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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.

Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict (2024)
Book
Janson, M., Kresse, K., Pontzen, B., & Mwakimako, H. (Eds.). (2024). Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict. James Currey. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.11589133

Grounded in ethnographic and historiographic research and taking a cross-regional approach, this book explores the complex dynamics of similarity and difference, rapprochement and detachment, and divergence and competition between practitioners of Ch... Read More about Religious Plurality in Africa: Coexistence, Conviviality, Conflict.

Spatial Orientations: Negotiating Class, Islam and Difference in Dhaka City (2023)
Thesis
Hutschenreiter, P. Spatial Orientations: Negotiating Class, Islam and Difference in Dhaka City. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis unpacks the religious-secular becomings of upper middle-class Muslims in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taking the assumption that the religious and the secular are lived together, I discuss not only how the secular and the religious are borrowed fro... Read More about Spatial Orientations: Negotiating Class, Islam and Difference in Dhaka City.

The Female Protestor : Sexual violence and the making and unmaking of the state in Egypt post January 25, 2011 (2019)
Thesis
Pinilla, M. A. The Female Protestor : Sexual violence and the making and unmaking of the state in Egypt post January 25, 2011. (Thesis). SOAS, University of London

Secular feminist activists have been the focus of previous research in Egypt. Yet the link of
this constituency to the historical event that propelled its emergence has received little
attention. Moreover, the specific significance of the female pr... Read More about The Female Protestor : Sexual violence and the making and unmaking of the state in Egypt post January 25, 2011.

Studying Islam and Christianity in Africa: Moving Beyond a Bifurcated Field (2016)
Other
(2016). Studying Islam and Christianity in Africa: Moving Beyond a Bifurcated Field. Cambridge

A special issue of Africa on the comparative study of Islam and Christianity in Africa, with response papers by the late John Peel, Birgit Meyer, Brian Larkin, and Ebenezer Obadare, and articles by Marloes Janson and Benjamin Soares.