Continuing from CMES Affiliated Faculty News Part I, we celebrate and congratulate CMES affiliated faculty on their recent accomplishments.
Ahmad Atif Ahmad (Professor, Religious Studies) published a series of articles on Harvard’s Islamic Law Blog titled “From Punishment to Restitution”: 1 2 3 4. Professor Ahmad also tackled the translation of a 15th century manuscript by a Syrian jurist on cases that constitute exceptions to the canon that ‘Silence yields no legal commitment.’ The author of this work classifies the source with which silence may be considered an indicator of a commitment into classes, where it is sometimes interpreted based on action,or statements prior to the silence, a verifiable intention, or scienter (the person knows or should have known something), and the like.
Kevin Anderson (Professor, Sociology) published “Sudan’s Revolution of 2019: At the Crossroads of Africa and the Arab World” in New Politics (Vol. XVII:4, 2020). The article consdiers Sudan’s revolution as not only Arab but also African in a way not seen in the 2011 Arab uprisings. The old regime combined Islamism and a racist form of Arabism with military rule, touching off in response a youthful, democratic, multiethnic, and pro-feminist revolutionary movement that has achieved something akin to dual power. This article is also available in Spanish with translation by Ada de Blas and Pablo Muyo Bussac “La revolución de Sudán de 2019. En el cruce de caminos entre África y el mundo árabe”
Cynthia Kaplan (Professor, Political Science) co-authored “Причины и факторы образовательной миграции из Казахстана” (Reasons and Factors in Educational Migration from Kazakhstan), Central Asia and the Caucasus (21(3), 2020) with In this article, Professor Kaplan and colleagues, use in-depth Using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, the article examines the causes of educational migration from Kazakhstan. It also determines the degree of influence of economic and socio-political factors affecting the choice of the country of study and educational institution.
Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Distinguished Professor, Global Studies and Sociology) published a paper reflecting on the themes of Global Culture, Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity and where we are 30 years on from the publication of Global Culture (1990): Global Culture 1990, 2020, Theory Culture and Society (Annual Review, Global Public Life), 2020: 1-8. Professor Nedererveen Pieterse also published a chapter on “Twenty-first Century Horizons of Development” in the Handbook of Development and Policy (Eds. Habib Zafarullah and Ahmed S. Huque, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar)