2901, 2015

2 Development Studies ‘online only’ journals added to our collection

By Farzana Whitfield|January 29, 2015|Development Studies|0 comments

SOAS Library has access to 2 exciting and challenging research based journals: The Journal of Development Effectiveness publishes high quality papers reporting evidence of the impact of projects, programs and policies in developing countries, and discussions of experience in conducting impact evaluations and using their findings to inform policy and program design. The European Journal of Development Research is a journal that we had electronic access up to until 2010

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2701, 2015

Reviews of four recently acquired books in SOAS Library

By Mary Fisk|January 27, 2015|Africa, Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica, History, Religions|0 comments

Review of Biblical Literature Postcolonial perspectives in African biblical interpretations / edited by Musa W. Dube, Andrew M. Mbuvi, and Dora R. Mbuwayesango (Society of Biblical Literature, 2012) – U220 /742744 (“well-written, … and useful to both teachers and students of biblical studies interested in postcolonial approaches.) Cursed are you!: the phenomenology of cursing in cuneiform and Hebrew texts / Anne Marie Kitz (Eisenbrauns, 2014) QC133.44 /758375 (“ambitious and meticulously executed

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2301, 2015

Trial Access to Armed Conflict Database from the International Institute of Strategic Studies

By Bob Burns|January 23, 2015|Africa, Development Studies, History, Law, Middle East, Central Asia & Islamica, Politics and International Relations, Religions, South Asia, South East Asia|0 comments

We currently have trial access (until 20 Feb 2015) to the Armed Conflict Database (ACD) from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The Armed Conflict Database monitors armed conflicts worldwide, focusing on political, military and humanitarian trends in current conflicts, whether they are local rebellions, long-term insurgencies, civil wars or inter-state conflicts. In addition to the comprehensive historical background for each conflict, the weekly timelines and the monthly updates, the

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2101, 2015

Eldis Top Ten Downloads for 2014

By Farzana Whitfield|January 21, 2015|Development Studies|0 comments

Eldis has published a top ten best-seller list of the most downloadable documents during 2014. One of the most requested interests was on the subject of climate change. To find out more, see the link below. http://www.eldis.org/go/latest-news/news/eldis-top-10-downloads-of-2014#.VL_V9Hvp-Dk  

2101, 2015

South East Asia – January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2015|South East Asia|0 comments

SEA General Advancing Singapore-China economic relations / edited by Saw Swee-Hock and John Wong. Transnational dynamics in Southeast Asia : the greater Mekong Subregion and Malacca Straits economic corridors / edited by Nathalie Fau, Sirivanh Khonthapane, Christian Taillard. Trails of bronze drums in early Southeast Asia : exchange routes and connected cultural spheres / Ambra Calò. ASEAN and human trafficking : case studies of Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam / by

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2101, 2015

South Asia – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 21, 2015|South Asia|0 comments

Childhood in a Sri Lankan village : shaping hierarchy and desire / Bambi L. Chapin. The golden wave : culture and politics after Sri Lanka’s tsunami disaster / Michele Ruth Gamburd. The 1970s and its legacies in India’s cinemas / edited by Priya Joshi and Rajinder Dudrah. The city son / Samrat Upadhyay. Midnight, Dhaka / by Mir Mahfuz Ali. Bodies that remember : women’s indigenous knowledge and cosmopolitanism in

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1601, 2015

Bridgeman Education – our new image database

By Jiyeon Wood|January 16, 2015|Art and Archaeology, Unknown|0 comments

Have you tried new image database in SOAS Library? Bridgeman Education (follow on Twitter at @BridgemanEd) is an online educational image resource to use in learning, teaching and scholarly research. The database includes over 650,000 copyright cleared images sourced from the world’s major museums, galleries, contemporary artists and private collections. The database provides access to the visual culture from ancient time through to Modern and Contemporary art and architecture. Furthermore, it provides

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1401, 2015

Southern African port towns and the shaping of Indian Ocean cosmopolitanisms in the early 19th century. SCOLMA Seminar series 11/2/15, 1 – 2 pm. Senate House Library, London

By dsw|January 14, 2015|Africa, Archival collections|0 comments

A seminar by Dr Heloise Finch-Boyer, National Maritime Museum How did three Southern African port towns in the Indian Ocean (Cape Town, Delagoa and Sainte Marie) shape African mobility and cosmopolitanism? By drawing from evidence collected by a British Naval survey of Eastern Africa 1822 -1825, and using published accounts, unseen crew watercolours, remark books and logbooks from the voyage, this paper: uses ‘cosmopolitanism’ to analyse continental and maritime African

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1201, 2015

‘Indian Summers’- Epic drama series to start on Channel 4

By Farzana Whitfield|January 12, 2015|History, South Asia|0 comments

  Image courtesy of: www.broadcastnow.co.uk Channel 4 will be airing a new exciting 10 part drama series, focusing on the rise and fall of the British Raj. Revealed through both Indian and British eyes, the story is set against the sweeping Himalayas and tea gardens in the north of India. It is 1932 and India dreams of independence, Simla known as ‘little England’, introduces a number of character stories living

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1201, 2015

Development Studies – December 2014 and January 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 12, 2015|Development Studies|0 comments

Alternative development : unravelling marginalization, voicing change / edited by Cathrine Brun, Piers Blaikie, Michael Jones. Climate Change Mitigation In Developing Countries : A Critical Assessment Of The Clean Development Mechanism / Paula Castro.  Evaluation methodologies for aid in conflict / edited by Ole Winckler Andersen, Beate Bull, Megan Kennedy-Chouane. Human rights / Kerri Woods. Mining capitalism : the relationship between corporations and their critics / Stuart Kirsch. Redefining human

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