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My experience doing fieldwork for the first time
Imaan Khan, BA Social Anthropology and Politics Conducting real-life fieldwork, as opposed to between the shelves of the SOAS library required motivation, and both attentive listening and observational skills. At one point or another, most people will go through the nervousness of trying something for the first time. While there
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Human of SOAS: Notes Edition
In conversation with Yijia This series seeks to highlight the talent and stories of women musicians of colour at SOAS. Sasha Patel, BA History and South Asian Studies (Hindi Pathway) Tell us about yourself, what do you play? I’m Yijia, a singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. I prefer to use my
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‘I work therefore I am’: how hustle culture is eating up our lives
Maliha Shoaib, BA English and World Philosophies “If your work does not reflect your primary purpose for existing, then you are shunned as unsuccessful, or worse, unambitious.” Welcome to your future: the race to success. The stakes are high. Fuelled by the double espressos that run through your veins, you’
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The Quest to Decolonise the UK National Curriculum
By Fisayo Eniolorunda, BA Politics & African Studies I remember getting up at 7 A.M. as a teenager doing my GCSE’s, which at the time felt like the most tiresome quest of all. A sequence that often began with me groaning at the piercing sound of my alarm
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From the case of Rockets: how China is forcing international corporations to bow
By Chung Man Leung, MSc International Politics More than a decade ago when China joined the World Trade Organization and showed an indication as a rising global superpower, some scholars came up with the China threat theory, mainly stated that China would eventually turn into a big threat to global
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On the shallowness and ignorance of present-day environmental activists
By Rose Sauvage de Brantes, BA English and Japanese “What can a group of children possibly know about science?”- “Speeches are nice but it won’t help to change the world. Go back to school.” and “It’s too late now”. Those are the comments one can frequently find
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History Matters: Iran
By Jane Doe Iran has recently been in the news, embroiled in a dizzying array of geopolitical events, tragedies, and exchanges. The progression of events has been rapid fire, difficult to keep up with and even more difficult to understand in a way that doesn’t perpetuate problematic biases or
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The Taiwanese election result is a bittersweet victory for Hong Kongers
By Ruth Wetters, BA Chinese (Modern & Classical) Last week, the incumbent Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen was re-elected with a 58% vote share for the Democratic Progressive Party, running on a platform of freedom from Chinese aggression. In her acceptance speech, Tsai stated unequivocally that ‘democratic Taiwan, and our democratically-elected
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Samira Ahmed wins equal-pay battle against BBC
By Ludovica Longo, BA Geography & Politics. ‘No woman wants to have to take action against their own employer,’ but sadly that is what Newswatch presenter Samira Ahmed had to do by filing a lawsuit against the BBC in October 2019. After she became aware of Points of View presenter
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Understanding the fires in Australia.
By Yasmin Elsouda, BA International Relations The world watched in shock as a landscape larger than Belgium caught fire across New South Wales and Victoria in Australia. 80 people were killed not far from there in Indonesia, by flooding and landslides, the worst the country has seen since 2007. East
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The repercussion of Soleimani’s assassination
By Rose-Aymone Sauvage de Brante, BA English and Japanese An estimated crowd of one million people filled the streets of Tehran on 6 January, many displaying pictures of late Major General Soleimani. As Iran mourned the assassination of one of its most senior military figures, the world debated the audacity