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Refugees.The Dangers of Benevolence (2016)
Digital Artefact
Salih, R. Refugees.The Dangers of Benevolence. [YouTube]

What kind of human life is being constructed when we categorize people as ‘refugees’? What do we mean by ‘refugees are human?’ is there in fact a shared humanity? Ruba Salih’s provocative reflections on refugees in contemporary times complicate the s... Read More about Refugees.The Dangers of Benevolence.

Life and Work of Johannes Klatt (2016)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2016). Life and Work of Johannes Klatt. In P. Flügel, & K. Krümpelmann (Eds.), Jaina-Onomasticon (9-164). Harrassowitz. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc770vn.4

The name of Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852-1903), Classical and Oriental philologist, Custodian at the Königliche Bibliothek in Berlin, and pioneer of Jaina Studies, has almost entirely disappeared from the records of 19th century intellectual histor... Read More about Life and Work of Johannes Klatt.

Watching the Forbidden: Reception of Banned Films in Iran (2016)
Book Chapter
Zeydabadi-Nejad, S. Watching the Forbidden: Reception of Banned Films in Iran. In M. Hagener, V. Hediger, & A. Strohmaier (Eds.), The State of Post-Cinema: Tracing the Moving Image in the Age of Digital Dissemination (99-113). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52939-8_6

This chapter traces the reception of banned films in Iran from the 1979 revolution to the latest developments in digital technology. It examines censorship in film exhibition before discussing the reception of banned foreign films and its impact on m... Read More about Watching the Forbidden: Reception of Banned Films in Iran.

The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation (2016)
Book
Iwasaki, N., Sells, P., & Akita, K. (Eds.). (2016). The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315646695

Mimetic words, also known as ‘sound-symbolic words’, ‘ideophones’ or more popularly as ‘onomatopoeia’, constitute an important subset of the Japanese lexicon; we find them as well in the lexicons of other Asian languages and sub-Saharan African langu... Read More about The grammar of Japanese mimetics: Perspectives from structure, acquisition and translation.

¿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 Pyu: an ancient civilization of upper Myanmar (2016)
Book Chapter
Murphy, S. A., & Kyaing, U. W. (2016). The Pyu: an ancient civilization of upper Myanmar. In S. A. Murphy (Ed.), Cities and Kings: Treasures from Ancient Myanmar (22-33). Asian Civilisations Museum

Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management (2016)
Book
Surminski, S., & Tanner, T. (Eds.). (2016). Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40694-7

Why aren’t we investing more in disaster resilience, despite the rising costs of disaster events? This book argues that decision-makers in governments, businesses, households, and development agencies tend to focus on avoiding losses from disasters,... Read More about Realising the 'Triple Dividend of Resilience': A New Business Case for Disaster Risk Management.

The Google voter: search engines and electoral information flows in the new media ecology (2016)
Journal Article
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.