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Special Issue: Research and Practice Dialogues on Complex Protection Claims -A 'Translational' Agenda
Get PDFIn this editorial, we consider how practitioners and academics working in the field of UK immigration, asylum and nationality law can cooperate more closely to achieve a shared goal: ensuring access to justice for asylum-seekers, refugees and other migrants. This project starts from the existing division and separateness that characterises today's legal research and legal practice in key areas in the field. The need for a more structured engagement and fruitful conversation between the two cohorts animates this Special Issue. The contributions herein aim to spark debate, constructive dialogue and cooperation regarding matters of capital importance to the rights and realities of international protection applicants, and chart new terrain indicating a common direction for legal research and legal practice. The ambition is for each to relate to one another in more productive ways, with the purpose to more coherently develop the field and achieve the common goal of ensuring better access to justice. This Special Issue is, thus, conceived of as a channel of communication between the two communities, as a first step towards a collective culture of dialogue and mutual learning on complex protection claims. Our objective is to jointly lay the foundations of a two-way 'translational' agenda, whereby practice-sensitive legal academic research translates into effective legal casework and academically informed legal practice contributes to transformative change at systemic level
Corporate Disclosure During COVID-19: A Close Reading and Discourse Analysis
Get PDFWe conduct a close reading and micro-level analysis of a market update released by Restaurant Group Plc, a UK leisure firm, during the COVID-19 pandemic to examine its communication functions. While the market update aligns with communicative action theory by enhancing information transparency, it also deploys various rhetorical strategies, including impersonalization, positive self-evaluation, and metaphors consistent with impression management. The overly optimistic tone bears no relation to subsequent corporate outcomes. This study provides valuable insights for business and professional communication practitioners and students, enabling them to interpret the linguistic characteristics of market updates as a distinct genre of corporate communication
Evaluating the Prospects for US-Southeast Asia Relations under the Second Trump Administration
Get PDFWhat are the prospects for the relationship between Trump 2.0 and Southeast Asia? The ties between the US and this region have been inconsistent, with periods of intense engagement but also moments of US distraction or preoc cupation with other regions and issues. Given this historical context and the current challenges of discerning a clear strategy toward the region, this article evaluates the possible approach of Trump 2.0 toward Southeast Asia through a series of scenarios: maintenance of the status quo, increased competition, and retrenchment (either by accommodation or by withdrawal). The three scenarios are explored through foreign policy approaches and multilateral platforms, as well as through the South China Sea dispute. We argue that the status quo scenario is the most plausible, but that increased competition is also likely
Disrupting the Knowledge Trap ECRs and the Global South as Agents of Epistemic Change
No full textThis entry questions the foundations of knowledge production in Peace and Conflict Studies by advocating an incremental movement that adopts a bottom-up and inside-out approach. Specifically, we argue that, with support, early-career researchers (ECRs) from the Global South can be pollinators, spreading new knowledge production methods across ECR groups globally and scaling up to engage mid- and senior-level researchers. This is essential for the progression of better, more inclusive knowledge production worldwide. To illustrate our argument, we draw on our own experience leading an international intensive three-day writing workshop on Peace and Conflict Studies for ERCs from the Global Sout
Review of Bonacina-Pugh (2024): Language Policy as Practice: Advancing the Empirical Turn in Language Policy Research
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Review: Felix B. Chang and Sunnie T. Rucker- Chang. 2020. Roma Rights and Civil Rights: A Transatlantic Comparison
Get PDFDefending the Gate of Inimitability: Abū Rashīd al-Naysābūrī (d. After 415/1024) and the Freethinker Critiques
