SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research


About
The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research showcases the talent and diverse research interests of SOAS research students.
The Journal publishes full-length articles and short articles on any aspect of the research and fieldwork process. This can include, but is not limited to, personal reflections, translations, engagements with audio-visual materials, and interviews. The Journal also publishes book reviews.
The Journal showcases the talent of SOAS's junior researchers and the expanse of research interests, topics and regions covered at SOAS and should be seen as an introduction to the range of research expertise offered by SOAS's junior researchers.
Submissions
All submissions should follow the citation method outlined in the Chicago Manual of Style and be sent to: sjpr@soas.ac.uk.
Latest edition
SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research, Issue 16 (2025)
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