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Ahmad, Arjmand (2024) From Songlines to Transvangarde: contemporary Indigenous Australian art at two private galleries in London, 1988-2020. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042129

Adusei, Lord Aikins (2024) An Island of peace in an ocean of turbulence? The case of Land Guards in Ghana. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041506

Abdel-Hadi, Gasim (2024) The Impacts of Corporatisation on the Efficiency of Water Utilities: An Analysis of Water Supply in Jordan. MPhil thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041559

Alenezi, Sharifa (2024) The Impact of Social Media Marketing on Consumer Buying Behaviour: A Case of Kuwaiti’s Male Grooming Retail Market. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041929

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Bennett, Hannah (2024) Gender, Class, and Migration at Play: Training Affect in China’s Golf Courses. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041717

Bulama Bukarti, Audu (2024) Evaluating Boko Haram’s War Within the Islamic Legal Framework. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043031

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Cai, Hanming (2024) Singing Hong Kong: The Representation of ‘Hongkonger’ Identity in Cantopop Music. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042130

Colquhoun, Anna (2024) Making local specialities: Food, place and value in Istria. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043059

Chang, Jennifer Chih-Chieh (2024) Personal Commemoration and Collective Enactment: Performing Literati Identity through Autobiographical Landscape in 19th-century China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041852

Cortes Rondoy, Jael (2024) China’s development strategy: Lessons for Latin America’s industrial policies. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042224

Chang, Chih-Wei (2024) Corporate Investment, Financial Risk, and Strategic Management: Evidence from China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043056

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Decatur, Mary-Anne Victoria (2024) Complementary and Disparate: Conceptualising Female and Male Genital Cutting in Northern Tanzania. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041259

Damanins, Stefano (2024) The Conclusion of the Ritual: A Critical Edition of Yasna 62–72 with Linguistic and Ritual Commentary. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041764

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Falade, Elizabeth (2024) ‘Queering the Black Musical Atlantic’: Black Queer Women artists and the shapes, textures and boundaries of Black Popular Music and Culture. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041877

Freidank, Matthias Werner (2024) Pacifying Palestine: Colonial Violence, Space and the British Response to the Great Revolt, 1936-­1941. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041998

Franchet, Lucile (2024) Flexibilisation Policies and Labour Market Structures in France. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043114

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Huang, Aixia Ao (2024) Before and Beyond Sexuality: Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042415

Han, Yunzi (2024) Sexual Politics on Screen: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Iranian Cinema since the 1990s. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041249

Habib, Manar (2024) Holy sites and sanctuaries of the pre Islamic Near and Middle East: To what extent is there a link between pre Islamic and Islamic notions of sacred space? PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041624

Huang, Pei-Shan (2024) Huang Tianpeng (1909-1982): A Life in Journalism. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042195

Hadji, Hugo (2024) Listening to Jdid [New] Raï: Algerian music and its publics in the 21st century. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042473

Hamad, Yussuf Shoka (2024) Linguistic Variation in Kipemba. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042758

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Inverso, Catarina (2024) From War To Peace As Conflict Goes On: Displacement And State Making During South Sudan’s 2013-2020 Conflict. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041459

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Johnsen, Nikolai (2024) Dark Tourism and Dissonant Memories in Korea and Japan: The potentials of dark tourism as a tool to visualise marginalised narratives of colonialism. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041915

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Kerami, Kaweh (2024) The Power of Bargaining: Elites, Rents and War-to-Peace Transitions: Evidence from Afghanistan’s Presidential Elections, 2004-19. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043036

Kassemdjian, Mesrob (2024) Understanding the Cooperation between Hamas and Hizbullah. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042010

Koch, Sabihe (2024) The Poet of Hope. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042983

Kato, Hisae (2024) Rural Labour Regimes in North Kordofan: Work, Family, and Categorical Violence in Sudan. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043106

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Lokhandwala, Zainab (2024) Indian Farmers And Rights Over Biogenetic Resources: Towards Greater Food Sovereignty. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041493

Lijnders, Laurie Anna Catharina (2024) Mothering against Asylum and Border Regimes: Eritrean Women’s Navigations of Settler Colonial Israel and Beyond. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041340

Li, Jinjian (2024) Translation as Decolonization: Nyerere, the Bible and Shakespeare. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041565

Lawal, Rodiat Yetunde (2024) China's outward infrastructure investment in Africa. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041888

Li, Lin (2024) Flexibility and Constraints in Lexical Meaning Construction in Mandarin Chinese: with Special Reference to Chinese Four-character Idioms and Their Parodic Constructions. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042197

Li, Mi (2024) How Is Trust Possible? Case Study Of A Chinese Hospital. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042349

Lakhani, Shreeta (2024) Between Assimilation and Refusal: A Queer Marxist Analysis of Queer Visibility in London. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043072

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Ma, Kexin (2024) Recreating the Past: Guwan tu Handscrolls and Practices of Illusionism under Emperor Yongzheng (r. 1723–35). PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041834

Mitra, Sarbajit (2024) Intoxicants and Hindu Subject Formation in Nineteenth-Century Bengal. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041622

Marcel, Claire (2024) Navigating Precarity: the lives of London’s migrant cleaners. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041988

Maskara, Manish (2024) Class Relations in India’s Building Construction: Bihari Migrant Labourers and the Political Apparatus of Surplus Extraction. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041990

