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‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development (2025)
Journal Article
Dolan, C., & Rajak, D. (in press). ‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development. Anthropologie et développement,

In recent years, business has reimagined corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a proactive market strategy, aligning itself with contemporary development orthodoxies of pro-poor and inclusive growth by enrolling the un- and under-employed into new... Read More about ‘They're Going to Have to Start Becoming’: What Inclusive Capitalism Tells Us About the Changing Face of Development.

The Nature of Property in Modern Capitalism. Review article of Property in Contemporary Capitalism, (2024) by Paddy Ireland (2025)
Journal Article
Meng, G. (online). The Nature of Property in Modern Capitalism. Review article of Property in Contemporary Capitalism, (2024) by Paddy Ireland. Contributions to Political Economy, Article bzaf011. https://doi.org/10.1093/cpe/bzaf011

In a thought-provoking and important new book, Property in Contemporary Capitalism, Paddy Ireland explores the nature of property in contemporary capitalism. Most analyses of property, he argues, including those offered by property theorists, fail to... Read More about The Nature of Property in Modern Capitalism. Review article of Property in Contemporary Capitalism, (2024) by Paddy Ireland.

Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies (2025)
Book Chapter
Rao, A. (2025). Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies. In A. A. E. Joubin, & N. Khomenko (Eds.), The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Reparative Shakespeare. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003499831-15

This chapter is a survey of scholarly works published in 2022–2023 within the field of Shakespeare studies. It is divided into four sections: Shakespeare and Race, Shakespeare and Pedagogy, Adaptation and Appropriation, and Global Shakespeare. The go... Read More about Race and the "Global" in Shakespeare Studies.

China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings of Pots (2025)
Journal Article
McCausland, S. (in press). China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings of Pots. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 88,

The Sonia Lightfoot Memorial Lecture given by Shane McCausland on Tuesday 13 February 2024 to the Oriental Ceramics Society at Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.
A qualitative, case-based outline study toward a critical framework for understandi... Read More about China in the Frame: Pots in Paintings, Paintings of Pots and Paintings of Pots.

Review of: The Idea of a China Arrest Warrant: Surrender of Fugitive Offenders between Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Yanhong Yin. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025. 237 pp. HK$495.00 (hbk). ISBN 9789888876839 (2025)
Journal Article
Mou, Y. (online). Review of: The Idea of a China Arrest Warrant: Surrender of Fugitive Offenders between Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau Yanhong Yin. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025. 237 pp. HK$495.00 (hbk). ISBN 9789888876839. The China Quarterly, 1-2. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741025100805

The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context (2025)
Journal Article
Bender, M., Slobodian, L., Gjerde, K. M., Cullet, P., Singh, P., & Olsen, C. (2025). The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context. Ocean Yearbook Online, 39, 79-117. https://doi.org/10.1163/22116001-03901006

This think-piece explores the growing movement and legal framework of rights of nature as it might be applied in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). We first examine what rights of nature is, and how it has been applied in practice. We... Read More about The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context.

Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture (2025)
Journal Article
Deacon, C. (2025). Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture. International Political Sociology, 19(3), Article olaf018. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf018

In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of memory in world politics. Within this literature, contentious memory politics have been shown to play an outsized role in many international relationships, especially among post-... Read More about Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture.

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure (2025)
Book
Novak, P. (2025). Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18323803

This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethnographic accounts, it reveals how the forces and relations animating this crisis are reproduced... Read More about Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure.

Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems (2025)
Journal Article
Graf, S., Blaschke, N., & Oya, C. (online). Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems. Journal of Agrarian Change, Article e70022. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.70022

This paper synthesizes and systematizes existing empirical knowledge on agrarian class relations in West Africa. It contributes to the debate on agrarian transitions, which largely neglects coexisting diverse forms of class relations in land, labour... Read More about Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems.

“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. (2025)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (online). Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251344229

Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases (2025)
Journal Article
Fajrini, R. (in press). Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 129 - 156. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506562

This paper analyses 321 civil environmental cases in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, identifying patterns and trends over the past decade. The findings reveal a growing public interest dimension in these civil cases, marked by the rise of public interes... Read More about Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases.

Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Grijalva, A. (in press). Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 110 - 128. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506557

In this essay I analyse some relationships among the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment. I show these relationships describing several rulings of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, and specially the Los Cedros judgement,... Read More about Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.