Saturday, 10 November 2012
New books - October 2012 (Part 2)
The second part of our list of selected new books added to the catalogue and collection in October. New books include reports on household incomes and poverty in the Pacific, works on young people in South Africa and the Solomons, and a number of books on war and conflicts and their aftermaths.
Wasserman, Herman (ed). Press freedom in Africa : comparative perspectives. London ; New York : Routledge, 2013
Gupta, Akhil. Red tape : bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India. Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Bradley, Tamsin. Religion and gender in the developing world : faith-based organizations and feminism in India. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York, 2011
Afram, Gabi G. The remittance market in India : opportunities, challenges, and policy options. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2012.
Narsey, Wadan. Report on the 2008-09 household income and expenditure survey for Fiji. Suva, Fiji : Fiji Islands Bureau of Statistics, 2011.
Campioni, Maddalena and Patrick Noack (eds). Rwanda fast forward : social, economic, military and reconciliation prospects. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Samoa. Bureau of Statistics. Samoa : a report on the estimation of basic needs poverty lines, and the incidence and characteristics of hardship & poverty : analysis of the 2008 household income and expenditure survey. Apia, Samoa : Samoa Bureau of Statistics and UNDP Pacific Centre, [2010]
Anderson, Mark Cronlund and Carmen L. Robertson. Seeing red : a history of Natives in Canadian newspapers. Winnipeg : University of Manitoba Press, c2011.
Perold, Helene, Nico Cloete and Joy Papier (eds). Shaping the future of South Africa's youth : rethinking post-school education and skills training. Somerset West, South Africa : African Minds ; Wynberg : Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) : Further Education and Training Institute (FETI) ; Rondebosch : Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), 2012.
Allina-Pisano, Eric. Slavery by any other name : African life under company rule in colonial Mozambique. Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs. Solomon Islands national policy on gender equality and women's development. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs. Solomon Islands national youth policy : 2010-2015 Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Hofmeyr, Isabel and Michelle Williams (eds). South Africa & India : shaping the global South. Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2011.
Binney, Judith. Stories without end : essays 1975-2010. Wellington, N.Z. : Bridget Williams Books, 2010.
Tanzania General Elections, 31 October 2010 : report of the Commonwealth Observer Group / [Commonwealth Observer Group]. London : Commonwealth Secretariat, c2010.
India. Finance Commission. Thirteenth finance commission 2010-2015. Vol I : report. India: Finance Commission, 2009.
Gopakumar, Govind. Transforming urban water supplies in India : the role of reform and partnerships in globalization. New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.
Pham, Phuong N. and Patick Vinck. Transitioning to peace : a population-based survey on attitudes about social reconstruction and justice in Northern Uganda. Berkeley, CA : Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley : Berkeley Law, 2010.
Nyamnjoh, Frances B., Walter Gam Nkwi and Piet Konings. University crisis and student protests in Africa : the 2005-2006 university students' strike in Cameroon. Bamenda, Cameroon : Langaa groupe d’intiative commune en recherche et publication, 2012.
India. Planning Commission. Uttarakhand development report. New Delhi : Academic Foundation, 2009.
Dinstein, Yoram. War, aggression, and self-defence. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Lui, Andrew. Why Canada cares : human rights and foreign policy in theory and practice. Montreal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Chidester, David. Wild religion : tracking the sacred in South Africa. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
Saikia, Yasmin. Women, war, and the making of Bangladesh : remembering 1971. Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.
Friday, 9 November 2012
New books - October 2012 (Part 1)
Selected new books added to the catalogue and collection below (part 2 tomorrow). Notable addiituons include a number of Pacific Island official publications including policy documents on children and women's affairs, as well as a number of development plans and reviews of plans from the Pacific, Africa and India.
Jacques, Mélanie. Armed conflict and displacement : the protection of refugees and displaced persons under international humanitarian law. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Percox, David A. Britain, Kenya and the Cold War : imperial defence, colonial security and decolonisation. London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2012.
Green, Toby (ed). Brokers of change : Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bugailiskis, Alex and André Rozental (eds). Canada among nations, 2011-2012 : Canada and Mexico's unfinished agenda. Montréal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Malcolmson, Patrick and Richard Myers. The Canadian regime : an introduction to parliamentary government in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Barnes, Douglas F., Priti Kumar and Keith Openshaw. Cleaner hearths, better homes : new stoves for India and the developing world. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement (Solomon Islands). Policy statements. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement Government, [2008]
Conrad, Margaret. A concise history of Canada. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Solomon Islands. Constitutional Reform Unit, Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Constitutional reform project of Solomon Islands. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Government Printer, 2008
Marsh, Ian and Raymond Miller. Democratic decline and democratic renewal : political change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Eicher, Peter, Zahurul Alam and Jeremy Eckstein. Elections in Bangladesh 2006-2009 : transforming failure into success. Dhaka : United Nations Development Programme, c2010.
