Lord Aikins Adusei

An Island of Peace in an ocean of turbulence: Understanding the sources of Ghana’s stability and limited economic progress

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Heba Ali

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Prince Asafu-Adjaye

Trade Union Responses to Neoliberalism in Ghana

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Jacob Berah

The Role of UN Special Political Missions in Conflict

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Femi Bolaji

How Does Diaspora Finance Shape Infrastructure Development in Nigeria?

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Kira Brenner

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Joe Buckley

The relationship between changing working conditions and forms of labour activism in southern Vietnam's garment and textile industry

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Chris Büscher

Water and development in a variegated capitalism. Dutch water aid & trade development reproducing and transforming water access in Mozambique

• Email: 623572@soas.ac.uk

Enrique Castañon

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Weiwei Chen

The Dynamics of Chinese Private OFDI in Ethiopia: A Comparison of Light Manufacturing Industry and Construction Materials Industry

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Jean-Baptiste Damestoy

Governance capabilities, industrialisation and the state: the case of the cotton and textile sectors in Ethiopia

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Sila Demirors

Financialisation of the housing sector and urban transformation in Istanbul and Sao Paulo

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Dariusz Dziewanski

Institutionalized violence? Examining the role of informal institutions in armed violence in South Africa

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Francesco Formichella

The Value of the Global Value Chains: Fragmentation of Production, Vertically-Specialized Industrialization, and Uneven Capitalist Development (working title)

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Daniel Fuchs

Hegemony and Labour Politics in the People's Republic of China. Labour conflicts and hegemonic state strategies in the context of industrial relocation to Western China

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Muhtar Habibi

Agrarian Capitalism in Neoliberal Indonesia: Class, Production and Reproduction

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Philip Hadley

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Lamya (Sharmeen) Hussain

Dunam after Dunam: Transitions in Farming across the Jordan Valley

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Charlotte Hübner

“The Role of the Oil & Gas Sector in Late Industrialisation: Lessons from Malaysia” (Working Title)

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Catarina Inverso

From War to Peace as Conflict goes on: Reinventing the state of ignoring it? Assessing the activities of armed groups and trading networks in the border regions of DRC, Uganda and South Sudan (working title)

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Sarajuddin Isar

Taxation and state-building in Afghanistan, a political economy framework

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Karen Schouw Iversen

Navigating humanitarian biopolitics: housing policies and desplazado protests in Bogotá (working title)

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Safa Joudeh

Economic zones as spatial strategy in Egypt and Tunisia (working title)

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Matt Juden

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Hisae Kato

Sociology of work in conflict-affected communities: Labour, gender and violence in El-Rahad, Sudan

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Kaweh Kerami

Democratisation in the midst of war: Elections and Electoral politics in Afghanistan

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Kirstie Kwarteng

The Transnational Practices of Second Generation Ghanaians: A Comparative Study (Working Title)

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Iris Lim

Experiencing the Digital Governance Immigration: a Qualitative Comparison of London and Seoul

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Jayanthi (Jay) Lingham

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Claire Marcel

What is the relationship between immigration controls, labour market structures and experiences of precarity in different spheres of the lives of migrant workers in the cleaning and agricultural sectors in the UK? (working title)

• Email: 593851@soas.ac.uk

Shona Macleod

Talibés who beg in urban Senegal: how does global child rights discourse influence policy and practice?

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Manish Maskara

Identity of Bihari migrant labour in India's cities

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Musa Mckee

‘Just Add Water’ - The Alchemy of Authoritarian Rule in Large-Scale Agricultural and Residential Developments in Egyptian Deserts during the Mubarak Era. (working title)

• Email: musa_mckee@soas.ac.uk

Tomaz M. Fares

The Chinese Agribusiness in the Global Soybean Commodity Chain

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Roshni Menon

Land-pooling for the ‘smart city’ of Amaravati, Andhra Pradesh: Inclusive development or land dispossession in a different guise?

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Marco Mogiani

The European and national policies on migration and asylum and their impact on the physiognomy of the port of entries and on the migration patterns in the Greek-Turkish border in the last twenty years. (Working title)

• Email: mm153@soas.ac.uk

Cristina Mosneaga

Transition from informality to more formality of small and medium enterprises in Lagos, Nigeria

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Nithya Natarajan

Globally-Directed and Locally-Experienced: the Impact of Global Health Governance upon Tobacco Farmers in Tamil Nadu (working title)

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Ana Oprisan

The Roma in Turkey. From Survival Mechanisms to Development Strategies

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Hassan Ould Moctar

EU Border Externalisation and the Social Conditions of 'Deportability' in Mauritania

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Aruna Pandey

Institutional Models to Resolve Conflicts over Natural Resource Governance: Role of Community Enterprises and Solidarity Economy

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Benjamin Petrini

The Political Economy of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) in Colombia: A Micro-Level Analysis of War-to-Peace Transition

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Nicholas Pope

Urban Frontier Brokers: Paramilitaries, Violence and Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone

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Hashim Rashid

The Agrarian Question in West Punjab since 1885: The Politics of the Formation of a New Peasantry

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Alexander Ray

Rethinking the Local–international Dichotomy in Relation to Refugee Protection and Assistance: The Politics of Practice in Managing South Sudanese Displacement (working title)

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Taylor Daniel Rockhill

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Fatemeh Sajjadi

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Nina Salsotto Cassina

Documenting resistance movements in the DRC: sites, forms and explanations (working title)

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Shreya Sinha

Agrarian Accumulation in Liberalised India: A Study of Capitalist Farmers in Punjab

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Christian Sowa

The Accommodation of Migrants in Berlin: Exploring the City and Urban Transformations (Working Title)

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Caitlin Sturridge

How can changing rural-urban livelihoods build households’ capacity to adapt to growing resource scarcity? A political ecology of mobility and translocality in Laikipia, Kenya (working title).

• Email: 257812@soas.ac.uk

Magdalena Suerbaum

Mosaics of masculinity - Gendering the experience of male Syrian refugees in Egypt

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Jo Tomkinson

National policymaking and the problem of policy space: A review of economic development strategies in Ethiopia and Vietnam (working title)

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Bereket Tsegay

Green Economy for Climate Mitigation and Poverty Reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Role of Carbon Finance in Ethiopia

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Misha Velthuis

Selling modernity - An ethnography of the everyday practice of supermarket chains in Mumbai

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Fernandes Wanda

Capitalist Transformation in Transition: Exploring business political elite linkage in post-war Angola (working title)

• Email: 583303@soas.ac.uk

Chris Weeks

Human trafficking in the wake of natural disaster: the case of Typhoon Haiyan

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Jessica Whelligan

Questioning BRTs: A win-win solution to public transport problems in developing countries? (ESRC-ITF collaborative studentship)

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Benjamin Whiston

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Aled Williams

Shaping Room for Manoeuvre: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation as a Forest Policy Choice in Indonesia (working title)

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Celal Özkızan

Neoliberalism in a Small Country: Social Structures, Property Ownership and Class Structure in Northern Cyprus

• Email: 657283@soas.ac.uk