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Interconnected Security: Non-State Informal Policing in Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Nda-Yakubu, K. (2025). Interconnected Security: Non-State Informal Policing in Africa. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043294

The paper examines the role of non-state informal policing in Africa's crime prevention frameworks across multiple scales, focusing on sub-Saharan Africa, state-level dynamics, and community initiatives. Using Nigeria as a central case, with comparis... Read More about Interconnected Security: Non-State Informal Policing in Africa.

Mediating Traumatic Memories and a Reality of Absence: Returns/Repatriations of Artefacts as Strategies for Okinawans’ Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission. (2025)
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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..

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.

Sino-Russian Approach to Global World Order: Humanitarian interventions as a frame of reference (2025)
Journal Article
Nabil, M. (2025). Sino-Russian Approach to Global World Order: Humanitarian interventions as a frame of reference. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043301

From a vantage point of institutions, the paper examines Sino-Russian responses to UN humanitarian interventions attempting to interpret China and Russia’s world-order policies and strategies within the Global World Order (GWO). Drawing on both reali... Read More about Sino-Russian Approach to Global World Order: Humanitarian interventions as a frame of reference.

The Never Fixed Chinese Characteristics: The Agential Cut of American, Japanese and Chinese Scholars (2025)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y. (2025). The Never Fixed Chinese Characteristics: The Agential Cut of American, Japanese and Chinese Scholars. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043304

Arthur Smith’s Chinese Characteristics (1890) elicited varied responses in the US, China, and Japan. However, scholars often overlook Shibue Tamotsu’s Japanese translation. This paper addresses why Tamotsu’s work has been neglected and examines how S... Read More about The Never Fixed Chinese Characteristics: The Agential Cut of American, Japanese and Chinese Scholars.

The Politicisation of the Work of Art During Times of Political Unrest: Three Layers of Meaning Production (2025)
Journal Article
Gordon, K. (2025). The Politicisation of the Work of Art During Times of Political Unrest: Three Layers of Meaning Production. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 16, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043293

The aim of this article is to show how, during times of political unrest, a work of art can become a site of contestation and negotiation. When this occurs, meaning is produced, reproduced, interpreted, encoded, and aligned with contemporary systems... Read More about The Politicisation of the Work of Art During Times of Political Unrest: Three Layers of Meaning Production.

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.

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.