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The Commodification of Sexuality and Gender: A Brazilian Case Study (2025)
Journal Article
Freitas, B. (2025). The Commodification of Sexuality and Gender: A Brazilian Case Study. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043295

This paper explores the commodification of sexuality and gender through a Brazilian case study and bibliographical review, examining its intersectional implications and the detrimental effects on women, particularly those from marginalised background... Read More about The Commodification of Sexuality and Gender: A Brazilian Case Study.

Refusing the ancestry test: Malagasy Ethnic Identity and Genetic Testing (2025)
Journal Article
Rakotonirina, S. (2025). Refusing the ancestry test: Malagasy Ethnic Identity and Genetic Testing. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043296

Through navigating personal and socio-political planes, this essay problematises the use of genetic testing in the Malagasy context, and in its invocation as a form of identity formulation that privileges scientific rationality over storied histories... Read More about Refusing the ancestry test: Malagasy Ethnic Identity and Genetic Testing.

Unpacking Voices of Forced Migration: Personified Significations of the Ubiquitous Plaid Bag in the Works of South African Artists Nobukho Nqaba and Dan Halter (2025)
Journal Article
Mullen, S.-A. (2025). Unpacking Voices of Forced Migration: Personified Significations of the Ubiquitous Plaid Bag in the Works of South African Artists Nobukho Nqaba and Dan Halter. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043298

This research examines how South African artists Nobukho Nqaba and Dan Halter interpret the ubiquitous plaid bag in their artworks to reflect the ineluctable entanglements between migration and identity. Utilising Ferdinand de Saussure’s sign formula... Read More about Unpacking Voices of Forced Migration: Personified Significations of the Ubiquitous Plaid Bag in the Works of South African Artists Nobukho Nqaba and Dan Halter.

'Ghostly Entanglements': Reconsidering Colonial Justice through Hauntology and Feminist Temporalities (2025)
Journal Article
Stainsby, V. A. (2025). 'Ghostly Entanglements': Reconsidering Colonial Justice through Hauntology and Feminist Temporalities. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043299

What if “the dead are never really dead” but come back again to remind us of justice denied?1 Recently, ghosts from the violent legacy of British colonialism have appeared, seeking justice. Legal cases such as Mutua and Keyu invite us to reconsider o... Read More about 'Ghostly Entanglements': Reconsidering Colonial Justice through Hauntology and Feminist Temporalities.

Brianna Ghey and Framing of Transgender People in The Times Newspaper: A Queer Study of Political Communication in Right-Wing British Broadsheets (2025)
Journal Article
Rayner, J. (2025). Brianna Ghey and Framing of Transgender People in The Times Newspaper: A Queer Study of Political Communication in Right-Wing British Broadsheets. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043300

This article explores how politically right-leaning British broadsheets, specifically The Times, frame transgender identities through the case of teenager Brianna Ghey’s murder. Applying a queer constructivist lens and Barad’s intra-action theory, th... Read More about Brianna Ghey and Framing of Transgender People in The Times Newspaper: A Queer Study of Political Communication in Right-Wing British Broadsheets.

Methodologies for Change and Tensions of Tradition and Imagination: Producing Knowledge of Gender Possibility on The Outskirts of Legal Strategy (2025)
Journal Article
Min Leong, R. (2025). Methodologies for Change and Tensions of Tradition and Imagination: Producing Knowledge of Gender Possibility on The Outskirts of Legal Strategy. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043305

Gendered subjects are rendered legible in our political landscape when the law addresses them, and thus law plays an indispensable role in processes of change. Methodologies in gender work to theorise the nuance of lived experiences and individualism... Read More about Methodologies for Change and Tensions of Tradition and Imagination: Producing Knowledge of Gender Possibility on The Outskirts of Legal Strategy.

Artificial Intelligence and the Militarisation of New Media in Egypt: Challenging the Role of Technology in Resistance (2025)
Journal Article
Amaro Monteiro, B. (2025). Artificial Intelligence and the Militarisation of New Media in Egypt: Challenging the Role of Technology in Resistance. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043306

This paper explores the transformative role of technology, focusing on its dual capacity to both empower resistance and reinforce state control. It contrasts the potential emancipatory capacity of social media with the emerging usage of Artificial In... Read More about Artificial Intelligence and the Militarisation of New Media in Egypt: Challenging the Role of Technology in Resistance.

Podcasts and Digital Diasporic Identities: A Case Study of Iranian Diasporas (2025)
Journal Article
de Gaulle, O. (2025). Podcasts and Digital Diasporic Identities: A Case Study of Iranian Diasporas. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043307

The present work explores the formation and expression of digital identities within Iranian diasporas, with a particular focus on podcasts. While Iranian diasporas remain underexplored within diaspora studies, this study addresses this gap by analysi... Read More about Podcasts and Digital Diasporic Identities: A Case Study of Iranian Diasporas.

Mediating Traumatic Memories and a Reality of Absence: Returns/Repatriations of Artefacts as Strategies for Okinawans’ Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission. (2025)
Journal Article
Taillefesse-Barbosa, M. (2025). Mediating Traumatic Memories and a Reality of Absence: Returns/Repatriations of Artefacts as Strategies for Okinawans’ Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043297

In recent repatriation cases, issues regarding geopolitical relations and ownership rights prevail against the symbolic values and meanings attributed to artefacts by source communities. Investigating the recent repatriation case of twenty-two object... Read More about Mediating Traumatic Memories and a Reality of Absence: Returns/Repatriations of Artefacts as Strategies for Okinawans’ Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission..