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Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994 (2022)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2023). Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994. Historical Journal, 66(1), 258-279. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X22000310

Laying the groundwork for a new way to think through the history of British anti-apartheid activity, this article examines the liminal space between anti-racist and feminist activity through a case study of Leeds Women Against Apartheid. Founded in 1... Read More about Women’s Activism in the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, 1986-1994.

Development and delivery cost of digital health technologies for mental health: Application to the Narrative Experiences Online Intervention (2022)
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Paterson, L., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Gavan, S. P., Slade, M., Ng, F., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., …Elliott, R. A. (2022). Development and delivery cost of digital health technologies for mental health: Application to the Narrative Experiences Online Intervention. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, Article 1028156. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1028156

Background: The increasing development and use of digital health interventions requires good quality costing information to inform development and commissioning choices about resource allocation decisions. The Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Inte... Read More about Development and delivery cost of digital health technologies for mental health: Application to the Narrative Experiences Online Intervention.

There is no reason to replace the Razor with the Laser (2021)
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Thunder, S. (2021). There is no reason to replace the Razor with the Laser. Synthese, 199(3-4), 7265-7282. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03113-8

In recent times it has become common to encounter philosophers who recommend the replacement of one principle concerning theory choice, Ockham’s Razor, with another: the Laser. Whilst the Razor tells us not to multiply entities beyond necessity, the... Read More about There is no reason to replace the Razor with the Laser.

‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1 (2020)
Journal Article
Law, K. (2021). ‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1. Gender and History, 33(1), 249-268. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12491

This article examines one of the most intractable problems that a newly independent nation encounters; the dissonance between the rhetoric of a revolutionary movement and its subsequent treatment of women in nationalist and supposedly decolonial proj... Read More about ‘We wanted to be free as a nation, and we wanted to be free as women’: Decolonisation, Nationalism and Women's Liberation in Zimbabwe, 1979–85 1.

Realismus und Moderne in der Kleinen Prosa von Robert Musils "Nachlass zu Lebzeiten" (2018)
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Goettsche, D. (2018). Realismus und Moderne in der Kleinen Prosa von Robert Musils "Nachlass zu Lebzeiten". Musil-Forum, 35, 7-26. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110583359

This study proposes a new approach to Robert Musil’s engagement with the tradition of (German) Realism. It shifts the focus from his novellas and his novel "Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften" to the short prose of his "Nachlass zu Lebzeiten" (1936) while a... Read More about Realismus und Moderne in der Kleinen Prosa von Robert Musils "Nachlass zu Lebzeiten".

Sources and resources ‘The People’s Chemists’: the Walgreens Boots Alliance Archive (2018)
Journal Article
Greenwood, A., & Ingram, H. (in press). Sources and resources ‘The People’s Chemists’: the Walgreens Boots Alliance Archive. Social History of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky021

This article explores the historic records of the Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) Archive, a repository of over 500,000 items chronicling the over 165-year history of Britain’s most famous pharmaceutical retailer. It introduces some of the diverse mat... Read More about Sources and resources ‘The People’s Chemists’: the Walgreens Boots Alliance Archive.

From traitor to martyr: drawing lessons from the death and burial of Wang Jingwei, 1944 (2018)
Journal Article
Taylor, J. E. (2018). From traitor to martyr: drawing lessons from the death and burial of Wang Jingwei, 1944. Journal of Chinese history, https://doi.org/10.1017/jch.2017.43

Based on recently re-opened files and publications in Nanjing, as well as published and newsreel accounts from the 1940s, this paper represents the first scholarly analysis of the rituals surrounding the death and burial of Wang Jingwei in Japanese-o... Read More about From traitor to martyr: drawing lessons from the death and burial of Wang Jingwei, 1944.