Mas Aparisi, Alban Pablo (2024) Coffee makers: how politics, economics, and evidence shaped coffee policy in Ethiopia, 1950-2018. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042645

Massoumian, Amir (2024) Outsider Epistemologies: An Ethnographic Journey Amongst the Far-Right in London. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042838

Moustafa, Safeer (2024) The theology of the Mustaṣfā: An analysis of the relationship between legal theory and theology. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042863

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Nayir, Ayse Zeynep (2024) From Belief to Bread: A Gendered Examination of Poverty Alleviation in Türkiye. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041206

Naughton, James (2024) Examining the response of the IMF to crises in Low-Income Countries with a focus on Gender Budgeting: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041380

Niangjijia, (Nyangchak) (2024) Emerging green industry and growth toward net-zero economy on the Tibetan Plateau in China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042274

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Okayama, Seiko (2024) Minority Recruitment and Intra-party Politics: Muslim Candidates and the Congress Party in Gujarat, India. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London.

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Pieper, Seán W. (2024) Change and Stasis: Assessing the Influence of Stereotyping and Intertextuality in British Travelogues of late-Qajar Iran: 1880-1905. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042497

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Rosier, Kevin (2024) Debt, Diplomacy, and Trust: A Case Study Approach to Assessing the Architecture of Modern Debt Diplomacy. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041718

Rai, Jayanta (2024) Negotiating Political Space: State restructuring in Post-War Nepal: A Political Economy Analysis of the Federal System. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042348

Rindal, Eric Arne (2024) (In)Direct Knowledges: Humanitarian Recognition and Responses to Syrian Male Survivors of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Jordan. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042879

Ryder, Craig Edwin (2024) The Digital IRL: Influence as Resistance in Post-Pandemic Sri Lanka. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043150

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Sangsuradej, Ponpavi (2024) Contesting Visions: Negotiating a Post-Colonial Future and Political Ideologues in Post-WWII Burma, 1945-1948. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042089

Shao, Ziyi (2024) Pantheons of the Emperor: the Translation and Adaption of Tibetan Buddhist Iconographic Programs. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042748

Shehata, Mariam Mohammed Amin M. (2024) God, Time, and the World: Abū l-Barakāt Al-Baghdādī’s Theory of Divine Temporality. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041686

Sun, Nina (2024) Beyond the Binary of Victimhood and Agency: An Exploration of Gender Dynamics in Tongqi’s Marriages in Post-Socialist China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041851

Shahandeh, Katayoun (2024) Reimagining the Feminine Self: Strategies of Subversion in the Works of Contemporary Iranian Female Artists. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041853

Shi, Yuning (2024) Has the Chinese economy been financialised? An analysis focusing on the state sector. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041989

Schenkel, Barbara (2024) Developing Women's Citizenship? Politics, Participation, and Governance in International Development in Jordan. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042319

Sanusi, Sanusi Lamido Aminu (2024) Codification of Islamic Family Law as an Instrument of Social Reform: A Case Study of the Emirate of Kano and Comparison with the Kingdom of Morocco. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042454

Sattler, Sandra (2024) Cāmuṇḍā’s Glory: Representations of the Fierce Goddess in Purāṇic Literature and Temple Art. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042546

Suleman, Tariq (2024) The Politics of Difference: Critical Cross Reading of The Roots of Partition in colonial India and Mandate Palestine. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043052

Schuitenmaker, Charlotte (2024) Sounding First Nations Storytelling in Sydney, Australia. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043119

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Taylor, Linden Magda (2024) 'Not a bit like "Rain" or "The Letter"'British women in Malaya and Burma between the wars and the pejorative portraits in the works of W. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042275

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Venkat, Vidya (2024) India’s Democratic Revolution: Right to Information and the Anti-corruption Discourse. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041650

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Wang, Ke (2024) Obtrusive Chineseness: Self-Translation and the Politics of Writing in Diaspora, 1930s-1970s. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043071

Wuttke, Nora (2024) Drawing, Writing, Buildings: An Ethnography of Yangon General Hospital. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041505

Webb, Charlotte (2024) "The factory raised us": Class formation, labour stratification, and gendered work in North Korea during the Seven Year Plan, 1961-1970. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041991

Wilson, Helen Anahita (2024) Otobiography of a Cancer: Life Writing and Indian Rhythm in Transdisciplinary Composition. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042000

Westoby, Ruth (2024) The body in early haṭha yoga. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042266

Walsh, Veronique Anne (2024) Transactions in Teaching Tembang Sunda Cianjuran and Jaipongan in West Java. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043055

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Yang, Zezhou (2024) An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041545

Yilmaz, Fatima (2024) Happiness in Tourism: A Cross-Cultural Study of American and Chinese Tourists. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041816

Yakubu, Khadija Nda (2024) Governance And Security In Africa: Beyond The State: Non-State Actors and Security in Nigeria: a Case Of Yen Kato Da Gora in Kaduna Urban Area. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00041828

Ye, Zhicheng (2024) Maʿrūf al-Karkhī: a renunciant saint in early ʿAbbāsid Baghdad. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00042311

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Zhang, Xinwen (2024) Alternative Perspectives on Fostering Inclusive and Sustainable Development: Three Cases of Rural Development in China. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London.

Zhang, Shenghua (2024) Populism, Political Representation, and Claim-Making in Thailand: The Persistence of Anti-Establishment Parties since 2001. PhD thesis. SOAS University of London. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25501/SOAS.00043151