In the context of historical marginalization of indigenous people from diverse ethnic communities in Bangladesh, this study will investigate how mainstream researches and writings, in books, research reports, newspapers, and blogs on indigenous issues have ignored women's relega…
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This dissertation explores the ways in which ethnic Buriats living on the fringes of the Mongol state deal with the drastic social changes that have resulted from the unexpected collapse of socialism and the shift to a market economy. By living and traveling with rural nomads du…
My dissertation aims to show the subjectivity and diversity of marginality, by examining the interplay among marginality, emotions and performances of verbal genres among the Petalangan people in Indonesia. I conducted ethnographic and linguistic field research among the Petalan…
This submission for the award of PhD by Published Work includes a range of single, joint and multiple-authored publications that were published between 2005 and 2016. The publications cover a range of issues relevant to social work with a particular emphasis on mental health and…
This dissertation traces the history of the dialectical relationship between centre and margins in a remote mountainous region of Hunza in what is now in northern Pakistan, exploring in particular the politics of representation over time and the material consequences in the regi…
From a contemporary standpoint, the journey experiences of exile and return in the Hebrew Bible present some interesting connections and parallels with other forms of social movement such as international migration and border-crossings. In terms of my specific positioning as a H…
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary study about a marginalized narrative in the Francophone postcolonial and Jewish historical and literary discourse. Voices that are just now starting to be heard as defining the silenced narrative of the forgotten refugees and exiled peop…
This dissertation focuses on theorizations of community and representations of marginality in the Spanish romances of chivalry. Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo and Feliciano de Silva, the authors under investigation, both use characters that lie outside the norm to comment on the fo…
How do we read the novel as a record of the ways in which communities recuperate from violence? How is resistance to violence possible through the act of narration? This project focuses on select contemporary novels in which women characters resist violence and redefine notions …
This dissertation describes a research process designed to elucidate emergent acculturation processes of Oleem Hadasheem (i.e., new immigrants) within dominant Sabra (native Israeli) discourse. A review of cultural, mythical, and numinous literature is woven into a transdiscipli…