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Forced Labor, Resistance, and Masculinities in Kayes, French Sudan, 1919–1946 (2014)
Journal Article
Rodet, M. (2014). Forced Labor, Resistance, and Masculinities in Kayes, French Sudan, 1919–1946. International Labor and Working-Class History, 86, 107-123. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014754791400012X

In this article I analyze how African gender categories have interacted with those produced and imposed by French colonization and how these forced interactions may have given rise to specific kinds of resistance from local populations. Using the cas... Read More about Forced Labor, Resistance, and Masculinities in Kayes, French Sudan, 1919–1946.

“I’m Not Dead Yet”: A Comparative Study of Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, G., Johnson, H., & Sallabank, J. (2015). “I’m Not Dead Yet”: A Comparative Study of Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. Current Issues in Language Planning, 16(3), 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2014.972535

At the outset of the twenty-first century, the survival of many minority and indigenous languages is threatened by globalization and the ubiquity of dominant languages such as English in the worlds of communication and commerce. In a number of cases,... Read More about “I’m Not Dead Yet”: A Comparative Study of Indigenous Language Revitalization in the Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey..

The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368 (2014)
Book
McCausland, S. (2014). The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368. Reaktion Books

The Mongol Century explores the visual world of China's Yuan dynasty (1271-1368), the spectacular but short-lived regime founded by Khubilai Khan, regarded as the pre-eminent khanate of the Mongol empire. This book illuminates the Yuan era - full of... Read More about The Mongol Century: Visual Cultures of Yuan China, 1271-1368.

Maps and Notebooks: J. M. Coetzee & the Texas Archives (2014)
Digital Artefact
Easton, K. (2014). Maps and Notebooks: J. M. Coetzee & the Texas Archives. [Preface and visual travelogue (video)]

Maps & Notebooks: J. M. Coetzee & the Texas Archives

Kai Easton (SOAS, University of London)


A folded map on pink cardstock is found in Container 99.2 at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. It is an irregular square size,... Read More about Maps and Notebooks: J. M. Coetzee & the Texas Archives.

Introduction (2014)
Book Chapter
Orsini, F., & Sheikh, S. (2014). Introduction. In F. Orsini, & S. Sheikh (Eds.), After Timur Left: Culture and Circulation in Fifteenth-Century North India. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199450664.003.0001

This introduction sets the agenda for the volume by arguing for a closer look at fifteenth-century north India, a period of multilingualism, vernacularization, the evolution of script conventions, and the emergence of specialist literary and cultural... Read More about Introduction.

From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project (2014)
Journal Article
Brading, R. (2014). From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project. Latin American Perspectives, 41(6), 48-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X14521991

In December 2001, Hugo Chávez and others changed Venezuela’s Bolivarian revolutionary project, which consisted of replacing a corrupt and elitist constitution with a fair and popular one, into a radical one. In its early stages the project correspond... Read More about From Passive to Radical Revolution in Venezuela’s Populist Project.

The Influence of Religiously Motivated Consumer Boycotts on Brand Image, Loyalty and Product Judgment (2014)
Journal Article
Abosag, I., & Farah, M. (2014). The Influence of Religiously Motivated Consumer Boycotts on Brand Image, Loyalty and Product Judgment. European Journal of Marketing, 48(11/12), 2262-2283. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-12-2013-0737

Purpose – The purpose of this paper was to examine the in!uence of religiously motivated boycotts,
such as the one conducted in Saudi Arabia against Danish companies, on corporate brand image,
customer loyalty and product judgment. Despite a growin... Read More about The Influence of Religiously Motivated Consumer Boycotts on Brand Image, Loyalty and Product Judgment.

Cosmopolitanism and Korean Artists: Presenting Creative Work Abroad (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Howard, K. (2014, November). Cosmopolitanism and Korean Artists: Presenting Creative Work Abroad. Presented at 2-in mu festival/Why we need networking, ARKO, Seoul, Korea

Exploring recent literature on cosmopolitanism in ethnomusicology and beyond, and mapping recent Korean artistic productions abroad onto the deterritoroialization and reterritorialization theories to show the need to both show awareness of the local+... Read More about Cosmopolitanism and Korean Artists: Presenting Creative Work Abroad.

Karoo Country (2014)
Exhibition / Performance
Easton, K. (2014). Karoo Country. [Documentary]. 3 November 2014 - 28 November 2014. (Unpublished)

A short documentary /travelogue set to music by Abdullah Ibrahim and in dialogue with J. M. Coetzee's fictionalised autobiographical trilogy, Scenes from Provincial Life. The images were taken during my travels in the Western Cape in 2012, when Prin... Read More about Karoo Country.

The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction (2014)
Journal Article
Ouyang, W.-C. (2014). The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 16(3), 63-84. https://doi.org/10.3366/jqs.2014.0166

How is it possible to comprehend and assess the impact of the Qur’an on the literary expressions of Chinese Muslims (Hui) when the first full ‘translations’ of the Qur’an in Chinese made by non-Muslims from Japanese and English appeared only in 1927... Read More about The Qur'an and Identity in Contemporary Chinese Fiction.

Can there be mercy without the merciful? A meditation on Martha Nussbaum’s questions (2014)
Journal Article
Chan, S. (2014). Can there be mercy without the merciful? A meditation on Martha Nussbaum’s questions. Third World Quarterly, 35(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2014.970868

Martha Nussbaum raised profound concerns about aid as being conceived out of the self-directed charity of donors and not the expressed concerns of those being aided. Even when the recipients of aid seek to express their concerns, their capabilities m... Read More about Can there be mercy without the merciful? A meditation on Martha Nussbaum’s questions.

Tigers or Tiger Prawns?: The African Growth “Tragedy” and “Renaissance” in Perspective (2014)
Book Chapter
Cramer, C., & Chang, H.-J. (2015). Tigers or Tiger Prawns?: The African Growth “Tragedy” and “Renaissance” in Perspective. In C. Monga, & J. Y. Lin (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics: Volume 1: Context and Concepts. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199687114.013.45

This chapter examines Africa’s “renaissance” following a “growth tragedy,” or “chronic growth failure,” between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. It puts the African growth experiences of the last 50 years into perspective by analyzing these so-called... Read More about Tigers or Tiger Prawns?: The African Growth “Tragedy” and “Renaissance” in Perspective.