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Economic functionality is essential for the recovery of cities and communities following disasters. A crucial factor in reducing business disruptions and guaranteeing their continuity is the capacity of employees to resume work. Facilitating the reintegration of employees into the workforce can expedite their post‐disaster recovery process and assist ...
Ezgi Orhan +2 more
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ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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Similarities and Differences in Postcolonial Bengali Women’s Writings: The Case of Mahasweta Debi and Mallika Sengupta [PDF]
The emancipation of women has become a strong critical discourse in Bengali literature since the 19th century. Only since the second half of the 20th century, however, have female writers markedly stepped out of the shadow of their male colleagues, and ...
Blanka KNOTKOVÁ-ČAPKOVÁ
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Epistemic Exclusion: Theorizing Dalit Feminism
Abstract Conceptual innovation is highly prized in Western Anglophone philosophy. Yet it often stems from a relatively narrow tradition that takes little account of contributions from other cultures and philosophical practices. We illustrate this point using the example of work done by Dalit feminists on identifying and addressing ...
Swati Arora +2 more
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Climate Change and Labor in a Globalized World: Mitigation, Adaptation, Vulnerability
Brick workers stack bricks in a Bangladeshi bull trench kiln. Credit: Mahmud Hossain Opu/Disaster Trade. ABSTRACT Climate change is increasingly recognized as a labor issue. The world of work is not only a major site of environmental risk, but also a means by which environmental risks are structured and intensified.
Laurie Parsons
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Corpses at fate’s crossroads: a tapestry of family honor and caste in Faleiro’s The Good Girls
Women’s autonomy, rights as well as mobility are being governed by deeply entrenched system of rigid ideologies, especially in rural India. The socio-literary intersection of caste, patriarchy and honor is positioned at the epicenter of this paper, which
Sonali Das +4 more
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Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility
ABSTRACT This co‐authored essay builds on a growing anthropological literature that engages critically and creatively with idealized official and popular ideas about documents of/in migration regimes. Documents are often championed as a common and unquestionable good in transnational migration but they are intrinsically tied to inequalities and ...
Sahana Ghosh +5 more
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Dalit Feminism: Historical Context And Impact
Dalit feminism aims to dismantle the prevailing narratives that uphold their oppression by empowering Dalit women to express their agency and reclaim their stories. Notwithstanding casteist violence and persecution, Dalit women have always been important voices for their rights and dignity. Prominent individuals such as Jyotiba Phule, Savitribai Phule,
Rudraksh Singh Sisodia - +2 more
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ABSTRACT This paper advances scholarship on agri‐alternatives by probing the gap between romanticised narratives of how alternative farming transitions ought to be and the actual practices farmers enact in their fields. Focusing on moments when such alternatives encounter on‐the‐ground realities, we propose ambiguous ecologies as a lens to explore the ...
Arianna Tozzi, Enid Still
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A Study of Dalit Feminism in Bama's Sangati
Patriarchy is considered to be a big rival of women literature. In association with this, exploitation or oppression of weaker by stronger is nothing new. Feminism or feminist aspect deals with society in general and woman in particular. ‘The Woman’ and ‘The Dalit’ are marginalized, hegemonized and downgraded. This paper examines the varied underlined,
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