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Dominique Bashir Misconi: The Intellectual Formation of a Catholic Orientalist in Iraq (1892-1933) (2025)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

Investigating the Interface Between Maternal Employment, Health, and Well-Being Amongst Turkey’s Homebased Workers (2025)
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Onursal, K. I. Investigating the Interface Between Maternal Employment, Health, and Well-Being Amongst Turkey’s Homebased Workers. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis considers the intersection between home-based employment, health and wellbeing, focusing particularly on the pregnancy, post-partum and pre-school years, as these are typically those which are most time intensive and involve periods of ho... Read More about Investigating the Interface Between Maternal Employment, Health, and Well-Being Amongst Turkey’s Homebased Workers.

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.