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As Long as the System Prevails: Archives and Temporalities of Indenture 1830-1920 (2025)
Thesis
Wright, M. F. (2025). As Long as the System Prevails: Archives and Temporalities of Indenture 1830-1920 [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773809

This thesis is concerned with the construction and staging of productive labour in colonial discourses surrounding Indian indentured labour from 1830-1920. It explores the shifting and tangled relationship between the law and the economy, and sketche... Read More about As Long as the System Prevails: Archives and Temporalities of Indenture 1830-1920.

The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China: The Perspective of a Chinese Practitioner (2025)
Thesis
Wang, X. (2025). The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China: The Perspective of a Chinese Practitioner [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773325

Academic attention accompanying the global rise of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has generated a burgeoning literature, and with China’s accelerated integration into economic globalisation over the past three decades, the study of CSR in Chin... Read More about The Rise of Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China: The Perspective of a Chinese Practitioner.

Music-making in a Paediatric Hospital: A Reflexive Study of Musician Practice (2025)
Thesis
Hawley, R. M. C. (2025). Music-making in a Paediatric Hospital: A Reflexive Study of Musician Practice [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773315

My thesis is a reflexive study of my work as a musician in a UK paediatric hospital. My research examines how an ethnomusicological study of therapeutic music practice contributes to understanding processes of musical performance and interaction. Bui... Read More about Music-making in a Paediatric Hospital: A Reflexive Study of Musician Practice.

Chinese Technology Sector Investment into the EU: Securitisation and the Delegitimation of Chinese Economic Power (2025)
Thesis
Thumpston, D. A. (2025). Chinese Technology Sector Investment into the EU: Securitisation and the Delegitimation of Chinese Economic Power [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00773303

As China’s economy has developed, Chinese firms have become sophisticated and globalised, investing in emerging technologies and critical infrastructure sectors in advanced economies. This, in turn, has led to pushback and rejection of Chinese firms... Read More about Chinese Technology Sector Investment into the EU: Securitisation and the Delegitimation of Chinese Economic Power.

Diamonds, Thunderbolts and Immaculate Perfection: A Glimpse into the Many Facets of the Vajropama-samādhi (2025)
Thesis
Cherry, P. (2025). Diamonds, Thunderbolts and Immaculate Perfection: A Glimpse into the Many Facets of the Vajropama-samādhi [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00770840

This thesis examines the early evolution of the ‘vajra-like samādhi’ (vajropama-samādhi). The term appears in a broad selection of Buddhist literature and takes on a variety of functions, most commonly appearing as a destructive climax to the spiritu... Read More about Diamonds, Thunderbolts and Immaculate Perfection: A Glimpse into the Many Facets of the Vajropama-samādhi.

Coercion and Co-option: Strategies of Labour Control and Labour Survival in the Indian E-commerce Warehouses: An Amazon India Case Study (2025)
Thesis
Telange, S. (2025). Coercion and Co-option: Strategies of Labour Control and Labour Survival in the Indian E-commerce Warehouses: An Amazon India Case Study [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00727196

This research explores the dynamics of labour-capital relations and the nature of the labour regime at three Amazon.in warehouses located in Maharashtra, India’s most industrialised state, as measured by its share of total economic output. It is the... Read More about Coercion and Co-option: Strategies of Labour Control and Labour Survival in the Indian E-commerce Warehouses: An Amazon India Case Study.

Unearthing the Fiqh of Reorganization: A comparative and historical analysis of insolvency theories with an emphasis on the experience of the Kingdom of Bahrain (2025)
Thesis
Thomas, A. (2025). Unearthing the Fiqh of Reorganization: A comparative and historical analysis of insolvency theories with an emphasis on the experience of the Kingdom of Bahrain [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00725346

Although reorganization theory has become widely accepted, Islamic jurisprudence (“fiqh”) fails to address it. Despite a rich history of addressing the insolvency of natural persons, fiqh has no meaningful discussion of the reorganization of a legal... Read More about Unearthing the Fiqh of Reorganization: A comparative and historical analysis of insolvency theories with an emphasis on the experience of the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Exploring Anthropogenic Climate Change as a Driver of Labour Migration and Livelihood Change: A Qualitative Case Study of Rural-to-Urban Migration in Bangladesh (2025)
Thesis
Plowman, A. (2025). Exploring Anthropogenic Climate Change as a Driver of Labour Migration and Livelihood Change: A Qualitative Case Study of Rural-to-Urban Migration in Bangladesh [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00724075

As the impact of anthropogenic climate change on global weather systems becomes increasingly observable, and as scientific projections indicate that this is likely to worsen, academic and policy circles have sought to understand the likely impact of... Read More about Exploring Anthropogenic Climate Change as a Driver of Labour Migration and Livelihood Change: A Qualitative Case Study of Rural-to-Urban Migration in Bangladesh.

