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At the Qing Empire’s Taiwan Frontier:Identities of the Chinese Maritime Customs Commissioners during the Sino-French War and the First Sino-Japanese War
Get PDFTaiwan, as a frontier territory of the Qing Empire, played a unique role in modern Chinese history. Within the Qing bureaucracy, special measures, including some relating to the appointment of personnel, were applied to Taiwan, principally due to its geographical location. From 1863, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was established in Taiwan, operating in parallel with the island’s Qing administrators and representing Qing sovereignty through the collection of tariffs on foreign trade and other related affairs such as the building and running of lighthouses. Tensions between these two representatives of empire became fraught at times, notably during the Sino-French War and the First Sino-Japanese War
Mitigating Risks:Safe, Wise and Secure Use of Digital Technologies by Migrant Communities in South Africa
Get PDFShelby, Phil, and Chris Too:Parasocial Drama in my Early Research Career
Get PDFIn which I describe landmarks and waypoints in my struggles to establish myself as a university researcher
Reflections and Policy Implications of the Indirect Impacts of COVID-19 on the Health System in Uganda: A Case Study of Healthcare Professionals in the Formal Sector
Get PDFThis interdisciplinary research, led by Dr. Maureen Ayikoru, examined the indirect impacts of COVID-19 on Uganda’s healthcare system in 2021-2022, focusing on the formal-sector healthcare professionals' experiences during the pandemic’s first year. The team included Dr. William Worodria (Makerere Lung Institute), Dr. Jennifer Cole (RHUL), Associate Professors Milburga Atcero and Joseph K. Bada (Makerere University Business School), Dr. Ivica Petrikova (RHUL), and Professor Anica Zeyen (RHUL). Funded by an Internal Quality-Rated Global Challenges Research Fund, the project aimed to inform recovery strategies through insights and policy recommendations, highlighting effective pandemic responses and areas for improvement based on healthcare professionals’ priorities and broader societal needs for future public health emergencies.<br/
Impact pathways:geopolitics, risk and ethics in critical minerals supply chains
Get PDFPurposeThis pathway paper highlights how geopolitics, risk and ethics affect critical minerals (CMs) supply chains (SCs). It identifies pathways to enable operations and SC management scholars to support this under-researched industry.Design/methodology/approachQualitative research was undertaken in partnership with the Critical Minerals International Alliance (CMIA). Interviews were conducted with senior industry leaders from across CMs supply networks.FindingsThe CMs industry is distinctly different from conventional SCs and would greatly benefit from the development and application of operations and SC management theories.Research limitations/implicationsThe four pathways that require scholars’ attention comprise risk and resilience, SC opacity, supply constraints and ethics.Practical implicationsCM s are essential for products such as smart phones and the technologies required for decarbonisation and achieving net zero. The pathways address multifaceted challenges of benefit to industry stakeholders.Social implicationsImproving the understanding of CMs SCs will support the decarbonisation agenda. Reducing the opacity within SCs would help address governance issues and curb unethical behaviours.Originality/valueThis paper draws on the expertise and insights gained from industry leaders. It establishes pathways and proposes theories and research questions for addressing the impact of geopolitics on CM operations and SCs.<br/
Could commodities themselves speak? An Introduction to the Agnotology of the Spectacle
Get PDFThis article introduces the ‘agnotology of spectacle'. While agnotology is a relatively recent term used to describe the production and use of ignorance, we argue that Debord's Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (1992) is an early attempt to outline a global field of disinformation and secrecy. For Debord, such secrecy is required to maintain the political and moral authority of what he defined as ‘spectacle', namely the images used by states and corporations to mediate relations of power with consumers and citizens. We consider how the spectacle creates fields of disinformation and secrecy to maintain its political and moral authority by examining notes in commodities that purport to be calls for help from coerced labourers in China. These notes allow us to assess the uncanny experience of consuming goods manufactured across global supply chains which may well comprise of serious labour exploitation. However, these sources also demand a more expansive agnotology than that provided by Debord: one that engages with labour processes, contracts and race. We therefore develop Debord's ideas by examining the work of Mills and Benaji. Finally, drawing on Brecht's concept of the 'estrangement effect', we discuss how exploited workers can co-opt the aesthetics of the uncanny to articulate their subject position within a global agnotological field
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