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Understanding the Consumer Sustainable Innovation Adoption Journey: Mapping the Consumer Decision-Making Touchpoints in New Energy Vehicle Adoption between Local and Global Brands in China (2023)
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Li, W. Understanding the Consumer Sustainable Innovation Adoption Journey: Mapping the Consumer Decision-Making Touchpoints in New Energy Vehicle Adoption between Local and Global Brands in China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Promoting sustainability with both economic and societal frameworks has emerged as a pivotal agenda for China. The accentuation of the new energy vehicle (NEVs) industry serves a dual purpose: it mitigates China’s reliance on imported oil and curtail... Read More about Understanding the Consumer Sustainable Innovation Adoption Journey: Mapping the Consumer Decision-Making Touchpoints in New Energy Vehicle Adoption between Local and Global Brands in China.

Human trafficking in the wake of disaster: A phenomenon displaced (2023)
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Weeks, C. Human trafficking in the wake of disaster: A phenomenon displaced. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Disaster is frequently cited as a driver of human trafficking, with claims that typhoons, earthquakes or tsunamis create a chaotic post-disaster environment ripe for traffickers to recruit their victims. Increased poverty, displacement and a breakdow... Read More about Human trafficking in the wake of disaster: A phenomenon displaced.

The mercantile experience of Ottoman Pera in the century after 1453 (2022)
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Gungor, T. The mercantile experience of Ottoman Pera in the century after 1453. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis investigates the mercantile experience of Pera under Ottoman rule. Although there is evidence of some decline in Westerner trade after the conquest of Constantinople, the early Ottoman state is observed to be proactive in their approach t... Read More about The mercantile experience of Ottoman Pera in the century after 1453.

Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran (2022)
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Beyad, M. M. Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to explore the ways in which the Iranian and Iraqi states articulated and represented Gulf regional politics from the late 1960s to the mid-1970s. In recognising the limited amount of work looking at the role of discourses and ideas... Read More about Visions of the Gulf: The Discourse of Arab-Iranian Rivalry and the Geopolitical Imaginations of Ba’thist Iraq and Pahlavi Iran.

An Archaeology of Screenwriting in Indian Cinema, 1930s-1950s (2022)
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Sengupta, R. An Archaeology of Screenwriting in Indian Cinema, 1930s-1950s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Euro-American scholarship on screenwriting has produced elaborate histories of the development of the screenplay form with reference to extensive archival collections of film scenarios and scripts. On the other hand, the archival absence of early... Read More about An Archaeology of Screenwriting in Indian Cinema, 1930s-1950s.

Locating Politics in the Global: (Dis)Entangling Diaspora Governance Practices (2022)
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Craven, C. R. Locating Politics in the Global: (Dis)Entangling Diaspora Governance Practices. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Critical IR scholarship has argued that diaspora are governed in line with global political dynamics that class them as post/neocolonial, or neoliberal economic subjects. Fewer scholarly works have gone into exploring exactly how such structural dyna... Read More about Locating Politics in the Global: (Dis)Entangling Diaspora Governance Practices.

The Impact of Informal and Rural Labour Markets on Poverty Reduction: A Mixed Methods Study of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Northwest Tanzania (2022)
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Goetz, J. M. The Impact of Informal and Rural Labour Markets on Poverty Reduction: A Mixed Methods Study of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Northwest Tanzania. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores labour markets, their importance to rural non-farming income-generating activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, and the ways in which they affect poverty outcomes of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM). It engages critically w... Read More about The Impact of Informal and Rural Labour Markets on Poverty Reduction: A Mixed Methods Study of Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) in Northwest Tanzania.

An Examination of the Enhancement of Technological Capabilities in Global Value Chains: A Comparative Study of the Tuna Industries of Ghana and Thailand (2022)
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Baimbill-Johnson, R. An Examination of the Enhancement of Technological Capabilities in Global Value Chains: A Comparative Study of the Tuna Industries of Ghana and Thailand. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is set against the narrative that African economies can advance their structural transformation agenda through the transfer of knowledge from foreign firms that is assumed to occur by participating in global value chains (GVCs). To invest... Read More about An Examination of the Enhancement of Technological Capabilities in Global Value Chains: A Comparative Study of the Tuna Industries of Ghana and Thailand.

Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati (2022)
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Menon, R. Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

After the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh into Telangana and residual Andhra in 2014, the ruling TDP government announced plans to build an ambitious new capital city, christened Amaravati, on the southern banks of the Krishna River in Guntur district.... Read More about Land-Pooling In Andhra Pradesh, India: A study of protracted dispossession and manufactured compliance in Amaravati.

