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SportsPro Podcast: Dr Tom Tanner on how sport can mount a meaningful climate fightback (2021)
Digital Artefact
Tanner, T., & Rogan, M. SportsPro Podcast: Dr Tom Tanner on how sport can mount a meaningful climate fightback. [Podcast]

As COP26 arrives, SportsPro senior contributor Matt Rogan talks to SOAS’s Dr Tom Tanner centre director and programme director at the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy about how sports bodies can respond to the climate emergency.
Dr T... Read More about SportsPro Podcast: Dr Tom Tanner on how sport can mount a meaningful climate fightback.

The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England (2021)
Book
Marchand, T. H. (2021). The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England. Berghahn

Against the backdrop of an alienating, technologizing and ever-accelerating world of material production, this book tells an intimate story: one about a community of woodworkers training at an historic institution in London’s East End during the pres... Read More about The Pursuit of Pleasurable Work: Craftwork in Twenty-First Century England.

Monk Changyuan 昌圓 (1879–1945), Nuns in Chengdu, and Revaluation of Local Heritage: Voicing Local (In)Visible Narratives of Modern Sichuan Buddhism (2021)
Journal Article
Travagnin, S. (2021). Monk Changyuan 昌圓 (1879–1945), Nuns in Chengdu, and Revaluation of Local Heritage: Voicing Local (In)Visible Narratives of Modern Sichuan Buddhism. Journal of Chinese religions, 49(2), 191-240

The study of Buddhism in modern Sichuan has been limited mostly to a few case studies and places. However, in-depth research reveals a richer picture, involving several rural and urban centers. This article seeks to redirect scholarly focus and give... Read More about Monk Changyuan 昌圓 (1879–1945), Nuns in Chengdu, and Revaluation of Local Heritage: Voicing Local (In)Visible Narratives of Modern Sichuan Buddhism.

Sikh Nationalism: From a Dominant Minority to an Ethno-Religious Diaspora (2021)
Book
Singh, G., & Shani, G. (2021). Sikh Nationalism: From a Dominant Minority to an Ethno-Religious Diaspora. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316479940

This important volume provides a clear, concise and comprehensive guide to the history of Sikh nationalism from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on A. D. Smith's ethno-symbolic approach, Gurharpal Singh and Giorgio Shani use a new... Read More about Sikh Nationalism: From a Dominant Minority to an Ethno-Religious Diaspora.

Developing a Functional Food Systems Literacy for Interdisciplinary Dynamic Learning Networks (2021)
Journal Article
Pope, H., de Frece, A., Wells, R., & Borrelli, R. (2021). Developing a Functional Food Systems Literacy for Interdisciplinary Dynamic Learning Networks. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2021.747627

The impact of human activity on the planet cannot be overstated. Food systems are at the centre of a tangled web of interactions affecting all life. They are a complex nexus that directly and indirectly affects, and is affected by, a diverse set of s... Read More about Developing a Functional Food Systems Literacy for Interdisciplinary Dynamic Learning Networks.

Governing from the opposition?’: tracing the impact of EFF’s ‘niche populist politics’ on ANC policy shifts (2021)
Journal Article
Batsani-Ncube, I. (2021). Governing from the opposition?’: tracing the impact of EFF’s ‘niche populist politics’ on ANC policy shifts. Africa Review, 13(2), 199-216. https://doi.org/10.1080/09744053.2021.1943145

In December 2017, South Africa’s ruling party, the ANC, announced that they will adopt expropriation of land without compensation and free higher education for 90% of students. These policy positions had been associated with the radical left-wing EFF... Read More about Governing from the opposition?’: tracing the impact of EFF’s ‘niche populist politics’ on ANC policy shifts.

Inclusion and exclusion in the north-east Nigeria crisis (2021)
Preprint / Working Paper
Barbelet, V., Njeri, S., & Onubedo, G. Inclusion and exclusion in the north-east Nigeria crisis. London

The humanitarian response in north-east Nigeria is an important opportunity to examine barriers to more inclusive humanitarian action in large-scale, complex and protracted displacement crises. Acknowledging the immense operational challenges facing... Read More about Inclusion and exclusion in the north-east Nigeria crisis.

National states, transnational institutions, and hegemony in the EU (2021)
Journal Article
Lapavitsas, C., & Cutillas, S. (2022). National states, transnational institutions, and hegemony in the EU. Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 19(1), 429-448. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40844-021-00227-z

The institutional framework of the EU was altered by the pandemic shock of 2020, introducing greater discretion in both monetary and fiscal policy. The changes relate mostly to monetary policy and cast light on the theoretical debates regarding natio... Read More about National states, transnational institutions, and hegemony in the EU.

A song for Jains or a song for India : contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis (2021)
Journal Article
De Jonckheere, H. (2021). A song for Jains or a song for India : contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis. Contemporary South Asia, 29(4), 579-587. https://doi.org/10.1080/09584935.2021.1995327

This article studies the interaction of religiosity and national sentiment on the popular level of Jainism in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. It does so through a case study of a Jain popular song, which was created as a response to the everyday im... Read More about A song for Jains or a song for India : contesting narratives during the COVID-19 crisis.