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The Empire of Enterprise: Scottish Business Networks in Asian Trade, 1793-1810
Tomlinson, Tom
The rise of British rule in India in the late eighteenth century was accompanied by the emergence of extensive business networks based on London, Calcutta and Canton. These networks, which organised the private trade of British civilians and military personnel in India, linked the export and import economies of Bengal, Madras, Java, the Philippines, the Malay peninsula and southern China, and came to dominate much of the regional trade of the Indian Ocean, as well as its links to Europe. Many of those engaged in this activity were Scots, and the connections between them - based in part on kinship - provided the institutional setting for the remittance of private money from Asia to Europe. While the activities of the East India Company provided an important part of the setting for these activities, much of them also depended on private enterprise and non-official networks. As a result, the volume of capital remitted from Bengal to Britain during the 1790s and 1800s was much larger than has previously been estimated.
Kitakyūshū
2001
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Tomlinson, Tom (2001) 'The Empire of Enterprise: Scottish Business Networks in Asian Trade, 1793-1810.' KIU Journal of Economics and Business Studies, 8. pp. 67-83.
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The Erosion of a Relationship? Indo-British Economic Connections, 1930-1970
Tomlinson, Tom
2002
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Tomlinson, Tom (2002) The Erosion of a Relationship? Indo-British Economic Connections, 1930-1970. In: Conference on Hegemonic Transition in Asia, 1930 to 1970, 3-7 Sept 2002, Osaka, Japan. (Unpublished)
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The Meanings of Shintō
Bocking, Brian
Biblion Verlag
Kleine, Christoph
Schrimpf, Monika
Triplett, Katja
2004
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Bocking, Brian (2004) 'The Meanings of Shintō.' In: Kleine, Christoph, Schrimpf, Monika and Triplett, Katja, (eds.), Unterwegs, Neue Pfade in der Religionswissenschaft (New Paths in the Study of Religions). Munich, Germany: Biblion Verlag, pp. 269-286.
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Dhrupad in Pakistan: the Talwandi gharana
Basra, Khalid
Widdess, Richard
Varanasi : Published by All India Kashi Raj Trust on behalf of Maharaja Benaras Vidya Mandir Trus
1989
Journal Article
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Basra, Khalid and Widdess, Richard (1989) 'Dhrupad in Pakistan: the Talwandi gharana.' Dhrupad Annual, 4. pp. 1-10.
http://www.naseeb.com/journals/dhrupad-in-pakistan-111674
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Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese
Watkins, Justin
This paper assesses the value of measuring aspects of an unmodified acoustic recordings of speech in the two language Burmese (Tibeto-Burman) and Wa (Mon_Khmer) in relation to the glottal source, or phonation type.
This method faces the problem of how to ensure that what is measured is indeed attributable to the glottal source andnot to supralaryngeal acoustic shaping, or vowel quality.
The methods adopted include: analysis of the relative prominence of the H1 and H2, formant amplitude and spectral tilt.
The findings are that in Wa H2, F1 and F2 are all more energetic than H1 to a greater degree in creaky phonation than in breathy, though this is due in part to the significantly dominant H1 in breathy phonation.
For Burmese, the methods in this study are too crude to tell these two phonation types apart, but they are sufficient to identify the cruder three-way categorisation of phonation types (modal, creaky and breathy), which, it has been suggested, is sufficient to give a satisfactory account of phonologically contrastive phonation type for most purposes.
The findings suggest further that the relationship between the higher frequency region of the spectrum and phonation type merits further investigation.
SOAS University of London
1997
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Watkins, Justin (1997) 'Can phonation types be reliably measured from sound spectra? Some data from Wa and Burmese.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics, 7. pp. 321-339.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/schools-and-departments/school-languages-cultures-and-linguistics/department-linguistics/soas
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Japanese politeness in the work of Fujio Minami
Pizziconi, Barbara
This article presents and evaluates the work on linguistic politeness of the Japanese linguist Minami Fujio.
It also constitutes a critical introduction to the work "Keigo" [Honorifics] translated by B. Pizziconi in the second article appearing in the same volume.
SOAS University of London
2004
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Pizziconi, Barbara (2004) 'Japanese politeness in the work of Fujio Minami.' SOAS Working Papers in Linguistics, 13. pp. 269-280.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/schools-and-departments/school-languages-cultures-and-linguistics/department-linguistics/soas
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Cuneiform texts in the Birmingham City Museum
George, Andrew
Cambridge University Press
1979
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George, Andrew (1979) 'Cuneiform texts in the Birmingham City Museum.' Iraq, 41. pp. 121-140.
10.2307/4200108
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Clitics in Sasak, eastern Indonesia
Austin, Peter
This paper is a discussion of the distribution of clitics in Sasak, an Austronesian(Western Malayo-Polynesian) language spoken by approximately two million people on the island of Lombok, eastern Indonesia. It outlines the types of clitics found Sasak and shows that there are interesting interactions between clitic placement and focus constructions that result in the violation of a number of canonical word orders in Sasak. The author argues that these violations can be seen as arising from competition for linear positions within the sentence; this can be accounted for within an optimality-theoretic syntax framework (Bresnan, 2000, Grimshaw, 1999) which describes sentence structures in terms of violable ranked constraints, the interaction of which accounts for observed structures as being the most optimal result of constraint competition.
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Austin, Peter (2004) Clitics in Sasak, eastern Indonesia. In: Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Conference, Sheffield, UK. (Unpublished)
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Choreographing heritage, performing the site
Lopez y Royo, Alessandra
The paper reflects on the different types of performance which take place at archaeological sites, as a global phenomenon, and more broadly on the archaeology/ performance interface.
2004-11
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Lopez y Royo, Alessandra (2004) 'Choreographing heritage, performing the site.' Archaeology/Performance. Papers from TAG 2002 conference.
http://traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455/ArchaeologyPerformance/19
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Imperialism and accountability in corporate law: the limitations of incorporation law as a regulatory mechanism
Foster, Nicholas HD
Ball, Jane
This article discusses the limitations of the law incorporating a corporation (‘incorporation law’) as a control or governance mechanism in a world where it is increasingly difficult to prevent corporations choosing the incorporation law which suits them best. It uses as an example of the globalising pressures in this field three important cases on the right of establishment in the European Union.
Hart Publishing
McLeod, Sorcha
Brownsword, Roger
2006
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Foster, Nicholas HD and Ball, Jane (2006) 'Imperialism and accountability in corporate law: the limitations of incorporation law as a regulatory mechanism.' In: McLeod, Sorcha and Brownsword, Roger, (eds.), Global Governance and the Quest for Justice - Volume II: Corporate Governance. Oxford, UK: Hart Publishing.
10.5040/9781472563798.ch-005
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The Role of Whistleblowers in the Fight Against Economic Crime
Alexander, Richard
Whistleblowers have an essential role in the fight against economic crime, but their position is also not without risk. There are a number of ways in which they need protection, ranging from strong employment law provisions to witness protection programmes for themselves and their families. Although a number of jurisdictions, including the U.K., have provisions catering for these issues, they do not provide a perfect solution and, not least in a country such as Nigeria, the solutions themselves can give rise to issues which need to be addressed.
2004-06-29
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Alexander, Richard (2004) The Role of Whistleblowers in the Fight Against Economic Crime. In: National Seminar on Economic Crimes 2004, 27-29 Jun 2004, Abuja, Nigeria. (Unpublished)
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Criminal liability of employees of financial intermediaries for money laundering: a British perspective
Alexander, Richard
The money laundering rules, both those contained in the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (and the legislation which preceded it) and the provisions of the Money Laundering Regulations 1993, impose considerable liabilities not just on institutions but on their individual officers and employees. Although the Money Laundering Reporting Officer / Compliance Officer has particular responsibilities, this does not absolve the other employees of the firm from the requirement to exercise considerable diligence on their own account.
TNOiK
Adamski, Andrzej
2003-01
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Alexander, Richard (2003) 'Criminal liability of employees of financial intermediaries for money laundering: a British perspective.' In: Adamski, Andrzej, (ed.), Economic Crime in Polish and European Union Perspectives. Torun, Poland: TNOiK, pp. 318-339.
