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Book review: Political contestation in the Middle East

Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2014
Review of the book: Álvarez-Ossorio, Ignacio (ed.). Sociedad civil y contestación en Oriente Medio y Norte de África. CIDOB, 2013. 296 págs. Izquierdo Brichs, Ferrán (ed.). El islam político en el Mediterráneo: Radiografía de una evolución. CIDOB,
Jordi Quero
doaj  

A Ch'ixi Philosophy of History: Rivera Cusicanqui After Benjamin

Constellations, EarlyView.
Daniel Luna Jacobs
wiley   +1 more source

A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
wiley   +1 more source

Decolonizing the Library: Considering the Movement in the Irish Colonial Contexts

Libri
Decolonization is a concept which has been rapidly gaining traction in the library community, particularly in England, the United States, and Australia.
Cooke-Escapil Louise
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Transoceanic migration linkages: human mobility’s past and present between the Canary Islands and Latin America and the Caribbean

Espace populations sociétés
The intensity of migratory processes has been a characteristic common to many of the Earth's island spaces which, throughout history, have been projected outwards thanks to the special connectivity that originated the voyages of colonization and, later ...
Josefina Domínguez Mujica, Juan Manuel Parreño Castellano, Claudio Moreno Medina   +2 more
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
wiley   +1 more source

The Complexities of Establishing Transboundary Water Management Institutions in Post-Colonial Territories: A Study of Nile River TWMI Construction

Andalas Journal of International Studies
Transboundary Water Management Institutions (TWMI) are traditionally seen as comprehensive solutions for addressing the distribution of transnational river water resources, among other alternative strategies.
Nurridho Aryawan
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

FROM NY‐LON TO SILK? Shifting Centres of Attention in the World's Urban Fabric

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This Interventions essay explores Silk Road urbanism's emergence as a rival to New York and London (NY‐LON) for global centre stage in Anglophone urban and regional studies. Through China's Belt and Road Initiative, more attention is being given to urban formations and associated new centralities beyond North Atlantic global/world cities ...
Tim Bunnell, Han Cheng, Wenn Er Tan
wiley   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source