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The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities. In L. W. C. van Lit, & J. H. Morris (Eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction (157-175). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747607-008

How can the blind spots in Jaina social and intellectual history be investigated in a systematic fashion given the fragmentary nature of the evidence? The idea of a prosopographical database with a sociological focus emerged organically from a SOAS C... Read More about The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.

Review of: Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India, by Rupal Oza. Durham and London, United Kingdom, Duke University Press, 2023, 208 + xxvi pp., £21.99 (paperback), ISBN 9-781-4780-1934-3; £90 (hardcover), ISBN 9-781-4780-2398-2 (2023)
Journal Article
Sengupta, T. (2024). Review of: Semiotics of Rape: Sexual Subjectivity and Violation in Rural India, by Rupal Oza. Durham and London, United Kingdom, Duke University Press, 2023, 208 + xxvi pp., £21.99 (paperback), ISBN 9-781-4780-1934-3; £90 (hardcover), ISBN 9-781-4780-2398-2. Social and Cultural Geography, 25(2), 358-359. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2023.2283288

The ‘Eastern’ Origins of ‘Western’ Philosophy: Against Eurocentricism (2023)
Journal Article
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2023). The ‘Eastern’ Origins of ‘Western’ Philosophy: Against Eurocentricism. Folia Orientalia, 60, 311-327. https://doi.org/10.24425/for.2023.148427

The article sets the signposts of a theft in history, as it charters the way the discipline of Philosophy has been narrated as a ‘western’ system of thought. We follow the global sources of Philosophy and establish how better knowledge and education... Read More about The ‘Eastern’ Origins of ‘Western’ Philosophy: Against Eurocentricism.

The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran (2023)
Book Chapter
Tahmasebian, K., & Gould, R. R. The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran. In M. Reynolds (Ed.), Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel across Languages (451-491). Open Book Publishers. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0319.12

This essay examines how twentieth century Iranian readers situated Jane Eyre within the classical genre of romance literature (adabiyāt-i ʿāshiqāna), originating from the tradition of love narratives in verse (ʿishq-nāma) pioneered by the twelfth cen... Read More about The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran.

Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria (2023)
Journal Article
Ojebode, A. O. (2023). Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria. Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism, 27(3), 371-389. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2023.2272942

Contemporary critics of ecocriticism have explored ecologies dynamically across different genres in postcolonial African literature, especially in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. However, they overlook African Eco-spirituality underpinned by indigenous... Read More about Seven Falls from Olumirin’s Pot: African Eco-Spirituality and Myths of Erin-Ijesha Waterfalls in Nigeria.

Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality (2023)
Book Chapter
Giladi, P. (2023). Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality. In L. Corti, & J.-G. Schülein (Eds.), Life, Organisms, and Human Nature: New Perspectives on Classical German Philosophy (343-363). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41558-6_19

My aim in this chapter is argue that aspects of Hegel’s metaphysics, as an example of ‘speculative naturalism’, can and should be seen as offering a powerful conceptual resource for explicating the cognitive pathology of scientism, and for also contr... Read More about Scientism as Ideology: Speculative Naturalism as Qualified-Decoloniality.

Taiwan History (2023)
Book Chapter
Fell, D. Taiwan History. In The Far East and Australasia 2024 (55th Edition). Europa Publications

Questioning the Appropriateness of Examining Guanxi in a Wasta Environment: Why Context Should Be Front and Center in Informal Network Research – A Commentary on 'De-Linking From Western Epistemologies: Using GuanxiType Relationships to Attract and Retain Hotel Guests in the Middle East’ (2023)
Journal Article
Horak, S., Abosag, I., Hutchings, K., Alsarhan, F., Ali, S., Al-Twal, A., Weir, D., AlHussan, F., & Al-Husan, F. (in press). Questioning the Appropriateness of Examining Guanxi in a Wasta Environment: Why Context Should Be Front and Center in Informal Network Research – A Commentary on 'De-Linking From Western Epistemologies: Using GuanxiType Relationships to Attract and Retain Hotel Guests in the Middle East’. Management and Organization Review, 19(5), 1040-1045. https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2023.26

The Law of the Sea in Past Scholarship (2023)
Journal Article
Papanicolopulu, I. (2023). The Law of the Sea in Past Scholarship. The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law, 39(1), 157-178. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718085-bja10144

The law of the sea is currently understood as a distinct field of international law that came into existence together with (modern) international law. Has this always been so? How did past international lawyers understand what we call today ‘the law... Read More about The Law of the Sea in Past Scholarship.

Defects in the Moral Rights Regimes of the Countries of the Middle East (2023)
Journal Article
Makeen, M. (2025). Defects in the Moral Rights Regimes of the Countries of the Middle East. Arab Law Quarterly, 39(1/2), 45-88. https://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-bja10126

This article focuses on the protection of moral rights in Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, and the UAE. While moral rights are recognised in the four jurisdictions subject to this study, the level of protection is unsatisfactory. This article analyses the man... Read More about Defects in the Moral Rights Regimes of the Countries of the Middle East.

Tokyo Trial: International Law in the Context of Imperialism (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Suzuki, S. (2023, November). Tokyo Trial: International Law in the Context of Imperialism. Presented at Inauguration du cycle de conférences-débat "Réflexions et enseignements autour des procès filmés" - Le procès de Tokyo, The Université Catholique de Lille

Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire (2023)
Journal Article
Karamursel, C. (online). Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire. Gender and History, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12755

This article traces the ways in which the newly inaugurated Turkish Republic dealt with such institutional and legal ‘relics’ as the imperial harem, slavery and polygamy, that it inherited from its immediate, largely undesirable imperial past, condem... Read More about Relics of an Unwanted Past: Slavery, Polygamy, and the Harem at the End of the Ottoman Empire.