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Accumulating Meanings, Transcending Borders: Appropriations and Transactions of “Hindu-Buddhist” Materials in Early Modern Indonesia (2025)
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Panggah, A. Accumulating Meanings, Transcending Borders: Appropriations and Transactions of “Hindu-Buddhist” Materials in Early Modern Indonesia. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis focuses on the afterlives of ancient materials in Indonesia, a project aiming to contribute to decolonising the field of Indonesian art history and archaeology.1 I pursue this essential purpose by adopting a specific local epistemological... Read More about Accumulating Meanings, Transcending Borders: Appropriations and Transactions of “Hindu-Buddhist” Materials in Early Modern Indonesia.

Routes, Rupture, and Return: Gender, Identity and the Artistic Practices of Diasporic Iranian Women Artists in the US (2025)
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Beaney, L. C. Routes, Rupture, and Return: Gender, Identity and the Artistic Practices of Diasporic Iranian Women Artists in the US. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis focuses on the post-revolution generation of Iranian women artists in the US diaspora and examines their engagement with gender and social identities through creative practices against a backdrop of neoliberalism, transnationalism and dig... Read More about Routes, Rupture, and Return: Gender, Identity and the Artistic Practices of Diasporic Iranian Women Artists in the US.

The Lyric in Lanka: Alternative Histories of Music through the Hugh Nevill Collection (2025)
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Peterson, T. The Lyric in Lanka: Alternative Histories of Music through the Hugh Nevill Collection. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In 1897, a British civil servant named Hugh Nevill (1847–97) left colonial Ceylon with a vast collection of local manuscripts. This collection is now held by the British Library in London and is the largest archive of Sri Lankan manuscripts outside o... Read More about The Lyric in Lanka: Alternative Histories of Music through the Hugh Nevill Collection.

Functions of discourses on heresy: The invention of zandaqah in the early Islamic period (2025)
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Tanaka, Y. Functions of discourses on heresy: The invention of zandaqah in the early Islamic period. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This dissertation attempts to demonstrate that the Arabic word zindīq, an ambiguous appellation to discredit various targets characterized with heretical tendencies (zandaqah), functioned as a rhetorical device through which Muslim authors displayed... Read More about Functions of discourses on heresy: The invention of zandaqah in the early Islamic period.

Female Labour Force Participation and the Care Economy: The Case of Egypt (2025)
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Almadhi, B. A. Female Labour Force Participation and the Care Economy: The Case of Egypt. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

According to official data sources, The MENA region has one of the lowest recorded female labour force participation rates (FLFPR) in the world, averaging 20.2% in 2022 (World Bank, 2024).There is no scarcity in research that attempts to understand t... Read More about Female Labour Force Participation and the Care Economy: The Case of Egypt.

Buddha of Two Faces: interdependent yet opposite systems of meaning in Indic Buddhism (2025)
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Clark, K. Buddha of Two Faces: interdependent yet opposite systems of meaning in Indic Buddhism. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This work presents a new interpretation of Indic Buddhism. It is based on the investigation of a wider range of evidence than has previously been considered in a single work. The evidence includes archaeological finds, the architecture of Buddhist si... Read More about Buddha of Two Faces: interdependent yet opposite systems of meaning in Indic Buddhism.

Bards, patrons and ancestors: myths, aspirations and predicaments of Dalit castes in Saurashtra, India (2025)
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Himalay, G. Bards, patrons and ancestors: myths, aspirations and predicaments of Dalit castes in Saurashtra, India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Dalit caste histories in India typically reveal contradictions within the Hindu ideology and its inherent disposition towards inequality. Dalit histories also carry a record of counterhegemonic interventions, spiritual emancipatory practices, and an... Read More about Bards, patrons and ancestors: myths, aspirations and predicaments of Dalit castes in Saurashtra, India.

The Vietnam Syndrome and the Iraq War: American exceptionalism and the role of domestic public opinion in US military intervention (2025)
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Clayton, J. J. The Vietnam Syndrome and the Iraq War: American exceptionalism and the role of domestic public opinion in US military intervention. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis reinterprets the Vietnam Syndrome that describes the section of US public opinion that has been hesitant to use military intervention since the failure of the Vietnam War. It makes an original contribution to scholarship by arguing that th... Read More about The Vietnam Syndrome and the Iraq War: American exceptionalism and the role of domestic public opinion in US military intervention.

