The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne
A review of The Chinese Rare Book Collection, Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne (Melbourne, Australia). In July 2013, I embarked on a PhD research on…
Category Archives: Culture, Society & Politics
Negotiating Tradition, Authority, and Sovereignty in Pakistan
A review of The ‘Ulamā’ and the State: Negotiating Tradition, Authority and Sovereignty in Contemporary Pakistan, by Mashal Saif The role of religion in Pakistani…
University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Collection
A Review of the University of Toronto’s Sexual Representation Collection in Toronto, Canada. Researchers interested in sex and sexuality already know that locating and accessing…
Young Women’s Migration in Modern China
A review of Young Women’s Migration in Modern China: From Rural Villages to Factories in Urban Cities, by Juan Zhong. The present dissertation by Juan…
Marine Insurance, Governance, and the Early American State
A review of Underwritten States: Marine Insurance and the Making of Bodies Politic in America, 1622-1815, by Hannah Atlee Farber. Marine insurance companies played a…
Burundian Refugees in Tanzania
A review of Waiting for Citizenship—Pragmatics of Belonging of Burundian Refugees in Protracted Exile: The Case of Ulyankulu Settlement, Tanzania, by Janna Lucia Miletzki. In…
Performing the Sacred in Newar Buddhist Art
A review of Dīpaṅkara Buddha and the Patan Samyak Mahādāna in Nepal: Performing the Sacred in Newar Buddhist Art, by Kerry Lucinda Brown. This dissertation…
Assessing the Reliability of Prophecy
A review of Knowledge by Way of Prophecy, by Dani W. Rabinowitz. Dani Rabinowitz offers an original argument to the effect that prophecy is not…
Refugee Resettlement in Pakistani Punjab, 1947-62
A review of A Betrayed Promise? The Politics of the Everyday State and the Resettling of Refugees in Pakistani Punjab, 1947—62, by Elisabetta Iob. This…
Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism in Turkey and the UK
A review of The Balancing of Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism: A Comparative Analysis of Turkey and the UK, by Ipek Demirsu. Ipek Demirsu has written…