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Malayali young men and their movie heroes
Osella, Caroline
Osella, Filippo
Here we bring together masculinities and popular culture to think about how they are configured within the arena of cinema, focusing in on Kerala's two major male movie stars and the relationship they have with their young male fans. In their relative lack of interest in female stars and turn towards male stars young men are playing out an approach towards gendering which does not take as its foundation hierarchic or compulsory heterosexuality. Young men's tentative (and illicit, difficult) relationships with young women lack the substance of their relationships with each other and with their male movie heroes. We consider cinema as a forum for collective fantasy which acts as a source of helpful orientations, stars being particular nodes within this arena, dense points of transfer of desire, belief, self-affirmation or transformation and so on. Film audiences receive or subvert cinematic messages and form relationships with stars - whether in fantasy or actually - and with each other, mediated through cinematic modes of being or styles of doing. Another effect of cinema-related activities is to provide adolescent and post-adolescent boys with a safe segregated social space in which they can socialise, share information, try out fledgling masculine identities and grapple with the demands of emerging sexualities. The star makes possible identifications with the self- (for Mohan Lal, one who is working class and in solidarity with the poor, in Mammootty's case a solidly bourgeoios self); transformations of the self - opportunities through fan association work to distribute largesse like a high-caste wealthy patron; and an extended sense of self - the possiblity that through the fan association one might participate in the star's power and reach.
In Kerala, unlike other states, fandom is not a matter of rivalry, political partisanship or even life and death. While there is a 'hard-core' central group who remain partisan and always committed to 'their' star, in general young men frequently shift associations and change allegiances. Yet the two heroes seem to embody different styles of hero and to have different types of appeal to audiences; sociologically, their fan bases trace slightly different social groupings. Mammootty has an affinity with roles implying powerful and high-status men in control, strong in family drama; Mohan Lal is admired for his abilities in romance, song, dance and fighting. One might wish to be like Mammootty but often feels that one already is in some way like Mohan Lal. Despite considerable overlap and dispute, Mammootty and Mohan Lal embody and perform different styles of manliness, none of which one could dispense with in one's potential repertiore. Both Mammootty and Mohan Lal are necessary in a full fantasy life and a necessarily internally fragmented and shifting gendered identity. Cinema also relates to ethnicity. Mammotty allows young non-Muslim men to experience a fantasy relationship with a powerful mature Muslim man, a community coded 'other' in Kerala. A twist to this is that (similar to analyses of white anglo masculinities and work on the 'blackness' of Elvis) we find working class Hindu masculinity, while explicitly defined in opposition to the Muslim other, at another level actually relies upon an incorporation of aspects of masculinity especially associated in the cultural landscape with Muslimness. In a more mediated and disguised manner, Mohan Lal also plays with elements of fantasy identity culturally coded by young Hindus as 'Muslim'.
Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women
Chopra, Radhika
Osella, Caroline
Osella, Filippo
2004
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Osella, Caroline and Osella, Filippo (2004) 'Malayali young men and their movie heroes.' In: Chopra, Radhika, Osella, Caroline and Osella, Filippo, (eds.), South Asian masculinities: context of change, sites of continuity. New Delhi: Women Unlimited, an associate of Kali for Women, pp. 224-261.
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'Ayyappan Saranam': masculinity and the Sabarimala pilgrimage in Kerala
Osella, Filippo
Osella, Caroline
Sabarimala – a South Indian all-male pilgrimage to Ayyappan, a hyper-male deity born from two male gods – plays a role in constructing male identities, at both external (socialstructural) and internal (psychological) levels. The pilgrimage draws creatively on relationships
between two South Asian male figures: renouncer and householder, breaking down the opposition between transcendence and immanence to bring into everyday life
a sense of transcendence specific to men. This also has masculine and heroic overtones, characterized by ascetic self-denial and pain and by the identification of pilgrims with the deity and his perilous mountain-forest journey. Pilgrimage bestows power as blessings from Ayyappan and as specifically masculine forms of spiritual, moral, and bodily
strength, while acting as signifier of masculine superior purity and strength and of male responsibilities towards family welfare. Sabarimala merges individual men both with the hyper-masculine deity and with a wider community of men: other male pilgrims, senior male gurus (teachers). This merger is both social and personal. A normal and universal sense of masculine ambivalence and self-doubt has a specific local-cultural resolution, when boys and men experience strengthening of the gendered ego through renunciatory self-immersion in a ‘greater masculine’. The ostensibly egalitarian devotional community is actually hierarchical: pilgrims surrender themselves to deity and guru, while equality and friendship between men can be celebrated and performed precisely because it is predicated upon a deeper sense of difference and hierarchy – gender – with woman as the absent and inferiorized other. Such segregated celebrations of masculinity work both towards masculinity’s reproduction – through processes of ‘remasculinization’ – and in the limiting of masculinity to males.
Wiley
2003
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Osella, Filippo and Osella, Caroline (2003) ''Ayyappan Saranam': masculinity and the Sabarimala pilgrimage in Kerala.' Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 9 (4). pp. 237-244.
10.1111/j.1467-9655.2003.00171.x
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Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī II
Flügel, Peter
Some thirty per cent of Jains describe themselves as Sthanakavasis. Yet the Sthanakavasi tradition has not received any attention by academic scholarship. The present article is the second of a four-part history of the Sthanakavasi tradition, based on textual and ethnographic sources.
The first part (BIS 13/14 2000) gave an overview of the history and doctrines of the Sthanakavasi mendicant traditions, from the reforms of Lonka in the 15th century, until the creation of a unified Sramanasangha under the command of a single acarya in 1952. It analysed the aims and structure of Sramanasangha, and the refusal of many Sthanakavasi orders in Gujarat and Rajasthan to join the new organisation. In conclusion, four types of Jainism were distinguished: canonical, traditional, protestant, and post-protestant. The Sthanakavasi tradition is a mixture of protestant and traditional elements.
Part II investigates the sectarian dynamic within the Sramanasangha in conjunction with the history and structure of the independent Sthanakavasi traditions in Malva. It starts with a critical analysis of the notion of '22 schools' (baistola) of the Dharmadasa tradition, from which most Malva traditions are derived. The analysis of the relationship between the segments of the Dharmadasa traditions inside and outside the Sramanasangha, leads to the identification of three principal variables of Jain monastic organisation: descent, seniority, and succession. These structuring devices are used to mediate between the imperatives of historical legitimation and maintenance of differential group identity. It is argued that the new Sthanakavasi lists of succession (pattavalis), the prime markers of sectarian identity, were constructed retrospectively on the basis of lists of descent (gurvavalis) and biographical poems, not the other way round, as commonly assumed.
Parts III-IV (forthcoming) describe the Sthanakavasi traditions in the Panjab and Gujarat, and the overall context of Jain politics of religious modernisation in the 19th - 20th centuries.
Weidler
2003
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Flügel, Peter (2003) 'Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī II.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 15-17. pp. 149-240.
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Unequal prospects: disparities in the quantity and quality of labour supply in sub-Saharan Africa
Sender, John
Cramer, Christopher
Oya, Carlos
School of Oriental and African Studies
2005-03
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Sender, John, Cramer, Christopher and Oya, Carlos (2005) Unequal prospects: disparities in the quantity and quality of labour supply in sub-Saharan Africa. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.
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The Role of Whistleblowers in the Fight Against Economic Crime
Alexander, Richard
Whistleblowers have an essential role in the fight against economic crime, but their position is also not without risk. There are a number of ways in which they need protection, ranging from strong employment law provisions to witness protection programmes for themselves and their families. Although a number of jurisdictions, including the U.K., have provisions catering for these issues, they do not provide a perfect solution and the solutions themselves can give rise to issues which need to be addressed.
Emerald
2004-12
Journal Article
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Alexander, Richard (2004) 'The Role of Whistleblowers in the Fight Against Economic Crime.' Journal of Financial Crime, 12 (2). pp. 131-138.
