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Cuisine and conquest: interdisciplinary perspectives on food, continuity and change in 11th-century England and beyond (2017)
Book Chapter
Jervis, B., Whelan, F., & Livarda, A. (2017). Cuisine and conquest: interdisciplinary perspectives on food, continuity and change in 11th-century England and beyond. In D. M. Hadley, & C. Dyer (Eds.), The archaeology of the 11th century: continuities and transformations. Routledge

Multiple strands of evidence are combined to determine the impact of the Norman Con-quest on food culture. Diet is reconstructed from the analysis of zooarchaeological, archaeobotanical and ceramic evidence, as well as through an analysis of the 12th... Read More about Cuisine and conquest: interdisciplinary perspectives on food, continuity and change in 11th-century England and beyond.

Do not revise Ockham's razor without necessity (2016)
Journal Article
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.

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

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.

Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980 (2015)
Book
LAW, K. (2015). Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980. New York: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

White women cut an ambivalent figure in the transnational history of the British Empire. They tend to be remembered as malicious harridans personifying the worst excesses of colonialism, as vacuous fusspots, whose lives were punctuated by a series of... Read More about Gendering the Settler State White Women, Race, Liberalism and Empire in Rhodesia, 1950-1980.

Palaikastro (Siteia) 2013: preliminary report on the first excavation season (2015)
Book Chapter
Knappett, C., Livarda, A., & Nomigliano, N. (2015). Palaikastro (Siteia) 2013: preliminary report on the first excavation season. In P. Karanastasi, A. Tzigounaki, & C. Tsigonaki (Eds.), Archaeological Work in Crete 3. Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting, Rethymnon, 5-8 December 2013, Volume B. Rethymnon. University of Crete

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)
Journal Article
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.

Influence in British Colonial Africa (2014)
Book Chapter
Law, K., & Jackson, A. (2014). Influence in British Colonial Africa. In G. Kennedy, & C. Tuck (Eds.), British Propaganda and Wars of Empire: Influencing Friend and Foe 1900–2010 (97-122). Farnham: Ashgate Publishing

In the lexicon of European de-colonisation, counter-insurgency campaigns were fought against anti-imperialism across the periphery of empire from Vietnam to Algeria and from Kenya to Malaya. British propagandists hoped to persuade the inhabitants of... Read More about Influence in British Colonial Africa.

From villains to victims: experiencing illness in Siberian exile (2013)
Journal Article
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.