A configurational comparative approach to unpuzzling social strain in refugee, asylum-seeking and host communities in Lebanon and Germany (2025)
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Rogers, T. A configurational comparative approach to unpuzzling social strain in refugee, asylum-seeking and host communities in Lebanon and Germany. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This research investigates the negative experiences of refugee, asylum-seeking, and host communities in Lebanon and Germany and their vulnerability to Cognitive Opening, a response to a catalytic experience where individuals become willing to expose... Read More about A configurational comparative approach to unpuzzling social strain in refugee, asylum-seeking and host communities in Lebanon and Germany.

Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India (2025)
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Chakma, S. B. Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Conservation projects and displacement are two facets of the relationship between the state and the environment. Conservation projects aim to address the threats to the environment and its biodiversity that are undoubtedly real in contemporary times.... Read More about Conservation and Displacement: A Study of Dampa Tiger Reserve (DTR) Forest in Mizoram, Northeast India.

Monetary Subordination in the Eurozone: Fragmentation and tiering of markets and institutions (2025)
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Giordano, M. Monetary Subordination in the Eurozone: Fragmentation and tiering of markets and institutions. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The objective of this thesis is to specify the monetary and financial dimensions of hierarchy and subordination in the European Monetary Union. It seems clear at first sight that the European Monetary Union is riven by such relations, despite the pre... Read More about Monetary Subordination in the Eurozone: Fragmentation and tiering of markets and institutions.

From Slavery to Indenture: Race and Culture Amongst Indians in French Colonial Plantation Societies, 1750-1888 (2025)
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Savage, S. From Slavery to Indenture: Race and Culture Amongst Indians in French Colonial Plantation Societies, 1750-1888. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines the transition from slavery to indenture in the French plantation islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe in the Caribbean and Réunion in the Indian Ocean. It considers how the lived experience of Indian indentured workers was shape... Read More about From Slavery to Indenture: Race and Culture Amongst Indians in French Colonial Plantation Societies, 1750-1888.

More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam (2025)
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Kashyap, M. More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is a qualitative study that explores borders and bordering practices which have constructed, shaped and continue to reshape the contemporary Indian state of Assam. Using mixed methods including community-based research, the thesis critica... Read More about More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam.

Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Making: The Interaction of Internal and External Factors (2025)
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Liu, R. Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Making: The Interaction of Internal and External Factors. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis seeks to build analytical framework bridging the domestic and international factors in driving China’s foreign policy making in Xi’s era. This thesis has been suited with the context of Xi’s first two terms, when it has witnessed with tig... Read More about Understanding China’s Foreign Policy Making: The Interaction of Internal and External Factors.

The Washington versus the Beijing Consensus: The Battle of Economic Policy Ideas and Africa’s Development – A Case Study of Nigeria (2025)
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Olufelo, D. Y. The Washington versus the Beijing Consensus: The Battle of Economic Policy Ideas and Africa’s Development – A Case Study of Nigeria. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis critically examines Nigeria’s economic trajectory under the Washington Consensus and China’s success under the Beijing Consensus, assessing their impacts on trade, foreign direct investment (FDI), infrastructure development, and macroecon... Read More about The Washington versus the Beijing Consensus: The Battle of Economic Policy Ideas and Africa’s Development – A Case Study of Nigeria.

The politics of resistance in semi-authoritarian contexts: human rights in Myanmar, 2008-2021: Opening, Occupying and Policing the Space for Dissent (2025)
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Dussud, M. The politics of resistance in semi-authoritarian contexts: human rights in Myanmar, 2008-2021: Opening, Occupying and Policing the Space for Dissent. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Given the apparent turn in recent years away from increasing democratisation, but not towards outright authoritarianism, it seems timely and important to ask how human rights advocates operate in semi-authoritarian regimes (SARs) where there is latit... Read More about The politics of resistance in semi-authoritarian contexts: human rights in Myanmar, 2008-2021: Opening, Occupying and Policing the Space for Dissent.

Reforming Education and Reforming Subjects: Education reform and students’ aspirations in a senior high school in Ghana (2025)
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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)
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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.

Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets (2025)
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Winstanley, B. Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Conducted in collaboration with the Tower Hamlets based community organisation Osmani Trust, this sociolinguistic ethnography responds to local concerns that Sylheti is undergoing language shift to English. Existing studies have tended to focus on Sy... Read More about Sylheti Repertoires and Sociolinguistic Place-making in Tower Hamlets.