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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.

Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics (2022)
Book Chapter
El-Kazaz, S., Clark, J., Harb, M., & Salman, L. (2022). Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics. In M. Lynch, J. Schwedler, & S. Yom (Eds.), The Political Science of the Middle East: Theory and Research Since the Arab Uprisings (256-280). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197640043.003.0011

The Arab uprisings of 2011–12 brought into stark relief the fact that neither states nor societies in the Middle East were monolithic units. Instead, the region shows remarkable variation in terms of administration, governance, and development at the... Read More about Towards a Relational Approach to Local Politics.

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.

Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South (2021)
Book
Bahadur, A., & Tanner, T. (2021). Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429355066

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "resilience reset", a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices and challenges of building resilience, par... Read More about Resilience Reset: Creating Resilient Cities in the Global South.

Decentralization and Accountability in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Rural China (2017)
Preprint / Working Paper
Pesque-Cela, V. Decentralization and Accountability in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Rural China. Stockholm

Abstract: Can political decentralization and the introduction of local elections improve government accountability and public goods provision in a non-democratic regime like China? Political decentralization reforms in China have only been implemente... Read More about Decentralization and Accountability in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Rural China.

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..

Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamzić, V. (2012, February). Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan. Paper presented at International Law and the Periphery Conference, American University in Cairo

This study presents a critical legal ethnography of Pakistani khwajasara, located at the very periphery of international law yet at the centre of global legal crisis. Khwajasara, known elsewhere as hijra, are Pakistani gender variant subject position... Read More about Re-Centring Periphery through Non-Co-Operation: Khwajasara Movement and Limits of Global Law in Pakistan.

Aceh: The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction (2010)
Book
Tornquist, O., Prasetyo, S. A., Birks, T., Aditjondro, G., Sindre, G. M., Hamzah, M., Uning, D. M., & Marhaban, S. (2010). O. Tornquist, S. A. Prasetyo, & T. Birks (Eds.). Aceh: The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction. PCD

While the aftermath of the December 2004 tsunami added to the problems of civil war in Sri Lanka, a miraculous transition from conflict and disaster to peace and new development evolved in Aceh, the rebellious Indonesian province on the northern tip... Read More about Aceh: The Role of Democracy for Peace and Reconstruction.