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Monetary Policy at the Crossroads – How to Respond to the Climate Crisis (2023)
Report
Kriwoluzky, A., & Volz, U. (2023). Monetary Policy at the Crossroads – How to Respond to the Climate Crisis

Climate change has wide-ranging effects on society and the economy, presenting challenges for central banks. These challenges encompass both physical risks stemming from climate change and transition risks related to the shift toward a more sustainab... Read More about Monetary Policy at the Crossroads – How to Respond to the Climate Crisis.

South Korea (2023)
Book Chapter
Lee, Y. South Korea. In A. Funk, A. Shahbaz, & K. Vesteinsson (Eds.), Freedom on the Net 2023: The Repressive Power of Artificial Intelligence. Freedom House

Rethinking Approaches To The Study Of Islamist Movements In West Asia And North Africa: Methodological And Ethical Reflections (2023)
Journal Article
McDonald, C. (2023). Rethinking Approaches To The Study Of Islamist Movements In West Asia And North Africa: Methodological And Ethical Reflections. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040647

The study of Islamist movements in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) has long benefited from a formative corpus of research—largely consisting of fieldwork conducted in the 1990s and/or 2000s which often entailed directly engaging with Islamists—that... Read More about Rethinking Approaches To The Study Of Islamist Movements In West Asia And North Africa: Methodological And Ethical Reflections.

Forest Bond Financing In The Global South: The Ecological And Social Contexts Of A Market-Based Solution For Sustainability Of Forests (2023)
Journal Article
Nemecek, D. (2023). Forest Bond Financing In The Global South: The Ecological And Social Contexts Of A Market-Based Solution For Sustainability Of Forests. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040648

This article aims to follow up on the efforts to make a case for critical study of green bonds and, more generally, market-based financing of sustainability of forests. The article introduces the instrument of forest bonds and explores cases of proj... Read More about Forest Bond Financing In The Global South: The Ecological And Social Contexts Of A Market-Based Solution For Sustainability Of Forests.

Adat In Indonesian Law And Society: A Tool To Build Resilience And Overcome Diversity Through Cultural And Legal Pluralism (2023)
Journal Article
Simonetti, M. (2023). Adat In Indonesian Law And Society: A Tool To Build Resilience And Overcome Diversity Through Cultural And Legal Pluralism. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040649

Legal pluralism—the presence of more than one legal order within the same country—is intrinsically linked to cultural, social, religious, and legal dimensions. In Indonesia, it takes the form of adatrecht or customary law, which—after a period of str... Read More about Adat In Indonesian Law And Society: A Tool To Build Resilience And Overcome Diversity Through Cultural And Legal Pluralism.

Decolonising Borderwork: Indigenous Knowledges, Agencies, And Sustainable Agricultural Development In Uganda (2023)
Journal Article
Grant, L. (2023). Decolonising Borderwork: Indigenous Knowledges, Agencies, And Sustainable Agricultural Development In Uganda. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040650

Whereas little research has traced the displacement and relocation of Indigenous peoples engaged in subsistence agriculture generally in Africa, even less has examined what happens to Indigenous knowledge when such communities are forced to relocate,... Read More about Decolonising Borderwork: Indigenous Knowledges, Agencies, And Sustainable Agricultural Development In Uganda.

Disruption And Resilience In Finance: Social Media, Online Brokers, And The Entrance Of Retail Investors (2023)
Journal Article
Cortes Rondoy, J., & Sanchez, A. (2023). Disruption And Resilience In Finance: Social Media, Online Brokers, And The Entrance Of Retail Investors. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040651

The world’s financial system is being disrupted. Several factors add up to trigger this fundamental change, such as financial technology (FinTech) companies or cryptocurrencies. This article focuses on another one of the main disruptive drivers: reta... Read More about Disruption And Resilience In Finance: Social Media, Online Brokers, And The Entrance Of Retail Investors.

Noise As An Act Of Free Will In Aoyama Shinji’s Movie Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? (2023)
Journal Article
Proietti, L. (2023). Noise As An Act Of Free Will In Aoyama Shinji’s Movie Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040652

The theme of how noise music would deal with the interruption to social life caused by a pandemic has been portrayed in Aoyama Shinji’s movie Eli Eli, Lema Sabachthani? (2005), whose plot is centred on how listening to the purity of noise is able to... Read More about Noise As An Act Of Free Will In Aoyama Shinji’s Movie Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?.

Book Review: Achille Mbembe, Out Of The Dark Night: Essays On Decolonization, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, 254 pp. First Published In French As Sortir De La Grande Nuit (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2010). (2023)
Journal Article
Stainsby, V. A. (2023). Book Review: Achille Mbembe, Out Of The Dark Night: Essays On Decolonization, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, 254 pp. First Published In French As Sortir De La Grande Nuit (Paris: Éditions La Découverte, 2010). SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040653

Displaying Iran In Berlin: Observations On (Missed?) Opportunities In Crisis (2023)
Journal Article
Kabelitz, F. (2023). Displaying Iran In Berlin: Observations On (Missed?) Opportunities In Crisis. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040654

This article provides a critical review of the exhibition Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture, held at Berlin’s James-Simon-Galerie between December 2021 and March 2022. While its galleries provided a beautiful, respectful, and highly educational... Read More about Displaying Iran In Berlin: Observations On (Missed?) Opportunities In Crisis.

Resilience In Crisis?: The Church Missionary Society Mission In Hangzhou And The Guangji Hospital, 1945-1952 (2023)
Journal Article
Forbes, S. (2023). Resilience In Crisis?: The Church Missionary Society Mission In Hangzhou And The Guangji Hospital, 1945-1952. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040655

This article aims to give insight into personal and institutional resilience in the work of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) in Hangzhou in the period from 1945 to 1952. The focus will be on their work in the Guangji hospital. It contributes to de... Read More about Resilience In Crisis?: The Church Missionary Society Mission In Hangzhou And The Guangji Hospital, 1945-1952.

Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi (2023)
Journal Article
Batsani-Ncube, I. (2023). Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi. Parliamentary Affairs, 76(4), 947-967. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac017

Largely inspired by western donor good governance agenda, the current African parliaments literature has overlooked the significance of new parliament buildings that have been constructed by China and tends to place a premium on appraising the perfor... Read More about Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi.

Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest (2023)
Book
Rudge, A. (2023). Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest. University of Nebraska Press

Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected national park and oil palm plantation. As their ancestral forests disappear around them, Batek people... Read More about Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest.