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Other Visions of the Economy: NGOs and Transformations of Islamic Charity in North India

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article explores how new Islamic charity NGOs in India are transforming age‐old practices of obligatory Islamic almsgiving (zakat). This transformation reconfigured the ritual of zakat from its historical emphasis on local giving among kin and neighbors to an NGO‐based developmentalist process.
Christopher B. Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Racial Capitalism and the Workhouse–Plantation Nexus in the Atlantic World

Antipode, Volume 57, Issue 5, Page 2015-2044, September 2025.
Abstract This paper re‐examines the British workhouse within the framework of racial capitalism and the Atlantic world. Traditionally understood as a domestic mechanism for managing poverty and labour in an era of industrial capitalism, we argue the workhouse was deeply intertwined with global systems of racial exploitation and accumulation from the ...
Andrew Williams, Jon May
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening Humanitarian Aid: Qatar's NGO‐Driven Framework for Supporting Syrian Refugees in Türkiye

International Migration, Volume 63, Issue 4, August 2025.
ABSTRACT This study examines Qatar's NGO‐driven humanitarian aid framework for Syrian refugees in Türkiye, focusing on structural, cultural and strategic challenges in delivering sustainable support. Through thematic analysis of interviews with Qatari NGO and Syrian civil society stakeholders, key issues such as resource constraints, administrative ...
Moosa Elayah
wiley   +1 more source

WASTE DONATIONS: Shopkeeper–Waste Picker Relations in Istanbul and the Limits of Hospitable Giving

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 383-409, August 2025.
ABSTRACT In Istanbul, shopkeepers frequently dispose of their paper and plastic waste by giving it to select migrant waste pickers. This article examines these waste donations as a novel form of hospitable giving in Turkey, a country that has hosted millions of irregular migrants and asylum seekers since 2011.
KEVIN YILDIRIM
wiley   +1 more source

Power of Notion: Rules, Practices and Self-evaluation of the Poor Relief of the Reformed Church in Late Eighteenth-century Rotterdam

Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 2016
Though Dutch poor relief has been appreciated by historians for the financial stability and generous assistance given to the poor, this paper examines the harsh reality to poor relief in the late eighteenth-century Netherlands.
Yoshiyuki Onishi
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding Iran's welfare regime: The interplay of community, family, market, and state in a religious context

International Journal of Social Welfare, Volume 34, Issue 3, July 2025.
Abstract This article examines Iran's welfare regime and pays close attention to the gendered and religious dimensions of Iranian social policies. Despite the formal recognition of social security coverage as a citizenship right, Iran’s welfare system remains uneven in its coverage.
Rezvan Ostadalidehaghi, Daniel Béland
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic Moral Economy: Bringing Back Substantive Morality to Humanise Islamic Finance

Global Policy, Volume 16, Issue S1, Page 7-11, January 2025.
ABSTRACT The theoretical foundation of Islamic finance is constituted by the Islamic moral political economy, which aims to provide resource accessibility within the permissibility of Islam to all stakeholders. The complementarity and unitarity nature of the Islamic cognitive system essentialises the interest of all the stakeholders in economic and ...
Mehmet Asutay
wiley   +1 more source

Combating trade‐related fraud: do the Financial Action Task Force recommendations bite?

Economica, Volume 92, Issue 365, Page 322-347, January 2025.
Abstract We evaluate the efficacy of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations 2012, which set the global standard on combating money laundering and terrorist financing, by exploiting its staggered adoption in 16 East and South African countries.
Sami Bensassi, Arisyi F. Raz
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Tourism and The Use of Local Wisdom in The Bancakan Salak Galengdowo, East Java

Journal of Indonesian Tourism and Development Studies, 2020
The research aimed to elaborate on the common value represented by Bancakan Salak of Gelengdowo Village. Qualitative phenomenology was used to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the research problem.
Herlina Suksmawati, Dias Pabyantara, Praja Firdaus Nuryananda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Black Dog of Bungay: Religious Conflict and Supernatural Terror in a Suffolk Parish

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 393-408, December 2024.
In 1577 the market town of Bungay, on the Norfolk/Suffolk border, was riven by a grotesque and unusual event. During a storm, several members of the congregation were killed or injured, apparently by the appearance of the Devil in the guise of a demonic black hound.
Christian Owen
wiley   +1 more source