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Worker, Businessman, Entrepreneur?: Kenya’s Shifting Labouring Subject (2019)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., & Gordon, C. (2019). Worker, Businessman, Entrepreneur?: Kenya’s Shifting Labouring Subject. Critical African Studies, 11(3), 301-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681392.2019.1689829

Entrepreneurship is increasingly promoted as a salve for the political problem of jobless growth and shrinking state coffers. But, its contemporary position at the frontiers of African capitalism is premised on nearly a century of attention on the Af... Read More about Worker, Businessman, Entrepreneur?: Kenya’s Shifting Labouring Subject.

Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches (2019)
Book Chapter
Sabaratnam, M. (2019). Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches. In J. Baylis, S. Smith, & P. Owens (Eds.), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Chinese loans in Old Vietnamese with a sesquisyllabic phonology (2019)
Journal Article
Gong, X. (2019). Chinese loans in Old Vietnamese with a sesquisyllabic phonology. Voprosy âzykovogo rodstva Вопросы языкового родства (Print), 17(1/2), 55-72. https://doi.org/10.31826/jlr-2019-171-209

While consonant clusters, taken broadly to include presyllables, are commonly hypothesized for Old Chinese, little direct evidence is available for establishing the early forms of specific words. This essay examines a hitherto overlooked source: Old... Read More about Chinese loans in Old Vietnamese with a sesquisyllabic phonology.

Small Development Questions are Important, but They Require Big Answers (2019)
Journal Article
Stevano, S. (2020). Small Development Questions are Important, but They Require Big Answers. World Development, 127, Article 104826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2019.104826

The 2019 Nobel Prize for Economics awarded to the pioneers of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) is a welcome acknowledgement of the fundamental challenge of poverty, but it should also be an opportunity to engage with the plurality of voices in dev... Read More about Small Development Questions are Important, but They Require Big Answers.

Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China: Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zhao (624-705) (2019)
Journal Article
Barrett, T. (2019). Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China: Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zhao (624-705). NAN NÜ: Men, Women and Gender in China, 21(2), 183-193. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00212P01

Usurpation by a woman made the reign of Wu Zhao a problem in the history writing of the restored Tang dynasty (618-907; interregnum 690-705) and thereafter that has often attracted the epithet ‘Confucian’. An examination of the rewriting of history t... Read More about Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China: Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zhao (624-705).

Gender and the Workplace (2019)
Book Chapter
Macnaughtan, H. (2019). Gender and the Workplace. In J. Coates, L. Fraser, & M. Pendleton (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315179582-17

This chapter argues that the Japanese workplace remains deeply gendered despite increasing calls for gender equality and the incremental development of employment equality legislation since the mid-1980s. Japanese institutions continue to draw social... Read More about Gender and the Workplace.

Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa (2019)
Journal Article
Chamelot, F., Hiribarren, V., & Rodet, M. (2019). Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa. History in Africa, 47, 101-118. https://doi.org/10.1017/hia.2019.26

With the rise of information technology, an increasing proportion of public African archives are being digitized and made accessible on the internet. The same is being done to a certain extent with private archives too. As much as the new technologie... Read More about Archives, the Digital Turn, and Governance in Africa.

'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses (2019)
Book Chapter
El-Merheb, M. (2019). 'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses. In K. Kellermann, A. Plassmann, & C. Schwermann (Eds.), Criticising the Ruler in Pre-Modern Societies: Possibilities, Chances, and Methods (349-376). V and R unipress. https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737010887.349

This study examines different methods employed by Muslim jurists to criticise the rulers and ruling elites of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period (c. 1230–1330). It treats three such methods: the use of the sermon at Friday prayer, legal opinion... Read More about 'There is no just ruler at this time!': Political Censure in Pre-Modern Islamic Juristic Discourses.

Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies (2019)
Book
Liu, J., & Yamashita, J. (Eds.). (2019). Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315660523

The Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies presents up to date theoretical and conceptual developments in key areas of the field, taking a multi-disciplinary and comparative approach.

Featuring contributions by leading scholars of Gender... Read More about Routledge Handbook of East Asian Gender Studies.

Arabic influence on metre in Somali Sufi religious poetry (2019)
Journal Article
Orwin, M. (2019). Arabic influence on metre in Somali Sufi religious poetry. Brill's Annual of Afroasiatic Languages and Linguistics, 11(2), 340-374. https://doi.org/10.1163/18776930-01102007

It has generally been assumed that there has not been any direct influence on Somali poetic metre from the metrical forms of Arabic. For the most part, this certainly seems to hold, but this article presents a poem which is of a type on which, it is... Read More about Arabic influence on metre in Somali Sufi religious poetry.

Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (2019)
Journal Article
Scott-Baumann, A., Ebbiary, A., Ad Duha Mohammad, S., Dhorat, S., Begum, S., Pandor, H., & Stolyar, J. (2019). Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project. Religions, 10(12), 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10120662

The Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project (UMSEP) addresses three key issues in the narrative of Muslim communal identity and religious leadership in Britain today: firstly, the need for the accreditation of Darul Ulooms (Muslim seminaries) and... Read More about Towards Contextualized Islamic Leadership: Paraguiding and the Universities and Muslim Seminaries Project.

(Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China (2019)
Book Chapter
Yeung, J. S.-Y. (2019). (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. In A. Pilsch, & S. Ross (Eds.), Humans at Work in the Digital Age: Forms of Digital Textual Labor (223-238). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429244599-17

This chapter argues that digital labor plays a pivotal role in the worlding mechanism of regional and national literatures in the East Asian context. Yeung probes the role of digital labor in canonizing Third-World literature, or what she conceives a... Read More about (Re)canonizing World Literature with Digital Archives and Online Magazines from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China.