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This section – powered by Altmetrics – shows the top 50 papers (out of 960 papers) published in Week 32 of 2020 (from 3 August to 9 August) in the category ‘Area Studies’ with their respective Altmetric Attention Scores max. 14 days after their publication.

 
August 2020

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Altmetric Attention Score: 20
History, legitimacy, and Renamo's return to arms in central Mozambique
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
2
Altmetric Attention Score: 13
The terrorist and the mercenary: Private warriors against Nigeria’s Boko Haram
African Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-05
3
Altmetric Attention Score: 9
The when, what, where and why of European Union sanctions
European Security | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-04
4
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Populism and Euro-Mediterranean cooperation: The Barcelona process 25 years after
Mediterranean Politics | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-05
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 8
Kinship and gendered economic conduct in matrilineal Offinso, Ghana
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
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Altmetric Attention Score: 7
Tipu Sultan, the Power of the Past and the Possibility of a ‘Historical Temper’
South Asia | History Area Studies 2020-08-06
7
Altmetric Attention Score: 6
Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire by David R. Ambaras
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
8
Altmetric Attention Score: 5
The PKK’s Ideological Odyssey
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-03
9
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
How to Read a Japanese Poem by Steven D. Carter
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
To Whom Does the City Belong? Obstacles to Right to the City for the Urban Poor in Bangladesh
Journal of Contemporary Asia | Area Studies 2020-08-03
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Anti-Nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo: Power Struggles by Alexander Brown, and: Networks and Mobilization Processes: The Case of the Japanese Anti-Nuclear Movement after Fukushima by Anna Wiemann
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 4
Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan by Sabine Frühstück
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
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Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Soka Gakkai's Human Revolution: The Rise of a Mimetic Nation in Modern Japan by Levi McLaughlin
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Re-Examining the Nexus between Madrasa Education and Politics in Bangladesh
South Asia | History Area Studies 2020-08-03
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
On the Persistence of the Japanese "History Problem": Historicism and the International Politics of History by Hitomi Koyama
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Land, Power, and the Sacred: The Estate System in Medieval Japan ed. by Janet R. Goodwin and Joan R. Piggott
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
“Completely Forgotten and Totally Ignored”: Czechoslovak Veterans of the Austro-Hungarian Army and the Transitions of 1918-1919
Nationalities Papers | Political Science History Area Studies 2020-08-06
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Governing the Ungovernable: Performing and Contesting Chris Hani’s Legacy at the Hani Memorial
Journal of Southern African Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-03
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
How many truths are there? Reconciliation and agonistic dialogue in the former Yugoslavia
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-07
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Becoming militant: embodying the Guinean revolution and Guinea–China relations
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms by Wai-Ming Ng
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
A Conversion to Civil Society? The Incomplete Reconfiguration of the Hizbullah Movement in Turkey
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-08
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 3
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. Ward
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
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Altmetric Attention Score: 2
Colonial Taiwan: Negotiating Identities and Modernity through Literature by Pei-yin Lin
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
Border crimes, extraterritorial jurisdiction, and the racialization of sovereignty in the Ethiopia–British Somaliland borderlands during the 1920s
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
Elders and transactional relationships in Sierra Leone: rethinking synchronic approaches
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life by Annmaria M. Shimabuku
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
The Peace Process between Turkey and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, 2009–2015
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-03
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
The Ghost of Namamugi: Charles Lenox Richardson and the Anglo-Satsuma War by Robert S. G. Fletcher
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
Re-thinking Religion and Empire: Non-State Organizations from the Knights Hospitallers to ISIS
Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-05
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
A Sociological Survey of Japanese International Relations Journals and University Education: Still a Discipline ‘In Between’?
Social Science Japan Journal | Area Studies 2020-08-06
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 2
Lofty ideals in aerial connectivity: ideology in the urban cable car network of Tbilisi, Georgia
Eurasian Geography and Economics | Geography Area Studies 2020-08-05
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Altmetric Attention Score: 1
The North Korea Problem: Perspectives on the Nuclear Debate, Economic Reforms and Beyond
Journal of Contemporary Asia | Area Studies 2020-08-06
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Russian “cognitive propaganda”: the case of Impressum Club in Tallinn
Post-Soviet Affairs | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-07
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Does energy cause ethnic war? East mediterranean and Caspian sea. natural gas and regional conflicts
Southeast European and Black Sea Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-07
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Changing and Unchanging Things: Noguchi and Hasegawa in Postwar Japan by Dakin Hart and Mark Dean Johnson
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Japanese War Criminals: The Politics of Justice After the Second World War by Sandra Wilson et al.
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Philani Mthembu, China and India's Development Cooperation in Africa: the rise of Southern powers. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (hb £109.99 – 978 3 319 69501 3; pb £74.99 – 978 3 030 09891 9). 2018, 199 pp.
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
47: The True Story of the Vendetta of the 47 Ronin from Akō by Thomas Harper
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Name, Shame, and Jail: An Interview with Anas Aremeyaw Anas
African Studies Review | Area Studies 2020-08-05
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples by Kirsten L. Ziomek
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
The Precariousness of Protection: Civilian Defense Groups Countering Boko Haram in Northeastern Nigeria
African Studies Review | Area Studies 2020-08-06
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Delayed ratification in environmental regimes: Indonesia’s ratification of the ASEAN agreement on transboundary haze pollution
Pacific Review | Political Science Area Studies 2020-08-03
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Guy Scott, Adventures in Zambian Politics: a story in black and white. Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner (hb US$45 – 978 1 62637 759 2). 2019, 259 pp.
Africa | Area Studies 2020-08-04
 
Altmetric Attention Score: 1
Rethinking Japan: The Politics of Contested Nationalism by Arthur Stockwin and Kweku Ampiah
Journal of Japanese Studies | Area Studies 2020-08-09