10.1108/13590790510624945
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The 2003 Money Laundering Regulations
Alexander, Richard
The Money Laundering Regulations 2003 came into force in the early part of 2004 in order to implement the EU Second Money Laundering Directive. They are much wider-ranging than the 1993 Regulations, which had preceded them: in addition to banks and other financial institutions, which were already covered, and bureaux de change and money transmission offices, added in 2001, they also apply to, inter alia, lawyers, accountants, estate agents, casinos and dealers in high value goods, such as jewellers and art dealers.
Dealers in high value goods, however, are only covered in respect of transactions which are of a value of at least €15,000 and, moreover, in cash. That customers will be dealt with differently, in respect of the same transaction, depending on how payment is made, is unfortunate. A threshold stated in sterling would also be preferable: jewellers are often less well used to dealing in other currencies than financial institutions. More generally, if particular care is seen as required in relation to cash transactions, the threshold should arguably be lower.
The actual requirements imposed have, however, changed little: the only major change is that certain types of business now need to be registered with Customs & Excise.
Emerald
2004-09
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Alexander, Richard (2004) 'The 2003 Money Laundering Regulations.' Journal of Money Laundering Control, 8 (1). pp. 75-94.
10.1108/13685200510621262
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The Invention of Jainism: A Short History of Jaina Studies
Flügel, Peter
The article provides a short summary of the institutional history of the new field of 'Jain Studies' in its historical and political context. It shows that the Sanskrit term 'Jaina' used as a self-designation (rather than as the designation of a doctrine or in the sense of 'pertaining to the Jina') is based on the vernacular precursor 'Jain' which became prevalent from the early modern period onwards - most likely as an internalised observer category. The words 'Jain' and 'Jainism' became widely used only in the context of 19th communal movements in colonian India. At the same time the Jain scriptures were published to back the identity claims of the Jaina law movement and modern 'Jainism' as a disembodied text-based set of idea-ologies or dogmas from which one can pick and chose was born.
SOAS Centre of Jaina Studies
2005-09
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Flügel, Peter (2005) 'The Invention of Jainism: A Short History of Jaina Studies.' International Journal of Jaina Studies, 11. pp. 1-19.
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Firm Size, Technical Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Chinese Industry
Cheng, Yuk-Shing
Lo, Dic
Since the mid-1990s, China’s state leadership has adopted a policy of nurturing the competitiveness of large state-owned industrial enterprises. The implications of this policy have been a matter of debate in the literature. This paper seeks to provide some useful input into the debate. With a view of investigating into the potential of long-term development of large enterprises, we estimate the “sequential production technology” in computing the Malmquist productivity index for various size-groups of enterprises in Chinese industry. Our findings indicate that large enterprises did register the fastest productivity growth and improvement in technical efficiency in the 1994-97 period. It thus appears that large-scale, mainly state-owned Chinese enterprises have exhibited the potential of making noticeable improvements and the relevant state policy does have its justification.
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series; No. 144
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Cheng, Yuk-Shing and Lo, Dic (2004) Firm Size, Technical Efficiency and Productivity Growth in Chinese Industry. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series; No. 144.
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China’s Nexus of Foreign Trade and Economic Growth: Making Sense of the Anomaly
Lo, Dic
Using a range of specifications that are standard in the relevant literature, this paper finds that China’s rapid and sustained economic growth in the reform era has tended to be negatively correlated with its export growth and positively correlated with its import growth. This finding runs counter to widely-held perceptions on China’s nexus of foreign trade and economic growth, and thus presents a serious challenge for interpretation. On the basis of some further regression analyses, and drawing on a number of applied studies on the subject matter, the paper argues that the finding is plausible and of complex ramifications. The conclusion which this paper arrives at, therefore, is that the Chinese experience has tended to be a case of strategic integration into the world market, rather than conforming to the standard neoclassical thesis of trade regime neutrality.
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series; No. 143
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Lo, Dic (2004) China’s Nexus of Foreign Trade and Economic Growth: Making Sense of the Anomaly. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper Series; No. 143.
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Social origins of Ottoman industrialisation: Evidence from the Macedonian town of Naoussa
Lapavitsas, Costas
Ottoman industrialisation in cotton spinning was led by the town of Naoussa in Macedonia. This paper shows that Naoussa capitalists grasped the opportunities created by trade liberalisation, accumulated capital in domestic manufacture of woollen cloth, and secured a regular supply of low-wage female labour and free hydraulic energy. It is further shown that they took advantage of local institutional and political mechanisms within the Christian community independent of the relatively remote Ottoman state. But there was no capitalist transformation of agriculture, even though Naoussa capitalists often owned large land estates. Lack of broader institutional and political influence and absence of capitalist transformation of agriculture hampered the transformation of Naoussa capitalists from a provincial social group into a broad-based capitalist class.
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Lapavitsas, Costas (2004) Social origins of Ottoman industrialisation: Evidence from the Macedonian town of Naoussa. London, UK: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 142.
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Globalisation and Comparative Economics: Of Efficiency, Efficient Institutions, and Late Development
Lo, Dic
Does globalisation entail a demand for uniformity, or diversity, of the (political) economic institutions of nation-states? What is the theoretical underpinning of the demand? And what are the implications of the demand for economic development? The conventional literature known as comparative economic systems has been unable to answer these question, because there is an intrinsic tension between its methodology (the neoclassical framework of individualistic rational choices and their equilibrium) and the subject matter (the multiplicity of economic institutions and development experiences in the real world). The new comparative economics has consisted of a variety of attempts to cope with this tension: some aimed at preserving the neoclassical framework at a more fundamental level, while some others aimed at transcending the framework to arrive at a new theory of economic systems and development. This paper argues that attempts that adhere to the neoclassical tradition is likely to lead to dead ends, while attempts that encompass collective as well as individualistic rationality represent more promising directions. Fuller developments of the literature, however, require incorporating objectified institutions and paradigmised technology into its sphere of inquiry. It is submitted that there are important lessons to learn from classical political economy and their modern presentations, particularly Marxian theories of the social forces of production, in this regard.
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Lo, Dic (2004) Globalisation and Comparative Economics: Of Efficiency, Efficient Institutions, and Late Development. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 137.
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Assessing the Role of Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Economic Development: Macro Indicators and Insights from Sectoral-Regional Analyses
Lo, Dic
The objective of this paper is to assess the role of FDI in China’s economic development with reference to the broader literature on FDI and late development. Three main findings come out from the analyses in the paper. First, it is found that FDI tends to promote the improvement in allocative efficiency, while having a negative impact on productive efficiency. Second, insofar as FDI does promote overall productivity growth, this tends to be a matter of cumulative causation rather than one of single-direction causation. Third, in the context of a comparative analysis of two distinctive regional models, it is found that the economic impact of FDI tends to be more favourable in the inward-looking, capital-deepening pattern of development (the ‘Shanghai model’) than that in the export-oriented, labour-intensive pattern (the ‘Guangdong model’). Further analyses, however, suggest that the ‘Shanghai model’ has its intrinsic problems of sustainability. The scope for applying it to China as a whole is thus judged to be limited.
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 135
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Lo, Dic (2004) Assessing the Role of Foreign Direct Investment in China’s Economic Development: Macro Indicators and Insights from Sectoral-Regional Analyses. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 135.
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‘Episodes of Liberalisation’ or ‘The Logic of Capital’: The Genesis of Liberalisation in India
McCartney, Matthew
This paper examines the genesis of liberalisation in India, it argues that once we locate its origin we can understand its direction and underlying political economy with much greater clarity. In particular the paper seeks to answer three questions. Why was reform launched in 1991 when the real economy was essentially in good condition? Why did the state choose a neo-liberal policy package when other options were available? Why did the state sustain liberalisation even after the economy had recovered from the immediate crisis? Existing answers to these questions are found to be inadequate. Instead this paper focuses on an alternative explanation that emphasises continuity, the reforms in 1991 can be traced back to the early 1970s. The Momentum of reform was sustained and assumed a particular form due to an underlying ‘logic of capital’.
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McCartney, Matthew (2004) ‘Episodes of Liberalisation’ or ‘The Logic of Capital’: The Genesis of Liberalisation in India. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 134.
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Export Promotion, the Fallacy of Composition and Declining Terms of Trade (or the Moors’ Last Sigh)
McCartney, Matthew
This paper examines various schools of trade policy reform and finds little difference between them in regards their essential export optimism. This optimism is based on an unwarranted assumption in cross-country empirical studies. In practise the increasing number of large LDC’s shifting towards export promotion since the 1980s is found to coincide with declining terms of trade for labour-intensive manufactures. So far this decline has been offset by growth in volume. The positive relation is actually dependent on market growth in developed countries rather than domestic policy reform. Marx (the Moor) provides a useful framework in which to analyse this process. His analysis of competition and accumulation within a national economy is transposed to that of international trade. Finally, the increasing integration of capital into ‘value chains’ and the formation of regional trading blocs can be related to the crisis tendencies of competition and the erosion of profit margins.
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McCartney, Matthew (2004) Export Promotion, the Fallacy of Composition and Declining Terms of Trade (or the Moors’ Last Sigh). London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 133.
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China, the ‘East Asian Model’ and Late Development
Lo, Dic
There is an influential, neo-liberal proposition in the scholarly literature on China’s economic transformation since the late 1970s. It states that China’s reformed economic institutions are a mix of market-conforming and market-supplanting elements, that its developmental achievements so far have been ascribable to the conforming elements whereas the accumulated problems being ascribable to the supplanting elements, and that the problems have tended to outweigh the achievements as the country’s economic transition progresses from the allegedly easy phase to the difficult phase. This paper offers an alternative interpretation of the Chinese experience. The central proposition is that China’s economic institutions could be seen in favourable light both theoretically and with reference to the East Asian development experience. Specifically, the developmental implications of the market-conforming and market-supplanting elements should not be understood in any absolute sense, but rather depend on the appropriate match or otherwise between the institutions and the external environment. The developmental achievements to date indicate that China’s economic reform has managed to achieve a basically appropriate match between the two aspects, although enormous uncertainties still cloud over the future prospects owing to changes both in the external environment and the reform strategies of the state leadership.
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Lo, Dic (2003) China, the ‘East Asian Model’ and Late Development. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 131.
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Money as a 'Universal equivalent' and its origin in commodity exchange
Lapavitsas, Costas
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 130
2003-05
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Lapavitsas, Costas (2003) Money as a 'Universal equivalent' and its origin in commodity exchange. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 130.
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Measurement and Nature of Absolute Poverty in Least Developed Countries
Karshenas, Massoud
This paper provides new national accounts consistent poverty estimates for low-income countries. The properties of the new estimates are compared to the existing estimates by the World Bank based on household survey means. We also use the new estimates to reflect on the recent controversies regarding the relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. It is argued that the controversy is mainly due to the lack of distinction between what one can refer to as ‘generalized extreme poverty’ in low-income countries and the more ‘normal’ poverty situations in higher income economies.
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Karshenas, Massoud (2001) Measurement and Nature of Absolute Poverty in Least Developed Countries. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 129.
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Banks and the Design of the Financial System: Underpinnings in Steuart, Smith and Hilferding
Lapavitsas, Costas
Banks in bank-based financial systems tend to engage in long-term lending that requires substantial own capital to guarantee solvency. In market-based systems, in contrast, they tend to undertake short-term lending that requires adequate reserves to guarantee liquidity. Theoretical support for these two approaches to banking can be found in,respectively, Steuart and Smith. The innovative Marxist analysis of banking by Hilferding combined elements of both. Banks in the early stages of development are Smith-like but, as the scale of fixed investment in industry grows, they lend long-term and become Steuart-like, also developing ‘commitment’ relations with enterprises. However, Hilferding also implied, erroneously, that financial systems historically evolve
in a bank-based direction. Based on Hilferding but also drawing on Japanese Marxist analysis of finance, it is suggested instead that bank behaviour in bank-based systems results from institutional changes imposed by policy-makers in order to achieve ‘catching up.’
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 128
2002-11
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Lapavitsas, Costas (2002) Banks and the Design of the Financial System: Underpinnings in Steuart, Smith and Hilferding. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 128.
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The Best of Two Worlds: Between-Method Triangulation in Feminist Economic Research
Blin, Myriam
Siegmann, Karin Astrid
Assumptions applied in Orthodox Economic methods are criticised for being an inadequate depiction of reality. This is particularly the case from the perspective of Feminist Economics. Gender biases are reflected in the quantitative data sources and methods commonly applied for economic research. These include male biases in statistical data, a focus on outcomes rather than processes as well as the neglect of reproductive work and its interaction with market work. To overcome these problems, this paper introduces between-method triangulation, i.e. the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods of data generation and analysis, as an innovative and more realistic methodology to conduct gendered economic analysis. It draws on the authors’ recent empirical work on the Indonesian and Mauritian labour markets where between-method triangulation was employed. The approach is shown to be able to enhance empirical economic analysis by mutually validating results. Furthermore, the approach is shown to remove gender biases in economic analysis by analysing conflicting evidence and by complementing quantitative with qualitative findings in light of feminist economics theory.
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 146
2006-02
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Blin, Myriam and Siegmann, Karin Astrid (2006) The Best of Two Worlds: Between-Method Triangulation in Feminist Economic Research. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 146.
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Export-Oriented Policies, Women’s Work Burden and Human Development in Mauritius
Blin, Myriam
This paper, looking at the case study of Mauritius, attempts to understand the factors affecting the relationship between EOP, women’s work burden along different social backgrounds. The analysis is based on between-method triangulation consisting of a quantitative survey in the industrial sector and a qualitative survey in the industrial and services sectors. The main result shows that women and the social reproductive process were not affected in the same way depending on the socioprofessional background of the woman.
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 147
2006-02
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Blin, Myriam (2006) Export-Oriented Policies, Women’s Work Burden and Human Development in Mauritius. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 147.
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Making Sense of China’s Economic Transformation
Lo, Dic
China’s sustained rapid economic growth over the post-1978 reform era, which is also the era of globalisation, is of worldwide importance. This growth experience has been based mainly on China’s internal dynamics. In the first half of the era, economic growth was propelled by improvement in both allocative efficiency and productive efficiency. From the early 1990s until the present time, however, economic growth has been increasingly based on dynamic increasing returns associated with a growth path that is characterised by capital deepening. In both periods, the growth paths and their associated long-term-oriented institutions contradict principles of the free market economy – i.e., doctrines of globalisation. In the form of an analytical overview, this article seeks to explain and interpret the historical background, logic of evolution, and developmental and social implications of China’s economic transformation. The analytics draws on a range of relevant economic theories including Marxian theory of economic growth, Post-Keynesian theory of demand determination, and Neo-Schumpeterian theory of innovation. It is posited that these alternative theoretical perspectives offer better insights than mainstream neoclassical economics in explaining and interpreting China’s economic transformation.
SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 148
2006-03
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Lo, Dic (2006) Making Sense of China’s Economic Transformation. London: SOAS Department of Economics Working Paper No. 148.
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'If you meet the Buddha on the map...': The Notion of Mapping Spiritual Paths
Bocking, Brian
Edinburgh University Press/Traditional Cosmology Society
Flood, Gavin D.
1994
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Bocking, Brian (1994) ''If you meet the Buddha on the map...': The Notion of Mapping Spiritual Paths.' In: Flood, Gavin D., (ed.), Mapping invisible worlds. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press/Traditional Cosmology Society, pp. 159-162. (Cosmos: The Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society Vol. 9)
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RAP, RFL and ROL: Language and Religion in Higher Education
Bocking, Brian
Peter Lang
Wiebe, Donald
Masefield, Peter
1994
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Bocking, Brian (1994) 'RAP, RFL and ROL: Language and Religion in Higher Education.' In: Wiebe, Donald and Masefield, Peter, (eds.), Aspects of Religion: essays in honour of Ninian Smart. New York, USA: Peter Lang, pp. 1-19. (Toronto studies in religion, vol. 18.)
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Lifting the Blinkers: A New View of Power and Poverty in Mozambican Rural Labour Markets
Sender, John
Oya, Carlos
Cramer, Christopher
This paper presents some results from the largest rural labour market survey yet conducted in Mozambique. Evidence from three provinces shows that labour markets have a significant impact on the lives of a large number of poor people and that employers exercise considerable discretion in setting wages and conditions of casual, seasonal and permanent wage employment. The evidence presented comes from a combination of a quantitative survey based on purposive sampling with other techniques, including interviews with large farmers. The findings contrast with ideas that rural labour markets are irrelevant to poverty reduction policy formulation in Africa and the paper concludes with methodological, analytical and policy recommendations.
School of Oriental and African Studies
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Sender, John, Oya, Carlos and Cramer, Christopher (2006) 'Lifting the Blinkers: A New View of Power and Poverty in Mozambican Rural Labour Markets.' School of Oriental and African Studies. (Unpublished)
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The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives: a unified account
Jaggar, Philip J.
In this paper I revisit and elaborate some of the ideas I outlined in the earlier paper, concentrating on the semantic characteristics of the paired Perfective tense-aspects in a major (universal) discourse context—spontaneously-produced past-time narrative. The main focus is on the role of the paradigm known traditionally (and unfortunately) as the “Relative Perfective”, a set which is in partial complementary distribution with the “General/Neutral Perfective”. This specially inflected tense-aspect form is the one exploited at discourse-level to assert prominent events on the time-axis in foregrounded narrative sequences, but it is also required in classic clause-level wh-constructions, i.e., wh-interrogatives, declarative focus constructions, and relative clauses, operations which often share structural properties across languages. The central claim is that the fronted focus/wh- constructions and pivotal foregrounded portions of past-time narratives utilize the same specialized Perfective tense-aspect morphology because they achieve the same discourse-pragmatic goals—they all supply the most communicatively PROMINENT and focal NEW information.
J.M. Dent and Co
Hyman, Larry M.
Newman, Paul
2006
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Jaggar, Philip J. (2006) 'The Hausa perfective tense-aspect used in wh-/focus constructions and historical narratives: a unified account.' In: Hyman, Larry M. and Newman, Paul, (eds.), West African Linguistics: Descriptive, Comparative, and Historical Studies in Honor of Russell G. Schuh. London: J.M. Dent and Co, pp. 100-133.
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Own up! Does anyone out there have a decent theory of ownership?
Cramer, Christopher
In this short paper, I attempt to find what theoretical grounds might support the term ownership as used in aid relations and critically to discuss these grounds. Three possible sources for thinking through the concept are: property rights, relationships made or sustained through gifts, and principal-agent theory. After setting the concept of ownership in development aid within the context of its origins, the paper explores the relevance and implications of seeing ownership as the effect of a gift, and then, in more detail, explores the way in which principal-agent theory has been applied to the analysis of ownership. Where this has been done, a particular controversy emerges around the relationship between ownership and conditionality: some regard these notions as fully compatible while others highlight the tension between them.
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Cramer, Christopher (2002) 'Own up! Does anyone out there have a decent theory of ownership?' (Unpublished)
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Divorced, separated and widowed female workers in rural Mozambique
Sender, John
Oya, Carlos
Compared to other rural women, a high proportion of female wageworkers in rural Mozambique are divorced, separated or widowed. The paper explores the factors underlying this difference and establishes a significant relationship between labor market participation and female divorce or widowhood. The association is likely to work in both directions. Moreover, contrastive exploration suggests that divorced/separated women differ from non-divorced women in many other important respects: They tend to get access to better jobs; also, divorced and separated mothers are remarkably good at investing in their daughters’ education compared to other mothers and to male respondents. The paper concludes by stressing the limits of regression techniques in teasing out causation and the interactions between variables, and by suggesting that policies to increase female access to decently remunerated wage employment could make a substantial difference to the welfare of very poor rural women in Africa and their children.
SOAS University of London: Department of Development Studies
2007-01
Monographs and Working Papers
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Sender, John and Oya, Carlos (2007) Divorced, separated and widowed female workers in rural Mozambique. London: SOAS University of London: Department of Development Studies.
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The political economy of development aid as main source of foreign finance for poor African countries: loss of policy space and possible alternatives from East Asia
Oya, Carlos
This paper discusses the political economy of development aid flows to poor countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and the potential role of China to generate opportunities for a recovery of policy space in these countries. We argue that the loss of policy space in many poor SSA countries is associated with donor-recipient relations in aid flows over the past two decades. The influential role of Western donor agencies and the growing marginalisation of SSA countries from international capital flows have left scarce policy space to their governments for more innovative trade, agricultural and industrial policies. The recent New Aid Agenda and the concomitant Western aid harmonization through budget support are likely enhance donors’ influence on policy making and to exacerbate this process despite claims of greater ‘ownership’. Learning from East Asian success stories has been hampered by the unequal bargaining power of SSA governments vis-à-vis their ‘development partners’. More recently, China has started to become an increasingly important player for some SSA countries and Chinese FDI and aid flows are already s significant reality there. Typically these ‘new’ relations may be seen with suspicion by Western ‘development’ partners, but we argue that this (and the cooperation of other Asian governments in a South-South cooperation framework) may be a significant opportunity for some SSA countries to regain part of the policy space lost in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Oya, Carlos (2006) The political economy of development aid as main source of foreign finance for poor African countries: loss of policy space and possible alternatives from East Asia. In: International Forum on Comparative Political Economy of Globalization, 1-3 September 2006, Beijing, China. (Unpublished)
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Origins, Genealogies, and the Politics of Mythmaking: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Myth
Hawthorne, Sian
This thesis develops and advocates a feminist philosophy of myth in order to reformulate influential understandings of the roles and functions of myths in recent mythological scholarship. The initial hypothesis which the thesis establishes in Chapter 1 is that the designation of myth qua myth is neither innocent nor organic; highly consequential interests are at stake when myths are narrated, and, moreover, the categorisation of some types of narrative as ‘myth’ and others as ‘science’, or ‘philosophy’, for example, indicates powerful assertions about their relative level of validity and authority. I argue that these assertions are implicated in discursive strategies of containment and exclusion and allied to forms of identity construction characterised by an assertion of singularity. They further rely on the location of a non-transcendable point of origin as a means of securing the stability and legitimacy of these constructions. I develop this argument, in Chapters 2–7, through an extended case study of the German search for origins from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, and demonstrate its relationship to the German romantic attempt to construct a noble German identity. I critique these forms of identity and origin construction, arguing that the German case is but one example of the western metaphysical theories of ontology which are indebted to inflected patrilinearity, the main feature of which is a preoccupation with monogenetic singularity. I consequently develop an alternative feminist model of origins and identity in Chapters 8–10 based on poststructural and psychoanalytical feminist theories of maternality as a site of splitting, doubling, and process. I acknowledge that while the identification of origins is an ontological convention, the assertion of patrilineal provenance creates forms of subjectivity that are exclusionary, dialectical, and monolithic, and are, therefore, inadequate frameworks for constructing ethically oriented models of identity in a post-feminist context. In contrast, I suggest that metaphors of maternal origin offer a considerably more promising, if transitional, discursive frame for articulating identities that stress multiplicity, connectedness, immanence, and dialogue.
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Hawthorne, Sian (2006) Origins, Genealogies, and the Politics of Mythmaking: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Myth. PhD thesis. SOAS, University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00000144 <https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00000144>
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Book Review of: The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime by Jeffrey D. Sachs
Glinavos, Ioannis
Wiley
2006-07-12
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Glinavos, Ioannis (2006) 'Book Review of: The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime by Jeffrey D. Sachs.' The Economics of Transition, 14 (3). pp. 575-577.
10.1111/j.1468-0351.2006.00262.x
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Jainism and society
Flügel, Peter
A review of John E. Cort: Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Cambridge University Press
2006-02
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Flügel, Peter (2006) 'Jainism and society.' Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 69 (1). pp. 91-112.
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BSO
10.1017/50041977X0600005X
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The Politics of Neglect: the Egyptian State in Cairo, 1974-98
Dorman, W. J.