The political economy of structural change: a case study of Egypt and Turkey 1980-2010 (2025)
Thesis
Wolff, B. (2025). The political economy of structural change: a case study of Egypt and Turkey 1980-2010 [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00722717

Neoliberal development policies both inspired by, and implemented under, the IMF and World Bank’s structural adjustment programmes (“SAP”) were widely adopted by late developing countries from the 1980s onwards. The overall results were mixed; where... Read More about The political economy of structural change: a case study of Egypt and Turkey 1980-2010.

Contemporary Expressions of Ainu Living Culture: worlds (re)created and (re)claimed through music and language (2025)
Thesis
Nummelin, G. L. (2025). Contemporary Expressions of Ainu Living Culture: worlds (re)created and (re)claimed through music and language [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/soas.00722408

The Ainu of Japan were once considered a dying culture. Centuries of colonialism and discriminatory policies, along with the impact of disease and conflict, decimated the population. This, along with ongoing discrimination, led many Ainu to hide thei... Read More about Contemporary Expressions of Ainu Living Culture: worlds (re)created and (re)claimed through music and language.

“Mulgi shikali, pragati zali”? Reimagining education, development, and progress with rural girls in India (2025)
Thesis
Anita, S. N. (2025). “Mulgi shikali, pragati zali”? Reimagining education, development, and progress with rural girls in India [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00720518

This thesis critically explores the significance of education in the lives of rural and Adivasi girls in India, situating it within a conceptualisation of education as a double-edged “weapon”. Examining how gender, development, and education orthodox... Read More about “Mulgi shikali, pragati zali”? Reimagining education, development, and progress with rural girls in India.

Seeking, Being, Becoming: The Spiritual Life Journeys of LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Muslims (2025)
Thesis
Dahar, R. (2025). Seeking, Being, Becoming: The Spiritual Life Journeys of LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Muslims [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00644481

This thesis explores the spiritual, political and philosophical project that is and constitutes becoming queer/trans Muslim. Scholarly and other literature tends to frame journeys of becoming in a Eurocentric way, focusing on the singular hero’s indi... Read More about Seeking, Being, Becoming: The Spiritual Life Journeys of LGBTQIA+ and Feminist Muslims.

A Political Settlement Analysis of the Challenges of Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Industry (2025)
Thesis
Kofon, E. (2025). A Political Settlement Analysis of the Challenges of Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Industry [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00644257

Nigeria’s pharmaceutical industry remains locked in a low productivity equilibrium, with manufacturing concentrated in similar lower end therapeutic categories and limited technological upgrading. This is despite key policies and institutional reform... Read More about A Political Settlement Analysis of the Challenges of Nigeria’s Pharmaceutical Industry.

Seeing Like an Opposition Leader: Elite Psychology and Electoral Institutions in Zambia’s Multi-Party Era (2025)
Thesis
Ngenda, M. K. (2025). Seeing Like an Opposition Leader: Elite Psychology and Electoral Institutions in Zambia’s Multi-Party Era [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00642578

This thesis aims to explain the interrelated evolution of Zambian opposition parties’ approaches to electoral competition and the character of electoral institutions over the period from 1991 to 2021, contributing to debates on the trajectory of demo... Read More about Seeing Like an Opposition Leader: Elite Psychology and Electoral Institutions in Zambia’s Multi-Party Era.

Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: The Case of Cyprus Under Ottoman and British Rule, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries (2025)
Thesis
Gökel, S. (2025). Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: The Case of Cyprus Under Ottoman and British Rule, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00640724

This thesis first presents an overview of the Ottoman Empire’s attitudes towards leprosy. It then examines the initial formation of leprosy control in the British Empire, which were characterised by underlying western perceptions with regard to geogr... Read More about Leprosy, Empire and Exclusion: The Case of Cyprus Under Ottoman and British Rule, Nineteenth to Twentieth Centuries.

The Vernacular Buildings of the Ethiopian Monasteries and their Wider Communities at Lake Tana (2025)
Thesis
Womersley, M. (2025). The Vernacular Buildings of the Ethiopian Monasteries and their Wider Communities at Lake Tana [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00630133

This thesis advances the study of vernacular architecture found in nine Christian Orthodox monasteries around Lake Tana, the largest lake in Ethiopia. Located in the northern part of the country, it is situated to the far south of the Gondar region.... Read More about The Vernacular Buildings of the Ethiopian Monasteries and their Wider Communities at Lake Tana.

The Responsibility to Protect: Promising Protection, Sustaining Crisis: The Case of Darfur (2025)
Thesis
Idriss, M. (2025). The Responsibility to Protect: Promising Protection, Sustaining Crisis: The Case of Darfur [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00627482

This thesis critically revisits the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) to examine whether it offers a suitable framework for responding to situations of mass atrocity – namely genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against hum... Read More about The Responsibility to Protect: Promising Protection, Sustaining Crisis: The Case of Darfur.

The International Activities of Chinese Banks (2025)
Thesis
Surina. (2025). The International Activities of Chinese Banks [PhD thesis, SOAS University of London]. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596785

Based on macro and micro perspectives, this study is a pioneering effort to study the impact of banking international activities in the Chinese banking sector. It empirically investigated this issue by focusing on the following three themes.
First,... Read More about The International Activities of Chinese Banks.