Marginalized Identities

Beggars and vagrants were a constant presence in the everyday life of Ljubljana during the examined period, prompting various responses from authorities and the broader public. This study explores the legal mechanisms, social perceptions, and institutional measures through which municipal authorities monitored and regulated begging and vagrancy. The central research questions focus on the evolution of legal regulations concerning beggars, the role of social welfare measures, and the influence of the media in shaping public perceptions of these marginalized groups. The article is based on an analysis of legislative acts, newspaper sources, and scholarly literature. Key legal documents examined include the 1863 Domicile Act and Yugoslav legal regulations from the interwar period. Additionally, the study addresses institutional responses such as poorhouses, municipal shelters, and forced labor institutions, which were intended as mechanisms of control and socialization of beggars. Special attention is given to the role of newspaper sources in shaping public opinion.

Nos últimos dez anos, aproximadamente, as pessoas pesquisadoras e/ou militantes dos direitos humanos, em especial aqueles relativos às identidades LGBTQIAPN+, feministas e negras, têm se deparado com um conjunto de trabalhos acadêmicos, escritos por pesquisadores/as importantes nos campos da psicanálise, psicologia, sociologia, filosofia e antropologia, que estão elaborando novos discursos críticos às identidades. O objetivo deste texto é o de apresentar de forma panorâmica algumas das principais obras e elaborar hipóteses iniciais para tentar explicar as condições de emergência, nos termos de Michel Foucault, desses novos saberes.

One of the most critical issues for English teachers in Australia concerns teaching Asian-Australian identities. This paper will take a literary approach to this topic, and use Only the Heart by Brian Caswell and David Phu An Chiem (1997), and Dreaming Australia by Steve Tolbert (2004) as pedagogic tools. These texts are starting points for discussing the many intersections between Asian and Australian identities. The emphasis of this paper is on perceptions of Asian-Australian identities amongst young people, and how these can be used by English teachers to create worthwhile and exciting learning environments. The theoretical approach that will be elaborated is based upon a poststructural reading of textual practice, so that students relate bookstudy to identity-construction. In this instance, this means that the students will understand the ethical and cultural distinctions that are present in the texts, yet these will not be placed into hierarchical or fixed structures. Rather, s...

The paper deals with the paradoxical situation of Arab Palestinians in Israel through the analysis of two novels. Palestinians who stayed within the boundaries of what was declared in 1948 as “State of Israel” found themselves a minority surrounded by strangers building a new society on what used to be their cities and villages. They were eventually granted citizenship of this new state, however their identity was controversial both to the Jewish members of the new state, and to other Palestinians as well as to other Arab nationals. Their situation was a most ironic and paradoxical one. In this paper I would like to trace these paradoxes as represented in two contemporary novels: Ibtestam Azim’s The Book of Disappearance (2014) and Rabai al-Madhoun's Fractured Destinies: Concerto of the Holocaust and the Nakba (2015)

Theory of Middleman minorities proposed by Sociologist Blalock provides insight into the status of the minority in the social set up, how it affects its choice of occupations and its relations with the other communities. Theory has been understood and applied in the context of a range of minorities. The paper explores the implications of the theory in case of the Jains in Mumbai. The study probes into the limitations of the theory and a number of factors such as the migration, the dominant position and responses towards the position of the Jains in Mumbai.

This research explores the intersection of race, class, and disability in current American literature through a scrutiny of The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara and Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward. It delves into the way sidelined identities, especially Black, disabled, and poor people, are depicted and the way these representations challenge prevailing narratives of the status quo and value as far as the U.S. society is concerned. The research utilizes a qualitative methodology embedded in intersectional feminist literary criticism and critical disability studies and concentrates on thematic construction, character improvement, and narrative voice. The results exhibit that both writers demonstrate disability as societally and politically structured instead of medicalized, and they challenge its conventional descriptions. The lived realism of racial segregation and poverty is focused on by the novels, emphasizing the way struggle and continued existence are negotiated through non-normative quintessence, ethnic memory, and community. The research adds to an increasing body of scholarship that insists on the requirement of intersectionality in literary exploration, accentuating the role of literature as a space for political involvement and struggle amongst communities that face numerous forms of marginalization

"Beyond the Shadows: The Journey of Elmi" is an inspirational story of courage, education, and the fierce fight for disability inclusion (BEYOND_THE... p. 1). Set in Gabilay and Hargeisa, it follows Elmi, a paralyzed boy who uses his intellect to challenge societal barriers, establish the candlelit 'Midnight Academy,' and pioneer national disability rights legislation (BEYOND_THE... pp. 1-2, 6, 11). It highlights accessibility as a right, not a privilege (BEYOND_THE... p. 1).