This thesis examines state-society relations in Egypt, and the logic of durable authoritarianism since 1952. It does so through an examination of the Egyptian state’s neglectful rule, from the 1970s through the 1990s, of its capital Cairo. In particular, the thesis focuses on state inaction vis-à-vis Cairo’s informal housing sector: those neighbourhoods established on land not officially sanctioned for urbanization.
The central research question of the thesis is to explain why the Egyptian state has been unable to intervene effectively in these informal neighbourhoods—despite their stigmatization in Egyptian public discourse as threats to the nation’s social, moral and political health; the authoritarian state’s considerable unilateral power; and the availability of western assistance for development interventions. The short answer to the question, is that the very factors which sustain the authoritarian political order constrain the Egyptian state’s ability to intervene in its capital. Neglectful rule is a consequence of the autocratic post-1952 dispensation of power.
That this neglect is not simply the result of structural resource constraints, is demonstrated through the examination of donor-funded urban-development projects—aimed at fostering an administratively competent Egyptian state able to intervene in its capital—none of which were successful or sustainable. The failure of these reform initiatives, which could have allowed Egyptian state agencies to upgrade informal Cairo and re-orient its growth, can be plausibly explained in terms of the challenges they posed to the logic of autocratic rule. Thus the reproduction of the informal city is, in part, a consequence of the post-1952 dispensation.
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Dorman, W. J. (2007) The Politics of Neglect: the Egyptian State in Cairo, 1974-98. PhD thesis. SOAS, University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00000155 <https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00000155>
10.25501/SOAS.00000155
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Babylonian texts from the folios of Sidney Smith, part three: a commentary on a ritual of the month Nisan
George, Andrew
This paper is an edition of a learned Babylonian text in which the ritual attire of a cultic officiant is equated with divine forces.
Brill
Guinan, Ann K.
Ellis, Maria deJ.
Ferrara, A. J.
Freedman, Sally M.
Rutz, Matthew T.
Sassmannshausen, Leonhard
Tinney, Steve
Waters, M. W.
2006
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George, Andrew (2006) 'Babylonian texts from the folios of Sidney Smith, part three: a commentary on a ritual of the month Nisan.' In: Guinan, Ann K., Ellis, Maria deJ., Ferrara, A. J., Freedman, Sally M., Rutz, Matthew T., Sassmannshausen, Leonhard, Tinney, Steve and Waters, M. W., (eds.), If a Man Builds a Joyful House: Assyriological Studies in Honor of Erle Verdun Leichty. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, pp. 173-185. (Cuneiform Monographs)
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More on in situ WH- and focus constructions in Hausa
Jaggar, Philip J.
Hausa is conventionally analyzed as having only one strategy for both focus and wh-constructions--fronting, with special inflectional marking on the TAM. Recently, however, some new facts have emerged which demonstrate that focus can also occur IN SITU, with a general TAM (Jaggar 2001:496-98; Green & Jaggar 2003). Hausa in situ wh-questions and focus constructions are especially common with adverbial (especially locative) elements and/or nonverbal predicates and so are more restricted in their distribution than the ex situ strategies, but they represent an interesting new problem which requires extensive study of naturally occurring discourse and detailed syntactic analysis. The Hausa facts also need to be viewed in the wider comparative-historical context of the syntax of in situ focus and wh-constructions in related West Chadic languages.
Rüdiger Köppe
Ibriszimow, Dymitr
Tourneux, Henry
Wolff, H. Ekkehard
2006
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Jaggar, Philip J. (2006) 'More on in situ WH- and focus constructions in Hausa.' In: Ibriszimow, Dymitr, Tourneux, Henry and Wolff, H. Ekkehard, (eds.), Topics in Chadic linguistics II : Papers from the 2nd Biennial International Colloquium on the Chadic Languages, Prague, October 11-12,2003. Cologne, Germany: Rüdiger Köppe, pp. 49-73. (Chadic Linguistics, vol. 3)
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Expo Fascism? Ideology, Representation, Economy
Lockyer, Angus
Duke University Press
Tansman, Alan
2009
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Lockyer, Angus (2009) 'Expo Fascism? Ideology, Representation, Economy.' In: Tansman, Alan, (ed.), The Culture of Japanese Fascism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
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Nostalgia for 'Asian' Traditions and Energy: Encounters with Chinese and Koreans in Japanese TV Drama
Kirsch, Griseldis
Gössmann, Hilaria
Global Ethnographic
White, Bruce
2014-11-15
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Kirsch, Griseldis and Gössmann, Hilaria (2014) 'Nostalgia for 'Asian' Traditions and Energy: Encounters with Chinese and Koreans in Japanese TV Drama.' Global Ethnographic, 2 (1). pp. 1-33.
https://globalethnographic.com/index.php/nostalgia-for-asian-traditions-and-energy-encounters-with-chinese-and-koreans-in-japanese-tv-dramas/
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Transition or Development? Reassessing Priorities for Law Reform
Glinavos, Ioannis
The modern literature on international development in conjunction with the rise of institutional economics has focused attention on the role of institutions in the operation of the economy and crucially on the function of law as setting a framework to market operations. An emerging consensus that views development as a legal in as much as an economic challenge is forcing us to revaluate the relationship between law, regulation, state power and the market. Indeed, the greater the need for law, the larger the role of the state in the economy. The purpose of this article is to enquire into the implications the modern literature on economic development emanating from international institutions (primarily the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) has for law reform and the role of the state in the economy. The main question asked is whether regulation has a uniform role in all reform contexts or whether there is a difference between the role of law in the transition to a market economy as opposed to the promotion of general development. This article suggests that there is indeed a difference between the role of law in transition as opposed to development that centres on the primacy of the state in the design for reform. While transition, it is suggested, requires a more limited role for law (Washington Consensus), development necessitates a more thorough involvement of the state in the reform process (Post-Washington Consensus). This article offers some preliminary evidence to suggest that a minimal role for regulation focused on market promotion required by ‘transition type’ reforms is adopted across the board and applied indiscriminately to all development scenarios. This means that reform packages remain rather minimal in the involvement of the state and in the scope for law despite the input of institutional economics and the apparent enthusiasm for the promotion of the rule of law. The article concludes that once a distinction is drawn between the different designs needed for transition and development, it becomes evident that a larger role for law and state regulation is needed that goes beyond mere market promotion. The promotion of development which encompasses political, social and economic aspects therefore asks for a wider role for the state.
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Glinavos, Ioannis (2007) Transition or Development? Reassessing Priorities for Law Reform. In: Change, Rules and Institutions: Law and Economics in the Context of Development, 29-30 Sept 2007, SOAS, London, England. (Unpublished)
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The Design of Free-Market Economies in a Post-Neoclassical World
Jennings, Frederic
The ‘Washington Consensus’ supporting competitive frames and market solutions in economics and law was shown inadequate to address social problems in non-U.S. settings. So would diversity and dynamics suggest theories in need of adjustment to other realities such as culture, increasing returns and market power. Reform must account for an economics of falling cost, ecological limits and complementarity in our relations. Such shall open new applications for economics and law.
In this paper a theory of planning horizons is introduced and then employed to raise some meaningful questions about the neoclassical view with respect to its substitution, decreasing returns and independence assumptions. Suppositions of complementarity, increasing returns and interdependence suggest that competition is inefficient by upholding a myopic culture resistant to change. Growth – though long believed to rise from markets and competitive values – may not derive from these sources. Instead, as civilizations advance, shifting from material wants to higher-order intangible output, they evolve from market tradeoffs (substitution and scarcity) into realms of common need (complementarity and abundance). If so, then neoclassical arguments shall no longer apply to any advanced information economy also restrained by its ecology.
Indeed, this paper opens standard theory into a more general framework constructing ‘horizon effects’ into a case for cooperation – as more efficient than competition for all long-term problems of growth. The case is made that competition is keeping us stupid and immature, rewarding a myopic culture at the expense of learning and trust, therefore retarding economic growth instead of encouraging it as believed.
