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

The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa (2025)
Book
Opongo, E., Kaulem, D., Mbula Kilonzo, S., & Njeri, S. (Eds.). (2025). The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan

The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa is a groundbreaking reference resource that offers an interdisciplinary and decolonial exploration of peace, conflict, and security across the African continent. It features theoretical... Read More about The Palgrave Handbook of Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa.

Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture (2025)
Journal Article
Deacon, C. (2025). Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture. International Political Sociology, 19(3), Article olaf018. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf018

In recent years, scholars have paid increasing attention to the role of memory in world politics. Within this literature, contentious memory politics have been shown to play an outsized role in many international relationships, especially among post-... Read More about Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture.

Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure (2025)
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Novak, P. (2025). Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure. Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.18323803

This book offers a fresh perspective on the European migration crisis, chronicling its everyday realities in a central Italian province. Through vivid ethnographic accounts, it reveals how the forces and relations animating this crisis are reproduced... Read More about Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure.

Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems (2025)
Journal Article
Graf, S., Blaschke, N., & Oya, C. (online). Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems. Journal of Agrarian Change, Article e70022. https://doi.org/10.1111/joac.70022

This paper synthesizes and systematizes existing empirical knowledge on agrarian class relations in West Africa. It contributes to the debate on agrarian transitions, which largely neglects coexisting diverse forms of class relations in land, labour... Read More about Is Surplus Appropriated Differently in Cereals, Cocoa and Cattle Production? A Systematic Literature Analysis of Class Relations in West African Farming Systems.

“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution (2025)
Journal Article
George, N. (2025). “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution. American Historical Review, 130(2), 600-637. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaf007

While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution and its guides. This is especially the case in the former colonial world in the era of de... Read More about “Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution.

Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. (2025)
Journal Article
Ince, O. U. (online). Book Review: Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism by Inés Valdez Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and Social Reproduction of Capitalism, by ValdezInés, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, 238 pp. Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/00905917251344229

Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases (2025)
Journal Article
Fajrini, R. (in press). Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 129 - 156. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00506562

This paper analyses 321 civil environmental cases in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, identifying patterns and trends over the past decade. The findings reveal a growing public interest dimension in these civil cases, marked by the rise of public interes... Read More about Lessons from a Decade of Indonesia Environmental Litigation: Accommodating Public Interests in Civil Liability Cases.

Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court (2025)
Journal Article
Grijalva, A. (in press). Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court. Law, environment and development journal, 21(1), 110 - 128. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00506557

In this essay I analyse some relationships among the rights of nature and the human right to a healthy environment. I show these relationships describing several rulings of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court, and specially the Los Cedros judgement,... Read More about Rights of Nature and the right to a healthy environment: Jurisprudence of the Ecuadorian Constitutional Court.