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The Western in the Global South book cover.

The Western in the Global South

MaryEllen Higgins, Rita Keresztesi, Dayna Oscherwitz (Editors)

Routledge, 2015

Hope is Cut book cover

Hope is Cut: Youth, Unemployment, and the Future in Urban Ethiopia

Daniel Mains

Temple University Press, 2011

Literacy for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators, Priscilla L. Griffith, Sara Ann Beach, Jlening Ruan, Loraine Dunn book cover

Literacy for Young Children: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators

Priscilla L. Griffith, Sara Ann Beach, Jiening Ruan, Loraine Dunn

Corwin, 2008

Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars book cover.

Strangers at Home: American Ethnic Modernism between the World Wars

Rita Keresztesi

University of Nebraska Press, 2005

Innovative Subsurface Remediation: Field Testing of Physical, Chemical, and Characterization Technologies book cover

Innovative Subsurface Remediation: Field Testing of Physical, Chemical, and Characterization Technologies

Mark L. Brusseau, David A. Sabatini, John S. Gierke, Michael D. Annable (Editors)

American Chemical Society, 1999

Surfactant Enhanced Subsurface Remediation: Emerging Technologies book cover

Surfactant Enhanced Subsurface Remediation: Emerging Technologies

David A. Sabatini, Robert C. Knox, Jeffrey H. Harwell (Editors)

American Chemical Society, 1995

Subsurface Transport and Fate Processes book cover

Subsurface Transport and Fate Processes

Robert C. Knox, David A. Sabatini, Larry W. Canter

CRC Press, 1993

Transport and Remediation of Subsurface Contaminants: Colloidal, Interfacial, and Surfactant Phenomena book cover

Transport and Remediation of Subsurface Contaminants: Colloidal, Interfacial, and Surfactant Phenomena

David A. Sabatini, Robert C. Knox (Editors)

American Chemical Society, 1992

Articles


Decolonizing Beginning Literacy Instruction: Views From Ugandan Teachers. The Reading Teacher

Beach, S. A., Nyirumbe, S. R., Monk, D., & Pia Okecha, S. E. (2020). Decolonizing Beginning Literacy Instruction: Views From Ugandan Teachers. The Reading Teacher, 74(2), 217-222. https://doi.org/10.1002/trtr.1937

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Demir, F., Ghosh, P., & Liu, Z. (2020). Effects of motherhood timing, breastmilk substitutes and education on the duration of breastfeeding: Evidence from Egypt. World Development, 133, 105014. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105014

Effects of motherhood timing, breastmilk substitutes and education on the duration of breastfeeding: Evidence from Egypt (.pdf)

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Demir, F., & Im, H. (2020). Effects of cultural institutes on bilateral trade and FDI flows: Cultural diplomacy or economic altruism? The World Economy, 43(9), 2463-2489. https://doi.org/10.1111/twec.12906

Effects of cultural institutes on bilateral trade and FDI flows: Cultural diplomacy or economic altruism? (.pdf)

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Marshall, K., & Prichard, A. (2020). Spiritual Warfare in Circulation. Religions, 11(7), 327. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11070327

Spiritual Warfare in Circulation (.pdf)

Gender, Place, and Culture journal cover

Davis, D., Harris, C., Johnson, V., Pennington, C., Redus, C., Sanders, T., Ta-Nesert, N.-H., Sofola, G., Morrison, V., Harris, J., & Gulilat, E. (2020). Black women’s perspectives on neighborhood safety: Reflections from The Women of Northeast Oklahoma City Photovoice Project. Gender, Place & Culture, 27(7), 917-943. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2019.1611547

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Letsa, N. W. (2020). Expressive Voting in Autocracies: A Theory of Non-Economic Participation with Evidence from Cameroon. Perspectives on Politics, 18(2), 439-453. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592719001002

Expressive Voting in Autocracies: A Theory of Non-Economic Participation with Evidence from Cameroon (.pdf)

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Demir, F., & Hu, C. (2020). Destination institutions, firm heterogeneity and exporter dynamics: empirical evidence from China. Review of World Economics, 156(1), 183-217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-019-00358-x

Destination institutions, firm heterogeneity and exporter dynamics: empirical evidence from China (.pdf)

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Prichard, A. C. (2019). [Review of the book Reel Pleasures: Cinema Audiences and Entrepreneurs in Twentieth-Century Urban Tanzania, by Laura Fair.] Journal of Social History, 54(1), 382-384. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shz119