Get PDFThe intellectual legacy of the Baṣrān Muʿtazila has had a profound and lasting impact on the development of discussions on Qurʾānic inimitability. Numerous writings have been composed by Baṣrān Muʿtazila on the topic; among them is Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān by Abū Rashīd al-Naysābūrī, an unpublished manuscript preserved in the King Saud University Library under the number 7752. This paper focuses on the development of al-Naysābūrī’s understanding of Qurʾānic inimitability in the context of this manuscript, especially analysing his reception of early Muʿtazilī (specifically Bahshamī) thoughts on Qurʾānic inimitability. Moreover, it pays particular attention to al-Naysābūrī’s engagement with the critiques directed against the Bahshamī theory of Qurʾānic inimitability. This paper adopts a source-criticism approach to studying the manuscript and evaluating the historical development of its contents. It argues that the theoretical foundation underlying the theory of miraculous eloquence developed by ʿAbd al-Jabbār drew al-Naysābūrī’s attention towards a deep engagement with hypothetical dialogues inspired by the refutations of questions concerning Qurʾānic inimitability posed by the freethinkers’ movement. This engagement prompted al-Naysābūrī to adopt and assess numerous hypothetical frameworks and conditional views, including the ṣarfa theory, in his defence of Qurʾānic inimitability. This approach of addressing the freethinker critiques aligns greatly with the dynamic and responsive nature of Baṣrān Muʿtazila’s thoughts against freethinkers’ movement
Cosmos, Memory, Scale: Artist Karl Singporewala
No full textThe 2025 SOAS Artist-in-Residence Fellowship of the Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies presents Cosmos, Memory, Scale, a new major solo exhibition of Karl Singporewala’s sculptural works linked to Zoroastrian symbolism. This exhibition marks the beginning of the Institute’s commitment to supporting artistic research that connects scholarship and creative practice. It brings together a series of sculptural works through which Karl Singporewala explores the intersection of cosmology, heritage and architecture. By reflecting on Zoroastrian symbolism, his practice invites us to consider how aesthetics and materiality shape identity.About Karl SingporewalaKarl Singporewala is a Royal Academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art. His artistic practice bridges architectural and sculptural disciplines. Singporewala’s practice is shaped by his Zoroastrian Parsi heritage, and his works often explore themes of identity, materiality, and enduring tensions between tradition and modernity. Utilising modern techniques such as computer-aided design, laser cutting, photo etching, and 3D printing, his work offers a unique opportunity to experience Zoroastrian heritage through an artistic lens. His art has been exhibited internationally, including at the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, New York Institute of Technology and the Onassis Cultural Centre Athens.Discover Karl Singporewala: VideoAbout Mariano ErrichielloMariano Errichiello is a scholar of Zoroastrianism specialising in modern communities. His research combines textual analysis with ethnographic insight, with particular interest in mobility, migration, hermeneutics and ritual performance. He adopts a community-engaged approach, integrating lived perspectives and community knowledge into both pedagogy and research design. He has been awarded fellowships at leading research institutes in Venice, Copenhagen and Erlangen-Nürnberg, and his work has received recognition from the Ancient India & Iran Trust and the Journal of Persianate Studies. He also serves as a Trustee of the British Institute of Persian Studies. Before entering academia, Mariano held senior leadership roles at PwC in Latin America and the UK
Classical Discussions of the Concept of Iʿjāz al-Qurʾān with Special Reference to the Works of al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār and al-Sharīf al- Murtaḍā
Get PDFQurʾānic inimitability (iʿjāz al-Qurʾān) is a fundamental, albeit controversial, topic in classical Islamic thought. Despite playing a major role in the discourse on Muḥammad’s prophethood, Qurʾānic inimitability has triggered various theological and literary debates, with classical scholars proposing different theories to explain the miraculous nature of the Qurʾān. The prevailing argument claims that the degree of eloquence in the Qurʾān is inimitable, although the nature of that eloquence may be disputed. Some minor theories have focused on divine intervention (ṣarfa), the creation of an unprecedented literary genre or legislation presented with the Qurʾān, among other subjects. This thesis investigates the endeavours of classical scholars regarding the inimitability of the Qurʾān, beginning with an examination of early thought on eloquence within philological and literary circles. It then explores early scholarship on Qurʾānic inimitability, including the works of Abū al-Ḥasan al-Rummānī (d. 384/994), Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī (d. 388/989), Abū Bakr al-Bāqillānī (d. 403/1013) and al- Muʾayyad bi-Allāh al-Hārūnī (d. 411/1020). The analysis gives special attention to the works of al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār (d. 415/1025) and his theory of linguistic construction (naẓm), as well as al-Sharīf al-Murtaḍā’s (d. 436/1044) theorisation of ṣarfa. It also examines the influence of different theological approaches as well as the intellectual context within which theories on Qurʾānic inimitability flourished. This thesis argues that the literary theory explaining Qurʾānic inimitability initially developed as a literary question, which was then consolidated with various theological concepts, including speech, capability and knowledge. It also argues that the major shifts in the theorisation of Qurʾānic inimitability can be attributed to the differences in intellectual context that generated distinct literary interpretations of the Qurʾān
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