This March saw eight years since Twitter came on to the scene and it has proved to be useful tool for both academic and professional networking. With that in mind Development Studies students and researchers might want to take a look at Maeve Shearlaw’s article published in the Guardian earlier this year of the “movers and shakers” who regularly tweet on a variety of Development related issues. They include Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
A recent post on the South Asia Archive and Library Group (SAALG) blog highlighted an article which will be of interest for anyone planning a research trip to Delhi. Daniel Majchrowicz, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, has reviewed twenty libraries in Delhi and provided information about opening times, location and collections as well as lots of helpful tips and links to websites (where possible). The review is published by
e-books Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka : Caught in the Peace Trap? / Goodhand, Jonathan, Spencer, Jonathan & Korf, Benedikt South Asia Across the Disciplines : Document Raj : Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India / Raman, Bhavani Islamic Civilization in South Asia : A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent / Avari, Burjor Everyday ethnicity in Sri Lanka : up-country Tamil identity politics
General & comparative The look of the past: visual and material evidence in historical practice / Ludmilla Jordanova. Visualizing beauty: gender and ideology in modern East Asia / edited by Aida Yuen Wong. A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations [4th edition] / Conrad Schirokauer … [et al.]. Decolonisation: the British experience since 1945 [2nd edition] / Nicholas J. White. History on film/film on history [2nd edition] / Robert
Assessing long-term state fragility in Africa : prospects for 26 ‘more fragile’ countries / Jakkie Cilliers and Timothy D. Sisk. A bit of difference / Sefi Atta. Camfranglais : a glossary of common words, phrases and usages / Jean-Paul Kouega. Constructing gender through proverbs and folktales in Tazrwalt (south of Morocco) / Khadija Sekkal. Les constructions prépositionelles chez les apprenants de français langue seconde au Gabon : étude didactique /
SEA General Troubling borders : an anthology of art and literature by Southeast Asian women in the diaspora / edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan Duong, Mariam B. Lam, and Kathy L. Nguyen. Opium and empire in Southeast Asia : regulating consumption in British Burma / Ashley Wright. Burma/Myanmar Revealing Myanmar’s past : an anthology of archaeological articles / Myint Aung. War and tactics in traditional Myanmar : a study
I spotted this article on the Savage Minds blog, see the original here. It’s written by Alex Golub whose new book, Leviathans at the gold mine : creating indigenous and corporate actors in Papua New Guinea is on order for SOAS Library. Afghanistan’s next president may be an anthropologist by Alex Golub Afghanistan’s upcoming elections have received a lot of coverage here in the United States, and all over the world. But
From the exhibition: The first Mishneh-Torah printed in Amsterdam (1702) (http://www.ochjs.ac.uk/mullerlibrary/digital_library/WHL/MT1.html) “The world of printed words: Samuel Montagu and the Western Hebrew Library” is a new online exhbition hosted by the Leopold Muller Memorial Library (Oxford Centre for Jewish and Hebrew Studies) In the 1890s, Sir Samuel Montagu (1832-1911), the banker, founder of the Federation of Synagogues and Liberal MP for Whitechapel, gave his private library of early Hebrew printed
Newly launched under the auspices of a consortium of academic institutions including Princeton University and Vanderbilt University, Syriaca.org is an online reference work for the study of Syriac authors, literatures and manuscripts. Scholars of Syriac are invited to collaborate and contribute to the development of the portal, which will eventually comprise an ontology or classification system for Syriac studies a multi-lingual authority file for standardising references to Syriac authors, texts
(via the AWOL blog) – http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.co.uk/ The prestigious Journal of the American Oriental Society has made its out-of-copyright material available on open-access. Content covers research by American scholars and Orientalists on the literatures and civilizations of the Near East, North Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Inner Asia, the Far East and the Islamic World. Open-access volumes cover Vol.1 (1843) to Vol. 42 (1922) Click here to go to Journal of the
