This article investigates the role of deservingness conceptions in the implementation of labour market access policies for migrants with precarious legal status. It explores how immigration officials frame the deservingness of work permit applicants, considering also the political, legal and societal context in which they work. The analysis takes account of the Control, Attitude, Reciprocity, Identity

ABSTRACT This study examines how immigration status and neighborhood collective efficacy shapes mothers’ self-efficacy and, in turn, depression. Path analysis was conducted drawing data from 578 Mexican-American and Mexican immigrant mothers who participated in the first wave of the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey. The results of this study revealed that both neighborhood collective efficacy

Evidence on the relationship between government size and corruption is mixed, and might be misleading, as government size is usually measured by fiscal size. The core hypothesis in this research is that the type of government intervention in the economy – rather than the size of government – is a key explanatory factor for corruption. The empirical analysis disentangles the effects of the two main

AbstractCurrent scholarship on the legal doctrine of jihād presents classical Sunni jurists after the second/eighth century as championing continual imperial conquest. In this article, I trace the genealogy of Burhān al-Dīn al-Marghīnānī’s (d. 593/1197) theory of jihād in order to show how he reinterpreted the doctrine of his Ḥanafī school in ways that legitimated co-existence between states. Marghīnānī

Some of the books listed here may be reviewed in a subsequent issue.***Due to challenges raised by the covid-19 pandemic, volume 33 onwards will largely be publishing reviews of books published in 2020 or later.

Egypt and the Contradictions of Liberalism: Illiberal Intelligentsia and the Future of Egyptian Democracy Edited by FahmyDalia F. and FaruqiDaanish (London: Oneworld Publications, 2017. Studies on Islam, Human Rights, and Democracy), xii + 388 pp. Price PB £25.00. EAN 978–1780748825.

AbstractAgainst the backdrop of recent work on how ‘Islam’ should be understood as a scholarly category, this article focuses in on one particularly striking insider definition of Islam: ‘Islam is whatever takes a man to God, and infidelity (kufr) is whatever prevents a man from the Way of God’. Articulated by the sixth/twelfth century Sufi ʿAyn al-Quḍāt Hamadānī, who was executed on charges of heresy

AbstractThe Salafī version of the Islamic Modernist trend emerged in the late nineteenth century among middle-ranked ulema-cum-intellectuals in the major Arab urban centres of the Ottoman Empire. Modernist Salafīs strove to strike a balance between modernization along Western lines and an authenticity based on the model of the pious ancestors (al-salaf al-ṣāliḥ). They differed from other early modernists

Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World By MakdisiUssama (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019), xiii + 296 pp. Price HB £25.00. EAN 978–0520258884.

Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq By CarlsonThomas A. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), xx + 299 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1107186279.

Many governments have imposed the public use of face masks and they are now moving towards enforcing disposable masks to abate COVID-19 transmission. While disposable masks consistently provide higher protection, they also carry multiple environmental burdens, from greenhouse gases released during production to the landfilling and littering. Conversely, reusable masks’ protection can vary from >90%

India in the Persianate Age 1000–1765 By EatonRichard M. (London: Penguin Books Ltd [Allen Lane imprint], 2019), xiv + 489 pp. Price HB £30.00. EAN 978–0713995824.

Arguments for God’s Existence in Classical Islamic Thought: A Reappraisal of the Discourse By ErlweinHannah C. (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019), ix + 249 pp. Price HB £79.00. EAN 978–3110617641.

Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography: The Futuh al- Buldan of al-Baladhuri By LynchRyan J. (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019. Early and Medieval Islamic World), xii + 253 pp. Price HB £85.00. EAN 978–1838604394.

Ibadi Muslims of North Africa: Manuscripts, Mobilization, and the Making of a Written Tradition By PaulM.Love Jr. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization), xxi + 206 pp. Price HB £75.00. EAN 978–1108472500.

Islam without Europe: Traditions of Reform in Eighteenth-Century Islamic Thought By DallalAhmad S. (Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks), ix + 421 pp. Price PB $34.95. EAN 978–1469641409.

