The Indian labor diaspora that settled in Malaya, now known as Malaysia, was a diaspora that was used to further colonial ambitions. Large scale agricultural projects required a workforce that Malaya did not have. South Indian peasants from the untouchable Madrasi caste were tak…
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‘From the river to the sea’ is a study of the practices of incarceration mobilized by the Israeli state over the 1967 Occupied Palestinian Territories, or OPT. This study investigates the notion of occupation as an ‘open-air prison’ through subaltern geopolitics. Through intervi…
Moroccan author Mohamed Choukri is one of the most intriguing voices in contemporary Arabic literature. With his sparse and unelaborated narration, incisive images flashed in rapid succession, abrupt transitions, and skillful manipulation of tenses, he creates the literary equiv…
In "The Heteroglossic Narratives of National History: Mythified Histories and the Postcolonial Condition," I examine the function of myth in the making of a nation and in the writing of national history. I use the term "myth" in two ways. First, I use it to refer to the fantasti…
The purpose of this study was to explore the phenomenon of Filipinx American subaltern leadership epistemologies by unveiling participant life histories, alongside participant leadership approaches and practices carried-out in institutions of higher education in the Unites State…
This dissertation seeks to understand how a historically subaltern group negotiates family and societal power dynamics as they emerge from voicelessness into varying degrees of empowerment. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 16 young women, identifying as Indo-Guyane…