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Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization (2023)
Book Chapter
Purewal, N., & Eklund, L. (2023). Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization. In M. Dawson, & S. Mobayed (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook on Femicide/Feminicide. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202332-33

This chapter outlines some of the key concerns with criminalising sex-selective abortion (SSA) in China and India, highlighting that it offers no identifiable options for sustainable, women-centred, progressive change. Instead, the criminalisation of... Read More about Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization.

Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India (2023)
Book Chapter
Lerche, J., & Shah, A. (2023). Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India. In I. Roy (Ed.), Passionate politics. Development, politics and India’s general election 2019. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157751.00026

At the 2019 general election in India, the BJP succeeded in gaining more of the Dalit, Adivasi and OBC vote. This chapter highlights the everyday politics of social oppression and exploitation faced by Dalits and Adivasis in India. India is a society... Read More about Social Oppression and Exploitation of Adivasis and Dalits in Contemporary India.

“Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77 (2022)
Journal Article
George, N. (2022). “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 42(2), 470-488. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-9987957

Were the events of 1975–77 in Lebanon, commonly thought of today as an internecine sectarian war between Christians and Muslims, more comparable to the furies of revolution and counterrevolution? This article reframes the Lebanese National Movement's... Read More about “Our 1789”: The Transitional Program of the Lebanese National Movement and the Abolition of Sectarianism, 1975–77.

A 'Leader-full' Movement Under Authoritarianism: Mobilization Networks in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement (2022)
Book Chapter
Lai, E. (2022). A 'Leader-full' Movement Under Authoritarianism: Mobilization Networks in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement. In A. J. Spires, & A. Ogawa (Eds.), Authoritarianism and Civil Society in Asia (19-39). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003256809-3

Analysing Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 anti-extradition movement, this chapter suggests that despite the state’s attempts to disenfranchise it by capturing visible leaders, the movement evolved to be ‘leader-full’, or full of leaders. Traditional social mov... Read More about A 'Leader-full' Movement Under Authoritarianism: Mobilization Networks in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement.

Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad (2022)
Journal Article
Canelas, C., & Niño-Zarazúa, M. (2022). Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(7), 1436-1458. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2061856

How social protection programmes affect work choices is a question that has been at the centre of labour economics research for decades. More recently, a scant literature has focused on the effects of social protection on work choices and informal em... Read More about Informality and Pension Reforms in Bolivia: The Case of Renta Dignidad.

Review of: Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian Veg, Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, ISBN 9781557291912 (2022)
Journal Article
Lai, E. (2022). Review of: Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Social Movements, Expressive Practices, and Political Culture in Taiwan and Hong Kong: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian: By Thomas Gold and Sebastian Veg, Berkeley, CA: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, ISBN 9781557291912. The Journal of Development Studies, 58(11), 2410-2411. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2022.2057016

Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system (2021)
Journal Article
Deakin, S., & Meng, G. (2022). Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system. Journal of Institutional Economics, 18(4), 521-535. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137421000746

This paper considers Douglass C. North's ‘puzzle’ concerning China's household responsibility system (HRS) and offers a possible solution. China's HRS, which has evolved over the past four decades to become its dominant form of rural land ownership,... Read More about Resolving Douglass C. North’s ‘puzzle’ concerning China’s household responsibility system.

The soft power of the Olympics in the age of Covid 19 (2021)
Book Chapter
Rofe, J. S. (2021). The soft power of the Olympics in the age of Covid 19. In Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport (24-25). The Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research

The Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics Games was a Sport Mega Event (SME) like no other. The tensions evident in holding the world’s largest sporting event in one of the world’s most densely populated cities in the age of Covid raises pointed questions with... Read More about The soft power of the Olympics in the age of Covid 19.

Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation (2021)
Book
Gerteis, C. (2021). Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501756337

Mobilizing Japanese Youth examines the forces that shaped the political consciousness of Japanese youth who chose to engage in radical politics during the 1960s and 1970s. The book unpacks how intertwined notions of class and gender shaped the discou... Read More about Mobilizing Japanese Youth: The Cold War and the Making of the Sixties Generation.

Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights (2021)
Book
Adami, R., & Plesch, D. (Eds.). (2021). Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036708

This book provides a critical history of influential women in the United Nations and seeks to inspire empowerment with role models from bygone eras. The women whose voices this book presents helped shape UN conventions, declarations, and policies wit... Read More about Women and the UN: A New History of Women's International Human Rights.

From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: the rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites (2021)
Journal Article
Li, G. C. (2021). From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: the rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites. The British Journal of Sociology, 72(3), 514-530. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12862

A new generation of elites distinguished by their cultural endowments has emerged in China. Unlike the older generation of elites who signaled status through the display of wealth but shared similar tastes, the new generation of cultured elites has s... Read More about From parvenu to “highbrow” tastes: the rise of cultural capital in China’s intergenerational elites.

Fiscal Effects of Migrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach (2020)
Preprint / Working Paper
Joxhe, M., Scaramozzino, P., & Zanaj, S. Fiscal Effects of Migrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach. Luxembourg

In this paper, we explore the fiscal impact of immigrants in Europe applying a quantile regression approach to data from the European Survey on Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for the period 2007-2015. Our estimations show that not only on average but al... Read More about Fiscal Effects of Migrants in Europe: A Quantile Regression Approach.