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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.

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.

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity (2023)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., Majid, N., & Adan, G. (2023). Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 61(3), 343-366. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X23000071

Somalia has a long history of famine and humanitarian crisis. This article focuses on the years 2008–2020, during which governance and aid practices changed substantially and which include three crisis periods. The article examines whether and how go... Read More about Somalia’s evolving political market place: from famine and humanitarian crisis to permanent precarity.

Joan Robinson: Early Endogenous Growth Theorist (2023)
Journal Article
Oughton, C., & Tobin, D. (2023). Joan Robinson: Early Endogenous Growth Theorist. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 47(5), 943-964. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bead032

We start from Robinson’s article on Harrod’s Dynamic Economics and her criticism that technological change was exogenous: ‘in Mr. Harrod’s world, technical progress falls like the gentle dew from heaven and is not susceptible to any economic influenc... Read More about Joan Robinson: Early Endogenous Growth Theorist.

The Discursive Construction of a Sense of Community within Hashtag Communities - A Case Study of #Kpop Tweets - (2023)
Journal Article
Lee, S., & Ju, Y.-K. (2023). The Discursive Construction of a Sense of Community within Hashtag Communities - A Case Study of #Kpop Tweets -. Culture and Convergence = 문화와융합, 45(7), 421-434. https://doi.org/10.33645/cnc.2023.07.45.07.421

This article examines the discursive construction of a sense of community within hashtag communities on Twitter, using a case study of tweets containing the hashtag ‘#Kpop’. Hashtags enable users to form loosely connected communities with others who... Read More about The Discursive Construction of a Sense of Community within Hashtag Communities - A Case Study of #Kpop Tweets -.

Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
Dasi Mariani, R., Rosati, F. C., Scaramozzino, P., & d'Errico, M. Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda. Rome, Italy

Refugees are mainly hosted in low-income countries, where they often remain for a long time. Therefore, it is important to assess how they integrate with the local economy and to what extent their presence can contribute to the transition to a more d... Read More about Gains from Variety: Refugee-Host Interactions in Uganda.

Inequality determined social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies: A conceptual meta-review of justice impacts (2023)
Journal Article
Dwarkasing, C. (2023). Inequality determined social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies: A conceptual meta-review of justice impacts. Energy Research & Social Science, 97, Article 102974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2023.102974

Inequality and climate change represent two key challenges in modern societies across the world. In this paper, we provide a critical engagement with the literature that treats aggravated social and economic inequalities as (potential) negative outco... Read More about Inequality determined social outcomes of low-carbon transition policies: A conceptual meta-review of justice impacts.

Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile (2023)
Book
Adams, K., & Bloch, N. (Eds.). (2023). Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003182689

This book challenges the classic – and often tacit – compartmentalization of tourism, migration, and refugee studies by exploring the intersections of these forms of spatial mobility: each prompts distinctive images and moral reactions, yet they ofte... Read More about Intersections of Tourism, Migration, and Exile.

Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages (2022)
Journal Article
Liu, J. (2025). Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages. Children & Society, 39(3), 636-651. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12666

This article examines how, for many in rural China, experiences of childhood are entangled within the complex processes of rural-to-urban internal migration. Drawing upon multi-generational life history data in three villages, it unpacks three common... Read More about Childhood and rural to urban migration in China: A tale of three villages.