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Society and Sovereignty: Identifying and Understanding the Labour Party’s Approach to Rights Across the 20th Century (2025)
Thesis
Nagi, S. Society and Sovereignty: Identifying and Understanding the Labour Party’s Approach to Rights Across the 20th Century. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis provides a novel discursive and analytical legal-historical account that reveals how the Labour Party and its key or leading figures—individuals who held important positions or exercised significant authority—understood and approached the... Read More about Society and Sovereignty: Identifying and Understanding the Labour Party’s Approach to Rights Across the 20th Century.

The Vagaries and Volatilities of Mainstream Development Economics: A Personal Account (2025)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2025). The Vagaries and Volatilities of Mainstream Development Economics: A Personal Account. In G. Meramveliotakis, & M. Manioudis (Eds.), Sustainable Economic Development Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism (13-28). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003349402-3

The evolution of mainstream development economics to its current approaches will be laid out. Emphasis will be placed on the shifting and uneven influences of the more general mainstream economics itself, developments within the global economy, the r... Read More about The Vagaries and Volatilities of Mainstream Development Economics: A Personal Account.

Locating Vishnu as Engaged Political Economist, A Personal Journey (2025)
Book Chapter
Fine, B. (2025). Locating Vishnu as Engaged Political Economist, A Personal Journey. In R. Mesthrie, R. Van Niekerk, & I. Valodia (Eds.), Political Economy and Critical Engagement in South Africa: Essays in Honour of Vishnu Padayachee (198-216). UKZN Press

Die »Kronjuwelen« des UN-Menschenrechtssystems (2025)
Journal Article
Hoffmann, A. (2025). Die »Kronjuwelen« des UN-Menschenrechtssystems. Vereinte Nationen, 73(1), 31-36. https://doi.org/10.35998/vn-2025-0005

UN Special Rapporteurs are independent human rights experts on global thematic or country-specific issues, who investigate human rights violations in states, develop international legal standards, and provide technical advice to states. This article... Read More about Die »Kronjuwelen« des UN-Menschenrechtssystems.

Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice (2025)
Book
De Clercq, E., De Jonckheere, H., & Winant, S. (Eds.). (2025). Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice. Ergon Verlag. https://doi.org/10.5771/9783987401602

A vast corpus of Jain texts lies unexamined in manuscript libraries, several of them new versions of earlier works. Though the prevalence of literary transcreation in Jain communities is striking, it is by no means a practice exclusive to them. The f... Read More about Literary Transcreation as a Jain Practice.

Court music outside the court: defining the ‘professional’ musician in nineteenth-century Bengal (2025)
Book Chapter
Williams, R. D. (2025). Court music outside the court: defining the ‘professional’ musician in nineteenth-century Bengal. In A. Morcom, & N. Raina (Eds.), Creative Economies of Culture in South Asia: Craftspeople and Performers (112-122). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351031028-11

How did the social position of professional Hindustani musicians change over the nineteenth century? As performing artists travelled in the wake of the fall of the Mughal empire, taking their families and students with them, they adapted their forms... Read More about Court music outside the court: defining the ‘professional’ musician in nineteenth-century Bengal.