The policy implications of horizonal theory are explored, with respect to regulatory aims and economic concerns. Such an approach emphasizes strict constraints against entry barriers, ecological harm, market power abuse and ethical lapses. Social cohesion – not competition – is sought as a means to extend horizons and thereby increase efficiency, equity and ecological health. The overriding importance of horizon effects for regulatory assessment dominates other orthodox standards in economics and law. In sum, much of the reason for the failure of the Washington Consensus stems from myopic concerns central to any horizonal view. Reframing economics along horizonal lines suggests some meaningful insight to how regulations should be designed to keep pace with this approach in economics and law.
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Jennings, Frederic (2007) The Design of Free-Market Economies in a Post-Neoclassical World. In: Change, Rules and Institutions: Law and Economics in the Context of Development, 29-30 Sept 2007, SOAS, London, England. (Unpublished)
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Sierra Leone: Krio and the Quest for National Integration
Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé
Fashole-Luke, Victor
The Republic of Sierra Leone is a smaller country in size, population and the number of its languages than many other countries on the West African coast such as Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria. A particularly interesting phenomenon is however present in the configuration of the languages present and used in the country, and how language links up the general population. Though there are two proportionately large indigenous languages spoken in the country, Temne and Mende, it is found that the language which has spread and serves as a universal lingua franca known by as much as 95% of the population of Sierra Leone is in fact an English-based creole known as Krio, which is the mother tongue of a much smaller group of speakers primarily localized in and near the capital city Freetown. This chapter examines the growing significance of Krio in Sierra Leone and how it originally developed as a contact language among different groups of resettled emancipated slaves and other indigenous inhabitants of the Freetown area. The implications of the growth of Krio for national language policy and the position of English as the official language are examined, as well as the existence of ambivalent and changing attitudes towards the Krio language.
Oxford University Press
Simpson, Andrew
2008-02-15
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Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé and Fashole-Luke, Victor (2008) 'Sierra Leone: Krio and the Quest for National Integration.' In: Simpson, Andrew, (ed.), Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 122-140.
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Nigeria: Ethno-linguistic Competition in the Giant of Africa
Simpson, Andrew
Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé
Nigeria is a country with an immense population of over 140 million, the largest in Africa, and several hundred languages and ethnic groups (over 400 in some estimates, 510 according to Ethnologue 2005), though with no single group being a majority, and the three largest ethnic groups together constituting only approximately half of the country's total population. Having been formed as a united territory by British colonial forces in 1914, with artificially created borders arbitrarily including certain ethnic groups while dividing others with neighbouring states, Nigeria and its complex ethno-linguistic situation in many ways is a prime representation of the classic set of problems faced by many newly developing states in Africa when decisions of national language policy and planning have to be made, and the potential role of language in nation-building has to be determined. When independence came to Nigeria in 1960, it was agreed that English would be the country's single official language, and there was little serious support support for the possible attempted promotion of any of Nigeria's indigenous languages into the role of national official language. This chapter considers the socio-political and historical background to the establishment of English as Nigeria's official language, and the development of the country over the subsequent post-independence era, and asks the following question. After five decades of experience of life with English as the nation's sole official language, if people in Nigeria were to be given the opportunity to reformulate national language policy as they wished, might one expect a different official language structure to be requested, perhaps with one or a combination of indigenous languages as a replacement for English, or is the current English-centred structuring of officialdom felt to be satisfactory and appropriate given the ethnic configuration of the country?
Oxford University Press
Simpson, Andrew
2008-02
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Simpson, Andrew and Oyètádé, B. Akíntúndé (2008) 'Nigeria: Ethno-linguistic Competition in the Giant of Africa.' In: Simpson, Andrew, (ed.), Language and National Identity in Africa. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 172-198.
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The Politics of Moral Authority
Hopgood, Stephen
What is at stake, politically, in abandoning claims that one's actions are legitimized by some form of transcendent authority? Analysing this question moves us beyond human rights debates about foundationalism, and asks whether the efficacy of claims made by human rights advocates is undermined by their inability, conceptually and politically, to make the case that human rights are moral truths rather than a more temporal and secular doctrine. Through an analysis of Amnesty International and its ambivalent grounding in Kantian notions of morality, and by considering competing religious and national claims to authority, I assess whether or not human rights activism suffers from an inescapable political ineptitude that must eventually see it decline in the face of more ardent and politically effective authority claims.
SOAS Department of Politics and International Studies
2007-09
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Hopgood, Stephen (2007) The Politics of Moral Authority. London: SOAS Department of Politics and International Studies. (Unpublished)
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Context and change in Japanese music
Tokita, Alison McQueen
Hughes, David
Although Japan is often portrayed as culturally and ethnically highly homogeneous, its music culture has long been extremely diverse, especially so with modernization and globalization. Thus we begin by problematizing the term ‘Japanese music’. We then aim to provide broad historical, cultural and theoretical contexts within which to understand the subsequent genre-specific chapters, by introducing a range of cross-cutting topics, issues and research perspectives - for example: Japan’s interactions with other cultures throughout history; sociocultural contexts of each genre, including issues of patronage, audiences, class and gender; social structures and mechanisms of transmission; music theory in Japan; aesthetic concepts; and research culture. We conclude with a view into the musical future, considering the impact of educational policies, globalization and so forth.
Ashgate Publishing Limited
2007-09-01
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Tokita, Alison McQueen and Hughes, David (2007) 'Context and change in Japanese music.' In: The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp. 1-33.
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Folk music: from local to national to global
Hughes, David W.
This chapter traces the shifting situation and nature of Japanese folk music from ‘traditional’ times to the present day. Topics covered include: importation of the European concept of ‘the folk’; distinction between folk song (min’yō) and folk performing arts (minzoku geinō); folk music in the traditional community; music and local identity, past and present (e.g. local vs national identity; folk music’s role in ‘community building’ in modern Japan); professionalization, commodification, folklorization, secularization and the emergence of stage performances; musical change and the Western impact (e.g. fusion); the rise in popularity of wadaiko, Tsugaru-jamisen and Okinawan music; research history and trends.
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Hughes, David W.
Tokita, Alison McQueen
2007-09-01
Book Chapters
PeerReviewed
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/188/2/ARC_to_Jap_Music_Ch12_Oct_28.pdf
Hughes, David W. (2007) 'Folk music: from local to national to global.' In: Hughes, David W. and Tokita, Alison McQueen, (eds.), The Ashgate research companion to Japanese music. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Limited, pp. 281-302. (SOAS Musicology Series)
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Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī III
Flügel, Peter
Some thirty per cent of Jains describe themselves as Sthanakavasis. Yet the Sthanakavasi tradition has not received any attention by academic scholarship. The present article is the third of a five-part history of the Sthanakavasi tradition, based on textual and ethnographic sources.
The first part (BIS 13/14 2000) gave an overview of the history and doctrines of the Sthanakavasi mendicant traditions, from the reforms of Lonka in the 15th century, until the creation of a unified Sramanasangha under the command of a single acarya in 1952. It analysed the aims and structure of Sramanasangha, and the refusal of many Sthanakavasi orders in Gujarat and Rajasthan to join the new organisation. In conclusion, four types of Jainism were distinguished: canonical, classical or traditional, protestant, and post-protestant. The Sthanakavasi tradition represents a mixture of protestant and traditional elements. Part II investigates the sectarian dynamic within the Sramanasangha in conjunction with the history and structure of the independent Sthanakavasi traditions in Malva. It starts with a critical analysis of the notion of '22 schools' (baistola) of the Dharmadasa tradition, from which most Malva traditions are derived. The analysis of the relationship between the segments of the Dharmadasa traditions inside and outside the Sramanasangha, leads to the identification of three principal variables of Jain monastic organisation: descent, seniority, and succession. These structuring devices are used to mediate between the imperatives of historical legitimation and maintenance of differential group identity.
It is argued that the new Sthanakavasi lists of succession (pattavalis), the prime markers of sectarian identity, were constructed retrospectively on the basis of lists of descent (gurvavalis) and biographical poems, not the other way round, as commonly assumed. Part III continues the analysis of the Dharmadasa traditions outside Gujarat, with a focus on history, doctrine, monastic rules and practices: Dharmadasa Sampradaya (Haridas-Tradition); Jñangacch and Nava Jñangacch (Ramcandra-Tradition); Jaymalgacch (Jaymal-Tradition); Ratnavams (Kusala-Tradition); Vardhamana Vitarag Sampradaya (Kusala-Tradition); Amarmuni Sampradaya I-II (Manohardas-Tradition). Parts IV-V describe the Sthanakavasi traditions in the Panjab and Gujarat, and the overall context of Jain politics of religious modernisation in the 19th - 20th centuries.
