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Exit from democracy: Illiberal governance in Turkey and beyond (2016)
Journal Article
Öktem, K., & Akkoyunlu, F. K. (2016). Exit from democracy: Illiberal governance in Turkey and beyond. Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 16(4), 469-480. https://doi.org/10.1080/14683857.2016.1253231

This essay gives a synoptic overview of what we will describe as Turkey’s ‘exit from democracy’, a shift to authoritarianism and an Islamist ‘revolution from above’ that comes on the back of a much longer ‘passive revolution’. Secondly, it engages wi... Read More about Exit from democracy: Illiberal governance in Turkey and beyond.

A Wooden Manuscript from Late Qing Yunnan（救世鴻文）: Beyond the Print–Manuscript Distinction (2016)
Journal Article
Barrett, T. (2016). A Wooden Manuscript from Late Qing Yunnan（救世鴻文）: Beyond the Print–Manuscript Distinction. Studies in Chinese Religions, 2(3), 221-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/23729988.2016.1244993

This paper explores the role of wood, a crucial material in East Asian print and manuscript culture, in East Asian traditions of knowledge in two parts. The first provides an overarching historical survey of wood in printing, contextualizing its use... Read More about A Wooden Manuscript from Late Qing Yunnan（救世鴻文）: Beyond the Print–Manuscript Distinction.

Structures and Subjectives (2016)
Book Chapter
Sinha, S. (2016). Structures and Subjectives. In U. Chandra, & D. Taghioff (Eds.), Staking Claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India (225-234). Oxford University Press

The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality (2016)
Report
Al-Ali, N., Ali, Z., & Isabel, M. (2016). The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality

This chapter assesses the varying degrees to which young women in Arab countries are empowered or disempowered, included or excluded. Setting aside the stereotypes of subordination, it presents a nuanced picture
of the changing circumstances of youn... Read More about The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality.

Varieties of Industrial Policy: Models, Packages and Transformation Cycles (2016)
Book Chapter
Andreoni, A. (2016). Varieties of Industrial Policy: Models, Packages and Transformation Cycles. In A. Noman, & J. Stiglitz (Eds.), Efficiency, Finance and Varieties of Industrial Policy: Guiding Resources, Learning, and Technology for Sustained Growth (245-305). Columbia University Press

Counterfactual Subjunctive Assertions in Shanghai Dialect (2016)
Book Chapter
Jiang, Y., & Wang, Y. (2016). Counterfactual Subjunctive Assertions in Shanghai Dialect. In C.-O. A. Chin, B.-C. Kwok, & B. K. Tsou (Eds.), Commemorative Essays for Professor Yuen-Ren Chao: Father of Modern Chinese Linguistics. Crane Publishing

Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas (2016)
Book
Lapavitsas, C. (Ed.). (2016). Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004272712

The collected papers of Costas Lapavitsas are a pathway to Marxist monetary theory, a field that continues to attract strong interest. The papers range far and wide, including markets and money, finance and the enterprise, power and money, the financ... Read More about Marxist Monetary Theory: Collected Papers of Costas Lapavitsas.

Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Commentary on Avicenna's Pointers : The Confluence of Exegesis and Aporetics (2016)
Book Chapter
Shihadeh, A. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Commentary on Avicenna's Pointers : The Confluence of Exegesis and Aporetics. In K. El-Rouayheb, & S. Schmidtke (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199917389.013.12

This chapter argues against the prevalent reductionist reading of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s criticism of Avicennan doctrines in his philosophical works as a mere theologically motivated refutation. It proposes that when read in context, his famous comme... Read More about Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Commentary on Avicenna's Pointers : The Confluence of Exegesis and Aporetics.

‘Resilience’ across the post-2015 frameworks: towards coherence? (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Peters, K., Bahadur, A., Tanner, T., & Langston, L. ‘Resilience’ across the post-2015 frameworks: towards coherence?. London

In 2015 and 2016 the world’s governments agreed the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (Sendai Framework), the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (the Paris Agreement) and the World Hu... Read More about ‘Resilience’ across the post-2015 frameworks: towards coherence?.

Enhancing Urban Climate Change Resilience: Seven Entry Points for Action (Sustainable Development Working Papers No. 47) (2016)
Preprint / Working Paper
Bahadur, A., Tanner, T., & Pichon, F. Enhancing Urban Climate Change Resilience: Seven Entry Points for Action (Sustainable Development Working Papers No. 47). Mandaluyong City

Growing interest in the concept of urban climate change resilience (UCCR) recognizes the complexity of rapid urbanization and uncertainties associated with climate change.

This working paper synthesizes existing knowledge on urban climate change r... Read More about Enhancing Urban Climate Change Resilience: Seven Entry Points for Action (Sustainable Development Working Papers No. 47).

Study on the law applicable to companies (2016)
Book
Mucciarelli, F., Gerner-Beuerle, C., Mathias, S., & Edmund-Philipp, S. Study on the law applicable to companies. European Commission

While the case law of the Court of Justice has been supportive of foreign incorporations and cross-border corporate mobility in Europe, many problems still persist in practice. This report analyses these practical problems and the relevant domestic r... Read More about Study on the law applicable to companies.

Studying Islam and Christianity in Africa: Moving Beyond a Bifurcated Field (2016)
Other
(2016). Studying Islam and Christianity in Africa: Moving Beyond a Bifurcated Field. Cambridge

A special issue of Africa on the comparative study of Islam and Christianity in Africa, with response papers by the late John Peel, Birgit Meyer, Brian Larkin, and Ebenezer Obadare, and articles by Marloes Janson and Benjamin Soares.

The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia (2016)
Journal Article
Khatun, S. (2017). The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia. Gender and History, 29(1), 8-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12258

From 1860 to the 1920s, Muslim merchants and workers from across British India and Afghanistan travelled to Australian shores to work in the extensive camel transportation network that underpinned the growth of capitalism in the Australian interior.... Read More about The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia.