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Abuali, Eyad (2017) The genesis of Kubrawi Sufism: a study of Majd al-Din al-Baghdadi. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024952

Aghlani, Sasan (2017) The nuclear policies of Iran : Islam and strategic thinking in the Islamic Republic. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029804

Ahlberg, Karin G. C. (2017) 'They are destroying the image of Egypt' : tourism, statecraft and infrastructures of image making, 1990-2013. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026676

Akcasu, Ayse Ebru (2017) Non-Ottomans of Hamidian Istanbul : exiles and expatriates. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026671

Akum, Richard Fonteh (2017) Informal ordering, authority and control: borderland dynamics and postwar statebuilding in Liberia. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026675

Al-Balushi, Riyadh (2017) Pirates of the Academy : A Human Rights Analysis of Copyright Restrictions on the Right to Education. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032480

Al-Rashoud, Talal (2017) Modern education and Arab nationalism in Kuwait, 1911-1961. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024384

Alavi, Seyed Ali (2017) Iran's relations with Palestine : roots and development. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026490

Aldabbagh, Siba (2017) Poetics of resistance : object, word and image in the literatures and visual arts of Iraq and Palestine. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024905

Alexander, Philip (2017) Sounding Jewish in Berlin : klezmer musical practice, historical memory and the contemporary city. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026162

Almoammar, Adal M. (2017) The influence of the Saudi legal system on Saudi women's rights. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030905

Alves, Carolina Cristina (2017) Stabilisation or financialisation : examining the dynamics of the Brazilian public debt. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026673

Ang, Daphne Ming Li (2017) Constructing Singapore art history: portraiture and the development of painting and photography in colonial Singapore (1819-1959). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026662

Aquilino, Serafina (2017) Walking into the literary field? : The interaction between China’s official and online literary scene. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024944

Baldinelli, Giulia Maria (2017) Indigenous farmers’ rural-urban migration and agrobiodiversity conservation : exploring connections in the Bolivian Altiplano Norte. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024332

Bannister, David (2017) Public health and its contexts in northern Ghana, 1900-2000. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026656

Barkindo, Athanasius Atta (2017) History, Memory and Resistance in Northern Nigeria : The Transformation of Boko Haram. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024947

Bartos, Hannah Katie (2017) Organizing transnational yoga : the Sivananda and Krishnamacharya schools. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030963

Bennett, Elizabeth Anne (2017) A study of Babylonian scholarship applied in the exploration of the meaning of divine and sacred names, as particularly exemplified in a syncretistic hymn to the goddess Gula. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026488

Bin Jamil, Khairil Husaini (2017) Traditional sunni epistemology in the scholarship of al-Hafiz al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (463AH/1071CE). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026670

Black, Joshua James Croft (2017) Queer male identities in modern Vietnamese literature. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024338

Bradshaw, Rebecca (2017) Beyond identity: the socio-economic impacts of archaeology on a non-descendant community in Sudan. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026653

Brown, James Derek Alan (2017) Reworking territory, assembling scale : labour's agency in Lao border manufacturing. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024951

Cabos, Marine (2017) Seeing through landscape : french photographic archives of China (1840s - 1930s). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024337

Celik, Cihan (2017) The nature of Turkish authoritarianism; 1934-1945. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026486

Chen, Xi (2017) Speech Acts Across Cultures : Evaluations and Refusals in Korean and Chinese. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026502

Cheng, Fu-Lin (2017) Taiwan’s participation in global climate regime : a non-party perspective. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024387

Cheng, Julia An-Lun (2017) An investigation of the constraints on nominal argument drop in Mandarin Chinese using spoken corpora. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026658

Chi, Sheng-shih (2017) The role of popular music in the negotiation of Taiwanese identity. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024331

Choi, Young-Chan (2017) A History of Protestant theory of liberty in Korea, 1886-1917. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024948

Chu, Jing (2017) The effects of sound information provided by annotations on Mandarin Chinese vocabulary acquisition through reading. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026666

Clifford Collard, Niamh Jane (2017) Crafting livelihoods, negotiating challenges and realising opportunities : an ethnography of life, learning and work amongst young Ghanaian weavers. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024394

Davies, Morgan (2017) Musical Knowledge of the Laṅgās and Māṅgaṇiyārs. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024910

Dessi', Valeria (2017) Affecting Change: Young Women's Groups, the Nation-State and the Politics of Gender in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Cairo. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024961

Fay, Franziska Maria (2017) Perilous protection: discipline, chastisement and child protection in schools in Zanzibar. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026491

Franz, Tobias (2017) From Industrial Capital to Modern ‘Urban Miracle’? : The Political Economy of Governance, Growth and Development in Medellín, Colombia. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024946

Fuoli, Francesca (2017) Colonialism and state-building in Afghanistan : Anglo-Afghan co-operation in the institutionalisation of ethnic difference, 1869-1900. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026685

Galal, Rami Mikko Ahmed (2017) Inequality of Opportunity in Earnings in Egypt. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024909

Gill, Manpreet Kaur (2017) Globalisation, neoliberalism and the transformation of higher education in Punjab, India. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026668

Gonzalez-Lopez, Irene (2017) The prostitute in postwar Japanese cinema (1945-1975) : melodrama, soft-porn, and the body politics of modernisation. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026674

Gooding, Philip (2017) Lake Tanganyika : commercial frontier in the era of long-distance commerce, East and Central Africa, c.1830-1890. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024341

Green, Laurence (2017) Future pioneers - Macross Plus as both nexus and new paradigm for genre tropes in 90s anime. Masters dissertation. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00029828

Guarnieri, Ambra (2017) Interrogating Cross-Cultural Dialogue : Histories and Techniques of Representation in Post-Colonial Literature (1954-2001). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024960

Hamid, Zebunnisa (2017) New Pakistani Cinema : Emerging Processes and Imaginaries. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024959

Harris, Jody (2017) National manifestation of an international idea : multi-sectoral approaches to stunting reduction and the transfer of nutrition policy to Zambia. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026492

Hassan, Laura (2017) Ash'arism meets Avicennism : Sayf al-Din al-Amidi's doctrine of creation. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026654

Henderson, Christian (2017) The Gulf Arab States and Egypt's Political Economy : Examining New Spaces of Food and Agribusiness. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024958

Jahangir, Zulkarin (2017) Information exchange through mobile phones and its conversion to capital resources : experience from Bangladesh rice farmers. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026163

Javid, Sareh (2017) The Traveller : A Philosophical Journey through Kiarostami’s Cinema. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032200

Jiao, Lin (2017) Nation, fashion and women’s everyday lives : breast-binding in China, 1910s-1970s. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024390

Kagal, Neha (2017) 'In the union I found myself': the impact of collectivization of informal economy women workers on gender relations within the home. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026496

Karam, Salam Kamel (2017) The Constitution as Unfinished Business : The Making and Un-Making of Power Relations in Iraq, 2003-2010. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026160

Kaur, Jastinder (2017) Towards an anthropology of coups in Fiji. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024956

Kazi, Taha (2017) Religious television : changing notions of religious authority and piety in Karachi, Pakistan. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024949

Kendall, Jessica (2017) Rare birds : a global ethnography of Ethiopian circus performers. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024393

Kilkelly, Patrick (2017) Mainstream culture and the inculturation of Catholicism in late Chosŏn Korea. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032244

Kim, Ye Jin (2017) Translation, national ideology and the Cold War in the Republic of Korea (1949-1950). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026489

Lamarque, Hugh (2017) Insulating the borderlands : policing and state reach in Rwanda. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026483

Lekakul, Great (2017) Prachan : Music, Competition, and Conceptual Fighting in Thai Culture. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026516

Liu, Hao (2017) The purpose, operation and impacts of the art investment of the British Rail Pension Fund’s collection of Chinese works of art from 1974 to 1989. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024912

Liu, Lili (2017) Environmental activism and political intermediation : local flexibility in managing protests in China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026683

Lo, Chih (2017) The Symbolism of Religious Dress in Fifth - to Ninth-Century China : Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00032306

Makrelov, Konstantin Hristov (2017) Financial and Real Economy Interactions in South Africa : A Stock and Flow Analysis. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024911

Mannocchi, Luca (2017) Growth strategies and rural transformations in Bhutan: an institutional analysis. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00025891

McKee, Musa (2017) Just add water: the alchemy of authoritarian rule in desert land reclamation projects in Egypt during the Mubarak era. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030903

McNeill, Malcolm L. S. (2017) Narrative agency in thirteenth - fourteenth century Chan figure painting : a study of hagiography-iconography text-image relationships. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024335

Mehta, Akanksha (2017) Right-wing sisterhood: everyday politics of Hindu nationalist women in India and Zionist settler women in Israel-Palestine. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024903

Mhishi, Lennon Chido (2017) Songs of migration : experiences of music, place making and identity negotiation amongst Zimbabweans in London. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026684

Morgan, Deirdre Anne (2017) Speaking in tongues : music, identity, and representation in jew's harp communities. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024902

Mustafa, Burcin Kagan (2017) A study into the ideological manipulation of translation and translation's role in affecting the political and social fields : translation's function in advancing the war on terror. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026497

Mutch, Thembi (2017) Women, the media and modernity in Zanzibar : ‘ninjas, mamas and good girls’. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024385

Nicol, Janine (2017) Daoxuan (c.596-667) and the creation of a Buddhist sacred geography of China : an examination of the Shijia fangzhi. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024954

Nolan, Joanna Dutton (2017) Fact and fiction : a re-evaluation of lingua Franca. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030902

Olokotor, Prince Ndudi Councillor (2017) Judicial attitudes to enforcement of transnational awards under the New York convention : a critical assessment of the English and Nigerian courts. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024950

Pakiam, Geoffrey Kevin (2017) Smallholder involvement in tree crops in Malaya, with special reference to oil and coconut palms in Johor, 1862-1963. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026485

Perry, Keston Kyle (2017) Governing technological change and the paradox of competitiveness : an analysis of state capacity in science, technology and innovation policies in Trinidad and Tobago. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026164

Picchioni, Fiorella (2017) Monitoring the effects of changing food prices on food and nutrition security : the minimum calorie expenditure share (MCES). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030980

Poeta, Teresa (2017) Reference to objects in Makhuwa and Swahili discourse. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026161

Pragya, Samani Pratibha (2017) Prekṣā meditation : history and methods. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024340

Pullen, Lesley S. (2017) Representation of textiles on classical Javanese sculpture. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026680

Ramos, Irene Fernandez (2017) Performing immobility : the individual-collective body and the representation of confined subjectivities in contemporary Palestinian theatre. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026487

Rouas, Virginie (2017) In search of corporate accountability : transnational litigation against multinational enterprises in France and the Netherlands. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024386

Schäfer, Florian Tomas (2017) Revisiting the agrarian question : coffee, flowers and Ethiopia’s new capitalists. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024389

Sharma, Chinmay (2017) Many Mahabharatas : linking mythic re-tellings in contemporary India. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024908

Sheikh, Farrah Nazh (2017) Muslims as Humans : The Struggle to Recover Plural Muslim Identities in post 9/11 Britain : An Ethnographic Exploration of Muslim Lived Experiences in England. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030258

Singer, Christine (2017) Transitional narratives : youth and screen media in contemporary South Africa (1994-2014). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024953

Sinha, Shreya (2017) Agrarian accumulation in liberalised India : a study of capitalist farmers in Punjab. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026660

Sonmez, Goktug (2017) The interplay between international and domestic factors in Turkey’s grand strategy-making : activism, disappointment, and readjustment/. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024333

Steedman, Robin (2017) Nairobi-based female filmmakers and the 'Creative Hustle': gender and film production between the local and the transnational. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026663

Suzuki, Ayako (2017) The dynamics of identity amongst Japanese migrants in Dublin. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026165

Tak, Mehroosh (2017) Linkages between public expenditure, agriculture and rural dietary diversity in India. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00030912

Tifooni, Saba (2017) A Crosslinguistic Investigation into the Foreign Language Learning of (Non) equivalent Emotion Words : The Case of Kuwaiti Learners of English. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024955

Toyama, Terumi (2017) The significance of copying : replication of Kyoto's sacred spaces in early seventeenth century Edo. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026170

Virdi, Manprit Kaur (2017) Marriage / breakdown amongst Punjabi-Sikhs in Canada : a legal ethnography of disputants, (un)official forums, and access to family justice in Ontario, Canada. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024907

Wambugu, Stella Njoki (2017) Farmers' health and agriculture in low income economies : investigating farm households and wider health interactions in rural Malawi. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024945

Wang, Qing Chao (2017) Testing a new approach to construct international financial market indices : an application to Asian-Pacific economies. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024391

Wheatley, Natalio Dixon (2017) Race, class and resistance: in three Caribbean novels. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024904

Yates-Lu, Anna (2017) P'ansori today: reconciling tradition and creativity in modern society. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026664

Yee, Ki Yip (2017) The late Qing Xinzheng (new policies) reforms in Mongolia, 1901-1911. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026678

Yelbaşi, Caner (2017) Civil War, violence And nationality from empire to nation state : the Circassians in Turkey (1918-1938). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024388

Youngberg, Connor (2017) Vocalic representation in Tokyo and Owari Japanese: toward a syllable-free account. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00024906

Zalk, Nimrod Elijah (2017) The things we lost in the fire : the political economy of post-apartheid restructuring of the South African steel and engineering sectors. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026166

Zaphiriou-Zarifi, Viki (2017) Navigating (in)visibility : the everyday lives of African women in crisis Greece. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00026655