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The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India (2025)
Thesis
Singh, T. The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Military wives have recently become the subject of research with an increasing focus on the role of their labour in upholding and reproducing processes of militarisation. This thesis examines the centrality of Indian Army officers’ wives and explores... Read More about The Gendered Apparatus of the Military: A Study of the Army Officer’s Wife in India.

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.

More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam (2025)
Thesis
Kashyap, M. More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is a qualitative study that explores borders and bordering practices which have constructed, shaped and continue to reshape the contemporary Indian state of Assam. Using mixed methods including community-based research, the thesis critica... Read More about More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam.

On Guest-Editing Abolitions – Writing Against Abandonment: Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan (2024)
Digital Artefact
Khan, A., & Arefin, F. On Guest-Editing Abolitions – Writing Against Abandonment: Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan

Ahead of our launch event on 4 July, we spoke to co-guest editors Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan about curating, commissioning, and editing Wasafiri 118: Abolitions - Writing Against Abandonment. Our summer 2024 special issue considers abolitioni... Read More about On Guest-Editing Abolitions – Writing Against Abandonment: Farhaana Arefin and Dr Abeera Khan.

A Pedagogy of Rumours (2024)
Book Chapter
Chamas, S. (2024). A Pedagogy of Rumours. In M. Kaabour (Ed.), The Queer Arab Glossary (126-132). Saqi Books

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking (2024)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2024). After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking. In M. Arvindsson, & E. Jones (Eds.), International Law and Posthuman Theory. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032658032-10

This chapter engages an emergent science of categorization and speciation and its reverberations and affordances in European international law in the long eighteenth century. I focus on a distinct material locale—that of ‘proto-colonial’ Senegambia—s... Read More about After Homo Narrans: Botany, International Law, and Senegambia in Early Racial Capitalist Worldmaking.

‘Queering the Black Musical Atlantic’: Black Queer Women artists and the shapes, textures and boundaries of Black Popular Music and Culture (2024)
Thesis
Falade, E. ‘Queering the Black Musical Atlantic’: Black Queer Women artists and the shapes, textures and boundaries of Black Popular Music and Culture. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis interrogates and examines how the sociality of the musicking of Black queer woman artists serves as a rich terrain to illuminate the politics of race, gender and sexuality within and beyond Black popular music. This study is orientated to... Read More about ‘Queering the Black Musical Atlantic’: Black Queer Women artists and the shapes, textures and boundaries of Black Popular Music and Culture.

(In)Direct Knowledges: Humanitarian Recognition and Responses to Syrian Male Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Jordan (2024)
Thesis
Rindal, E. A. (In)Direct Knowledges: Humanitarian Recognition and Responses to Syrian Male Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Jordan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines how the societal, cultural, religious, and political contexts in which humanitarian actors operate influence the understandings, values, and assumptions underlying their professional decisions. It asks how humanitarian organisati... Read More about (In)Direct Knowledges: Humanitarian Recognition and Responses to Syrian Male Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Jordan.

Between Assimilation and Refusal: A Queer Marxist Analysis of Queer Visibility in London (2024)
Thesis
Lakhani, S. Between Assimilation and Refusal: A Queer Marxist Analysis of Queer Visibility in London. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis examines how queer people of colour exist in a liminal between assimilation and refusal in relation to racialised queer visibility in London. It asks, how and why does racialised queerness become visible in London? For what purpose and fo... Read More about Between Assimilation and Refusal: A Queer Marxist Analysis of Queer Visibility in London.

Developing Women's Citizenship? Politics, Participation, and Governance in International Development in Jordan (2024)
Thesis
Schenkel, B. Developing Women's Citizenship? Politics, Participation, and Governance in International Development in Jordan. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This interdisciplinary study interrogates the nexus between women’s active citizenship, political participation, and governance in international development in Jordan. The critiques of the depoliticizing effects of both neoliberalism and internationa... Read More about Developing Women's Citizenship? Politics, Participation, and Governance in International Development in Jordan.

Mothering against Asylum and Border Regimes: Eritrean Women’s Navigations of Settler Colonial Israel and Beyond (2024)
Thesis
Lijnders, L. A. C. Mothering against Asylum and Border Regimes: Eritrean Women’s Navigations of Settler Colonial Israel and Beyond. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Contextualising asylum and migration within the settler colonial state of Israel, this dissertation explores how Black, non-Jewish women from Eritrea, who identify as mothers, navigate, resist, and respond to the Israeli asylum regime. The dissertati... Read More about Mothering against Asylum and Border Regimes: Eritrean Women’s Navigations of Settler Colonial Israel and Beyond.

Beyond the Binary of Victimhood and Agency: An Exploration of Gender Dynamics in Tongqi’s Marriages in Post-Socialist China (2024)
Thesis
Sun, N. Beyond the Binary of Victimhood and Agency: An Exploration of Gender Dynamics in Tongqi’s Marriages in Post-Socialist China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis provides an in-depth feminist sociological investigation into the lives of tongqi, a term denoting women married to homosexual men (tongzhi) in China. Using an intersectional framework, the study probes the intricate relationships between... Read More about Beyond the Binary of Victimhood and Agency: An Exploration of Gender Dynamics in Tongqi’s Marriages in Post-Socialist China.

Domestic Violence, Religion, and Migration (2023)
Book Chapter
Istratii, R. (2023). Domestic Violence, Religion, and Migration. In A. Rowlands, & E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Religion and Contemporary Migration. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190076511.013.25

The effects of religious beliefs in the domestic violence experience of migrant communities has been increasingly documented in recent years. The current chapter aims to delineate the nuanced relationship between domestic violence, faith, and migrati... Read More about Domestic Violence, Religion, and Migration.

Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own (2023)
Book Chapter
Hamzić, V. (2023). Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own. In O. Kasmani (Ed.), Pakistan Desires: Queer Futures Elsewhere (125-145). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.6305466.13

This chapter engages the temporality of khwajasara communal experience by examining a variety of ways in which this Pakistani gender nonconforming subjectivity has shared in the larger South Asian and/or Muslim memories and performance of gender and... Read More about Temporal Nonconformity: Being There Together as Khwajasara in a Time of One’s Own.