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.

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.

International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters? (2025)
Report
Dryden, A., & Volz, U. (2025). International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?

While capital markets hold great potential for mobilising the vast sums required for climate mitigation and adaptation, their volatility presents significant risks to emerging and developing economies (EMDEs). This study examines the role that intern... Read More about International Capital Markets as a Means of Financing Climate Action: Smooth Sailing or Stormy Waters?.

Claiming ‘disability’ and being ‘a weak person’: legal and relational approaches to bodilymental difference in western Uganda (2025)
Journal Article
Modern, J. (2025). Claiming ‘disability’ and being ‘a weak person’: legal and relational approaches to bodilymental difference in western Uganda. Africa, 95(1), 21-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972025000130

This article, based on eighteen months of fieldwork with an organization of women with disabilities in Uganda, considers discourses about bodilymental variation that circulated among members and non-members of the organization. I identify two common... Read More about Claiming ‘disability’ and being ‘a weak person’: legal and relational approaches to bodilymental difference in western Uganda.

The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays (2025)
Journal Article
Babb, L. A., & Cort, J. E. (2025). The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 21(1), 1-20

Lawrence A. “Alan” Babb (1941-2023) was a leading anthropologist of South Asian religions, whose extensive scholarship on the Jains played a pivotal role in bringing the study of the Jains into the mainstream of South Asian Studies. His writings cons... Read More about The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays.

Metaphor in U.K. Bank Chairman Letter to Shareholders (2025)
Journal Article
Lawal, T. (online). Metaphor in U.K. Bank Chairman Letter to Shareholders. Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1177/23294906241304697

Using a mixed methods approach that relies on conceptual metaphor theory, corpus linguistics, and discourse analysis, the study investigates the use and function of metaphor in a self-constructed corpus of U.K. bank chairman’s letters to shareholders... Read More about Metaphor in U.K. Bank Chairman Letter to Shareholders.