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The intersection of peoples' paid work and non-work responsibilities has over the last twenty years received increased interest in the media, workplaces, and academic circles. The increased attention is driven by a realisation of the undesirable consequences of inter-role confli…

The founding of Afghanistan in 1747 under the Durrani monarchy marked the inception of Afghanistan as a political entity, but not as a unified state. Concerted efforts to strengthen the central government and instill a national identity did not begin in earnest until 1880. Howev…

Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Region, along the border with Afghanistan, is home to a number of Pashtun tribes that continue to remain politically autonomous. Wresting control of this territory has been the object of numerous efforts by various alien rulers over the years, none …

This study explores borderlands as a function of the imposition of the post-colonial state upon primary structures of identity, polity and social organisation which may be sub-state, national or trans-state in nature. This imposition, particularly in the postcolonial experience …

This dissertation explores the ways in which the group of people identified as the Azd adapted to and exploited the changes of the seventh and eighth centuries associated with the rise of an ever more imperial caliphate occurring simultaneously with the massive and widespread se…