This book offers a critical study of Koshali/Sambalpuri Folk poet, Padmashri Haldhar Nag’s rendition of four characters from the Rāmāyana, namely Urmilā, Tārā, Mandodari and Shabari, in his three long poems. While doing so, the volume attempts to foreground the Koshali/Sambalpuri folk tradition which has cradled the creative genius of Haldhar Nag.  Among Nag’s many creative feats, synthesizing Indian mythological materials with the Koshali/Sambalpuri folk elements stand out the most. The book argues that given the popular perception of the Rāmāyana being either about the Avatār Purush Sri Rām or the Maryādā Purushottam Sri Rām (where one would normally expect to witness the trials and tribulations of Sri Rām and Mātā Sitā) the very act of making the other female characters the center of one’s poetic world, by itself is a testimony to the democratic vision of the poet. The book hopes to address the curiosity of scholars interested (and invested) in Haldhar Nag’s poetic world and its contribution to Indian literature, Odia literature, Koshali/Sambalpuri writings, folk studies, identity studies and gender studies.

Religion is commonly perceived as a source of moral guidance and social cohesion. However, within contemporary workplace settings, religious discourse can be strategically deployed to regulate employment relations and shape worker behaviour. This study investigates how religious discourse is employed to reproduce injustices against marginalized workers within contemporary workplace settings. Aimed at identifying discursive forms, analyzing the factors that facilitate the reproduction of injustice, and exploring its consequences, the study adopts a literature-review approach that traces news coverage, public opinion, and social-media discourse as primary data sources. The findings reveal three principal forms through which injustice is reproduced: (1) the ideologization of moral values that reframes structural problems as personal failings; (2) the sacralization of hierarchical structures that grants moral legitimacy to managerial authority; and (3) the instrumentalization of religious symbols and rituals as mechanisms of social control. Factors reinforcing these processes include conservative religious interpretations, entrenched structural power relations, the psychological internalization of religious values, and cultural norms promoting compliance. The implications comprise an erosion of workers' critical consciousness, the reinforcement of socioeconomic inequality, increased psychological and spiritual burdens, and a weakening of labor solidarity. The study concludes that religious discourse can operate as a tool for conserving the status quo rather than as a catalyst for social justice.

Every year on May 19, Hazaras (self-designation Āzrah) across Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Europe, Australia, and North America celebrate their culture with passionate music, traditional food, and vibrant gatherings. This day is not merely a festival-it is a declaration of identity, a link to a past that stretches back more than three thousand years. But beneath the surface of these celebrations lie deeper, often forgotten layers: ancient Nowruz rituals in old Balkh, fire festivities, winter solstice ceremonies, girls' traditions, and the epic recitation of the Shahnameh. This expanded article brings those hidden layers to light.

Anna Deavere Smith's Let Me Down Easy (2008) is more than just a play; it is a social indicator or a documentation of how prejudice adheres to its establishing principles on systemic racism, economic inequality, and social injustice within the American healthcare system. In this vein, Smith recreates documentary theatre accounts to raise awareness of how minorities experience racism, and classism in their quest for decent healthcare. The play unravels the racial and class-based causes of healthcare injustice, and how injustice cycles repeat themselves in the lives of people of color. Smith depersonalizes the various forms of inequities that one may experience in the health sector and makes the readers demand change for the many cases of injustice in the system. This paper shows how the stories in Let Me Down Easy describe the lingering effects of racism on the health of people and offers a call for justice.

The Thai Anti-Corruption Marginalized Coalition (TAMC) was established
to work on anti-corruption at national and regional levels using a bottom-up
approach. TAMC found that the challenge of combating corruption at the first stage is the definition and understanding of corruption, which is problematic.

