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Queer Women’s Intimacies and the Making of the Homespace in Northern Nigeria (2025)
Thesis
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)
Thesis
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)
Thesis
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.

Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa (2025)
Journal Article
Nolan, J. (2025). Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa. Cadernos de Linguística, 6(1), Article 791. https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n1.id791

This paper details the spread of two pidgins in North and West Africa in the 19th century. It highlights the contributions of two individuals, the US State Department envoy, William Brown Hodgson and the French colonialist, Louis Faidherbe. Although... Read More about Individual Contributions to the Documentation and Expansion of the Colonial Linguistic Landscape of 19th Century North and West Africa.

Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary (2025)
Journal Article
Apaydin, F., Piroska, D., & Coban, M. K. (online). Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary. Competition and Change, https://doi.org/10.1177/10245294251361208

This paper studies the evolution of the domestic banking sector in Hungary and Turkey where Viktor Orban and Recep Tayyip Erdogan have intervened to politically control credit allocation. We argue that both leaders have instrumentalized the banking s... Read More about Authoritarian neoliberalism and the instrumentalization of the banking sector in Turkey and Hungary.

Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta (2025)
Journal Article
Williams, R. D. (online). Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1356186325000045

To this day, Wajid ‘Ali Shah (1822-1887), the last Nawab of Awadh, is either remembered as a hedonist and political failure who was forced to surrender his kingdom to the British East India Company, or as a musical genius and important patron of the... Read More about Performing Royal Piety: Wajid ‘Ali Shah’s Muharram commemorations in colonial Calcutta.

Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains (2025)
Journal Article
Thakur, G. (in press). Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains. Law, environment and development journal, 21(2), 635-651. https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00596804

The Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway Project is a major infrastructure project being undertaken in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh that is characterised by its limited railway connectivity. Keeping aside its nature as a public transit projec... Read More about Bhanupali-Bilaspur-Beri Railway project, Himachal Pradesh: Assault on the Mountains.

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.

Yes, I am a Globalist (2025)
Digital Artefact
Charney, M. W. (2025). Yes, I am a Globalist. [Blog]

We live in a world that is so interdependent that the World Community cannot afford to have large parts, like the United States, turn rogue and attempt to call all the shots, without cooperating and paying their share.

Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora (2025)
Journal Article
Baley, J. (online). Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora. Language and linguistics = 語言暨語言學, 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00246.bal

Large annotated corpora of Chinese rhymed poetry have recently become available, in part due to the development of automatic annotation techniques, such as Baley (2022). The availability of such annotated corpora makes possible the computer-assisted... Read More about Automatic detection of phonological change in Chinese rhymed corpora.

Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine (2025)
Journal Article
Hafez, S., Clarke, A., Richter, K., Lokot, M., Rivas, A.-M., & Singh, N. S. (in press). Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine. PLOS Global Public Health, 5(7), Article e0004833. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0004833

Despite a burgeoning discourse within the humanitarian health community regarding decolonisation, there remains lack of practical guidance for researchers seeking to decolonise their work. We conducted a qualitative study which aimed to explore the p... Read More about Dismantling colonial legacies: Decolonising research and teaching at the Health in Humanitarian Crises Centre, London school of hygiene and tropical medicine.

Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels (2025)
Journal Article
Hou, T. (online). Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels. South East Asia Research, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828x.2025.2517550

This article examines the depiction of modern Burmese women in the novels of author Kyi Aye (1929–2016). To achieve this, it explores the interplay between gender, modernity and tradition in both her career as a writer and in the specific portrayals... Read More about Writing modern Burmese women: exploring the ‘third space’ in Kyi Aye’s novels.

The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets (2025)
Journal Article
Bruno, C. (2025). The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets. Chinese Literature and Thought Today, 56(1/2), 89-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/27683524.2025.2479345

By recognizing interconnectedness in the coexistence of multiple forms of life and by supporting the distinction and singularity of identities, models of ecological consciousness have been defining fruitful frameworks to analyze not only the relation... Read More about The Oikos of the Mother Tongue: Ecology and Maternality of Language in Two Yi Poets.