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Privatising a public good (2019)
Digital Artefact
Kesar, S., Dutt, D., & Dasgupta, Z. Privatising a public good

The argument that India cannot afford low fees at institutions of higher education does not square with the massive giveaways to corporates. The commodification of higher education, the real motive of those calling for fee hikes, will destroy all hop... Read More about Privatising a public good.

Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights (2019)
Book Chapter
Craven, M. (2019). Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights. In J. von Bernstorff, & P. Dann (Eds.), The Battle for International Law: South-North Perspectives on the Decolonization Era (102-124). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849636.003.0005

Concession agreements were at the heart of the battle for international law in the decolonization era. This chapter reconstructs the underpinnings of scholarly debates over the question to what extent and under which conditions Western investments in... Read More about Colonial Fragments: Decolonization, Concessions, and Acquired Rights.

Cultural Political Economy and Critical Water Studies: An Introduction to the Special Themed Section (2019)
Journal Article
Mollinga, P. (2019). Cultural Political Economy and Critical Water Studies: An Introduction to the Special Themed Section. Water alternatives, 12(3), 788-801

The attraction of taking a Cultural Political Economy (CPE) perspective in the analysis of questions related to water use, management and governance is threefold: (i) CPE is an effort to capture the multidimensionality of social dynamics by emphasisi... Read More about Cultural Political Economy and Critical Water Studies: An Introduction to the Special Themed Section.

The Standardization of Islamic Financial Law: Lawmaking in Modern Financial Markets (2019)
Journal Article
Ercanbrack, J. (2019). The Standardization of Islamic Financial Law: Lawmaking in Modern Financial Markets. The American Journal of Comparative Law, 67(4), 825-860. https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avz010

The project to standardize the commercial elements of the sharia as undertaken by standard-setting bodies, such as the Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI), is a lawmaking effort that is incentivized by mar... Read More about The Standardization of Islamic Financial Law: Lawmaking in Modern Financial Markets.

Hôtes et otages : Entasser des objets chez soi dans le Japon contemporain (2019)
Journal Article
Gygi, F. (2019). Hôtes et otages : Entasser des objets chez soi dans le Japon contemporain. L'Homme (Paris. 1961), 231/2, 151-172. https://doi.org/10.4000/lhomme.35567

Material culture studies often use a framework defined by appropriation, in which human actors can make circulating objects their own by investing them with meaning. But what happens when a present given to you cannot entirely become yours ? This art... Read More about Hôtes et otages : Entasser des objets chez soi dans le Japon contemporain.

Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module) (2019)
Other
Istratii, R., & Hasan, K. (2019). Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module). SOAS University of London

This module explores tensions that exist between the commitment to take ethical approaches in global research and to abide by UK/EU-based research governance standards. The course considers how researchers can meet these evolving funder guidelines re... Read More about Ethical Reflexivity and Research Governance: Navigating the Tensions (Online Module).

A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan (2019)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2019). A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan. In J. Halley, P. Kotiswaran, R. Rebouché, & H. Shamir (Eds.), Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (407-433). University of Minnesota Press. https://doi.org/10.5749/j.ctvdjrpfs.19

There has been for a while a steady flow of critical studies of the women’s movement in Pakistan—that discursive and social formation of and about women that has been memorably described by Farida Shaheed, one of its foremost representatives, as a “m... Read More about A Cry for Madness: Governance Feminism and Neoliberal Consonance in Pakistan.

Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility under the 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill: Is Nigeria Rehashing Past Mistakes? (2019)
Journal Article
Amodu, N. (2019). Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility under the 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill: Is Nigeria Rehashing Past Mistakes?. African Journal of Legal Studies, 11(4), 319-351. https://doi.org/10.1163/17087384-12340038

The 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill before the Nigerian National Assembly was proposed to foster sustainable development (SD) and embed corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the oil and gas corporate activities... Read More about Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility under the 2018 Petroleum Host and Impacted Communities Development Trust Bill: Is Nigeria Rehashing Past Mistakes?.

Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South (2019)
Journal Article
Niño-Zarazúa, M. (2019). Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South. Population and Development Review, 45(S1), 3-22. https://doi.org/10.35188/unu-wider/2019/716-3

This paper presents an analysis of the recent evolution of social assistance in the developing world, looking at its complex typological configuration, which has interlinked with, and partly reflects the complex demographic and epidemiological transi... Read More about Welfare and redistributive effects of social assistance in the Global South.

(Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexuality and Culture in Modern India (2019)
Book
Srivastava, S., & Kumaramkandath, R. (Eds.). (2019). (Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexuality and Culture in Modern India. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108637770

(Hi)Stories of Desire situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing and desiring. The book draws upon multi-disciplinary... Read More about (Hi) Stories of Desire: Sexuality and Culture in Modern India.