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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.

Debt, Climate, and Development in Asia and the Pacific: Breaking the Vicious Circle (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Volz, U., Akhtar, S., & Dryden, A. (2025). Debt, Climate, and Development in Asia and the Pacific: Breaking the Vicious Circle

Developing countries in the Asia and Pacific region are at the forefront of climate change, and addressing urgent climate challenges requires substantial financial commitment. At the same time, the region is struggling under mounting debt burdens. Th... Read More about Debt, Climate, and Development in Asia and the Pacific: Breaking the Vicious Circle.

Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases (2025)
Journal Article
Fajrini, R. (2025). 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. (2025). 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.

Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement (2025)
Journal Article
Yadav, P., Pillai, S., & Narayanan, N. (2025). Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 86 - 109. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506550

Water governance involves multiple challenges that are difficult to address with a single solution. This complexity in governing water resources in India, which makes it a wicked problem illustrated through two cases – first, groundwater exploitation... Read More about Institutional and Regulatory Constraints of Governing Water in India: An Illustration through Groundwater Regulation and Pollution Abatement.

Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Morales Naranjo, V. (2025). Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 62 - 85. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506543

In 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to recognize the rights of nature (RoN) in the Constitution. Seventeen years later, it is necessary to analyse the work carried out by nature defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court to deve... Read More about Constitutionalism of Nature : Tensions Between Rights of Nature Defenders and Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.

Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Kimani, P. (2025). Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 42 - 61. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506538

This article explores how Kenya’s carbon trading framework can be leveraged to support a Just Energy Transition (JET) that aligns climate action with socio economic equity. While Kenya is a leader in Africa’s voluntary carbon market, exemplified by i... Read More about Leveraging Carbon Trading for a Just Energy Transition in Kenya.

Sustaining the Future Through Addressing the Past: The Transitional Justice Functions of Biocultural Community Protocols (2025)
Journal Article
Sanchez, M. (2025). Sustaining the Future Through Addressing the Past: The Transitional Justice Functions of Biocultural Community Protocols. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 19 - 41. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506365

Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) represent legal mechanisms for indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to assert collective regulatory rights to genetic resources associated with traditional knowledge. BCPs inherently speak to power a... Read More about Sustaining the Future Through Addressing the Past: The Transitional Justice Functions of Biocultural Community Protocols.

The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7 (2025)
Book
Fine, B. (2025). The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7. Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004731653

South Africa’s post-apartheid transition has proven disastrous. It is marked by the emergence of a black elite of enriched capitalists out of the globalisation, neoliberalisation and financialisation of the economy in general and of its Minerals-Ener... Read More about The Political Economy of South Africa’s Post-apartheid Transition: The Rejection of Alternatives to Neoliberalism. Critical Reconstructions of Political Economy: Vol.7.

Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making (2025)
Book Chapter
Mohamed, S., & Fine, B. (2025). Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making. In R. Herrera (Ed.), Trajectories of Declining and Destructive Capitalism (141-167). Emerald. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0161-723020250000040010

In absolute terms, and relative to both hopes and potential, post-apartheid economic and social reproduction has been a disaster. A key element in explaining this is to situate it within an extraordinarily rapid and full adjustment, albeit with pecul... Read More about Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Neoliberal Disaster Made and in the Making.

Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya (2025)
Journal Article
Ngonge, D. N., Muigua, K., & Nyukuri, E. (2025). Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 001-015. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00505190

Historically, the semi-arid and dry regions of the Kenyan borders have experienced perennial conflicts that revolve around the scarce water-related resources both on land and in water but spread around Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in Africa.... Read More about Ripples of Conflict: Drivers and Resolutions of Water Resources Disputes -A Case Study of Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya.

Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant (2025)
Journal Article
Kotef, H. (2025). Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant. Political Theory, 53(3), 354-379. https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251341906

This paper reads Wretched of the Earth with Lauren Berlant, and specifically through the prism of Cruel Optimism. I propose that we might read the concept of decolonization that opens “On Violence” (decolonization as a replacement for which violence... Read More about Cruel Fantasies: Reading Fanon with Lauren Berlant.

Co-watching as Feminist Transformative Pedagogy (2025)
Book Chapter
Krishnakumar, J., Saxena, S., & Date, R. (2025). Co-watching as Feminist Transformative Pedagogy. In E. Romero-Hall, C. M. Daniel, N. Bond, & L. K. Newman (Eds.), Feminist Pedagogy for Teaching Online (37-53). Athabasca University Press

Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities (2025)
Journal Article
Pranjol, M. Z. I., & Amir, A. (2025). Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities. Frontiers in Education, 10, Article 1550711. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2025.1550711

This perspective paper draws attention toward an urgent issue, that is, decolonizing mental health language for South Asian communities. A quarter of the world speaks at least one South Asian language including the global South Asian diaspora and the... Read More about Disrupting diagnostic hegemony: reimagining mental health language with British South Asian communities.

Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach (2025)
Preprint / Working Paper
Brandon, C., Kratzer, B., Aggarwal, A., & Heubaum, H. (2025). Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach

The paper shows how using the Triple Dividend of Resilience framework to evaluate the full benefits of 320 climate adaptation investments reveals their full value. Covering adaptation and resilience investments across 12 countries, the study finds th... Read More about Strengthening the Investment Case for Climate Adaptation: A Triple Dividend Approach.

The enterprise rate of profit in key US sectors 1994–2020: An examination of the tendency towards the equalization of sectoral profit rates and a critique of Hulten and Wykoff fixed capital stock valuations in the US (2025)
Journal Article
Jefferies, W. (online). The enterprise rate of profit in key US sectors 1994–2020: An examination of the tendency towards the equalization of sectoral profit rates and a critique of Hulten and Wykoff fixed capital stock valuations in the US. Capital and Class, https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168251341165

This article examines enterprise profit rates in key US sectors. Competition between capitals of different compositions modifies values into prices of production to equalize profit rates. These prices of production are further modified into enterpris... Read More about The enterprise rate of profit in key US sectors 1994–2020: An examination of the tendency towards the equalization of sectoral profit rates and a critique of Hulten and Wykoff fixed capital stock valuations in the US.

Forum-Shopping and Choice of Law in Intra-sect and Inter-sect Muslim Family Disputes in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar (2025)
Journal Article
Al-Saai, N. (online). Forum-Shopping and Choice of Law in Intra-sect and Inter-sect Muslim Family Disputes in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar. Arab Law Quarterly, 1-47. https://doi.org/10.1163/15730255-bja10189

The plurality of opinions that Sharīʿah affords has ensured justice for different groups and disputants in pre-modern times. Although this plurality had been limited by modern state codifications, forum-shopping and choice of applicable Muslim rules... Read More about Forum-Shopping and Choice of Law in Intra-sect and Inter-sect Muslim Family Disputes in Bahrain, Kuwait, and Qatar.

What Is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies? (2025)
Journal Article
Akram‐Lodhi, A., Yadav, S., Mezzadri, A., & Taylor, M. (2025). What Is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?. Journal of Agrarian Change, 25(3), Article e70020. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.70020

Reflecting a longstanding intellectual heritage in Marxist political economy, contributions to agrarian studies have variously referred to the production, distribution and extraction of value. Despite this central role within the heritage of agrarian... Read More about What Is the Value of Value for Agrarian Studies?.