Weidler
2007
Journal Article
PeerReviewed
text
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/189/1/jaina3.pdf
Flügel, Peter (2007) 'Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī III.' Berliner Indologische Studien, 18. pp. 127-206.
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A broader perspective on point of view: logophoricity in Ogonoid languages
Bond, Oliver
Logophoric marking in the Ogonoid family (Benue-Congo, Niger-Congo) differs significantly from most other logophoric reference systems in that these languages employ distinct verbal suffixes in logophoric domains, in addition to regular participant reference marking. This contrasts other known logophoric reference systems, which typically exhibit two sets of mutually exclusive pronouns, one logophoric and one non-logophoric. It has been commonly held in the literature that the function of logophoric pronouns is not to disambiguate coreference of clausal arguments, but to indicate the expression of a point of view distinct from that articulated using non-logophoric personal pronouns. In this paper, the properties of logophoric reference in Gokana (Hyman and Comrie 1981) and Kana (Ikoro 1996) are introduced before discussing new data from Eleme. Evidence is presented that point of view does not play a role in the use of logophoric marking in Eleme. Rather, it is argued that the logophoric trigger is determined by the interaction of person, number and grammatical relation hierarchies allowing for the development of a unique and comparably pervasive system of coreference.
Cascadilla Proceedings Project
Mugane, John
Hutchinson, John P.
Worman, Dee A.
2006
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/190/1/paper1313.pdf
Bond, Oliver (2006) 'A broader perspective on point of view: logophoricity in Ogonoid languages.' In: Mugane, John, Hutchinson, John P. and Worman, Dee A., (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference on African Linguistics: African Languages and Linguistics in Broad Perspective. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project, pp. 234-244.
http://www.lingref.com/cpp/acal/35/paper1313.pdf
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Popular Religion in Shaanbei, North-Central China
Chau, Adam
Taylor and Francis
2003
Journal Article
PeerReviewed
Chau, Adam (2003) 'Popular Religion in Shaanbei, North-Central China.' The Journal of Chinese Religions, 31 (1). pp. 39-79.
10.1179/073776903804760076
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'Hotels', 'Department Stores', 'Domestic Space', 'Home Furbishing'
Chau, Adam
Routledge
Davis, Edward
2005
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NonPeerReviewed
Chau, Adam (2005) ''Hotels', 'Department Stores', 'Domestic Space', 'Home Furbishing'.' In: Davis, Edward, (ed.), Encyclopedia of Contemporary Chinese Culture. London: Routledge.
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Translation of selected entries from The Great Dictionary of the Chinese Language
Chau, Adam
Two Lines Press
1995
Journal Article
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Chau, Adam (1995) 'Translation of selected entries from The Great Dictionary of the Chinese Language.' Two Lines: a Journal of Translation: Tracks, 2.
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Exchanging the African: Meetings at the crossroads of the Diaspora
Davis, Christopher
Duke University Press
1999
Journal Article
PeerReviewed
Davis, Christopher (1999) 'Exchanging the African: Meetings at the crossroads of the Diaspora.' South Atlantic Quarterly, 98 (1). pp. 59-83.
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Death in Abeyance: Illness and Therapy among the Tabwa of Zaire
Davis, Christopher
Edinburgh University Press
2000
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Davis, Christopher (2000) Death in Abeyance: Illness and Therapy among the Tabwa of Zaire. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (International African Library, 23.)
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Rwanda: The Betrayal
Davis, Christopher
C4
1996
Other
NonPeerReviewed
Davis, Christopher (1996) 'Rwanda: The Betrayal.' C4.
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Alien Nations: Travels in Europe with Andy Kershaw
Davis, Christopher
C4
1996
Other
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Davis, Christopher (1996) 'Alien Nations: Travels in Europe with Andy Kershaw.' C4.
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Mary Douglas: an Intellectual Biography
Fardon, Richard
This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century. Richard Fardon covers Douglas' family background, and the pervasive influence of her catholic faith on her writings before providing an analysis of two of her most influential works; Purity and Danger (1966) and Natural Symbols (1970). The final section deals with Douglas' more controversial writings in the fields of economics, consumption, religion and risk analysis in contemporary societies. Throughout, Fardon highlights the centrality of Douglas' role in the history of anthropology and the discipline's struggle to achieve relevance to contemporary, western societies.
Routledge
1999
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Fardon, Richard (1999) Mary Douglas: an Intellectual Biography. London; New York: Routledge.
10.4324/9780203020227
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Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond : based on an EIDOS conference held at The Hague, 13-16 March 1997
EIDOS in association with the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Centre of African Studies London
Fardon, Richard
van Binsbergen, Wim
van Dijk, Rijk
1999
Edited Book or Journal Volume
NonPeerReviewed
Fardon, Richard, van Binsbergen, Wim and van Dijk, Rijk, eds. (1999) Modernity on a shoestring : dimensions of globalization, consumption and development in Africa and beyond : based on an EIDOS conference held at The Hague, 13-16 March 1997. Leiden: EIDOS in association with the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Centre of African Studies London.
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From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist: Franz Baermann Steiner Celebrated - essays and translations
GN Anthropology
London Institute of Germanic Studies
Alder, Jeremy
Fardon, Richard
Tully, Carol
2003
Edited Book or Journal Volume
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Alder, Jeremy, Fardon, Richard and Tully, Carol, eds. (2003) From Prague Poet to Oxford Anthropologist: Franz Baermann Steiner Celebrated - essays and translations. Munich: Ludicium; London: London Institute of Germanic Studies.
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Franz Baermann Steiner: Selected Writings. Vol. 1, Taboo, truth and religion
Steiner, Franz Baermann
Berghahn
Fardon, Richard
Adler, Jeremy
1999
Edited Book or Journal Volume
NonPeerReviewed
Fardon, Richard and Adler, Jeremy, eds. (1999) Franz Baermann Steiner: Selected Writings. Vol. 1, Taboo, truth and religion. Oxford; New York: Berghahn.
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As they like it: overinterpretation and hyporeality in Bali
Hobart, Mark
GN Anthropology
Berghahn
Dilley, Roy
1999
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Hobart, Mark (1999) 'As they like it: overinterpretation and hyporeality in Bali.' In: Dilley, Roy, (ed.), The Problem of Context. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 105-145.
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The missing subject: Balinese time and the elimination of history
Hobart, Mark
University of Sydney. Department of Indonesian and Malayan Studies
1997
Journal Article
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Hobart, Mark (1997) 'The missing subject: Balinese time and the elimination of history.' Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs, 31 (1). pp. 123-172.
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The Pre-Phalke era in South India: Reflections on the formation of film audiences in Madras
Hughes, Stephen
Chithira
1996
Journal Article
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Hughes, Stephen (1996) 'The Pre-Phalke era in South India: Reflections on the formation of film audiences in Madras.' South Indian Studies, 2. pp. 161-204.
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Introduction: Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-secular World
Hughes, Stephen
Meyer, Birgit
This special issue of Postscripts addresses the interace of religion and film by exploring both hos religion is deployed through film and how film is utilized in service of religion. The issues is based on a workshop, Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-Secular World held June 16-17, 2005, at the University of Amsterdam.
Equinox
2005
Journal Article
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Hughes, Stephen and Meyer, Birgit (2005) 'Introduction: Mediating Religion and Film in a Post-secular World.' Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, 1 (2/3). pp. 149-153.
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/POST/article/view/10924
10.1558/post.v1i2_3.149
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Madras Cinema Audiences in the 1920s: a sociological approach
Hughes, Stephen
S. R. Sundaram
1996
Journal Article
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Hughes, Stephen (1996) 'Madras Cinema Audiences in the 1920s: a sociological approach.' Kalaccuvatu, 16. pp. 19-25.
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