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Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China (2025)
Book Chapter
Boretti, V. (2025). Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China. In M. Zaborskis (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Childhood (165-178). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003431923-17

This chapter explores the making of girls and boys in twentieth-century China, utilizing sources produced between the 1910s and the 1970s. Prescribing how to raise or educate “new” subjects, these materials outlined the ideal child persona: the rescu... Read More about Making Girls and Boys in Twentieth-Century China.

Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence (2024)
Journal Article
Caron, J. (2025). Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence. History and Anthropology, 36(3), 435-458. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Pir Muhammad Karwan’s 2000 poetry collection Da Xāperey Werghowey traces a history of materiality, emotion, and imagination across human-environmental systems as they are militarized over twenty years in Afghanistan. At the same as it is a unique nar... Read More about Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence.

Patriotic Fun: Toys and Mobilization in China from the Republican to the Communist Era (2019)
Book Chapter
Boretti, V. (2019). Patriotic Fun: Toys and Mobilization in China from the Republican to the Communist Era. In M. Honeck, & J. Marten (Eds.), War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars (17-34). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108671965.002

This chapter explores the use of leisure to mobilize children in China from the 1910s to the early 1950s, in times of both war and peace. Drawing on normative advice, and commenting on youngsters’ reactions, it describes how ostensibly different regi... Read More about Patriotic Fun: Toys and Mobilization in China from the Republican to the Communist Era.

Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary (2019)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2019). Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary. In D. Sosnowska, & E. Drzewiecka (Eds.), The Experience of Faith in Slavic Cultures and Literatures in the Context of Postsecular Thought (129-144). The University of Warsaw Press. https://doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323537175.pp.128-143

The problem of contemporary and post-secular Alevi and Bektāşī religiosities in Turkey, South-East Europe and in diasporic milieux in Western Europe and North America has been attracting some increasing attention since the late 1980s. Following deca... Read More about Modern and post-secular Alevi and Bektaşi religiosities and the Slavo-Turkic heretical imaginary.

Recounting Past, Displacing Future (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2014, June). Recounting Past, Displacing Future. Presented at Inauguration of the Centre for Ottoman Studies, SOAS, University of London, London, UK

An introductory paper to the eventful and important past and present of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Studies at SOAS, presented at the inauguration of the Centre for Ottoman Studies.

Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008) (2013)
Book Chapter
Waghmar, B. (2013). Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton [Nancy] (1912-2008). In L. Goldman (Ed.), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008 (674-675). Oxford University Press

Iraq, protest, rebellion, and revolution: overview (2009)
Book Chapter
Franzén, J. (2009). Iraq, protest, rebellion, and revolution: overview. In I. Ness (Ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to Present (1777-1777). Blackwell Publishing

Development vs. Reform: Attempts at Modernisation During the Twilight of British Influence in Iraq, 1946-58 (2009)
Journal Article
Franzén, J. (2009). Development vs. Reform: Attempts at Modernisation During the Twilight of British Influence in Iraq, 1946-58. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 37(1), 77-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/03086530902757712

This study analyses British and local Iraqi elites' efforts to avoid social revolution through promotion of economic development during the last years of the Iraqi monarchy. Discussing the complex set-up of domestic Iraqi elites and their ambiguous r... Read More about Development vs. Reform: Attempts at Modernisation During the Twilight of British Influence in Iraq, 1946-58.

Education and the radicalization of Iraqi politics: Britain, the Iraqi Communist Party, and the "Russian link", 1941-49 (2008)
Journal Article
Franzén, J. (2008). Education and the radicalization of Iraqi politics: Britain, the Iraqi Communist Party, and the "Russian link", 1941-49. International journal of contemporary Iraqi studies, 2(1), 99-113. https://doi.org/10.1386/ijcis.2.1.99/1

Following the termination of its mandate in 1932, Britain precariously tried to retain its influence in Iraq. Nonetheless, nationalist endorsement of educational expansion precipitated the emergence of new intermediate social strata, which, unattache... Read More about Education and the radicalization of Iraqi politics: Britain, the Iraqi Communist Party, and the "Russian link", 1941-49.