Storey, Ian, Ralf Emmers and Daljit Singh (eds). Five power defence arrangements at forty. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Adu, Kwasi. The Ghana 2008 elections : growing pains of a budding democracy. Accra : FOSDA, 2009.
Adejumobi, Said (ed). Governance and politics in post-military Nigeria : changes and challenges. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Fiji. Ministry of Strategic Planning. Government achievements 2007-2011. [Fiji] : Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development & Statistics, 2011.
India infrastructure report, 2009 : land - a critical resource for infrastructure. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.
India infrastructure report, 2010 : infrastructure development in a low carbon economy. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Day, Kathleen M and Stanley L Winer. Interregional migration and public policy in Canada : an empirical study. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati development plan : 2008-2011. Kiribati : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, 2008
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati national assessment report for the 5-year review of the Mauritius strategy for further implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States (MSI+5). Bairiki, Tarawa : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, [2010?]
Stovel, Laura. Long road home : building reconciliation and trust in post-war Sierra Leone. Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, c2010.
India. Planning Commission. Mid-term appraisal eleventh five year plan, 2007-2012. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. National children's policy : 2010-2015. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Swaziland. Economic Planning Office. National development plan, 2009/10-2011/12. Mbabane, [Swaziland] : Economic Planning Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 2009.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. The national policy on eliminating violence against women. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Mawby, Spencer. Ordering independence : the end of empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-1969. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Price, John. Orienting Canada : race, empire, and the Transpacific. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
Currier, Ashley. Out in Africa : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Delle, James A., Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas Armstrong. Out of many, one people : the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Bower, Ernest Z. et al. Pacific partners : the future of U.S.-New Zealand relations : a report of the CSIS Southeast Asia program and the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies, c2011.
Olson, Sherry H. and Patricia A. Thornton. Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900. Montreal ; Ithica: McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Fernando, Jude L. The political economy of NGOs : state formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. London : Pluto Press, 2011.
Sevea, Iqbal Singh. The political philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal : Islam and nationalism in late colonial India. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Saw, Swee-Hock. The population of Singapore. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
Jacques, Mélanie. Armed conflict and displacement : the protection of refugees and displaced persons under international humanitarian law. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Percox, David A. Britain, Kenya and the Cold War : imperial defence, colonial security and decolonisation. London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2012.
Green, Toby (ed). Brokers of change : Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa. Oxford ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.
Bugailiskis, Alex and André Rozental (eds). Canada among nations, 2011-2012 : Canada and Mexico's unfinished agenda. Montréal, QC : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Malcolmson, Patrick and Richard Myers. The Canadian regime : an introduction to parliamentary government in Canada. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, c2009.
Barnes, Douglas F., Priti Kumar and Keith Openshaw. Cleaner hearths, better homes : new stoves for India and the developing world. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, c2012.
Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement (Solomon Islands). Policy statements. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Coalition for National Unity and Rural Advancement Government, [2008]
Conrad, Margaret. A concise history of Canada. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Solomon Islands. Constitutional Reform Unit, Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Constitutional reform project of Solomon Islands. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Government Printer, 2008
Marsh, Ian and Raymond Miller. Democratic decline and democratic renewal : political change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Eicher, Peter, Zahurul Alam and Jeremy Eckstein. Elections in Bangladesh 2006-2009 : transforming failure into success. Dhaka : United Nations Development Programme, c2010.
Storey, Ian, Ralf Emmers and Daljit Singh (eds). Five power defence arrangements at forty. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2011.
Adu, Kwasi. The Ghana 2008 elections : growing pains of a budding democracy. Accra : FOSDA, 2009.
Adejumobi, Said (ed). Governance and politics in post-military Nigeria : changes and challenges. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Fiji. Ministry of Strategic Planning. Government achievements 2007-2011. [Fiji] : Ministry of Strategic Planning, National Development & Statistics, 2011.
India infrastructure report, 2009 : land - a critical resource for infrastructure. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2009.
India infrastructure report, 2010 : infrastructure development in a low carbon economy. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Day, Kathleen M and Stanley L Winer. Interregional migration and public policy in Canada : an empirical study. Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2012.
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati development plan : 2008-2011. Kiribati : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, 2008
Kiribati. Ministry of Finance and Economic Development. Kiribati national assessment report for the 5-year review of the Mauritius strategy for further implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for Sustainable Development of Small Islands Developing States (MSI+5). Bairiki, Tarawa : Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, [2010?]
Stovel, Laura. Long road home : building reconciliation and trust in post-war Sierra Leone. Antwerp ; Portland : Intersentia, c2010.
India. Planning Commission. Mid-term appraisal eleventh five year plan, 2007-2012. New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. National children's policy : 2010-2015. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Swaziland. Economic Planning Office. National development plan, 2009/10-2011/12. Mbabane, [Swaziland] : Economic Planning Office, Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 2009.
Solomon Islands Government, Ministry of Women, Youth & Children Affairs. The national policy on eliminating violence against women. Honiara, Solomon Islands : Ministry of Women, Youth & Children's Affairs, 2010
Mawby, Spencer. Ordering independence : the end of empire in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1947-1969. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Price, John. Orienting Canada : race, empire, and the Transpacific. Vancouver : UBC Press, c2011.
Currier, Ashley. Out in Africa : LGBT organizing in Namibia and South Africa. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Delle, James A., Mark W. Hauser, and Douglas Armstrong. Out of many, one people : the historical archaeology of colonial Jamaica Ala : University of Alabama Press, 2011.
Bower, Ernest Z. et al. Pacific partners : the future of U.S.-New Zealand relations : a report of the CSIS Southeast Asia program and the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs. Washington, DC : Center for Strategic and International Studies, c2011.
Olson, Sherry H. and Patricia A. Thornton. Peopling the North American city : Montreal, 1840-1900. Montreal ; Ithica: McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.
Fernando, Jude L. The political economy of NGOs : state formation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. London : Pluto Press, 2011.
Sevea, Iqbal Singh. The political philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal : Islam and nationalism in late colonial India. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Saw, Swee-Hock. The population of Singapore. Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2012.
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Events at the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies
The Menzies Centre for Australian Studies organises a research seminar series throughout the academic year with events being held weekly during term time. The seminar series is a fantastic opportunity for the centre to welcome academics from a broad range of disciplines working on Australian subjects and to exchange research ideas and new discoveries.
All Wednesday seminars take place at the Strand Campus, King’s College London. See individual listings for room details.
Wednesday 7 November 2012
K0.18, King's Building – please note change of room from previous announcements
18.15
David Lowe (Deakin)
‘The Uses of History by Australian Politicians’
Wednesday 14 November 2012
S0.11, Strand Building
18.15
Toby Davidson (Macquarie)
'Francis Webb: Australian Poet, English History'
Wednesday 21 November 2012
S0.12, Strand Building
18.15
Carl Bridge (KCL)
*** ‘Australia and the Dardanelles Commission’
Followed by Book Launch
Launch by John Darwin (Nuffield College, Oxford) of new book Media and Empire (OUP) by Simon Potter (Bristol Uni, ex Rydon Fellow)
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
CFP: CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa
CSAE 2013 Conference on Economic Development in Africa
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17-19 March 2013
Keynote speaker: Edward Miguel, Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley
Dinner speaker: Marcelo Giugale, Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programmes for Africa, World Bank
Call for papers
Papers addressing economic analysis of the broad issues relevant for economic development in Africa are invited for the CSAE 2013 conference. Papers on countries other than those in Africa are welcome, providing they deal with issues central to African development.
All abstracts for consideration must be submitted via the online submission site at
https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=CSAE2013
Further details on student submissions and funding possibilities at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/
Deadline for submissions Friday 30 November 2012
Enquiries should include the reference ‘CSAE conference 2013’ and be addressed to:
e-mail: csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk
postal address: CSAE, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK
St Catherine’s College, Oxford, 17-19 March 2013
Keynote speaker: Edward Miguel, Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley
Dinner speaker: Marcelo Giugale, Director of Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Programmes for Africa, World Bank
Call for papers
Papers addressing economic analysis of the broad issues relevant for economic development in Africa are invited for the CSAE 2013 conference. Papers on countries other than those in Africa are welcome, providing they deal with issues central to African development.
