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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 (Unpublished)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

A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics (2025)
Journal Article
Solsø, K., Crewe, E., & Chauhan, K. (2025). A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics. International Journal of Action Research, 21(1), 43-58. https://doi.org/10.3224/ijar.v21i1.04

The influence of complexity theory on action research scholarship and practice has been kaleidoscopic. Further integrating ideas derived from the complexity sciences could enrich this research tradition, but there are choices to be made about what to... Read More about A neo-complexity orientation to action research: perspectives on unpredictability and ethics.

Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment (2025)
Journal Article
Borda, R. D., & Oette, L. (2025). Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 17(2), Article huaf008. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huaf008

Human rights non-governmental organizations played a critical role in the struggle for accountability for crimes against humanity committed by Argentina’s military dictatorship (1976–83). Notably, this impetus has also been brought to bear in focusin... Read More about Interrogating Argentina’s Experience of Prosecuting Torture and Ill-Treatment.

Kin, Herd, Connection: A Meditation (2025)
Book Chapter
Leite, N. (2025). Kin, Herd, Connection: A Meditation. In D. Blamey, & S. Hebert (Eds.), Together (151-160). Open Editions

Silence and degrees of appraisal confusion: A barometer for the strength of teacher-student relationships (2025)
Journal Article
Shachter, J., Bao, D., & Harumi, S. (2025). Silence and degrees of appraisal confusion: A barometer for the strength of teacher-student relationships. Journal of Silence Studies in Education, 4(2), 128-145. https://doi.org/10.31763/jsse.v4i2.115

This study investigates the long-term emotional impact of student silence on non-Japanese EFL teachers, focusing on one expatriate teacher in Japan (Elliott). Utilizing a model that includes appraisal confusion and recursive feedback loops, the resea... Read More about Silence and degrees of appraisal confusion: A barometer for the strength of teacher-student relationships.

Of continents and Großräume: the production and persistence of continentality (2025)
Journal Article
Newton, S. (2025). Of continents and Großräume: the production and persistence of continentality. International Journal of Law in Context: A global forum for interdisciplinary legal studies, 21(S2), 213-230. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1744552325100037

This paper renews the contemporary and enduring salience of archaic and discredited concepts of spatiality and physical geographic determinism, but historicises, repurposes and reworks them: it is an essay in critical and decolonial palaeo-territoria... Read More about Of continents and Großräume: the production and persistence of continentality.