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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,

Lecture given by Shane McCausland on Tuesday 13 February 2024
The Annual Sonia Lightfoot Memorial Lecture on Painting.
A qualitative, case-based outline study toward a critical framework for understanding the mutual relations between ceramics and p... 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. (2025). 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, 565-566. 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.

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P., & Shree, R. (in press). Introduction. In P. Cullet, & R. Shree (Eds.), River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. Routledge

River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond (2025)
Book Chapter
Cullet, P. (in press). River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond. In River Rejuvenation and River Rights: Evolving Debates in India. Routledge

This chapter starts by engaging with the conceptual framing of river rights. It highlights some of the potential that the river rights discourse offers as an alternative to the dominant paradigm of sustainable development. A river rights framing prov... Read More about River Rights – Framing, Recognition and Beyond.

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.

Contested essential concepts in international relations (2025)
Book Chapter
Berenskoetter, F., & Guzzini, S. (2025). Contested essential concepts in international relations. In C. Thies, & J. M. Dean (Eds.), Handbook of International Relations (89-105). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785366130.00013

This chapter explores the notion of “essential concepts” and their contestation with an eye on the field of International Relations (IR). The title plays on W.B. Gallie's famous essay to pursue the argument that a debate over the meaning of an essent... Read More about Contested essential concepts in international relations.

One Tune, Two Egypts (2025)
Exhibition / Performance
Hammond, M. One Tune, Two Egypts. [Film]. 15 June 2025. (Unpublished)

The film sets Umm Kulthum’s performance of “Hubb Eyh?” (What is this Love?) into dialogue with the song’s interpretation by the comic actor Muhammad Saad in the 2002 film El-Limby. The juxtaposition accentuates Saad’s parody of the diva at the same t... Read More about One Tune, Two Egypts.

British Woodworking Planes (co-presented with furniture and cabinetmaker Toby Cufflin), for the Making the Museum Project, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford (2025)
Digital Artefact
Marchand, T. (2025). British Woodworking Planes (co-presented with furniture and cabinetmaker Toby Cufflin), for the Making the Museum Project, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford. [YouTube]

Anthropologist and woodworker Prof Trevor Marchand discusses woodworking planes in the Pitt Rivers Museum collection with furniture and cabinet maker Toby Cufflin. Part of the Making the Museum project series of conversations about making and tools i... Read More about British Woodworking Planes (co-presented with furniture and cabinetmaker Toby Cufflin), for the Making the Museum Project, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford.

“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