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The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes (2023)
Thesis
Elce, B. The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This interdisciplinary study uses the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) as a case study through which to explore and critique accompaniment as a form of nonviolent, transnational, civil society intervention in the occ... Read More about The accompanier and the accompanied in Occupied Palestine: human rights activism, and the self who intervenes.

Tracing Rhodes: An Ethnography of White Ignorance at Oxford University (2023)
Thesis
Klinkert, V. L. Tracing Rhodes: An Ethnography of White Ignorance at Oxford University. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Inspired by the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) movement and taking to aide Charles Mills’ (2007) concept of white ignorance, this thesis ethnographically explores how white ignorance manifests itself at the University of Oxford. The central aim of this resea... Read More about Tracing Rhodes: An Ethnography of White Ignorance at Oxford University.

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.

Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004) (2023)
Thesis
Boulos, T. Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores theoretical approaches underpinning prison writing with a focus on the writings of Palestinian prisoners of war and administrative detainees who mainly spent many years in incarceration and who started writing in the wake of thei... Read More about Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004).

Embrace me as I am: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan Community surrounding Male Porn Stars (2023)
Thesis
Kodaka, M. Embrace me as I am: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan Community surrounding Male Porn Stars. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This exploratory research looks at female fans of male porn actors in Jôsei-muke Adult Videos (AV) in Japan. Jôsei-muke is a pornographic genre aimed at heterosexual women that features good-looking male porn actors called eromen and lovemen. This ne... Read More about Embrace me as I am: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan Community surrounding Male Porn Stars.

Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan (2020)
Thesis
Khan, M. A. Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis explores the politics and poetics of road making in Pakistan. The material addresses two questions: why do states build roads? What happens to the people and places that roads pass through when roads finally appear? I conducted eleven mont... Read More about Making Them Look the Other Way! The (Ir)rationality of Road Building in the Sindh Borderlands of Pakistan.