Title:Politics of Diversity: Sexual and Religious Self-fashioning in Contemporary and Historical Contexts
Author(s):CALVI, Giulia; FADIL, Nadia; FALEK, Pascale; MICCOLI, Dario; MOSCHEL, Mathias; STORNIG, KatharinaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:Scott’s seminal book ‘Politics of the Veil’ (2007) offers a multifaceted analysis of the French headscarf debate since its emergence in 1989 and a critique of French republican universalism which constructs veiled women ...
Title:Pragmatic Conversions: Mixed marriage and flexibility of Shari'a in interwar Yugoslavia
Author(s):BURIC, FedjaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The paper discusses the cases of pragmatic conversions to, and out of, Islam in interwar Yugoslavia. It analyzes these cases in the context of Sharia law, which, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (Kingdom of ...
Title:Raiffeisenism Abroad: Why did German microfinance fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
Author(s):COLVIN, Christopher L.; MCLAUGHLIN, EoinDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:What was the recipe for the success of Raiffeisen’s banking model? What made it possible for imitations of this German rural cooperative microfinance institution to work well in some European countries, but fail in others? ...
Title:Saranno Rispettati Come Per il Passato. Italian Colonial Policy towards Libyan Religious Endowments
Author(s):GAZZINI, ClaudiaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper offers a survey of Italian colonial policy towards Muslim religious endowments (waqf, pl. awqaf) in Libya from 1911 to 1943. Through an analysis of 41 lawsuits presented to the colonial Court of Appeals and a ...
Title:Shaping Virtuous Friendship: the Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) in late Ming China
Author(s):HOSNE, Ana CarolinaDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:Taking as a starting point his first treatise in Chinese, ‘On Friendship’ (Jiaoyou lun, 1595), this paper aims to analyze the process by which the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci (1583-1610) shaped the concept of virtuous ...
Title:A Short-Lived Backlash: The political economy of wheat protection in Europe in the first half of the 19th century
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2009Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In the first half of the 19th century, the wheat trade policy in Western European countries followed a major political cycle, featuring a massive increase in protection in the late 1810s and early 1820s, and a slow process ...
Title:The Silent Republic: Popular Music and Nationalism in Socialist Croatia
Author(s):VULETIC, DeanDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper explores the development of popular music and its relationship to the political situation in Croatia and Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991, and how global musical trends were used to construct and reinvent Croatian ...