All abstracts for consideration must be submitted via the online submission site at
https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/conference.cgi?action=login&db_name=CSAE2013
Further details on student submissions and funding possibilities at http://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/conferences/
Deadline for submissions Friday 30 November 2012
Enquiries should include the reference ‘CSAE conference 2013’ and be addressed to:
e-mail: csae.conference@economics.ox.ac.uk
postal address: CSAE, Dept of Economics, Oxford University, Manor Road Building, Manor Rd, Oxford, OX1 3UQ, UK
Monday, 5 November 2012
Dictionary of African Biography
The new Oxford University Press Dictionary of African Biography has been added to the Senate House Library collection - this 6 volume work edited by Emmanuel K. Akueampong and Henry Lousi Gates, Jr is housed on the 4th floor in the reference collection in the Periodicals Reading Room.
The Dictionary of African Biography is a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life, teling the story of the African continent through the lives of its people. The dictionary is based on new historical research and perspectives and aims to correct the uneven coverage of previous attempts to collate African biographies - focusing unevenly on the colonial period, European adventurers, and Egyptian dynasties. As the most wide-reaching reference project on Africa to date, the Dictionary of African Biography intends to codify the explosion of new research, with entries written by contributing scholars from African studies departments the world over. The Dictionary contains nearly 2,200 entries, each with bibliography, ranging from 750 to 2,000 words, within six volumes.
The Dictionary of African Biography is a major biographical dictionary covering the lives and legacies of notable African men and women from all eras and walks of life, teling the story of the African continent through the lives of its people. The dictionary is based on new historical research and perspectives and aims to correct the uneven coverage of previous attempts to collate African biographies - focusing unevenly on the colonial period, European adventurers, and Egyptian dynasties. As the most wide-reaching reference project on Africa to date, the Dictionary of African Biography intends to codify the explosion of new research, with entries written by contributing scholars from African studies departments the world over. The Dictionary contains nearly 2,200 entries, each with bibliography, ranging from 750 to 2,000 words, within six volumes.
Friday, 2 November 2012
Homelessness in Australia
An interesting resource (and use of new web tools) is the Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse a new website for sharing information and good practice solutions for the homelessness sector in Australia, funded by the Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).
As a Clearinghouse, this website has been designed to provide information including research papers, data and data sets, articles on homelessness, details of conferences, seminars and other events and a community of practice (encouraging people to collaborate through the use of interactive communication tools to improve knowledge and good practice on particular homelessness issues).
The key aim of the Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse is to provide opportunities to share knowledge, ideas and good practices with the entire homelessness sector to better tackle homelessness in Australia. It will also be a useful tool for researchers on homelessness generally and within Australia. Users are encouraged to suggest new content for the site, and to add research papers, data or articles about a particular topic, make comments about a research paper, data or article, suggest documents to be uploaded (e.g. a policy or a good practice case study) to share with others, provide information about organisations, services and programs that deliver support services targetting homeless people, list conferences, seminars or events and participate in forums with other site users.
As a Clearinghouse, this website has been designed to provide information including research papers, data and data sets, articles on homelessness, details of conferences, seminars and other events and a community of practice (encouraging people to collaborate through the use of interactive communication tools to improve knowledge and good practice on particular homelessness issues).
The key aim of the Australian Homelessness Clearinghouse is to provide opportunities to share knowledge, ideas and good practices with the entire homelessness sector to better tackle homelessness in Australia. It will also be a useful tool for researchers on homelessness generally and within Australia. Users are encouraged to suggest new content for the site, and to add research papers, data or articles about a particular topic, make comments about a research paper, data or article, suggest documents to be uploaded (e.g. a policy or a good practice case study) to share with others, provide information about organisations, services and programs that deliver support services targetting homeless people, list conferences, seminars or events and participate in forums with other site users.
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Access to Senate House Library
From today until Saturday (1-3 November, 2012, inclusive) access to the Institute of Commnwealth Studies Library and Senate House Library (SHL) will be via Stewart House only: there will be no access to the ground floor of Senate House while it is being used for filming. There may also be some disruption for a few days before and after these dates.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
The Book Drop Box will also be in Stewart House from the morning of 1st to 5th November.
On the above dates, all readers must go to Stewart House, at the Russell Square entrance. The route to the lifts normally used to access SHL will be clearly signposted. There will not be any access to Senate House Library via the stairs.
All SHL readers should be able to access the library unimpeded. Anyone with disabilities may contact us before they visit, although it is not necessary to give us advance warning.
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