SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research

Entangled Worlds and Situated Knowledge

• Rachel Harrison (Head of the Doctoral School and Professor of Thai Cultural Studies), Foreword
• Fatima Dhanani and Suraj Bhaskarrao Telange, Editorial Introduction
• Katharine Gordon, The Politicisation of the Work of Art During Times of Political Unrest: Three Layers of Meaning Production
• Khadija Nda Yakubu, Interconnected Security: Non-State Informal Policing in Africa
• Beatriz Freitas, The Commodification of Sexuality and Gender: A Brazilian Case Study
• Sarah Rakotonirina, Refusing the ancestry test: Malagasy Ethnic Identity and Genetic Testing
• Morgane Taillefesse-Barbosa, Mediating Traumatic Memories and a Reality of Absence: Returns/Repatriations of Artefacts as Strategies for Okinawans’ Intergenerational Knowledge Transmission
• Sophie-Anne Mullen, Unpacking Voices of Forced Migration: Personified Significations of the Ubiquitous Plaid Bag in the Works of South African Artists Nobukho Nqaba and Dan Halter
• Victoria Allen Stainsby, ‘Ghostly Entanglements’: Reconsidering Colonial Justice through Hauntology and Feminist Temporalities
• Jessie Rayner, Brianna Ghey and Framing of Transgender People in The Times Newspaper: A Queer Study of Political Communication in Right-Wing British Broadsheets
• Muhammad Nabil, Sino-Russian Approach to Global World Order: Humanitarian interventions as a frame of reference
• Yi Zheng, The Never Fixed Chinese Characteristics: The Agential Cut of American, Japanese and Chinese Scholars
• Rachel Min Leong, Methodologies for Change and Tensions of Tradition and Imagination: Producing Knowledge of Gender Possibility on The Outskirts of Legal Strategy
• Bernardo Amaro Monteiro, Artificial Intelligence and the Militarisation of New Media in Egypt: Challenging the Role of Technology in Resistance
• Ondine de Gaulle, Podcasts and Digital Diasporic Identities: A Case Study of Iranian Diasporas

Opportunity in Crisis: Contingencies, Adjustments, Perseverance and Resilience 

• Lutz Marten: Foreword
• Ciaran McDonald: Rethinking Approaches To The Study Of Islamist Movements In West Asia And North Africa: Methodological And Ethical Reflections
• David Nemecek: Forest Bond Financing In The Global South: The Ecological And Social Contexts Of A Market-Based Solution For Sustainability Of Forests
• Marta Simonetti: Adat In Indonesian Law And Society: A Tool To Build Resilience And Overcome Diversity Through Cultural And Legal Pluralism
• Lauren Grant: Decolonising Borderwork: Indigenous Knowledges, Agencies, And Sustainable Agricultural Development In Uganda
• Cortes Rondoy, Jael and Alejandro Sanchez: Disruption And Resilience In Finance: Social Media, Online Brokers, And The Entrance Of Retail Investors
• Luca Proietti: Noise As An Act Of Free Will In Aoyama Shinji’s Movie Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?
• Victoria Stainsby: Book Review: Achille Mbembe, Out Of The Dark Night: Essays On Decolonization
• Franziska Zoe Kabelitz: Displaying Iran In Berlin: Observations On (Missed?) Opportunities In Crisis
• Simon Forbes: Resilience In Crisis?: The Church Missionary Society Mission in Hangzhou And the Guangji Hospital, 1945-1952
• Yenn Lee: Afterword