The current definition defined by the government lacks perspectives from the
ground. Marginalized groups realize that many corrupt acts are conducted under current laws and systems that should be illegitimate; some groups do not have legal protection and respectful recognition, or even the laws and systems can be harmful to their subsistence. They cannot respond to corruption issues in these circumstances according to their will. These marginal conditions constrain marginalized groups into uncertain situations that could be taken advantage of, exploited, and extorted at any time by corrupt actors and agents. This study aims to understand the perspectives of marginalized groups towards corruption by encouraging them to define it based on their experiences and how they interact with corruption. The exploration and redefinition could help understand different approaches that can strengthen the design of new initiatives and strategies to combat corruption.

The role of entrepreneurship in post-conflict reconstruction is largely understudied. Micro and Small livestock enterprises play an important economic and socio-cultural role amongst many Kenyan communities. The objective of this study was to establish the moderating effect of post-conflict reconstruction on the relationship between indigenous entrepreneurship and economic development in Turkana County. This study is anchored on institutional theory. Positivism and phenomenology paradigms and a cross sectional research design was adopted. The target population was all micro and small livestock enterprises that are registered members of the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) in Turkana County; comprising of 598 livestock enterprises. A sample of 339 micro and small livestock enterprises were selected for the study using simple random sampling techniques. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics like mean, standard deviation, cumulative variance, Skewness, Kurtosis, ANOVA and regression analyses. The results revealed that Post-conflict reconstruction has a significant moderating effect on the relationship between indigenous entrepreneurship and economic development in Turkana county, (F=50.22, P=0.000). The study suggests legislation of laws and policies by the national and County governments, prohibiting acquisition of small arms. Policy initiatives should support indigenous livestock enterprises for instance, creation of a suitable environment for these businesses to obtain credit. Its time both levels of governments enhance their environmental factors to lower uncertainty, raise indigenous livestock entrepreneurs to participate at the global economy, attracting FDI, private sector development, employment,

Livestock trade is key to Turkanas' economic development and the presence of conflict as well as global influence cannot be underrated. Although research on the contribution of entrepreneurship to economic development has widely been conducted, evidence on whether entrepreneurship really matters for economic development is not clearly established. The goal of this research is to determine the contribution of indigenous entrepreneurship among micro and small livestock enterprises, post-conflict reconstruction and globalization dynamics to economic development in Turkana County. The anchoring theories are; institutional, entrepreneurial bricolage, effectuation and endogenous growth. Positivist philosophical orientation was adopted and a descriptive cross-sectional research design. The County Livestock Marketing Council provided a list of 598 livestock firms which formed the basis of selecting a sample size of 339 Micro and Small Enterprises (MSEs). To analyze collected data, inferential and descriptive statistical analysis were applied. The study findings revealed significant joint influence of indigenous entrepreneurship among micro and small livestock enterprises, post-conflict reconstruction and globalization dynamics on economic development in Turkana county, (F=59.4, P=0.000). The joint effect was different from the individual effects and jointly, the three variables have a greater influence on economic development than individually. The study recommends that economic development in indigenous communities must be built on entrepreneurial enterprises or activities of these people and their products. The study suggests that there is need for management in these micro and small livestock enterprises in Turkana County to consider saving with the financial institutions in order to secure larger loans to inject and boost their businesses as well as sourcing of other external markets for their products as this may earn them more income.

The paper explores the subtle nature of marginality that the women go through in the plays of choice of Mahesh Dattani, in which the intersections of gender, identity, and socio-cultural constraints in modern Indian society have been prefigured. The dramaturgy by Dattani challenges the micro-level, but widespread forms of exclusion that exist within family and social systems and that especially impact women who must deal with multiple identities in their personalities formed by patriarchy, tradition, and modernity. The study examines the placement of female characters in the peripheral space that can be visible and invisible, and the voice of the female characters as resistance, negotiation, and sometimes silence through a close text analysis of select plays. Although the current literature has already discussed the role that Dattani played in drawing attention to the gender and social issues, this paper will elaborate on that by grounding female marginality on a wider critical paradigm that includes the issues of agency, performativity, and cultural conditioning. Reconsidering the experienced realities of women characters in the plays of Dattani, the paper will argue that marginality is not just an external condition but also internalised and reproduced in the relationships within or among family members. The paper, therefore, adds to the current debates concerning the Indian English drama by providing a fine interpretation of the gendered marginalisation in the theatrical world of Dattani.

