Abstract Many places in the post-socialist world undergo emptying: a loss of their constitutive elements—people, infrastructure, services, and futures past. Some people see this emptying as loss, others an opportunity. We argue that shift from to opportunity—or vice versa—is site political, is, moment decision about place present framework meaning gives form direction life. Drawing on contribut...

This article introduces an analytical framework for studying and interpreting the sometimes surprisingly different ‘shapes’ (key topics approaches) of donor-funded responses to sexual violence in after armed conflict. Our highlights processes politicization, depoliticization, technicalization their influence on interventions. Drawing available studies, published documents, our own field researc...

In pursuing a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) with the European Union (EU) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Obama Administration aims to create economic growth while strengthening the Western bloc to contain the rising Chinese power and the regulatory challenges posed by the expansion of the Chinese markets. In entering into such a bilateral, rather than multil...

[Abstract: This study examines the interaction between religion and politics in Sri Lanka. Existing scholarly studies on Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict largely address the ethnic dimension of the conflict. Indeed, in the understanding of Sri Lanka’s 25-year civil war, which has left 70,000 dead and displaced nearly a half-million people at its height generally, religion is rarely identified as hav...