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Alien invasive species: is the EU's strategy fit for purpose? (2016)
Book Chapter
Davies, P. G. (2016). Alien invasive species: is the EU's strategy fit for purpose?. In M. J. Bowman, P. G. Davies, & E. J. Goodwin (Eds.), Research Handbook on Biodiversity and Law. Edward Elgar. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781004791

An analysis is provided of the EU's 2014 Regulation on the Prevention and Management of the Introduction and Spread of Invasive Alien Species by primarily addressing the extent to which it complies with international guidance.

“The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses (2016)
Book Chapter
Davison, S. (2016). “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses. In R. Crowley, & D. van Hulle (Eds.), New quotatoes: Joycean exogenesis in the digital age (111-140). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004319622_009

This essay uses evidence from the notes that Joyce made in preparation to recapitulate the historical development of English prose style in the “Oxen of the Sun” chapter of Ulysses to identify the traces of Defoe’s works that appear in the text of th... Read More about “The true-born Englishman” and the Irish bull: Daniel Defoe in the “Oxen of the Sun” episode of Ulysses.

Real Estate Liberalization as Catalyst of Urban Transformation in the Persian Gulf (2016)
Book Chapter
Wiedmann, F. (2016). Real Estate Liberalization as Catalyst of Urban Transformation in the Persian Gulf. In M. Kamrava (Ed.), Gateways to the World: Port Cities in the Persian Gulf, 172-195. C. Hurst & Co

This chapter discusses the liberalization of the real estate sector which has accompanied the recent urbanization in emerging Gulf cities. It outlines the key role played by real estate in redefining development patterns, and promoting both economic... Read More about Real Estate Liberalization as Catalyst of Urban Transformation in the Persian Gulf.

Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy (2016)
Book Chapter
Leyshon, A., Thrift, N., Crewe, L., French, S., & Webb, P. (2016). Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy. In B. J. Hracs, M. Seman, & T. E. Virani (Eds.), The production and consumption of music in the digital age (248-262). London: Routledge

This chapter considers the promises and problems of fandom and enthusiasm within capitalism, with particular reference to rise of crowdsourcing as a means of mobilising fan enthusiasm to fund new creative projects, with a particular focus on the musi... Read More about Leveraging affect: mobilizing enthusiasm and the co-production of the musical economy.

Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A. (2016). Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia. In M. Roy, S. Cawood, M. Hordijk, & D. Hulme (Eds.), Urban poverty and climate change: life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin AmericaTaylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter examines the construction of urban risk as an entry point to urban adaptation, with emphasis on the what, who and how' questions of adaptation. It examines three case study communities with differential exposure and vulnerability to la... Read More about Redefining risk from below: political responses to landslide risk assessments in the informal settlements of Bogota, Colombia.

Understanding risk in the context of urban development (2016)
Book Chapter
Fraser, A., Pelling, M., & Solecki, B. (2016). Understanding risk in the context of urban development. In S. Bartlett, & D. Satterthwaite (Eds.), Cities on a finite planet: towards transformative responses to climate change (17-40). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter presents the conceptual landscape used in this book to analyse urban disaster and climate change risk. As well as providing working definitions to be taken forward in subsequent chapters, it discusses the implications for urban adaptatio... Read More about Understanding risk in the context of urban development.

St Andrews and Aberdeen (2016)
Book Chapter
Royan, N. (2016). St Andrews and Aberdeen. In D. Wallce (Ed.), Europe: a literary history 1348-1418. Oxford University Press

South Africa, Urban (2016)
Book Chapter
Earl, L. (2016). South Africa, Urban. In K. Albala (Ed.), At the Table: Food and Family around the World, 275-282. Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO

Ḥanbalī theology (2016)
Book Chapter
Hoover, J. (2016). Ḥanbalī theology. In S. Schmidtke (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696703.001.0001

The modern study of Ḥanbalī theology was initially plagued by the problem of viewing Ḥanbalism through the eyes of its Ashʿarī opponents. I. Goldziher (d. 1921) and D. B. Macdonald (d. 1943) labelled the Ḥanbalīs ‘reactionary’ and bemoaned the harm t... Read More about Ḥanbalī theology.

Untangling the Bughrakhan Manuscripts (2016)
Book Chapter
Thum, R. (2016). Untangling the Bughrakhan Manuscripts. In Mazar: Studies on Islamic Sacred Sites in Central Eurasia, (275-288). Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Press

Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century (2016)
Book Chapter
Ní Fhlathúin, . M. (2016). Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century. A History of Indian Poetry in English (98-113). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139940887.007

When David Lester Richardson compiled the “British-Indian Poetry” section of his Selections from the British Poets (the first attempt to anthologize the poetry of British India) in 1840, he included no comic poetry. Despite the fact that humorous ver... Read More about Poetry of the Everyday: Comic Verse in the Nineteenth Century.

Online experiences of workplace bullying targets (2016)
Book Chapter
Maier, T., & Coulson, N. S. (2017). Online experiences of workplace bullying targets. In The Handbook of Dealing with Workplace Bullying (11-36). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315557397

This chapter examines the use of online support groups among workplace bullying targets. It determines the increase in online support groups and their numerous well-documented benefits might encourage bullied individuals to choose to participate in t... Read More about Online experiences of workplace bullying targets.