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Anti-Corruption Movements And The 'Twittering Classes' In The Postcolony: An Indian Case Study, Ramaswami Harindranath, Sukhmani Khorana
Anti-Corruption Movements And The 'Twittering Classes' In The Postcolony: An Indian Case Study, Ramaswami Harindranath, Sukhmani Khorana
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have been widely celebrated as the triumph of civil society. Such accounts extol the role of social media and the Internet as the loci for the mobilisation of popular protest, so much so that news narratives and scholarly commentary both see these technologies as shaping these revolutions, as enabling such upheavals in civil society. Using a recent case of popular mobilisation in India, namely the anti-‐corruption movement inspired in 2011 by Anna Hazare, this paper attempts to locate these developments within particular formations in the postcolony.
A Case Study Of Globalized Knowledge Flows: Guanxi In Social Science And Management Theory, Xiaoying Qi
A Case Study Of Globalized Knowledge Flows: Guanxi In Social Science And Management Theory, Xiaoying Qi
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
This article examines globalized knowledge flows through a case study of the treatment of the Chinese concept of guanxi in social and management science journals. Three forms of concept– theory relations are postulated which effectively correspond with different patterns of knowledge flow. The treatment of this concept in 214 refereed journal articles published from 1999 to 2009 indicates that the concept guanxi, which possesses capacity for theoretical development, is predominantly treated merely as an object of study rather than the basis of theoretical elaboration. A continuing dominant pattern of knowledge flows from the metropole to the periphery is thus indicated. …
Grey Clouds Or Clearer Skies Ahead? Implications Of The Bay Of Bengal Case, Clive H. Schofield, Anastasia Telesetsky
Grey Clouds Or Clearer Skies Ahead? Implications Of The Bay Of Bengal Case, Clive H. Schofield, Anastasia Telesetsky
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
On 14 March 2012, the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) delimited a maritime boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar. The Judgment represents a landmark decision as the Tribunal’s first maritime boundary delimitation case, the first adjudication of a maritime boundary in Asia and the first judicial delimitation of a maritime boundary for areas of “extended continental shelf” seaward of the 200 nautical miles (nm) limit. Rather than review the Judgment in detail, this contribution will highlight three notable, and to an extent potentially problematic, aspects of the decision: the approach to delimitation adopted and treatment of islands; …