Spices and perfumes in early medieval globalism and their socio-political effects, 80-494 A.H. /700-1100 A.D. (2022)
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Khatun, T. Spices and perfumes in early medieval globalism and their socio-political effects, 80-494 A.H. /700-1100 A.D. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The aim of this research is to identify and examine the role of perfumes and spices that came from the Indian Ocean trade into the Caliphate, and through there into the Mediterranean trade. This study is a direct challenge to history writing that sug... Read More about Spices and perfumes in early medieval globalism and their socio-political effects, 80-494 A.H. /700-1100 A.D..

Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh (2022)
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Jamal, I. Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores young Bangladeshi new elite actors in development and how they conceptualise and practice new modalities of development. By working with a group of actors who are often overlooked when studying development, especially in the cont... Read More about Developing Moralities: An Ethnographic Study of New Elite Development Actors in Bangladesh.

Singing Sufis in Text: Indo-Persian Music and Sufi Poetics ca. 1250 – 1600 (2022)
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Hofmann, W. R. Singing Sufis in Text: Indo-Persian Music and Sufi Poetics ca. 1250 – 1600. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis traces the history of music and performance practices between Sufi networks and the courts of the Delhi Sultanates and the early Mughal Empire. By scrutinising Persian archival material relating to Sufis, poets, and courtiers, I interroga... Read More about Singing Sufis in Text: Indo-Persian Music and Sufi Poetics ca. 1250 – 1600.

Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study (2022)
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al-Baroud, D. S. Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis tackles the controversial concept of dialogue with the Divine in Sufi literature and its use as an indirect vehicle to transmit a mystically camouflaged social message. The in-depth study offers a modern theoretical framework that examine... Read More about Reflections on Dialogue with The Divine: A Comparative Study.

Public International Law and the Responsibility of Arms-Exporting States (2022)
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Labianco, R. Public International Law and the Responsibility of Arms-Exporting States. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In today’s highly interconnected international community, it is not uncommon for arms exported from a country to end up being used in armed conflicts or violent actions abroad. Contemporary public international law is not indifferent to this indirect... Read More about Public International Law and the Responsibility of Arms-Exporting States.

Towards a multi-dimensional model of impact evaluation quality: assessing development impact evaluation methods with respect to context (2022)
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Juden, M. T. Towards a multi-dimensional model of impact evaluation quality: assessing development impact evaluation methods with respect to context. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

In this thesis, I give an account of the quality of (quasi-)experimental impact evaluation methods for development interventions that goes beyond internal validity considerations to also incorporate the transferability of findings to new contexts. To... Read More about Towards a multi-dimensional model of impact evaluation quality: assessing development impact evaluation methods with respect to context.

Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics: Social Protection and its Implication on Rural Poverty Dynamics in India (2022)
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Gupta, S. Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics: Social Protection and its Implication on Rural Poverty Dynamics in India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis is set to examine the nature of rural poverty dynamics in India and its relation to social protection schemes. In place of static monetary or consumption-based measures, the thesis focuses on multidimensional poverty measures which is able... Read More about Multidimensional Poverty Dynamics: Social Protection and its Implication on Rural Poverty Dynamics in India.

Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles (2022)
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Fisher, C. S. Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Political scientists have under-studied those who actually “do” formal politics – politicians, particularly those operating below the level of heads of state. This neglect has been acute in African politics, resulting from, and contributing to, a gen... Read More about Doing Democracy in Malawi: MPs and their Home Styles.

Collective Sustenance and the Environment: A Political Economy Analysis of Tourism in Himachal Pradesh, India (2022)
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Chakravorty, S. P. Collective Sustenance and the Environment: A Political Economy Analysis of Tourism in Himachal Pradesh, India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Himalayas have long been a source of attraction for people for its resources that have encouraged its use and exploitation by the government since colonial times. The Himalayan terrain has typically been favoured for the tourism industry owing to... Read More about Collective Sustenance and the Environment: A Political Economy Analysis of Tourism in Himachal Pradesh, India.

The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe l’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China (2022)
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Chen, C.-E. The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe l’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to present an alternate conception of Qing trompe l’oeil porcelain, which fools the eye, appearing real while being materially different from its referent model. Typically it is so skilful that it can be visually mistaken for the ori... Read More about The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe l’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China.