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Money (2012)
Book Chapter
dos Santos, P. L. (2012). Money. In B. Fine, A. Saad Filho, & M. Boffo (Eds.), The Elgar Companion To Marxist Economics. Edward Elgar Publishing

Film Africa 2012 (2012)
Exhibition / Performance
Dovey, L. (2012). Film Africa 2012. [Film festival]. 1 November 2012 - 11 November 2012. (Unpublished)

London's only annual African film festival

The Space Between Here and There: The Prophet's Night Journey as an Allegory of Islamic Ritual Prayer (2012)
Journal Article
O'Meara, S. (2012). The Space Between Here and There: The Prophet's Night Journey as an Allegory of Islamic Ritual Prayer. Middle Eastern Literatures, 15(3), 232-239. https://doi.org/10.1080/1475262X.2012.726573

This paper commences with an analysis of Qur'an 17:1, the Prophet's alleged night journey from Mecca to Jerusalem, which it interprets as an allegory of Islamic ritual prayer. By way of this interpretation, the paper subsequently reviews Islam as a p... Read More about The Space Between Here and There: The Prophet's Night Journey as an Allegory of Islamic Ritual Prayer.

Open Economy Monetary Policy Reconsidered (2012)
Journal Article
Weeks, J. (2013). Open Economy Monetary Policy Reconsidered. Review of Political Economy, 25(1), 57-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/09538259.2013.737123

The standard policy rule of the Mundell-Fleming model states that under a flexible exchange rate regime with perfectly elastic capital flows, monetary policy is effective and fiscal policy is not. The rule ignores the effect of a change in the nomina... Read More about Open Economy Monetary Policy Reconsidered.

Rethinking Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, November). Rethinking Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition. Paper presented at Crime, Justice and Society, City University London

This paper offers a critical historical overview of the varying concepts of crime in Islamic legal tradition, focusing on the four examples from the classical, postclassical and the contemporary eras of Islamic law. The first example presents a brief... Read More about Rethinking Crime in Islamic Legal Tradition.

Developments in Islamic Law relating to Sexual and Gender Diversity (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, November). Developments in Islamic Law relating to Sexual and Gender Diversity. Paper presented at Religion and Human Rights: Religion in Private and Public Spaces, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham

Drawing on the examples from Seljuk, Mamluk and Ottoman laws and societies, this paper presents some conflicting historiographies and hermeneutics of Islamic law relating to human sexual and gender diversity. It focuses, in particular, on the (social... Read More about Developments in Islamic Law relating to Sexual and Gender Diversity.

Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (2012)
Book
Marsden, M., & Retsikas, K. (Eds.). (2012). Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4267-3

This collection of arresting and innovative chapters applies the techniques of anthropology in analyzing the role played by Islam in the social lives of the world’s Muslims. The volume begins with an introduction that sets out a powerful case for a f... Read More about Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds.

Becoming Sacred: Humanity and Divinity in East Java, Indonesia (2012)
Book Chapter
Retsikas, K. (2012). Becoming Sacred: Humanity and Divinity in East Java, Indonesia. In M. Marsden, & K. Retsikas (Eds.), Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds (119-138). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4267-3_6

Retsikas’ study focuses on Muslims in East Java, Indonesia and is primarily concerned with the ways in which local Sufi healers have acquired the capacity to heal. This leads him into an investigation of the connections people seek to forge with spir... Read More about Becoming Sacred: Humanity and Divinity in East Java, Indonesia.

Introduction: Articulating Islam (2012)
Book Chapter
Marsden, M., & Retsikas, K. (2012). Introduction: Articulating Islam. In Articulating Islam: Anthropological Approaches to Muslim Worlds. Springer

Unimagined China: Media, Technologies and the Fragmentation of National Olympic Audiences (2012)
Journal Article
Latham, K. (2012). Unimagined China: Media, Technologies and the Fragmentation of National Olympic Audiences. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 29(17), 2311-2325. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2012.744525

The Beijing Olympics were a global media event that marked China’s arrival on international political and economic stages. The Chinese authorities made great efforts, and with much success, to present to the world the face of a strong, competent, eff... Read More about Unimagined China: Media, Technologies and the Fragmentation of National Olympic Audiences.

The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry (2012)
Book Chapter
Opland, J. (2012). The image of the book in Xhosa oral poetry. In R. Barnard (Ed.), Print, text and book cultures in South Africa (286-305). Wits University Press

The neoliberal rise of East Asia and social movements of labour: four moments and a challenge (2012)
Journal Article
Chang, D.-O. (2012). The neoliberal rise of East Asia and social movements of labour: four moments and a challenge. Interface (Maynooth), 4(2), 22-51

The celebrated ‘rise of East Asia’ as a centre of global capitalism resulted from the increasing integration of East Asia into the expanding circuit of capital that turned most of the East Asian population into ‘capitalist value-subjects’. This means... Read More about The neoliberal rise of East Asia and social movements of labour: four moments and a challenge.