Luba Ampleva

The Beautiful Other: What Lies Behind the Image of Russian Fashion Models in Contemporary Japan. (working title)
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The Beautiful Other: What Lies Behind the Image of Russian Fashion Models in Contemporary Japan. (working title)
Impact of Crisis as a Condition on Individual and Intergenerational Aspirations (working title)
Golf Course Culture in China: An Exploration of Gender, Class, and Social Stratification (working title)
The politics and ethics of climate change adaptation in Sri Lanka's Dry Zone (working title)
Identification in Contemporary Hong Kong: Ethnographic Exploration on the Politics of Cantopop and Its Lyrics
Crossing Borders; The Evolution of Food Traditions in Post-Ottoman Thrace
Food and tourism in Istria: Local specialities and the construction of a region (working title)
Riding The Seoul Train: An Ethnographic Exploration Of The British K-Pop Fandom (working title)
'Each Life Has Its Place': Transgender Experiences in Contemporary Japan
Caste Genealogies: Myths and Histories of Dalit Communities from Saurashtra, India
Tea, Taste and Traders: Cultural Mediators and the Reinvention of the Chinese ‘Traditional’ Beverage (working title)
Jews Becoming Public: Emergent Practices Within Casa Adret, a Jewish Cultural Centre in Barcelona
Being Muslim in Dhaka: Dhormo, Ethics and Ambiguity in the Everyday
Power, Identity, and Audiences in Indigenous Tourism: Ainu Entanglements in Hokkaido and Beyond (working title)
'Embrace me as I am’: Japanese Pornography for Women and the Fan community Surrounding Male Pornstars
Social Space and the Sex Worker: Family, Networks and Collectivisation in the Indian Sex Workers' Movement (Working Title)
Food, care and the digital sphere: Community group buying (shequ tuangou) in urban China
Around the Monastic Table: The Experience of Monastic Food for Retreat Participants in France (working title)
Mango TV as Youths’ CCTV - An Ethnography of Youths, Media and Nation
Perceptions of cultural preservation, race, gender, hierarchy, nationhood, and immigration in London pub culture
Blurred Imaginaries: Future-making and digital health in Delhi
Chinese Cosmetic Surgery Tourism in Seoul: Body Politics, Transnationalism and Decentralised Centralism
High Fun: An ethnography of HIV risk and stigma among queer men in urban India (working title)
Tradition, to preserve or innovate?: The Many Adaptations and Interpretations of Cambodian Shadow Puppets
Cosmopolitan Creatives: Asian Self-Making and Consumption in London (working title)
A World of Our Own: The Negotiation of Cosmology in Contemporary Japanese Animation
Queer Feminist Kinship: An Intersectional Approach to Activism and Community in Chengdu, China (working title)
India’s Democratic Revolution: The Right to Information and the Anti-Corruption Discourse
Between secularity and religiosity: a Buddhism-oriented town in Mainland China (working title)
Innovation in Psychiatric Crisis Care: An Ethnographic Investigation into Peer-Supported Open Dialogue (POD) in Inner London (working title)
Architecture and Aspirations: An Ethnographic Exploration of Hospital Infrastructure in Myanmar
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