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Caglayan, M., & Demir, F. (2019). Exchange rate movements, export sophistication and direction of trade: the development channel and North–South trade flows. Cambridge Journal of Economics, 43(6), 1623-1652. https://doi.org/10.1093/cje/bez005

Exchange rate movements, export sophistication and direction of trade: the development channel and North–South trade flows (.pdf)

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Harris, J. C., & Little, S. (2019). Mapping Hope: How Do Vulnerable Youth Locate Hope in Informal Settlements? Urban Forum, 30(3), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-019-09361-9

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Letsa, N. W. (2019). The political geography of electoral autocracies: The influence of party strongholds on political beliefs in Africa. Electoral Studies, 60, 102047. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2019.05.001

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Acan, G., Amony, E., Harris, J., & del Guadalupe Davidson, M. (2019). How formerly abducted women in post-conflict situations are reasserting their humanity in a hostile environment: Photovoice evidence from northern Uganda. Gender & Development, 27(2), 273-294. https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2019.1615291

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Harris, J. C. (2019). What Are the Land Delivery and Land Holding Mechanisms for African Informal Light Manufacturing Clusters? Urban Forum, 30(1), 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-018-9343-6

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Prichard, A. C. (2019). ‘I am  … but a pawn in your chess board’: letters, self-presentation, and the making of a lady missionary’s career. Women’s History Review, 28(1), 159-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/09612025.2018.1465510

Journal of Planning Education and Research journal cover

Harris, J. C. (2018). Vulnerable Youth’s Perspectives and Priorities for Informal Settlements: Photovoice Evidence from Lusaka, Zambia. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 38(4), 398-412. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x17709914

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Demir, F., & Duan, Y. (2018). Bilateral FDI Flows, Productivity Growth, and Convergence: The North vs. The South. World Development, 101, 235-249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.08.006

Bilateral FDI Flows, Productivity Growth, and Convergence: The North vs. The South (.pdf)

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Letsa, N. W., & Wilfahrt, M. (2018). Popular Support for Democracy in Autocratic Regimes: A Micro-Level Analysis of Preferences. Comparative Politics, 50(2), 231-273. https://doi.org/10.5129/001041518822263674

Teaching Africa: A Journal of Pedagogy and Practice journal cover

Prichard, A. C. (2018). Christianity and Perspective in the Classroom: The BaKgalagadi and the Bible Belt. Teaching Africa: A Journal of Pedagogy and Practice, 1(1).

The Journal of Modern African Studies journal cover

Letsa, N. W. (2017). ‘The people’s choice’: popular (il)legitimacy in autocratic Cameroon. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 55(4), 647-679. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X17000428

Journal of Economic Surveys journal cover

Dahi, O. S., & Demir, F. (2017). South–South and North–South Economic Exchanges: Does It Matter Who Is Exchanging What and With Whom? Journal of Economic Surveys, 31(5), 1449-1486. https://doi.org/10.1111/joes.12225

South–South and North–South Economic Exchanges: Does It Matter Who Is Exchanging What and With Whom? (.pdf)

Democratization title page

Letsa, N. W. (2017). Voting for peace, mobilizing for war: post-conflict voter turnout and civil war recurrence. Democratization, 24(3), 425-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2016.1218474

Global Economy Journal cover

Demir, F., & Wu, C. (2017). Exchange Rate Adjustments and US Trade with China: What does a State Level Analysis Tell Us? Global Economy Journal, 17(2), 20160059. https://doi.org/10.1515/gej-2016-0059

Exchange Rate Adjustments and US Trade with China: What does a State Level Analysis Tell Us? (.pdf)

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Mains, D., & Kinfu, E. (2017). Governing three-wheeled motorcycle taxis in urban Ethiopia: States, markets, and moral discourses of infrastructure. American Ethnologist, 44(2), 263-274. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12477

The Journal of Modern African Studies journal cover

Mains, D., & Kinfu, E. (2016). Making the city of nations and nationalities: the politics of ethnicity and roads in Hawassa, Ethiopia. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 54(4), 645-669. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022278X16000562

ranscending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present journal cover

Prichard, A. C. (2017). A “Grievously Sinful Attempt to Destroy the Life Which God Has Given:” Abortion, Anglicanism, and Debates About Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Zanzibar. In S. Stettner, K. Ackerman, K. Burnett, & T. Hay (Eds.), Transcending Borders: Abortion in the Past and Present (pp. 69-87). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48399-3_5