Thinking about disruption

• Table of contents (PDF, 114KB)
• Yunzi Han: Foreward
• Yunzi Han: Introduction
• Adam Habib: Disruption, Inclusion and the Politics of International Higher Education
• Nico Edwards: A Commentary on Disruption as a State of Being and (Anti)practice: Challenging ‘resilience’ as the Late-modern Recipe for Happiness
• Gitika Saksena: Information and Liable Relations of Wellbeing During Covid19: an Ethnographic Exploration of Disruption in London
• Gabriela Sarmet: Disrupting the Colonial Subjectivity Imposed by Borders: the Experience of the Guarani People in Brazil
• Adele Oliver: Edward Colston, Nostalgia and Resistance: How Does Britain (Mis)remember and (Re)imagine Colonialism?
• Lina Shinhwa Koo: Structuring Hierarchies: Archaeological and Museum Projects of the Governmentgeneral of Korea and Its Colonial Legacy
• Joe Nickols: The Disrupt Project: Nikki S. Lee and Transcategorical Identities
• Koshika Krishna: A Cry for Justice: Reimagining the Women, Peace and Security Agenda Through the 2004 Kangla Fort Protest in Manipur
• Junda Lu: Chinese Roots of Political Religion: Statism in Modern China, 1897-1924

SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol 14 (2022) (full text)

• Thinking about Disruption (PDF, 9MB)

HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE - Fifteen years of SOAS research in multiculturalism and multilingualism

• Table of contents (pdf)
• Federica Gamberini: A note from the editor-in-chief
• Federica Gamberini, Natalia Matveeva, Iris Lim: Introduction to Volume 13
• Maya Bhardwaj: Feminist Social Movement Unionism From South To North
• Sakhi Anita: Geet Ga Rahe Hai Aaj Hum... Exploring songs of protest and hope in the Women’s Movement(s) in India
• Aditya Mohanan: Sounds from a silenced divinity: the interaction of caste with music in the Theyyam rituals of Kerala
• Chih-En Chen: Rhetorical Space: Culture of Curiosity in Yangcai under Emperor Qianlong’s Reign
• Aubury A Huang: Late Ming Courtesan Culture And China’s Gender System
• Eva Mazzeo: The 'Hong Kong Factor': Preliminary Research on Social Media Discourses during Taiwan 2020 Presidential Election Campaign
• Danny Sanders: 100% TZ Flava: Hybrid Hip Hop on the Swahili Coast
• David M Spence: From Victims to Colonizers: A Comparative Study of ‘Repatriated Indigenous Communities
• Anastasia Modestou: Fairuz as a National Symbol: Popular Music, Folklore and Nationhood in 1960s Lebanon
• Finlay McIntosh: Let’s Make Them Hear it in Europe: The Sound of Banging Pots and Pans, the Internet and Networked Protest
• Abhishek Mohanty: Opinion Piece: Are Big Data Judgements About Health Or Personality More Accurate Than Those Made By Humans? An Anthropological Critique In Relation To The Quantified Self Movement
• Mihaela Cojocaru: Book Review: 'The Politics Of Technology In Africa' by Iginio Gagliardone

SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol 13 (2021) (full text)

• HERE, THERE, EVERYWHERE - Fifteen years of SOAS research in multiculturalism and multilingualism (pdf)

MOBILITIES - Social Sciences and Humanities without Borders

• Table of contents (pdf)
• Federica Gamberini, Florence Shahabi, Natalia Matveeva, Iris Lim: A Note From The Editors (pdf)
• Dr Anna Lindley: A Note From the Centre Of Migration And Diaspora Studies (pdf)
• Iris Lim: Introduction (pdf)
• Albert Badosa Roldós: The Mirror Effect: Identity And Minorisation Among The Quechuas And Amazighs In Catalonia (pdf)
• Harry D'Antonio Dry: A Plurality Of Synthetic Sound Around The Aral Sea: How Electronic Music Transcends The Borders Of National Identity (pdf)
• Valeria Bevilacqua: Away / A Way: Artistic Mobility And The Politics Of Inclusion In The Art Residency Culture (pdf)
• Laurence Green: The Rambling Guitarist – Gender, Genre And Archetypes In Nikkatsu Action’s Mukokuseki Eiga (pdf)
• Miki Quddus: The Rohingya’s Suspension At The Border Border/Lands Are Conventionally Conceived As Spaces Of Waithood And Suspension. How Do People On The Move Inhabit And Politicise The Border? (pdf)
• Miki Quddus: A Movement Back To "Home" How Is The 'Home' Presented In Tamim Al-Barghouti's "In Jerusalem"? (pdf)
• Caren Holmes: Review of 'The Right To Maim: Debility, Capacity And Disability by Jasbir Puar' (pdf)

SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Vol 12 (2020) (full text)

• MOBILITIES - Social Sciences and Humanities without Borders

Decolonisation in Praxis

• Meera Sabaratnam: A Note from the Decolonising SOAS Working Group
• Katharina Schmoll: A note from the RSA
• Iris Lim, Romina Istratii, Monika Hirmer: Introduction to Volume 11
• Romina Istratii, Monika Hirmer, Iris Lim: Editorial I: Conference Proceedings ‘Decolonisation in Praxis’, SOAS 2018
• Monika Hirmer, Romina Istratii, Iris Lim: Editorial II: The Praxis of Decolonisation
• Romina Istratii: Beyond a feminist ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’: Reading St John Chrysostom’s commentaries on man-woman relations, marriage and conjugal abuse through the Orthodox phronema
• Monika Hirmer: The art of Telangana women and the crafting of the decolonial subject: From dialectics of ‘othering’ to expressions of radical alterity
• Jonathan Galton: Celebrating the Battle of Koregaon: contested histories and the (de)colonial Dalit subject
• Dhruv Ramnath: The making of a postcolonial Hindu identity in the Sharavana Baba movement
• Catherine Ruth Craven: Critical Realism, assemblages and practices beyond the state: A new framework for analysing global diaspora engagement
• Roxy Minter: Classing Autonomy: A refutation that ‘…there really is no art more true than any other, and that there is no one way art has to be: all art is equally and indifferently art.’
• Simon Forbes: Who is afraid of decolonisation?
• Tung-yi Kho: The urgency of decoloniality
• Andrew Harvey: Pakani: A Gorwaa story
• Romina Istratii, Helen Porter: Understanding the possibilities and limitations of open access publishing for decolonising knowledge-making and dissemination

The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research Vol 11 (full text)

• Decolonisation in Praxis (pdf)

Introduction

• Prof Nadje Al-Ali: A Note from the Doctoral School (pdf)
• Editors-in-Chief, Assistant Editors, Technical Partners: Introduction to Volume 10 (pdf)
• Monika Hirmer and Romina Istratii: Letter from the Editors (pdf)

Articles

• Karishma Mehrotra: The Crossroads and Convergences of Media and Technology Companies: Facebook as the Latest Media Gatekeeper (pdf)
• Simon Forbes: The Reconstruction of Homosexuality and its Consequences in Contemporary Iran (pdf)
• Jonathan Beloff: The Limitations of Research Space for the Study of Rwanda (pdf)
• Azma Azhari: The Kafāla 'Sponsorship' System in Saudi Arabia: A Critical Analysis from the Perspective of International Human Rights and Islamic Law (pdf)
• Sareh Javid: Kiarostami's The Traveller: A Cinema of the Seer (pdf)
• Kerman Daruwalla: Evolution of the Zoroastrian Priestly Rituals in Iran (pdf)
• Hassan Ould Moctar: Whither the Rights of the Digital Subject? (pdf)
• J. Rudder Jenkins: Christians and Others in the Umayyad State (pdf), edited by Antoine Borrut and Fred McGraw Donner, Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East. The Oriental Institute: Chicago, 2016. Pgs. 213
• Heba Albeity: Literary Translation as a Pathway to the 'Humanisation' of Eastern Culture: Mansour Rahbani Introduces the East to the West Through his Poetry (pdf)

The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research Vol 10 (full text): 

• Exploring Fluid Times: Knowledge, Minds and Bodies (pdf)

Introduction

• A Note from the Research Students' Association (pdf)
• Editors-in-Chief, Assistant Editors, Technical Partners: Introduction to Edition 9 (pdf)
• Romina Istratii and Monika Hirmer: Letter from the Editors (pdf)

