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The Arrangement of Sūras in the Qurʾān: Continuity and Progression in Language and Themes (2025)
Thesis
Rashid, F. The Arrangement of Sūras in the Qurʾān: Continuity and Progression in Language and Themes. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Studies on the textual coherence of the Qurʾān have focused significantly on the internal structure and connectivity of individual sūra units. At the macro-level, the non-chronological nature of the muṣḥaf sūra sequence has often been viewed by Weste... Read More about The Arrangement of Sūras in the Qurʾān: Continuity and Progression in Language and Themes.

The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India (2025)
Thesis
Singh, T. The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Military wives have recently become the subject of research with an increasing focus on the role of their labour in upholding and reproducing processes of militarisation. This thesis examines the centrality of Indian Army officers’ wives and explores... Read More about The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India.

An examination of the NAM.RA / arnuwala- in the extant Hittite texts – who they were and how they were used in the achievement of Hittite strategic aims, as well as the implications this has for our understanding of the wider Hittite society (2025)
Thesis
Jeffers, L. An examination of the NAM.RA / arnuwala- in the extant Hittite texts – who they were and how they were used in the achievement of Hittite strategic aims, as well as the implications this has for our understanding of the wider Hittite society. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Trying to understand any ancient state or people is made difficult by the restricted resources we have available, with texts often reflecting the views and opinions of the few literate members of that society, usually comprising the upper classes and... Read More about An examination of the NAM.RA / arnuwala- in the extant Hittite texts – who they were and how they were used in the achievement of Hittite strategic aims, as well as the implications this has for our understanding of the wider Hittite society.

Zimbabwean Communities In The United Kingdom: How Ethnic Tensions And Colonial Memory Affect Migrant Identity (2025)
Thesis
Nti Asare, M. Zimbabwean Communities In The United Kingdom: How Ethnic Tensions And Colonial Memory Affect Migrant Identity. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The relationship between the Shona and Ndebele ethnic groups of Zimbabwe is a complicated one with a long history and a complex set of factors. This thesis looks at the history of Zimbabwean ethnic relationship from the founding times of Zimbabwe whe... Read More about Zimbabwean Communities In The United Kingdom: How Ethnic Tensions And Colonial Memory Affect Migrant Identity.

Structural Transformation, Productivity Growth and Employment in Nigeria (2025)
Thesis
Erumebor, W. R. Structural Transformation, Productivity Growth and Employment in Nigeria. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Structural transformation involves the movement of labour from low-productivity to high-productivity sectors. This movement is often accompanied by the expansion of modern high-productivity sectors, creating jobs and increasing productivity and the i... Read More about Structural Transformation, Productivity Growth and Employment in Nigeria.

Navigating the Nation: Travel, Tourism and Identity in Colonial Korea, 1919-1937 (2025)
Thesis
Wearden, C. Navigating the Nation: Travel, Tourism and Identity in Colonial Korea, 1919-1937. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This social and literary history analyses how domestic travel and tourism contributed towards the formation of Korean identity in the colonial period, focusing on the years 1919-1937. It interrogates travel from an experiential perspective – the act... Read More about Navigating the Nation: Travel, Tourism and Identity in Colonial Korea, 1919-1937.

Phenomenology of Embodied Primordial Awareness: The Role of the Body in rDzogs chen from the 11th to 14th Century (2025)
Thesis
Upton, J. Phenomenology of Embodied Primordial Awareness: The Role of the Body in rDzogs chen from the 11th to 14th Century. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

rDzogs chen has received a considerable amount of academic attention over recent decades. Whilst there is an emerging interest in the role of the body within rDzogs chen, there is still relatively little research into the importance of the body withi... Read More about Phenomenology of Embodied Primordial Awareness: The Role of the Body in rDzogs chen from the 11th to 14th Century.

