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Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan (2025)
Thesis
Harlay, P. C. (2025). Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506990

In this thesis, I explore Taiwanese tea merchants’ roles in the production of “Chinese-style Taiwanese tea culture”. Due to decades of uncertainty relating to the position and status of Taiwan (ROC) in the world, articulations of political and cultur... Read More about Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan.

‘Fighting him’: Following distress in hostile housing regimes (2025)
Journal Article
Storer, E., Simpson, N., Hubbard, E., & Duale, S. (2025). ‘Fighting him’: Following distress in hostile housing regimes. Social Science and Medicine, 385, 118581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118581

This study explores the psychological impacts of the UK housing crisis among a collective of Somali women in Birmingham. We build a framework from anthropological theories of social distress, applied through a participatory methodology consisting of... Read More about ‘Fighting him’: Following distress in hostile housing regimes.

The right to complain can’t solve the housing crisis (2025)
Digital Artefact
Storer, E., Simpson, N., & Duale, S. (2025, October 27). The right to complain can’t solve the housing crisis. LSE British Politics and Policy Blog. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/awaabs-law-the-right-to-complain-cant-solve-the-housing-crisis/

Awaab’s Law, that has just come into effect, gives tenants of social housing new powers against neglectful landlords. But Elizabeth Storer and Nikita Simpson warn that the right to complain, while a step in the right direction, has limited powers ami... Read More about The right to complain can’t solve the housing crisis.

‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation (2025)
Journal Article
Balogun, B. (2025). ‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 1-20. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2025.2570598

Drawing on Polish state archives on eugenics, this article reveals the global dimensions of eugenic practices and the intersected narratives of cleansing, hygiene, and nation-formation in Poland. By telling these narratives anew, the article challeng... Read More about ‘Raciological thinking’: Poland’s narratives of race, eugenics, and nation-formation.

Introduction (2025)
Book Chapter
Colquhoun, A., Graf, K., & West, H. G. (2025). Introduction. In A. Colquhoun, & K. Graf (Eds.), Food Beyond Terroir: Tasting Place and Placing Taste in Global Perspective (pp. 1-26). Berghahn. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.26597731.5