Other News
Dr Lena Rethel selected to organize Islamic economies conference
The mini-conference 'Islam and the Construction of New Economic Moralities: Divergence, Convergence and Competing Futures' will be held as part of the 28th Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) themed 'Moral Economies, Economic Moralities', 24-26 June 2016, University of California, Berkeley.
The organizers invite contributions from across the social sciences and humanities to reflect on the past, present, and contested futures of Islam’s new financial and economic moralities.
Please see warwick.ac.uk/islamiceconomies for further information, including the call for papers.
New CSGR Website Launches
The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation is pleased to announce the launch of the new CSGR website: www.warwick.ac.uk/csgr
The website has updated information on CSGR researchers at Warwick, visiting fellows and professors, and our external associates at institutions around the globe.
CSGR also hosts updated websites for Speaking International Security at Warwick and the Global Benchmarking Project.
Further information about CSGR activities and events is available here: www.warwick.ac.uk/csgr/events
PAIS academic writes one of BBC Radio 4's food books of the year
Dr Ben Richardson's book, Sugar, was featured on the Radio 4 Food Programme as one of its best books of 2015. It was discussed by the food writer Joanna Blythman, who said the book made "a more profound and thoughtful contribution to the ongoing sugar debate".
The full list and accompanying broadcast is available here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qg1lv
PAIS PhD Student Writes on the Upcoming Elections in Burkina Faso
On Sunday 29 November, Burkina Faso will elect a new president and parliament. Despite a week of political turmoil in September, the West African nation is on the verge of completing a return to constitutional order following a popular revolution in October 2014.
PAIS PhD student Eloïse Bertrand analyses the campaign and what is at stake in the elections from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital, for the Africa Research Institute.
CSGR Researchers Publish Special Issue of Review of International Studies
The Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is pleased to announce the publication of the 2015 Special Issue of the the UK’s leading International Relations journal - the Review of International Studies - on the theme:
THE POLITICS OF NUMBERS: THE NORMATIVE AGENDAS OF GLOBAL BENCHMARKING
Edited by André Broome (University of Warwick) & Joel Quirk (University of the Witwatersrand), the Special Issue was produced through research for the Global Benchmarking Project within CSGR.
The 197-page Special Issue contains an introduction to the power of global benchmarking and 9 original research articles, including articles by Warwick researchers André Broome, Alexandra Homolar, Sharifah Sekalala, and James Harrison in collaboration with other leading scholars in the field.
Topics examined in the Issue include the rise of global benchmarking as a mode of transnational governance, and specifically in the areas of human security, disaster risk reduction, global supply chains, transnational activism, human rights, global development goals, climate change, and World Bank country benchmarks for African economies.
For further information see: www.warwick.ac.uk/globalbenchmarking/publications.
Download the full issue here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=RIS&volumeId=41&seriesId=0&issueId=05