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Routes, Rupture, and Return: Gender, Identity and the Artistic Practices of Diasporic Iranian Women Artists in the US (2025)
Thesis
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.

Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema (2024)
Journal Article
Rawnsley, M.-Y., Moss-Wellington, W., & Loo, Y. M. (2025). Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema. East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, 11(1), 9-25. https://doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00117_1

This article contributes to two relatively under-researched areas in the existing literature of Taiwanese popular culture and film studies – Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema. We compare five case studies in Taiwanese-language... Read More about Representation of intersectional and cultural identities in Taiwanese-language port city cinema.

From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape (2022)
Journal Article
Xu, C. (2023). From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape. Food, Culture & Society, 26(3), 775-792. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2022.2046990

In the early 1990s, foreign foods were reintroduced into the everyday life of ordinary people in Beijing. As the city ascends to the top on the global hierarchy of urban places, its transnational food practices have evolved drastically. Proposing “co... Read More about From culinary modernism to culinary cosmopolitanism: the changing topography of Beijing’s transnational foodscape.

Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses (2022)
Journal Article
Graf, K. (2022). Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 28(2), 577-594. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.13708

In this article, I explore how cooking knowledge is constituted and show that a sense of taste is central to it. Drawing on the thick description of domestic couscous preparation in Marrakech, Morocco, I treat taste both as a multisensory form of kno... Read More about Taste knowledge: couscous and the cook's six senses.

Recentring the National Self: The Trajectory of National Selfhood in Social Studies education (2021)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2021). Recentring the National Self: The Trajectory of National Selfhood in Social Studies education. In C. Shei (Ed.), Taiwan: Manipulation of Ideology and Struggle for Identity (36-54). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351047845-4

This chapter considers how the ‘national self’ is constructed through primary education and its impact on students’ identity. Combing through the 72 social studies textbooks and mapping out various self-references, it traces the genealogy of the idea... Read More about Recentring the National Self: The Trajectory of National Selfhood in Social Studies education.

Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways (2020)
Journal Article
Graf, K., & Mescoli, E. (2020). Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways. Food, Culture & Society, 23(4), 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2020.1773692

This introduction and special issue explores the legacy of Claude Lévi-Strauss for the study of contemporary foodways. We revisit Lévi-Strauss’ structural writing about food through different angles. To begin with, based on our ethnographic research... Read More about Special issue introduction: from nature to culture? Lévi-Strauss legacy and the study of contemporary foodways.

The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution? (2019)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2019). The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?. In W. Alford, J. Cohen, & C.-F. Lo (Eds.), Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (155-172). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0350-0_10

This chapter contributes to the growing literature on international human rights and National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Taiwan. Despite decades of debate, Taiwan has never established a NHRI that complies with international human rights no... Read More about The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?.

Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration (2018)
Journal Article
Caldwell, E. (2018). Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration. Washington international law journal, 27(2), 449-484

The Republic of China on Taiwan (“Taiwan”) successfully and peacefully transitioned from authoritarian, one-party rule into a constitutional democracy in the early 1990s. However, due to the island’s complex international status and fraught relations... Read More about Transitional Justice Legislation in Taiwan Before and During the Tsai Administration.

Chinese Constitutionalism: Five-Power Constitution (2017)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2017). Chinese Constitutionalism: Five-Power Constitution. In R. Grote, F. Lachenmann, & R. Wolfrum (Eds.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford University Press