Ṣūfī Apologist of Nīshāpūr: The Life and Thought of Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī By ChowdhuryS. Z. (Sheffield and Bristol, CT: Equinox Publishing, 2019. Monographs in Arabic and Islamic Studies), ix + 228 pp. Price HB £75. EAN 9781781795224.

Global Sufism: Boundaries, Structures, and Politics Edited by PirainoFrancesco and SedgwickMark (London: Hurst & Company, 2019), xi + 299 pp. Price HB £35.00. EAN 978–1787381346.

The Caliphate of Man: Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought By MarchAndrew F. ( Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019), xxi + 300 pp. Price HB £36.95. EAN 978–0674987838.

Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society By AyubiZahra ( New York: Columbia University Press, 2019), xii + 349 pp. Price PB £30.00. EAN 978–0231191333.

Iran: A Social and Political History since the Qajars By RichardYann ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), xvii + 351 pp. Price PB £21.99. EAN 978–1108701624.

Partitioning Palestine: British Policy Making at the End of the Empire By SinanoglouPenny (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2019), vii + 251 pp. Price HB $40.00. EAN 978–0226665788.

Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam By PandolfoStefania ( Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2018), viii + 419 pp. Price PB £28.00. EAN 978–0226465081.

ABSTRACT This article deals with the application of serious games to cultural heritage. Through an overview of the growing importance of gamification in promoting cultural sites and museum collections, the research highlights the changing practices of cultural institutions, which are increasingly involved in producing serious games, considering them as strategic digital marketing tools to promote cultural

ABSTRACT Objectives This study explored community leaders’ understanding of depression among older Korean Americans and barriers to seeking mental health services. Depression is prevalent among older Korean Americans, but they are less likely to seek help from professionals and prefer to use informal methods. Older Korean Americans strongly prefer to maintain their ethnic traditions and use community

ABSTRACT This article, examines the perspectives of rural people in Manicaland on the barriers to community participation in tourism. A qualitative approach was selected to give local people from the four districts of Manicaland a voice. In-depth interviews, observations and informal conversations were used to collect data. Data was collected from the various levels of the local communities. Data was

ABSTRACT This study comprehensively examines time use patterns in South Africa by Systems of National Accounts (SNA) classification, with the aid of the 2000 and 2010 Time Use Survey (TUS) data. The empirical findings indicated that both mean SNA and non-SNA production time increased at the expense of mean non-productive time, with the former increase being attributed to work in establishments and

ABSTRACT It is widely acknowledged that the limitations of neoliberal politics and economic globalisation have contributed to feminisation of poverty in Global South countries. The implementation of cooperatives has played a visible role in localising the economy and addressing poverty amongst women. This paper attempts to advance empirical evidence in the field of social development and feminisation

ABSTRACT The objective is to assess the variability of collateral crypto-assets used in secured lending on the blockchain. Using the coefficient of variation, the study estimates volatility of selected assets and implied risk intensity for both borrowers and lenders on blockchain-based lending. The coefficient of variation model was adopted by testing volatility. The model produced a number of key

(2021). Counting the cost of COVID-19 on the global tourism industry. Development Southern Africa. Ahead of Print.

ABSTRACT The notions of foreign-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have gained the attention of scholars in the SME literature due to the contributions that they make in both their home and host countries. Despite the growing attention on foreign-owned SMEs in the academic literature, there is limited literature exploring the motivations and unique challenges that these enterprises face in the

Abstract Research on transmasculine people’s health is scant globally, including in India. We explored transmasculine people’s experiences in affirming their gender in family and social spaces, and how those experiences impact mental health. In 2019, we conducted four focus groups (n = 17 participants) and 10 in-depth interviews with transmasculine people in Mumbai and Chennai. Data analyses were guided

The purpose of this study was to investigate the human security aspect of the Syrian refugee crisis and to analyse the vulnerability and victimization of Syrian refugees in Turkey. Among the several categories within the human security model (i.e. economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community, and political) as conceptualized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the study

ABSTRACT New Zealand is developing a new system of industry and occupational collective bargaining, called Fair Pay Agreements, aiming to establish negotiated terms, conditions and standards across specified industries, sectors or occupations. This article describes the proposal, its genesis and content, including how it will interact with other bargaining and wage-setting machinery in New Zealand

ABSTRACT This article seeks to broaden theoretical and methodological approaches to urban aesthetics by introducing the sociology of (e)valuation and Q-sort methodology. In explaining which elements of urban design matter and to whom, existing research deploys concepts such as cultural capital and taste. The article proposes an alternative perspective, which focuses on individuals’ critical capacities

Parents frequently attempt to shield their children from distressing prognostic information. Pediatric oncology providers sometimes follow parental request for non-disclosure of prognostic information to children, invoking what we call the stability of the family argument. They believe that if they inform the child about terminal prognosis despite parental wishes, cohesion and family structure will

ABSTRACT In scholarship on cancer survivorship, “normality” is discussed as a strategy to restore and maintain continuity of identity for the person with cancer. I interrogate the strategic deployment of “normality” in what I define as ritual-like practices by drawing on 20 narrative interviews and 455 photographs produced by study participants. The findings explore normality as outcome (being normal)

The target article by Denis Noble is an excellent overview of the illusions of the Modern Synthesis that still remains in textbooks despite of the recent criticism. Overcoming these illusions shows the active role of organisms in the evolutionary process and accounts for additional mechanisms such as plasticity of embryo development, epigenetic heredity, multilevel selection, Baldwin effect, and niche

In this commentary I expand on the first of Noble’s illusions, the selection metaphor. Building on my work with Simona Ginsburg on the evolution of minimal consciousness, I argue that the existence of some complex sensory and motor patterns in the living world can be accounted for only through the evolution of conscious choice.

The theoretical biologist Waddington (1975, 16ff.) drew attention to the damage to scientific progress by COWDUNG – the Conventional Wisdom of the Dominant Group. Despite Popper’s (1979, 341ff.) attack on what he called “the bucket theory of science”, that scientific knowledge accumulates incrementally, adding one fact after another, this is now conventional wisdom among biologists. Denis Noble is

Denis Noble suggests that biologists who created the Modern Synthesis were taken in by conceptual traps and illusions hidden in the language they used. Rather than blame language itself, my response counters that all writers are responsible for careful attention to the implications of the metaphors they use, and that Richard Dawkins deliberately chose “the selfish gene.” Noble’s concept of biological

The Modern Synthesis (MS) was based on Darwin’s gradualist view of evolution and early twentieth Century Mendelian and population genetics. Although early results in microbial and molecular genetics seemed to solidify MS views through the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology, accepting their basic concepts as permanent truths blinded MS proponents to the importance of incompatible discoveries in the

Denis Nobel looks at four important misinterpretations of molecular biology concerning evolutionary processes and demonstrates that the new synthesis today looks rather outdated. The modern synthesis is nearly 80 years old. The proponents who worked out the modern synthesis had no access to the current knowledge on cell biology, genetics, epigenetics, RNA biology and virology. Therefore this contribution

According to Denis Noble, one of the greatest illusions of the Modern Synthesis is embodied in the Central Dogma, a principle first formulated by Francis Crick in 1958. The principle (roughly) holds that DNA makes protein, not the other way around. For Noble, the Dogma has contributed to the illusion that genes alone are responsible for the development and evolution of an organism’s phenotype. Though

Evolutionary biologists, evolutionary epistemologists, and biosemioticians have demonstrated that organisms not merely adapt to an external world, but that they actively construct their environmental, sociocultural, and cognitive niches. Denis Noble demonstrates that such is no different for those organisms that engage in science, and he lays bare several crucial assumptions that define the scientific

Taking advantage of Denis Noble’s description, in “The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis” of the first illusion, related to the concept of natural selection itself, I will further strengthen the criticism by adding three groups of considerations mainly concerning human cognition: 1) how semiotic brains build cognitive niches; 2) the role of abduction – and in particular of manipulative abduction –

