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Kinet Höyük 7: The Medieval Period, Parts i and ii
No full textThis book presents the final report on Medieval period excavations at Kinet Höyük in Hatay province, southern Turkey. The region was contested between the Crusader Principality of Antioch, the Knights Templar, the Kingdom of Armenian Cilicia, and the Mamluk Sultanate. Sources from this period mention Medieval Kinet (Arabic al-Tina, Latin Canamella) as a port exporting timber from the nearby Amanos Mountains. Four habitation levels spanned the mid-12th to early 14th centuries: three of them ending in conflagration and destruction. Its location on the Mediterranean and the main road between Anatolia and Northern Syria led to the recovery of ceramics, coins, and other objects from around the eastern Mediterranean, inland Syria, and beyond. The combination of its stratigraphic excavation and careful analyses of a wide range of materials and objects affords rare insights into economy, settlement, warfare, and many other aspects of life in this region at the time of the Crusades
HashimaXR Publications
No full textThis archive contains academic and public-facing publications produced as part of the HashimaXR Project. This deposit includes peer-reviewed publications and scholarly public-facing articles analyzing industrial heritage politics, contested memory, and digital heritage in the Japan-Korea context, produced in connection with the HashimaXR Project
Manuscript Libraries and Colonialism in Island Southeast Asia
Get PDFIntroduction to special issue, co-edited with Alan Darmawan
The Wrong Speed: Left Accelerationism and The Need for a New Left Chronopolitics
No full textThis article revisits left accelerationism as a historically specific response to political paralysis and asks what, if anything, remains useful in that project under present conditions. It argues that left accelerationism emerged from a conjuncture marked by the exhaustion of inherited repertoires of struggle, the apparent stagnation of neoliberal order, and a deepening crisis of political agency. In that context, its critique of “folk politics”, its insistence that no tactic is historically inviolable, and its call for greater technological and scientific literacy on the left had genuine value. The article contends however, that the project was compromised by major conceptual and political errors: It underestimated the durability and violence of neoliberal capitalism, overstated the emancipatory potential of technologies and digital platforms formed within capitalist relations, and adopted the language of “accelerationism” despite that term’s proximity to anti-humanist and reactionary traditions associated with Nick Land. In place of any simple politics of speed, the article proposes the need for a new 'chronopolitics' that neither fetishises acceleration nor retreats into nostalgia or “slowness” as a privileged moral ideal. Such a politics would combine strategic openness, technological competence, and scientific literacy with caution, asymmetry, and sustained critique of the sociotechnical forms currently available. The argument, ultimately, is not for the intensification capitalism’s temporal (or other) logics, but for the development of a more intelligent and dialectical relation to time, memory, technology, and collective agency in conditions of ecological, political, and psycho-social crisis
From Yuanmingyuan to Fonthill: buying Chinese ceramics in 1860s and the invention of provenance
Get PDFMutual Benefits of Proximity: Economic Interactions Between Refugees and Hosts in Uganda
Get PDFRefugees are mainly hosted in low-income countries, where they often remain for a long time. Therefore, it is important to assess whether they can integrate with the local economy, and whether their presence can contribute to the transition to a more dynamic economic environment. Proximity between refugees and hosts could generate negative externalities by displacing local activities and jobs. On the other hand, it could improve the welfare of both groups by increasing opportunities for mutually beneficial economic exchanges; in particular, welfare gains might be generated through the availability of a greater variety of commodities. In this paper we propose an empirical analysis which makes use of a unique dataset covering around 80% of the refugee population living in Ugandan settlements and the cohabiting host households. The results show that proximity between groups increases the food expenditure and the variety of food consumption of both groups. We also found that exposition to inter-group interactions increases the non-food expenditure and the probability to run a farm and a non-farm enterprise by refugee households, while hosts are not crowded out from production. Our empirical results are consistent with a theoretical model where the love for variety hypothesis can be used to interpret the mutual benefits arising from the interaction between hosts and refugees facilitated by proximity
‘The trial process becomes very alien’: Lawyers’ imagination of the legal process in contemporary Delhi.
No full textIntroduction: Jainism, Adaptation, and Resilience
No full textInspired by the resilience shown by Jain communities during the global COVID-19 pandemic, this special issue focuses on the processes of change, challenge, and adaptation throughout Jain history. In this introductory article to the issue, we consider the ways in which Jain Studies can – and should – engage with these processes. We begin by acknowledging the existing search for a “core” Jain tradition, within both Jain communities and earlier scholarship. We, then, highlight developments within Jain Studies toward recognizing the variation of Jain practice and beliefs. We argue that much of this variation reflects how Jains have skillfully navigated challenging circumstances, enabling thereby the continuity of the minority tradition. In the final part of the article, we outline the structure of this issue which is organized into three sections: the first addressing lay and mendicant conduct, the second considering texts as sites of contestation, and the third exploring the consensus-building quality of literature
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