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Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. (2015)
Book
Chang, B.-Y. (2015). Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315765662

In the struggles for political and cultural hegemony that Taiwan has witnessed since the 1980s, the focal point in contesting narratives and the key battlefield in the political debates are primarily spatial and place-based. The major fault line appe... Read More about Place, Identity, and National Imagination in Post-war Taiwan..

ICT, Intermediaries, and the Transformation of Gendered Power Structures (2015)
Journal Article
Oreglia, E., & Srinivasan, J. (2015). ICT, Intermediaries, and the Transformation of Gendered Power Structures. MIS Quarterly, 40(2), 501-510

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are believed to hold much potential to empower women, both socially and economically, in low-income and rural communities. In this paper, we focus on rural women who mediate ICT use as telecenter oper... Read More about ICT, Intermediaries, and the Transformation of Gendered Power Structures.

East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left' (2015)
Book Chapter
Chang, D.-O. (2015). East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left'. In T. Marois, & L. Pradella (Eds.), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (180-191). Pluto Press

Over the last few decades, East Asia has truly become a global factory. It produces more than a third of global manufacturing export value while attracting more direct investment and growing more than twice as fast as other developing regions (and se... Read More about East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the 'Left'.

Labour as an Agent of Change: the case of China (2015)
Book Chapter
Pringle, T. (2015). Labour as an Agent of Change: the case of China. In L. Pradella, & T. Marois (Eds.), Polarising Development: Alternatives to Neoliberalism and the Crisis (192-202). Pluto Press

German Policing at the Intersection: Race, Gender, Migrant Status and Mental Health (2014)
Journal Article
Bruce-Jones, E. (2014). German Policing at the Intersection: Race, Gender, Migrant Status and Mental Health. Race & Class, 56(3), 36-49. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396814556223

Germany not only avoids using the term ‘race’, but its institutions, such as the police, refrain from collecting statistics according to race, gender, ethnicity and so on, which makes it hard to prove that police actions, and particularly violence, d... Read More about German Policing at the Intersection: Race, Gender, Migrant Status and Mental Health.

An Economic Analysis of National Food Sovereignty Policies in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon and Jordan (2014)
Book Chapter
Harrigan, J. (2014). An Economic Analysis of National Food Sovereignty Policies in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon and Jordan. In Z. Babar, & S. Mirgani (Eds.), Food Security in the Middle East. Hurst and Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780199361786.003.0003

This chapter analyses food security policies in Lebanon and Jordan in the wake of the 2007/08 global food crisis. It shows how the crisis prompted a move towards food sovereignty whereby MENA states become concerned with power and control over their... Read More about An Economic Analysis of National Food Sovereignty Policies in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon and Jordan.

Economic Reform, Social Welfare, and Instability: Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia 1983-2004 (2014)
Journal Article
Harrigan, J., & El-Said, H. (2014). Economic Reform, Social Welfare, and Instability: Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia 1983-2004. The Middle East journal, 68(1), 99-121. https://doi.org/10.3751/68.1.15

This article fills an important gap in the literature by exploring the trends in social welfare in four MENA countries that have undertaken extensive economic liberalization programs under the auspices of the IMF and the World Bank — namely, Jordan,... Read More about Economic Reform, Social Welfare, and Instability: Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia 1983-2004.

Livelisystems: a conceptual framework integrating social, ecosystem, development and evolutionary theory (2014)
Journal Article
Dorward, A. (2014). Livelisystems: a conceptual framework integrating social, ecosystem, development and evolutionary theory. Ecology & Society, 19(2), https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-06494-190244

Human activity poses multiple environmental challenges for ecosystems that have intrinsic value and also support that activity. Our ability to address these challenges is constrained, inter alia, by weaknesses in cross disciplinary understandings of... Read More about Livelisystems: a conceptual framework integrating social, ecosystem, development and evolutionary theory.

ICT and (Personal) Development in Rural China (2014)
Journal Article
Oreglia, E. (2014). ICT and (Personal) Development in Rural China. Information technologies and international development, 10(3), 19-30

Information and communication technology (ICT) is increasingly widespread in rural China, and is finding unlikely users: elderly people, rural women, and people with little education or disposable income. Their ICT use is driven by the desire to find... Read More about ICT and (Personal) Development in Rural China.

From cash transfers to basic income: An unfolding Indian Agenda (2014)
Journal Article
Standing, G. (2014). From cash transfers to basic income: An unfolding Indian Agenda. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 57(1), 111-137

This article provides a review of the arguments for and against cash transfers in India, taking care to distinguish between different types of cash transfer schemes, which include a universal unconditional basic income as well as conditional schemes.... Read More about From cash transfers to basic income: An unfolding Indian Agenda.