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Rethinking Approaches To The Study Of Islamist Movements In West Asia And North Africa: Methodological And Ethical Reflections (2023)
Journal Article
McDonald, C. (2023). Rethinking Approaches To The Study Of Islamist Movements In West Asia And North Africa: Methodological And Ethical Reflections. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040647

The study of Islamist movements in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) has long benefited from a formative corpus of research—largely consisting of fieldwork conducted in the 1990s and/or 2000s which often entailed directly engaging with Islamists—that... Read More about Rethinking Approaches To The Study Of Islamist Movements In West Asia And North Africa: Methodological And Ethical Reflections.

Forest Bond Financing In The Global South: The Ecological And Social Contexts Of A Market-Based Solution For Sustainability Of Forests (2023)
Journal Article
Nemecek, D. (2023). Forest Bond Financing In The Global South: The Ecological And Social Contexts Of A Market-Based Solution For Sustainability Of Forests. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040648

This article aims to follow up on the efforts to make a case for critical study of green bonds and, more generally, market-based financing of sustainability of forests. The article introduces the instrument of forest bonds and explores cases of proj... Read More about Forest Bond Financing In The Global South: The Ecological And Social Contexts Of A Market-Based Solution For Sustainability Of Forests.

Adat In Indonesian Law And Society: A Tool To Build Resilience And Overcome Diversity Through Cultural And Legal Pluralism (2023)
Journal Article
Simonetti, M. (2023). Adat In Indonesian Law And Society: A Tool To Build Resilience And Overcome Diversity Through Cultural And Legal Pluralism. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040649

Legal pluralism—the presence of more than one legal order within the same country—is intrinsically linked to cultural, social, religious, and legal dimensions. In Indonesia, it takes the form of adatrecht or customary law, which—after a period of str... Read More about Adat In Indonesian Law And Society: A Tool To Build Resilience And Overcome Diversity Through Cultural And Legal Pluralism.

Decolonising Borderwork: Indigenous Knowledges, Agencies, And Sustainable Agricultural Development In Uganda (2023)
Journal Article
Grant, L. (2023). Decolonising Borderwork: Indigenous Knowledges, Agencies, And Sustainable Agricultural Development In Uganda. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040650

Whereas little research has traced the displacement and relocation of Indigenous peoples engaged in subsistence agriculture generally in Africa, even less has examined what happens to Indigenous knowledge when such communities are forced to relocate,... Read More about Decolonising Borderwork: Indigenous Knowledges, Agencies, And Sustainable Agricultural Development In Uganda.

Disruption And Resilience In Finance: Social Media, Online Brokers, And The Entrance Of Retail Investors (2023)
Journal Article
Cortes Rondoy, J., & Sanchez, A. (2023). Disruption And Resilience In Finance: Social Media, Online Brokers, And The Entrance Of Retail Investors. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040651

The world’s financial system is being disrupted. Several factors add up to trigger this fundamental change, such as financial technology (FinTech) companies or cryptocurrencies. This article focuses on another one of the main disruptive drivers: reta... Read More about Disruption And Resilience In Finance: Social Media, Online Brokers, And The Entrance Of Retail Investors.

Displaying Iran In Berlin: Observations On (Missed?) Opportunities In Crisis (2023)
Journal Article
Kabelitz, F. (2023). Displaying Iran In Berlin: Observations On (Missed?) Opportunities In Crisis. SOAS journal of postgraduate research, 15(2022-2023), https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00040654

This article provides a critical review of the exhibition Iran: Five Millennia of Art and Culture, held at Berlin’s James-Simon-Galerie between December 2021 and March 2022. While its galleries provided a beautiful, respectful, and highly educational... Read More about Displaying Iran In Berlin: Observations On (Missed?) Opportunities In Crisis.

The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893 (2023)
Thesis
Lu, J. The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to overcome the essentialist conception of Chinese politics as inherently authoritarian, the modernist view of statism as representing a rupture in Chinese political culture, and the teleological reconstruction of modern Chinese hist... Read More about The State as the Celestial: Roots of Statism in Modern China, 1820-1893.

Reflections on Spiritual Tourism and Journeys of Self-Discovery with Jens Augspurger [interviewed by Daillen Culver and Megan Douglas] (2023)
Digital Artefact
Augspurger, J. U. Reflections on Spiritual Tourism and Journeys of Self-Discovery with Jens Augspurger [interviewed by Daillen Culver and Megan Douglas]. [Podcast]

In this episode, we speak with Jens Augspurger, PhD candidate in Religious Studies at SOAS and a doctoral fellow of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Academic Foundation). Jens takes us through his curvy research journey looking at ‘s... Read More about Reflections on Spiritual Tourism and Journeys of Self-Discovery with Jens Augspurger [interviewed by Daillen Culver and Megan Douglas].

What African Green Feminist Power Has to Offer (2022)
Journal Article
Hiraide, L. A., & Dorothy, A. J. (in press). What African Green Feminist Power Has to Offer. Green European journal (Printed),

For far too long, narratives by donors, development agencies, and environmental organisations in the Global North have paraded pictures of helpless women and girls on the African continent. What these representations fail to capture is that many of t... Read More about What African Green Feminist Power Has to Offer.

South Korea (2022)
Book Chapter
Lee, Y. South Korea. In A. Shahbaz, A. Funk, & K. Vesteinsson (Eds.), Freedom on the Net 2022: Countering an Authoritarian Overhaul of the Internet. Freedom House