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The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach to research inquiry (2016)
Journal Article
Chiripanhura, B. M., & Niño-Zarazúa, M. (2016). The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach to research inquiry. Development Policy Review, 34(6), 763-788. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12183

This article examines the impacts of the financial, food and fuel crises on poor and vulnerable households in two states of Nigeria: Lagos and Kano. It uses retrospective household-level data to analyze the impacts of induced price variability on hou... Read More about The impacts of the food, fuel and financial crises on poor and vulnerable households in Nigeria: A retrospective approach to research inquiry.

Southern Hokkien: An Introduction: What We Did and Why We Did What We Did (2016)
Journal Article
Fuehrer, B. (2016). Southern Hokkien: An Introduction: What We Did and Why We Did What We Did. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 166(2), 425-441. https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.166.2.0425

Southern Hokkien (Minnanhua, Taiwanese), one of the southern Chinese regional languages, is rarely taught in Chinese programmes at European or American universities. This paper sheds light on the design and pedagogical aims of a new comprehensive int... Read More about Southern Hokkien: An Introduction: What We Did and Why We Did What We Did.

Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction (2016)
Journal Article
Rettová, A. (2016). Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction. Research in African literatures, 47(3), 15-31. https://doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.47.3.02

This article traces the history of the Swahili novel in its development from realism to experimental prose, and following the experimental phase back to realism in the recent works of some of the former literary experimentators. This trend is called... Read More about Writing in the Swing? Neo-Realism in Post-Experimental Swahili fiction.

Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism (2016)
Book Chapter
Neveling, P. (2016). Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism. In S. Hyatt, A. Kingsolver, & S. Coleman (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Contemporary Anthropology (72-91). Routledge

Introduction For a largely research-driven science such as anthropology the object(s) of investigation are crucial choices. The “field” is what most anthropologists may identify as just such an object, be this the entire world or a rural, suburban, o... Read More about Beyond sites and methods: The field, history and global capitalism.

Before Bandung: Pet Names in Telangana (2016)
Book Chapter
Rao, R. (2016). Before Bandung: Pet Names in Telangana. In Q. N. Phạm, & R. Shilliam (Eds.), Meanings of Bandung: Postcolonial Orders and Decolonial Visions (85-94). Rowman and Littlefield

The Persian translation of Arabic aesthetics: Rādūyān's rhetorical renaissance (2016)
Journal Article
Gould, R. R. (2016). The Persian translation of Arabic aesthetics: Rādūyān's rhetorical renaissance. Rhetorica, 34(4), 339-371. https://doi.org/10.1525/rh.2016.34.4.339

Notwithstanding its value as the earliest extant New Persian treatment of the art of rhetoric, Rādūyānī's Interpreter of Rhetoric (Tarjumān al-Balāgha) has yet to be read from the vantage point of comparative poetics. Composed in the Ferghana region... Read More about The Persian translation of Arabic aesthetics: Rādūyān's rhetorical renaissance.

The acquisition of Pilkington (UK) by Nippon Sheet Glass (Japan) as a failure of cross-border synergy: could applying co-operative strategies have made a difference? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jackson, K., & Matsumoto, S. (2016, October). The acquisition of Pilkington (UK) by Nippon Sheet Glass (Japan) as a failure of cross-border synergy: could applying co-operative strategies have made a difference?. Paper presented at Europe-Asia Management Studies Association, Suzhou, China

A political ecology of REDD+: property rights, militarised protectionism, and carbonised exclusion in Cross River (2016)
Journal Article
Asiyanbi, A. P. (2016). A political ecology of REDD+: property rights, militarised protectionism, and carbonised exclusion in Cross River. Geoforum, 77, 146-156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.10.016

This paper offers a critical assessment of REDD+ in Nigeria through a political ecology perspective. Focusing on questions of property rights and resource access, it maps the discursive articulations and contestations through which carbon rights are... Read More about A political ecology of REDD+: property rights, militarised protectionism, and carbonised exclusion in Cross River.

Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps (2016)
Journal Article
Cullet, P. (2016). Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps. Transnational Environmental Law, 5(2), 305-328. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204710251600025X

Differential treatment in international environmental law is the broader manifestation of the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities (CBDRs). It reflects equity concerns that have underlain most environmental debates on a North-South... Read More about Differential Treatment in Environmental Law: Addressing Critiques and Conceptualizing the Next Steps.