This paper aims to determine whether it is necessary to propose the extreme of putrefaction as the only unmistakable sign in diagnosing the death of the human organism, as David Oderberg does in a recent paper. To that end, we compare Oderberg’s claims to those of other authors who align with him in espousing the so-called theory of hylomorphism but who defend either a neurological or a circulatory-respiratory

ABSTRACT This paper offers an exploration of how race shapes the migration trajectories and labour market experiences of Black African youth who migrated to deindustrialising Newcastle, a traditionally White working-class city. The paper draws on qualitative data gathered from interviews with 20 Black African youth (10 males and 10 females) residing in the city in 2018. Their ages ranged between 18

When individuals communicate enthusiasm for good events in their partners' lives, they contribute to a high-quality relationship; a phenomenon termed interpersonal capitalization. However, little is known when individuals are more ready to react enthusiastically to the partner's success. To address this gap, we examined whether positive and negative emotions boost or inhibit enthusiastic responses

ABSTRACT In March 2018, Maltese parliament effectuated a constitutional amendment by which voting rights were conferred on circa. 8,000 younger citizens aged sixteen and seventeen. Concerns over the integrity of this decision primarily emanated from the prevalent portrayal of young people as politically apathetic citizens with no appreciation for the responsibility implicit in voting. This widely aired

Numerous studies examined the association between character strengths—positive traits that comprise a good personality—and satisfaction with different aspects of life. However, few studies explored the connection between character strengths and marital satisfaction. The present study, conducted on a sample of 177 married couples, aims to examine this connection. Given the findings of previous studies

Researchers continue to demonstrate the significant physical and mental health consequences to women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) and children exposed to IPV. However, more research is needed to examine group interventions that support mothers, their children, and the parent-child relationship in the aftermath of IPV. We analyzed data provided by women who participated in a 12-week

Rapid growth in structural and functional brain research has led to increasing ethical discussion of what to do about incidental findings within the brains of healthy neuroimaging research participants that have potential health importance, but which are beyond the original aims of the study. This dilemma has been widely debated with respect to general neuroimaging research but has attracted little

The modern idea of emancipation is linked to the goal of overcoming dependencies and domination. However, as argued in the article, negative dialectics of emancipation must also be problematized. The project of emancipation, as it was formulated in the Age of Enlightenment, was often particular and was associated with the establishment of new forms of domination. Especially the project of liberation

(2021). Measuring the Unmeasurable in Education. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities: Vol. 22, No. 1, pp. 182-184.

ABSTRACT Resilience is instrumental in understanding the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples in colonised countries. Investigator-driven, quantitative descriptive studies can limit capacity for Indigenous people to “talk back” to the research process with their own perspectives of wellbeing and resilience. A Human Development and Capabilities approach can elicit self-determining definitions of wellbeing

ABSTRACT In this paper, we introduce machine-learning (ML) methods to evaluate one of the key concepts of real estate analysis – the prediction of housing prices in the presence of a large number of covariates. We use several supervised ML tools that are based on regularisation methods – notably Ridge, LASSO, and Elastic Net regressions – and discuss their relative performance in comparison to conventional

ABSTRACT We study whether data-driven AVM specification that combines a flexible-yet-simple regression model with shrinkage estimators considerably improves upon the prediction accuracy of a conventional hedonic model. A rolling window prediction comparison based on all condominium sales in Berlin, Germany, between 1996 and 2013 delivered the following results. The highly parameterised model can result

Cross-cultural research has repeatedly demonstrated sex differences in the importance of partner characteristics when choosing a mate. Men typically report higher preferences for younger, more physically attractive women, while women typically place more importance on a partner’s status and wealth. As the assessment of such partner characteristics often relies on visual cues, this raises the question

The present study examined whether regulatory attitudes toward prostitution are related to agency attributed to prostitutes and moral outrage. A Spanish sample (N = 391, aged 18–53 years old) completed a questionnaire that included two separate parts. In the first part, participants answered a scale on regulatory attitudes toward prostitution; in the second part, after reading one of two scenarios