Die Rezension zu  Simon Mariam Hoffmanns "Aufstand der Jugend" (Westend Verlag 2026) ist am 15. Mai 20265 im Blog von Vera Lengsfeld erschienen (https://vera-lengsfeld.de/2026/05/15/wir-haben-einen-generationenkonflikt-dieser-war-schon-immer-da/#more-8457).

This dissertation cancerns what is known as the report book in Sweden between 1960 and 1980. The study aims to examine the report book as a genre and to deterrnine whether the texts that questioned dominant social structures can also be said to contain elements that work to uphold those structures. Working from the perspective of a sociology of Iiterature, tlris inquiry is strongly influenced by feminist and postcolonial theories and methods. The dissertation includes both a genre study and close readings of three works: Jan Myrda1's Reportfrom a Chinese Village, Sara Lidman's and Odd Uhrbom's Gruva, and Maja Ekelöf's Rapport från en skurhink. The genre analysis is based on a survey of 49 books and analyses both texts and paratexts. The survey demonstrates that a dual ambition characterizes report books: the desire to represent reality in a direct, unmediated fashion and the desire to represent a previously unknown reality-to give others a voice. These aims permeate the ways in which the works are packaged and marketed. The genre, in other words, is not constituted only by narrative techniques, but also to a great extent by the ways in which publishers profile the books. The analysis also shows that the majority of works make use of basically the same frame story, with slight modifications: a joumalist/writer/scientist travels to a non-central place to gather and report fäets, impressions, and voices from and about that place. Metonymical narration and montage are commonly used, but the monologue--often seen as characteristic of the report book-is not the dominant narrative technique employed. The analysis of Report from a Chinese Village demonstrates that an author is able to influence what Edward W. Said refers to as strategic formation, but it also discusses the significance of the author's strategic location for the work and for the image of China that emerges. Report from a Chinese Village helped change the view of China in the West, but it also works in a tradition that underwrites a Western self~understanding in which the West discovers, organizes, explains, and exploits the world around it. The comparison between audio recordings and the final text of Gruva sheds light on the process and method of book production, and shows how the author's overall aims influenced the final product. The analysis of Gruva shows how text and image succeed in formulating a critique af the society af its time, but it also raises the possibility that the work simultaneously tells another, far less critical story. The discussion of Rapport från en skurhink revolves around the fäet that the work was received and read as the long-awaited testimony of the cleaning lady, Maja Ekelöf, and that because of this reception several important aspects of the work were neglected. In short, this dissertation argues that the report book in Sweden <luring the 1960s and 1970s isa highly specific expression of documentary literature characterized by the two main factors Clas Zilliacus has identified: the motto of "giving voice" and the performative signal that "this is reality." Against this background, the dissertation examines what it means to give voice, or to be a voice.

This book review critically engages with Manoj Kumar Jena’s edited volume Media and Marginals in India: Medium, Message and Meaning. The review examines how the book explores the relationship between media and marginalised communities in India through diverse theoretical and empirical perspectives. It discusses the book’s contribution to understanding representation, exclusion, identity, and power within contemporary media landscapes, while also evaluating its interdisciplinary relevance to sociology, media studies, and cultural studies. The review highlights the strengths of the volume in foregrounding marginal voices and reflects on its significance in the broader context of media and social inequality in India.

The present paper attempts to present how Vavachan, a youth belonging to Pulayan community, considered a lower caste in Kerala, becomes a legendary character Moustache and gets centralized in the narrative through the use of magical realism in the novel Moustache (2020) by S. Hareesh. The paper also tries to show how folklore, myths and songs created about him in the novel present him as a man with supernatural powers rather than a common vagabond. The paper in a way tries to elucidate how the status of the marginalised has been subverted through such devices. His representation as a marginalised also would explore the community's marginalised state in a hierarchical society.

