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Reforming Education and Reforming Subjects: Education reform and students’ aspirations in a senior high school in Ghana (2025)
Thesis
Ahmed, A. Reforming Education and Reforming Subjects: Education reform and students’ aspirations in a senior high school in Ghana. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines senior high school students’ career aspirations in the contexts of both free education and youth unemployment in Ghana. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a boy’s school, it examines what factors have influenced students’ aspirat... Read More about Reforming Education and Reforming Subjects: Education reform and students’ aspirations in a senior high school in Ghana.

Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India (2025)
Thesis
Krishnakumar, J. Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Sex workers in India have long battled singular, stereotypical representations of themselves as victim-criminals, or, as ‘key populations’ in India’s HIV/AIDS Targeted Intervention programmes since the late 1980s through the 1990s. This thesis engage... Read More about Playgrounds of Resistance: A Patchwork Ethnography of Sex Workers’ Sociopolitical Collectivisation in South & West India.

Air Blood Buildings (2024)
Book Chapter
Wuttke, N. (2025). Air Blood Buildings. In D. Mattes, J. Kehr, J. Koroknai, F. Rosenbau, H. Kurz, C. Lang, C. Meier zu Biesen, & E. Voss (Eds.), cache 04 Radical Health. intercomverlag

Beyond Heroes and Villains: Persisting With Autonomy on a Plantation Frontier (2024)
Journal Article
Rudge, A. (2024). Beyond Heroes and Villains: Persisting With Autonomy on a Plantation Frontier. Environmental Humanities, 16(3), 766-783. https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-11327412

Oil palm plantations often produce figurations of heroism and villainy attributed to human and nonhuman actors. Yet these categories may mask the subtleties of local experiences. Indigenous Batek people in Malaysia highly value the autonomy of both p... Read More about Beyond Heroes and Villains: Persisting With Autonomy on a Plantation Frontier.

Securitized trust: on the multiple guises of the UK policy agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic (2024)
Journal Article
Wuerth, M., Storer, E., Simpson, N., & Sarafian, I. (online). Securitized trust: on the multiple guises of the UK policy agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic. Critical Policy Studies, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2024.2429709

Against the backdrop of the uncertainty that characterized the COVID-19 pandemic, trust emerged as a key term employed by public officials and policymakers in the UK to represent the existence or dissolution of state–society relationships. Despite it... Read More about Securitized trust: on the multiple guises of the UK policy agenda during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Jaspars, S., & Kuol, L. B. D. (2025). Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction. Disasters, 49(1), Article e12669. https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.12669

Over the past decade, famine and food insecurity have increased, yet there have been few articles with a critical analysis of their social and political dynamics. This special issue of Disasters aims to revive such analysis and to provide new insight... Read More about Famine and food security: new trends and systems or politics as usual? An introduction.

Substitution (2024)
Other
(2024). Substitution. Arlington, VA

Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for granted as a natural or insignificant process. Yet attention to substitution, including when and how it takes p... Read More about Substitution.

Substitution: Introduction (2024)
Digital Artefact
Ulrich, K., Rudge, A., & Ehrenstein, V. (2024). Substitution: Introduction. [Blog post]