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The World Bank and the Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming for Feminist IPE (2018)
Book Chapter
Calkin, S. (2018). The World Bank and the Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming for Feminist IPE. In J. Elias, & A. Roberts (Eds.), Handbook on the international political economy of gender (311-322). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478842.00030

The World Bank is the most powerful global development institution in the world, both in terms of the resources it commands and its position as a ‘Knowledge Bank’ for shaping the field of development. This chapter explores the evolution of gender wor... Read More about The World Bank and the Challenge of Gender Mainstreaming for Feminist IPE.

Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience (2018)
Book Chapter
Dixit, A. M., Shrestha, S. N., Guragain, R., Jimee, G., Dhungel, R., Pradhan, S., …Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018). Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience. In L. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk (15-43). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_2

This chapter describes earthquake risk reduction efforts in Nepal from NSET’s perspective and is co-authored by a team of researchers who have been with NSET since its inception. NSET was established in 1994 with the objective to reduce earthquake ri... Read More about Earthquake Risk Reduction Efforts in Nepal: NSET’s Experience.

The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around (2018)
Book Chapter
Ruszczyk, H. A. (2018). The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around. In L. A. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving narratives of hazard and risk : the Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015 (125-139). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_8

This chapter explores how the earthquake allowed other ideas to take root in Nepal and become reality. The earthquake reinvigorated central government–level interest in implementing the National Building Code. The earthquake also created the momentum... Read More about The Earthquake and Ideas Lying Around.

Looking and Moving Forward (2018)
Book Chapter
Robinson, T., Ruszczyk, H., & Bracken, L. (2018). Looking and Moving Forward. In L. Bracken, H. Ruszczyk, & T. Robinson (Eds.), Evolving narratives of hazard and risk: The Gorkha earthquake, Nepal, 2015 (183-192). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65211-5_11

This chapter, the conclusion of the book, presents emerging themes based on the disciplinary perspectives of the book contributors.

Demonic Daydreams: Mind-Wandering and Mental Imagery in the Medieval Hagiography of St Dunstan (2018)
Book Chapter
Powell, H. (2018). Demonic Daydreams: Mind-Wandering and Mental Imagery in the Medieval Hagiography of St Dunstan. In L. Ashe, P. Knox, D. Lawton, & W. Scase (Eds.), New medieval literatures 18 (44-74). D. S. Brewer. https://doi.org/10.7722/j.ctt1wx910t

Richard Harris Barham was correct in his 1837 lay lampooning the legend of St Dunstan: the tale of the saint tweaking the devil’s nose was indeed one which everyone knew. In fact, so famous was the tale that Barham felt it needed no further explanati... Read More about Demonic Daydreams: Mind-Wandering and Mental Imagery in the Medieval Hagiography of St Dunstan.

Foreword (2018)
Book Chapter
Steinberg, P. (2018). Foreword. In M. Brown, & B. Humberstone (Eds.), Shaped by the Sea: Embodied Narratives in Fluid Geographies (xi-xiv). Ashgate Publishing

Financialisation of everyday life (2018)
Book Chapter
Lai, K. P. (2018). Financialisation of everyday life. In G. L. Clark, M. P. Feldmann, M. Gertler, & D. Wojcik (Eds.), The new Oxford handbook of economic geography (611-627). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.29

Over the past few decades, there has been a broad expansion of financial power in which the biopolitical terrain of individual subjectivity, aspiration and forms of conduct at an individual level is increasingly tied to global financial structures. T... Read More about Financialisation of everyday life.