Articles

• Monika Hirmer: Looking for the Indian Woman’s Identity: Discrepancies and Power Imbalances Across Theory and Popular Culture (pdf)
• Franziska Fay: The Meaning of Adabu and Adhabu for the ‘Child Protection’ Discourse in Zanzibar (pdf)
• Brandi Simpson Miller: Foodways and Empire in 19th Century Asante Diplomatic Relations (pdf)
• Kasia Ploskonka: Mankurtism, Monuments and Marketing: Identity and Power in Post-Soviet Contemporary Art of Central Asia (pdf)
• Nadežda Christopher, Translation: Kazakh folk tales (pdf)
• A. Ebru Akcasu, Translation: Letters to the Author: Late-Ottoman Debates About Equality Between the Sexes, An Extract from Hamil Hamid's Müsavat-ı Tamme (pdf)

The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research Vol 9 (full text)

• Identities: Power and Politics (pdf)

Introduction

• Editorial (pdf)

Articles

• Michael Erdman: Saviour of the Nation, Patron of the Bourgeoisie: A Bonapartist Characterisation of the Coup of 12 September 1980 (pdf)
• Ivan R. V. Rumánek: Analysis of Okuni Sōshi as Sources of the Earliest Kabuki (pdf)
• Massimiliano Lacertosa: The Artworld and the Institutional Theory of Art (pdf)
• Julia Lisiecka: Re-reading Huda Shaarawi’s “Harem Years”– Bargaining with the Patriarchy in the Changing Egypt (pdf)
• Anaïs Da Fonseca: Contemporary Lives of Cherial Paintings from Telangana India: Notes on the Relations between Fieldwork and Thesis Structures (pdf)

Book reviews

• Violeta Ruano-Posada: My Voice is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance (pdf)
• Anaïs Da Fonseca: Deccani Scroll Paintings in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art (pdf)

About the authors

• About the Authors (pdf)

Editorial

• Introduction (pdf)

Articles

• Deborah Newton: Performativity and the Performer-Audience Relationship: Shifting Perspectives and Collapsing Binaries. (pdf)
• Irene Fernández Ramos: Storytelling, Agency and Community-building through Playback Theatre in Palestine (pdf)
• Geetha Creffield: South Asian Migrant Diaspora Performativity (pdf)
• Katja Janßen: Nathalie Handal’s ''Amrika'' chooses Palestine as Poetic Centre (pdf)
• Ying Cheng: Bàrígà Boys’ Urban Experience: Making Manifest (Im)mobility Through “Mobile” Performances (pdf)
• Alexandria Milton: Experiential Rhythm in the Short Story (pdf)

About the authors

• About the Authors (pdf)

Editorial

• Editorial (pdf)

Articles

• Eva Bentcheva: Who Belongs in the New Art History? (pdf)
• Janine Nicol: Outsiders: Medieval Chinese Buddhists and the Borderland Complex (pdf)
• Carol Ann Boshier: Leslie Fernandes Taylor and the 'Lost' Linguistic and Ethnographical Survey of Burma (pdf)
• Laura Hassan: The Encounter of Falsafa and Kalām in Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī’s Discussion of the Atom (pdf)
• Indrė Balčaitė: The Inaccessible Plong (pdf)
• Violeta Ruano-Posada: Researching Music in the Saharawi Refugee Camps (pdf)

About the authors

• About the Authors (pdf)

Contents

• Front Matter (pdf)

Articles

• Manuela Husemann: Golf in the City of Blood: the Translation of the Benin Bronzes in 19th Century Britain and Germany (pdf)
• Heather Hawkins: A Rejection of the Urban Centre? Dialect in the Poetry of William Barnes and Thomas Hardy (pdf)

Book reviews

• Philip Gooding: James McDougall and Judith Scheele, Saharan Frontiers: Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa (pdf)
• Jacopo Gnisci: Claude Lepage and Jacques Mercier, Lalibela: Wonder of Ethiopia: The Monolithic Churches and Their Treasures (pdf)
• Gerasimos Tsourapas: Mariz Tadros, The Muslim Brotherhood in contemporary Egypt: democracy redefined or confined? (pdf)

Retraction notices

• Danielle Tran: Retraction: Post-TRC South African writing and the trauma of apartheid (pdf)

