Nightmare in Nigeria: A war waged on pregnant women and children SOAS hosts the Pulitzer-finalist Reuters team that revealed the horrific tactics the Nigerian military deployed in its battle against Islamist insurgencies.
Book launch of Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics Do Global Value Chains (GVCs) really “boost incomes, create better jobs, and reduce poverty”? Benjamin Selwyn will discuss how CVCs generate highly exploitative jobs, deepen poverty, stunt human development, and damage the environment.
Legal pluralism in Qing China and its transplantation and transformation Max WL Wong argues that in traditional Chinese legal culture, the pluralistic normative orders – derived by the interaction of different orders (including Legalism, Confucianism and state law) – had been adapted and adopted by the local communities for many centuries.
Workers of the Earth: Labour, ecology and reproduction in the age of climate change Stefania Barca uncovers the environmental history and political ecology of labour to shed new light on the potentiality of workers as ecological subjects