IDPR journal cover

Harris, J. (2016). Joint action in Nairobi’s informal handicraft production clusters. International Development Planning Review, 38(3), 317-338. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2016.18

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade journal cover

Demir, F., & Su, L. (2016). Total Factor Productivity, Foreign Direct Investment, and Entry Barriers in the Chinese Automotive Industry. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 52(2), 302-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2015.1011519

Total Factor Productivity, Foreign Direct Investment, and Entry Barriers in the Chinese Automotive Industry (.pdf)

World Development journal cover

Demir, F. (2016). Effects of FDI Flows on Institutional Development: Does It Matter Where the Investors are from? World Development, 78, 341-359. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.001

Effects of FDI Flows on Institutional Development: Does It Matter Where the Investors are from? (.pdf)

Untamed Urbanisms journal cover

Harris, J. (2015). Accra’s unregulated market-oriented sanitation strategy: Problems and opportunity. In A. Allen, A. Lampis, & M. Swilling (Eds.), Untamed Urbanisms. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315746692

Accra’s unregulated market-oriented sanitation strategy: Problems and opportunity (.pdf)

The International Journal of African Historical Studies journal cover

Prichard, A. (2015). [Review of the book Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival: A History of Dissent, c. 1935-1972, by Derek R. Peterson]. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 48(1), 120-122. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44715389

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development journal cover

Harris, J. C. (2014). The confounding influence of urban informality on innovation and production specialisation in production clusters: Evidence from Nairobi. African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Development, 6(6), 529-539. https://doi.org/10.1080/20421338.2014.976989

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Harris, J. (2014). The Messy Reality of Agglomeration Economies in Urban Informality: Evidence from Nairobi’s Handicraft Industry. World Development, 61, 102-113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.001

Development in Practice journal cover

Harris, J. (2014). Meeting the challenges of the handicraft industry in Africa: Evidence from Nairobi. Development in Practice, 24(1), 105-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2014.867478

Early adolescents’ views of good readers and writers in school and their literate identities: An international exploration. 62nd Yearbook of the Literacy Research Associatio

Beach, S. A., Ward, A., Dorsey, J., Limbrick, L., Paris, J., Lorinczova, K., Maslova, M., & Mirseitova, S. (2013). Early adolescents’ views of good readers and writers in school and their literate identities: An international exploration. (.pdf) 62nd Yearbook of the Literacy Research Association, 158.

The International Journal of African Historical Studies journal cover

Prichard, A. (2013). [Review of the book Trafficking in Slavery’s Wake: Law and the Experience of Women and Children in Africa, by Benjamin N. Lawrance & Richard L. Roberts, Ed.]. The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 46(3), 470-471. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24393375

American Ethnologist journal cover

Mains, D. (2013). Friends and money: Balancing affection and reciprocity among young men in urban Ethiopia. American Ethnologist, 40(2), 335-346. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12025

Insights Into Engaged Literacy Learning: Stories of Literate Identity. Journal of Research in Childhood Education

Beach, S. A., & Ward, A. (2013). Insights Into Engaged Literacy Learning: Stories of Literate Identity. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 27(2), 239-255. https://doi.org/10.1080/02568543.2013.767290

The Journal of African History journal cover

Prichard, A. C. (2013). Let Us Swim in the Pool of Love’: Love Letters and Discourses of Community Composition in Twentieth-Century Tanzania. The Journal of African History, 54(1), 103-122. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853713000017

Contest Power in Ethiopia journal cover

Mains, D. (2012). Cynicism and hope: urban youth and relations of power during the 2005 Ethiopian elections. In T. Hagmann & K. Tronvoll (Eds.), Contested Power in Ethiopia (pp. 137-163). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004218499

IDPR journal cover

Harris, J., Doan, P., & Wilson, K. (2012). Local development planning and the tourism sector: prospects for reducing volatility in tourism impacts in Kenya. International Development Planning Review, 34(2), 167-188. https://doi.org/10.3828/idpr.2012.11

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Mains, D. (2012). Blackouts and Progress: Privatization, Infrastructure, and a Developmentalist State in Jimma, Ethiopia. Cultural Anthropology, 27(1), 3-27. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1360.2012.01124.x

American Ethnologist journal cover

Mains, D. (2007). Neoliberal times: Progress, boredom, and shame among young men in urban Ethiopia. American Ethnologist, 34(4), 659-673. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.2007.34.4.659