscious Pariah: Canine and Gender Outcasts of the British Raj.

Kukuza Fasihi ya Kiswahili Duniani kwa njia ya Tafsiri (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Githiora, C. (2013, August). Kukuza Fasihi ya Kiswahili Duniani kwa njia ya Tafsiri. Paper presented at Annual Conference of Chama Cha Kiswahili Cha Afrika Mashariki (CHAKAMA), Nairobi, Nairobi

The "Consumption Junction" of ICT in Emerging Markets:
 An Ethnography of Middlemen (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Oreglia, E., & Kitner, K. R. The "Consumption Junction" of ICT in Emerging Markets:
 An Ethnography of Middlemen. Presented at EPIC - Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference 2013, Royal Institution

In rural China and India, a fragmented commercial distribution system and the lack of online shopping can significantly limit the range of consumer choice. In this paper, we look at the role that mobile phone shopkeepers—the middlemen—play in influen... Read More about The "Consumption Junction" of ICT in Emerging Markets:
 An Ethnography of Middlemen.

Valleys, Myths and Territories: Bosnian town of Gacko between Cosmology and Violence (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2013, August). Valleys, Myths and Territories: Bosnian town of Gacko between Cosmology and Violence. Paper presented at Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds: The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Manchester

In Gacko, a small town on the south-eastern border of Bosnia, layers of history and cosmology operate towards the imagination of two markedly different places – of landscaped memories and memorialised landscapes. This paper questions the vitality of... Read More about Valleys, Myths and Territories: Bosnian town of Gacko between Cosmology and Violence.

Listening Landscapes, Speaking Memories (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
HadžiMuhamedović, S. (2013, August). Listening Landscapes, Speaking Memories. Presented at Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds: The 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, University of Manchester

Can landscapes listen? Can landscapes speak? What is their relationship with memory? Arguing for an ‘Actor-Network Theory’, Bruno Latour proposes that ‘non-humans’ may have an active role, and not be ‘simply the hapless bearers of symbolic projection... Read More about Listening Landscapes, Speaking Memories.

The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2013, August). The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought. Paper presented at The New Marxist Writing in International Law, City University London

This project reassesses various Marxist approaches to human rights, arguing for a return to the 'negative hypothesis' – one in which the liberal panacea of rights is eschewed in favour of various forms of syndicated action. It begins with Marx and En... Read More about The Negative Hypothesis: On Rights and Relations in Marxist Legal Thought.