Dominique Bashir Misconi: The Intellectual Formation of a Catholic Orientalist in Iraq (1892-1933) (2025)
Thesis
Misconi, A.-M. Dominique Bashir Misconi: The Intellectual Formation of a Catholic Orientalist in Iraq (1892-1933). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In this thesis I research the impact of academic Orientalism on newly independent Iraq. Debates on Orientalism rarely acknowledge the early 20th century collaborative efforts of ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ Orientalist scholars in the production, transmis... Read More about Dominique Bashir Misconi: The Intellectual Formation of a Catholic Orientalist in Iraq (1892-1933).

Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan (2025)
Thesis
Harlay, P. C. Merchants and Mediators: The Production of a “Chinese-style” Tea Culture in Taiwan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

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.

Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest (2025)
Thesis
Kaletsch, P.-O. Y. Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Contemporary social movement studies critique evaluations of failure as lacking causality and precision. Concept analysis stresses the need for a theoretical examination of core concepts that most empirical and theoretical approaches in the academic... Read More about Reconceptualizing Resistance in Light of the End and Failure of Hong Kong’s 2014 Protest.

Crossing Emotions: Chosŏn Koreans’ Emotions and Emotional Practices towards Modern Society, 1876-1896 (2025)
Thesis
Lee, C. Crossing Emotions: Chosŏn Koreans’ Emotions and Emotional Practices towards Modern Society, 1876-1896. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The historiography of Korea’s modernisation has been narrated to follow a linear progressive process, resulting in rigid periodisation and binary views. This interpretation inevitably juxtaposes the concepts of tradition and modernity and oversimplif... Read More about Crossing Emotions: Chosŏn Koreans’ Emotions and Emotional Practices towards Modern Society, 1876-1896.

Queer Women’s Intimacies and the Making of the Homespace in Northern Nigeria (2025)
Thesis
Banu, S. Z. Queer Women’s Intimacies and the Making of the Homespace in Northern Nigeria. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis addresses the contradictions in dominant discourses on northern Nigeria, which set up the northern Nigerian home as a heteronormative space and cast queer northern Nigerian women as abnormal and queer intimacy as marginal or foreign. The... Read More about Queer Women’s Intimacies and the Making of the Homespace in Northern Nigeria.

Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’ (2025)
Thesis
Solomon, D. Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Contemporary analyses of the crisis of the ‘liberal international order’, and the threat posed to it by China, are deficient. These accounts are based on a particular understanding of the international, and an assumption that China’s contestation of... Read More about Mirroring Hegemony: China’s discursive contestation of the ‘Liberal International Order’.

Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966 (2025)
Thesis
Gipson, F. M. Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines photographs, nianhua posters, ink paintings and oil paintings of Mao Zedong produced up to 1966 to interrogate each medium’s ideological functions, reconsider their position within the wider lineage of traditional Chinese art con... Read More about Picturing Mao: styles and functions of depicting Mao Zedong’s visual image up to 1966.

Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions (2025)
Thesis
Al-Saai, N. Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gulf state laws benefit from religion and custom as sources of legitimacy, particularly when state law’s provisions are based on or similar to them. For example, Arab states sometimes justify their nationality laws, which allow males only to transmit... Read More about Navigating Personal Law in the Gulf: a Sociolegal Analysis of Nationality and Family Law in Qatar and select GCC jurisdictions.

The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa (2025)
Book
Opongo, E., Kaulem, D., Mbula Kilonzo, S., & Njeri, S. (Eds.). (2025). The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan

The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa is a groundbreaking reference resource that offers an interdisciplinary and decolonial exploration of peace, conflict, and security across the African continent. It features theoretical... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa.

Unsettling epistemic hierarchies in peace and conflict studies: the role of early career scholars and South-South collaboration (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Njeri, S., Holanda Maschietto, R., & Bueno, N. (2025, July). Unsettling epistemic hierarchies in peace and conflict studies: the role of early career scholars and South-South collaboration. Paper presented at Associação Brasileira de Relações Internacionais, Sao Paolo

Peace and Conflict scholars have increasingly recognized the global hierarchies in knowledge production, which disproportionately favour scholars and institutions from the Global North. Despite the promise of the “local turn” in peacebuilding, system... Read More about Unsettling epistemic hierarchies in peace and conflict studies: the role of early career scholars and South-South collaboration.