Articles

• Sevket Akyildiz: An introductory history of Soviet Uzbek academics 1924-1960 (pdf)
• Jacopo Gnisci: Continuity and Tradition: The prominent role of Cyrillian Christology in fifteenth and sixteenth century Ethiopia (pdf)
• Ivan Rumanek: Hiranori rhythm in Japanese no drama and its possible continental roots (pdf)
• Danielle Tran: Post-TRC South African writing and the trauma of apartheid (pdf)

Reviews

• Sophia Hoffmann: Debt – the first 5,000 years by David Graeber (pdf)
• Robtel Neajai Pailey: Pray the devil back to hell and the making of 2011 Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee (pdf)

Research notes

• Ewa Karwowski: Productivity Notes: Only for politicians is productivity everything (pdf)

Editorial

• M. Unterbarnscheidt, P. Wirtz, W. Zhen: Editorial from the Polyvocia Committee (pdf)

Articles

• Sevket Akyildiz: Olympic Culture in Soviet Uzbekistan 1951-1991: International Prestige and Local Heroes (pdf)
• Julianne Hazen: Beyond Whirling and Weeping: Tasawwuf in America (pdf)
• Antonie Kraemer: Seeing the forest, Naming the Trees: Visuality and Knowledge Production About “Nature” in Madagascar (pdf)
• Jennifer Ung Loh: ‘Borrowing’ Religious Identifications: A Study of Religious Practices among the Hijras of India (pdf)

Research notes

• Priyadarshini Singh: Reflections on the field work of a dancer-political sociologist (pdf)
• Alexej Ulbricht: The Dialectics of Kettling (pdf)

Reviews

• Danielle Tran: Traumatic Stress in South Africa, by Debra Kaminer and Gillian Eagle, Johannesburg (pdf), Wits University Press, 2010, x + 222 pp., (paperback), ISBN 978 – 1 – 86814 – 509 – 6

Editorial

• K. Schulze, R.N. Harvey, A. Kraemer, A. Tilche, M. Unterbarnscheidt, W. Zhen: Editorial from the Polyvocia Committee (PDF)

Articles

• Thomas Alberts: 'Regional Studies and Critical Perspectives on Regions: The First SOAS Research Students’ Society Conference' (pdf)
• Ali Fathollah Nejad: The ‘Middle East’: From Past and Present Attributions to a Future Regional Identity? (pdf)
• Akhil Katyal: 'No ‘Sexuality’ for All: The Use of Personal Narratives in Contemporary Indian Sexual Rights Movement' (pdf)
• Jack Lord: Spatial Approaches to the History of Child Labour in Colonial Ghana (pdf)
• Philipp Wirtz: 'A Long Farewell: Depicting the Late Ottoman Empire in Turkish Autobiographies, 1926-1950' (pdf)

Research notes

• Paul Bevan: 'The Cartoonist Hu Kao and Shanghai Modeng' (pdf)
• Debojyoti Das: 'Understanding Anthropological Work and Ideas of Development from Colonial Archives in Highland South Asia' (pdf)
• Julianne Hazen: 'Ten Days of Mourning: The Commemoration of Ashūrāʾ by the ‘Alamī Sufi Tariqah in New York State' (pdf)
• Lidia Lewandowska-Nayar: 'Narottama Dāsa Ṭhākura’s Heritage Preserved' (pdf)

Reviews

• Syed Haider: 'Firaaq: Remembering Gujarat' (pdf)

Editorial

• Melissa Elliott: Interdisciplinarity and the SOAS Journal for Graduate Research (pdf)
• Daniel Large: Academic Journal Publishing: The Challenge and Potential of New Media (pdf)

Articles

• J. Brown: ‘Orientalism’, ‘Occidentalism’ and Anglo-Moroccan relations in the 16th and 17th centuries: a case study in historicising concepts of discourse (pdf)
• Paul Hansen: The Colonization Of Anthropology (pdf)
• Moshe Morad: Salsa and Falafel: Music and Identity among Illegal Latino Immigrants in Israel (pdf)
• Jago Salmon: Field Research in a Securitised Area: The State and Information in Sudan (pdf)

Reviews

• Sabine Höhn: David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul: Human Rights and International Intervention (London: Pluto Press, 2002), 268 pp (pdf)