Theology as Translation: Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology and its Reception into his Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition (Dar? Ta??ru? al-?Aql wa l-Naql): Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology (2018)
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Hoover, J., & Mahajneh, M. A. G. (2018). Theology as Translation: Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology and its Reception into his Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition (Dar? Ta??ru? al-?Aql wa l-Naql): Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology. Muslim World, 108(1), 40-86. https://doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12229

The Ḥanbalī jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328) wrote his famous tome Darʾ Taʿāruḍ al-ʿAql waʾl-Naql (Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition) in Damascus sometime after 713/1313 to critique the “universal rule” (qānūn kullī) of the... Read More about Theology as Translation: Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology and its Reception into his Averting the Conflict between Reason and Revealed Tradition (Dar? Ta??ru? al-?Aql wa l-Naql): Ibn Taymiyya's Fatwa permitting Theology.

Do not revise Ockham's razor without necessity (2016)
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Baron, S., & Tallant, J. (2018). Do not revise Ockham's razor without necessity. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 96(3), 596-619. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12337

Ockham’s razor asks that we not multiply entities beyond necessity. The razor is a powerful methodological tool, enabling us to articulate reasons for preferring one theory to another. There are those, however, who would modify the razor. Schaffer (2... Read More about Do not revise Ockham's razor without necessity.

Using mobile media creation to structure museum interpretation with professional vision (2016)
Journal Article
Muñoz Civantos, A., Brown, M., Coughlan, T., Ainsworth, S. E., & Lorenz, K. (2016). Using mobile media creation to structure museum interpretation with professional vision. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0895-3

Mobile technology plays an increasing role in museum and cultural heritage contexts. In most cases, these tools support the relatively passive consumption of expert interpretations, or the unguided generation of content by users. This paper explores... Read More about Using mobile media creation to structure museum interpretation with professional vision.

China in Islam: Turki Views from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2014)
Journal Article
Thum, R. (2014). China in Islam: Turki Views from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cross-Currents, 3(2), 573-600. https://doi.org/10.1353/ach.2015.0004

This article questions dominant understandings of “China,” “Islam,” and the relationship between the two. It does so by uncovering an alternative understanding of China, one held by a group of people living within the Qing Empire and, later, the Repu... Read More about China in Islam: Turki Views from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Understanding the rift, the (still) uneasy bedfellows of History and Organization Studies (2014)
Journal Article
Greewood, A., & Bernardi, A. (2014). Understanding the rift, the (still) uneasy bedfellows of History and Organization Studies. Organization, 21(6), https://doi.org/10.1177/1350508413514286

Although the use of History has become increasingly discussed and more widely applied within Organization Studies (OS), its relevance for OS still remains far from centrally accepted. This article historicizes the relationship between Sociology and H... Read More about Understanding the rift, the (still) uneasy bedfellows of History and Organization Studies.

On standing one's ground (2014)
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Sinclair, N. (2014). On standing one's ground. Analysis, 74(3),

I provide a positive expressivist account of the permissibility of ‘standing one’s ground’ in some cases of moral conflict, based in part on an illustrative analogy with political disputes. This account suffices to undermine Enoch’s recent argument a... Read More about On standing one's ground.

From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile (2013)
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Badcock, S. (2013). From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile. Europe-Asia Studies, 65(9), https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2013.840116

This essay presents the subjective experience of life and sickness for the punished in late Imperial Siberia, and the distinctions the punished made between legitimate and illegitimate forms of punishment. The essay also explores state policies towar... Read More about From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile.

Beyond resistance and nationalism: local history and the case of Afaq Khoja (2012)
Journal Article
Thum, R. (2012). Beyond resistance and nationalism: local history and the case of Afaq Khoja. Central Asian Survey, 31(3), 293-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/02634937.2012.722366

Kashgar's seventeenth-century ruler-saint, Afaq Khoja, is remarkable for the amount of historical writing he has inspired, both outside and within Chinese Turkestan. His reputation among Uyghur historians is one of the few aspects of local Uyghur his... Read More about Beyond resistance and nationalism: local history and the case of Afaq Khoja.

Modular History: Identity Maintenance before Uyghur Nationalism (2012)
Journal Article
Thum, R. (2012). Modular History: Identity Maintenance before Uyghur Nationalism. Journal of Asian Studies, 71(3), 627-653. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021911812000629

This paper investigates how a regional identity can be maintained in a nonmodern context, focusing on the case of southern Xinjiang in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The argument focuses on one aspect of this identity system, the... Read More about Modular History: Identity Maintenance before Uyghur Nationalism.