SOAS academic, Dr Romina Istratii publishes monograph that applies a decolonial lens to gender ... Dr Istratii’s monograph Adapting Gender and Development to Local Religious Contexts: A Decolonial Approach in Ethiopia has been published by Routledge (Taylor & Francis). The monograph reflects the author’s ten years’ experience in the international development sector and efforts to reform it.
Dr Zerrin Özlem Biner Turkey, Middle East, UK, political anthropology, legal anthropology, political violence, post-conflict environments and ruination, justice and reconciliation processes, ethnographies of state, memory studies, subjectivity, materiality, border, migration and refugee studies, youth studies, solidarity movements, archival activism, multi-modal ethnography.
Alternative music in Lebanon: Between tunes and toil In this talk we will explore whether Lebanon is doomed to simply be a vessel bringing cutting edge alternative music that shapes the region but remain very niche in its regional appeal, or if the Lebanese Alternative Music Scene can have enough commercial success in the region to be sustainable.
Private Digital Spaces: Politics and WhatsApp in India What are the links between social, generational and gender relations, WhatsApp groups, the spread of misinformation, and the right-wing politics of India's BJP? Dr Lipika Kamra joins us to present her fascinating research exploring the connections between these factors.