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Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul (2023)
Book
El-Kazaz, S. (2023). E. Ault (Ed.), Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478027386

In Politics in the Crevices, Sarah El-Kazaz takes readers into the world of urban planning and design practices in Istanbul and Cairo. In this transnational ethnography of neighborhoods undergoing contested rapid transformations, she reveals how the... Read More about Politics in the Crevices: Urban Design and the Making of Property Markets in Cairo and Istanbul.

Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi (2023)
Journal Article
Batsani-Ncube, I. (2023). Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi. Parliamentary Affairs, 76(4), 947-967. https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsac017

Largely inspired by western donor good governance agenda, the current African parliaments literature has overlooked the significance of new parliament buildings that have been constructed by China and tends to place a premium on appraising the perfor... Read More about Purpose-built parliament buildings and the institutionalisation of parliament in Lesotho and Malawi.

Religion and Civil Society in Southeast Asia (2023)
Book Chapter
Bonura, C. (2023). Religion and Civil Society in Southeast Asia. In M. L. Weiss, & E. Hansson (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia (260-274). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367422080-19

This chapter examines the complexities of religion and civil society in Southeast Asia. Given the importance of religion in the region, religious associations have played an important role in the formation of civil society and the organisation of cha... Read More about Religion and Civil Society in Southeast Asia.