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Deradicalizing Violent Extremists: Counter-Radicalization and Deradicalization Programmes and their Impact in Muslim Majority States (2013)
Book
Harrigan, J., & El-Said, H. (2013). Deradicalizing Violent Extremists: Counter-Radicalization and Deradicalization Programmes and their Impact in Muslim Majority States. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203103241

Deradicalization and counter-radicalization programmes refer to programmes introduced to cause change in views and behaviour of detailed and non-detained militants to make them permanently abandon violence and to prevent the emergence of a new genera... Read More about Deradicalizing Violent Extremists: Counter-Radicalization and Deradicalization Programmes and their Impact in Muslim Majority States.

Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta? (2013)
Journal Article
Zene, C. (2013). Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta?. Lares (Firenze. Testo stampato), LXXIX(1), 35-44

This reflection on ‘juridical rules and paradigms’ in Pigliaru, prompted by Pietro Clemente and inspired by the reading of Gaetano Riccardo’s article, allows me to return to arguments I have discussed elsewhere. In my view, one of the recurrent probl... Read More about Riflettendo su Antonio Pigliaru: tra ordinamenti e paradigmi – dono e/o vendetta?.

East Mediterranean Gas: What Kind of Game Changer? (2012)
Preprint / Working Paper
El-Katiri, L., Fattouh, B., & Darbouche, H. East Mediterranean Gas: What Kind of Game Changer?. Oxford

The discovery of sizable gas resources in the Levant Basin, a geological structure that straddles the territorial waters of Cyprus, Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, and Syria, has the potential to be game-changing for the East Mediterran... Read More about East Mediterranean Gas: What Kind of Game Changer?.

Diversity and language policy for endangered languages (2012)
Book Chapter
Sallabank, J. (2012). Diversity and language policy for endangered languages. In B. Spolsky (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Language Policy. Cambridge University Press

Over the last 50 years, language policy has developed into a major discipline, drawing on research and practice in many nations and at many levels. This is the first Handbook to deal with language policy as a whole and is a complete 'state-of-the-fie... Read More about Diversity and language policy for endangered languages.

The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms (2012)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2012). The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms. In A. Kam-Tuck Yip, & P. Nynäs (Eds.), Religion, Gender and Sexuality in Everyday Life (17-35). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315605029-2

This chapter presents a comparative critique of the two hegemonic discourses which challenge the social integrity and agency of individuals and communities in Pakistan and Indonesia who are outside the dominant sexual/gender matrices and politics. Th... Read More about The Resistance from an Alterspace: Pakistani and Indonesian Muslims beyond the Dominant Sexual and Gender Norms.

Politics of Iranian Cinema: Films and Society in the Islamic Republic of Iran (2010)
Book
Zeydabadi-Nejad, S. (2010). Politics of Iranian Cinema: Films and Society in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203868478

Iran has undergone considerable social upheaval since the revolution and this has been reflected in its cinema. Drawing on first-hand interviews and detailed ethnographic research, this book explores how cinema is engaged in the dynamics of social ch... Read More about Politics of Iranian Cinema: Films and Society in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory (2009)
Journal Article
Adriani, F., & Sonderegger, S. (2009). Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory. Journal of Public Economics, 93(11-12), 119-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2009.08.001

We present a model of intergenerational transmission of pro-social values in which parents have information about relevant characteristics of society that is not directly available to their children. Differently from existing models of cultural trans... Read More about Why do parents socialize their children to behave pro-socially? An information-based theory.

The Masons of Djenné (2009)
Book
Marchand, T. H. (2009). The Masons of Djenné. Indiana University Press

Djenné has been a thriving settlement for more than two millennia. The city played an historic role in the great Niger kingdoms of West Africa and, together with Timbuktu, it controlled the commerce in gold, salt and slaves that plied the mighty rive... Read More about The Masons of Djenné.

Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor (2008)
Journal Article
Hammond, L. (2008). Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor. Journal of Refugee Studies, 21(4), 517-536. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen041

This paper examines the process by which the poorest of the poor in Ethiopia's food insecure regions are made invisible through their very participation in a programme whose explicit aim is to help deliver them from vulnerability. Those targeted for... Read More about Strategies of Invisibilization: How Ethiopia's Resettlement Programme Hides the Poorest of the Poor.

Invisible Displacement (2008)
Journal Article
Polzer, T., & Hammond, L. (2008). Invisible Displacement. Journal of Refugee Studies, 21(4), 417-431. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fen045

By directing our gaze, we also avert our eyes. It is widely recognized—though the implications are rarely consistently analysed—that all perspectives are partial, and that therefore by seeing, describing and categorizing social reality, we also make... Read More about Invisible Displacement.

Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference (2008)
Journal Article
Al-Ali, N. (2008). Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 35(3), 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/13530190802525155

The proposed paper will explore the changing role of women and gender in Iraq from the 1950s pre-revolutionary period, throughout 35 years of Ba'th regime, economic sanctions to the current post 2003 period. Against the historic background of both st... Read More about Iraqi Women and Gender Relations: Redefining Difference.

Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania (2008)
Book
Jennings, M. (2008). Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania. Kumarian Press

Surrogates of the State explores the delicate relationship between development NGOs and the states they work in using the exhaustive and illuminating case study of Tanzania in the 1960s and 70s. During that time Tanzania instituted the rural socialis... Read More about Surrogates of the State: Non-Governmental Organisations, Development and Ujamaa in Tanzania.