Why the rule of law? A historical perspective by Pirie, F

“…Around the world, systems of accountability are weak and dictators find ways to avoid the constraints of both national and international laws. Yet we continue to call for better laws and for aggressors to be tried for war crimes. …”

Vile sovereignty: the carnival of power by Hallsworth, Simon, Stephenson, Svetlana

“…In this paper we seek to extend Bakhtin’s reading of the folk carnival and apply it to help understand the carnivalesque, performative aspects of state power. Drawing on the work of Agamben, Foucault, Lacan and Žižek and recent scholarship on the role of laughter in the Stalinist totalitarian culture, we argue that the state can also laugh and that it can have its own carnival tradition as well. …”
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Application of Judith Butler’s “gender performativity” in Asian cultures by Ding, Gary Yongping

“…One of Judith Butler’s best known theories, regarding Gender Performativity, draws inspiration from Beauvoir’s formulation. “Butler adopts the Beauvoirian position that gender is not something one is, but something one does, or as she puts it, “[g]ender is the repeated stylization of the body, set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being” (Salih 91). …”
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The temporality of building: European and Chinese perspectives on architecture and heritage by Gao, Yun, Temple, Nicholas, Xiao, Jing

“…In the final chapter we consider notions of time in the context of contemporary buildings in Europe and China, drawing on the earlier historical investigations and addressing globalising influences. …”
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Home sweet homo : transnational connections in a Singaporean queer activist movement by Phua, Theng Hui

“…When the Indian Supreme Court made the landmark decision in 2018 to decriminalize consensual, homosexual acts, queer activists in Singapore sought to achieve the same by calling for the repeal of Section 377A of the penal code. …”
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Organizing and strategizing in and for extreme contexts: temporality, emotions, and embodiment by Hällgren, M, Geiger, D, Rouleau, L, Sutcliffe, KM, Vaara, E

“…Extreme contexts—marked by unpredictability, high stakes, and urgency—challenge organizational capacities and demand innovative responses. Drawing on the foundation of extreme context research, this introduction explores three perspectives: extreme as an event, a situational context, and a socially constructed practice. …”

Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…This phenomenon is attributed to the formation of a thin dense layer called surface seal on the surface soil. The surface seal is created by interaction forces between water and soil particles such as compaction, attachment, dispersion and so on. …”
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Beyond national identity : Kuo Pao Kun’s contemporary theatre and an open culture by Wee, C. J. Wan-Ling

“…This article argues that the artistic-cultural work of the late Kuo Pao Kun (1939–2002) from the mid-1990s commenced on what tentatively can be called an extraterritorial theatre practice that engaged with the modern state’s capacity to make national identity singular in the interests of political, military and economic goals, and in which cultural formation and identity must exceed the nation-state’s purview. …”
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Market outlook of VLCCs in the next 5 years by Cheah, Peifang.

“…The report shall focus on analyzing the demand and supply factors and subsequently draw a conclusion based on their effect on the freight rates. …”
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The Eoan Group and the politics of coloured opera in apartheid South Africa by Pistorius, JM

“…It calls for a disavowal of the Manichean ethics by which subaltern agency is measured, and proposes instead a turn to Njabulo S. …”

Data artivism and feminicide by Suárez Val, Helena, D'Ignazio, Catherine, Acosta Romero, Jimena, Teng, Melissa Q, Fumega, Silvana

“…Data has become a key format for activists to visibilizar (make visible/call attention to) and denounce social issues. Drawing on the concept of “artivism,” we name as data artivism those works that visually intervene in the contestation around an issue by mobilizing art and craft as a form of resistance and as a method to visualize data. …”
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The political economy of oil and economic diversification: a neglected research field Robert Mabro would certainly like us to revive by Aissaoui, A

“…The less obvious reason is that multiple country case studies can help reflect the diversity of contexts and conditions and draw on distinct sources of evidence to discern national idiosyncrasies.…”

Beyond symbolism: the roles of action planning and case-making in immigrant integration policymaking by Allen, WL, Broadhead, J

“…In response, we examine how municipal actors in 12 cities and regions across the UK have devised and communicated policies on immigrant integration—an area that lacks national policy inputs yet is locally consequential—through the mechanism of “action planning.” Drawing on 6 years’ worth of documentary evidence generated through a university-initiated collaboration with these municipalities, we show how action plans gather attention for objectives and propagate examples of practice to other cities—what we call “case-making.” …”

Data Refusal From Below: A Framework for Understanding, Evaluating, and Envisioning Refusal as Design by Zong, Jonathan, Matias, J Nathan

“…Amidst calls for public accountability over large data-driven systems, feminist and indigenous scholars have developed refusal as a practice that challenges the authority of data collectors. …”
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Exploring the Conceptual Definition of Islamic Financial Literacy from the Quran and Sunnah by Ab Rashid, Rosemaliza, Zainol, Zairani, Isa, Mohamad Yazid, Mohd Taib, Hasniza, Khairol Nizam, Aini Nur Hajjar

“…The recurring financial crisis calls for increasing attention on the crucial role of financial literacy. …”
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A phenomenology of kenosis: Jean-Luc Nancy after the theological turn by Deketelaere, N

“…<p>This study outlines what Jean-Luc Nancy can offer the phenomenology of religion by reading his deconstruction of Christianity in the context of the so-called ‘theological turn’ of recent phenomenology. …”

The third space, student and staff co-creation of gamified informal learning: an emerging model of co-design by Bamford, Jan, Moschini, Elena

“…This paper draws from the authors’ exploration of an innovative third space approach to engaging students with informal learning through the use of co-design and co-creation, which sits outside traditional subject delivery spaces. …”
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Doctor, Will You Pray for Me? : Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole Person / by Klitzman, Robert, author 655971

“…Healthcare chaplains have been filling the void, developing valuable approaches and insights. …”
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Distributed classification with variable distributions by Quach, Vinh Thanh

“…The promise of distributed classification is to improve the classification accuracy of a learning agent (called party) on its respective local data, using the knowledge of other parties in the distributed network. …”
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Innovation and firm survival: the role of timing, funding, and networks by Gao, Ming

“…Overall, particularly noteworthy is the finding that the moderating influence of collaborative networks on firm innovation-survival relationship mainly depends on the types of innovation activities. This study draws on a sample of 229 SMEs in the high-tech nanotechnology industry, which provides a suitable context for our empirical investigation. …”
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