Although interpreters often note Luke's bias towards those at the margin of society in narrating Jesus' story with its miracles and drive for discipleship, the perspective is common to all evangelists. The inspiring story of the blind man in the synoptic tradition, which shows how Jesus' healing miracle leads to discipleship especially, proves this point. The story is a pragmatic description of the transformation of the blind man from destitution to discipleship, disability to ability, and immobility to mobility, following Jesus. Significantly, the narrative is set along the road in the full glare of everyone, thus having implications for individual and social experiences. This paper uses literary-critical method and presents that the blind man's faith, determination, resistance, and rejection of the "crowd," who shouted him down, and Jesus' compassion form the critical elements of transformation in the narrative. It follows that whenever the "weak" exercise firm faith in seeking transformation and the "strong"/"privileged" recognize the need and voice of the weak and help them, as exemplified by Jesus (contrary to the crowd) in the narrative, massive transformation becomes inevitable at both personal and social levels. The narrative has substantial implications for the personal and social transformation in the contemporary period. Therefore, faith which seeks transformation and rejects repression and a compassionate heart for those in trouble are highly needed to make a better person and society.

Cornwall faces structural economic challenges due to its peripherality, seasonal economy, and
reliance on small businesses. These factors contribute to lower wages, job insecurity, and limited
career progression. However, emerging industries such as renewable energy, space technology,
and sustainable mining present opportunities to transform the employment landscape. We
incorporate the findings of the Good Work Monitor (GWM) framework to assess employment
quality and highlight key areas for improvement, including financial security, job stability, skills
development, and workplace culture. This report integrates quantitative data from the GWM with
qualitative insights from interviews and business case studies carried out in our research.

"Ruins of Experience" is a metaphorical construct based on a spatial metaphor that is enduring in the global humanities tradition, linking experience/memory and imaginary space. In its original landscape sense, a ruin is a building that is not being used for its intended purpose and is gradually deteriorating, moving into a gray area between natural artifacts and artifacts that are functionally embedded in a specific cultural environment, while still retaining the quality of being man-made. This quality is what defines a ruin.
When a building ceases to meet its original functional purpose, it becomes a ruin not only in the physical sense of the word. It becomes a ruin of a project, a ruin of an experience, and in this sense it can be subjected to re-projection, which involves not only secondary semanticization but also emotional re-adjustment and a change in its position within the system of memory places.
The process of ruinization transforms an artifact into a myth.  The missing elements provoke the observer to consider them accidental. They make us see the "real" structure of the artifact, which is closer to its true meaning, which is not always obvious in its relevance. Based on this position, we propose to discuss the following thematic areas at the conference:
– the legitimization and de-legitimization of the ruined experience;
– thematization of the ruin, focusing on the natural process of ruining experience (processing or curing);
– the art and pragmatics of authenticity (refusal to re-mythologize);
– remembering as a ruin
– cleaning up memory; destroying and creating ruins;
– other people’s ruins, appropriation and ignoring
– extrapolating ruins (creating an aesthetic distance and/or a distance that is convenient for mythologizing). Estrangement of current experience

Text se zaměřuje na symbolistickou básnickou sbírku Otokara Březiny „Tajemné dálky“ z roku 1895. Zkoumá Březinův literární vývoj, přičemž zdůrazňuje filozofický a literární vliv Arthura Schopenhauera a Charlese Baudelaira na jeho tvorbu, a poskytuje podrobnou analýzu básně „Ó sílo extází a snů...“. Dokument analyzuje hlavní tematický kontrast mezi každodenním životem a uměním, symbolický motiv ohně a strukturní využití alexandrínu. Dále obsahuje srovnávací analýzy s texty Jaroslava Vrchlického a Františka Gellnera, které zasazují Březinův estetický přístup do širšího kontextu.

Cleveland; Ray Metzinger of Youngstown; and Addison Reid of Steubenville, Ohio. The exception to the urban, blue-collar cohort was Joan Flint, the daughter of a Unitarian Universalist minister in Kent. Metts suggested the group's name. With their circle containing Alex (Fraser) and with Metts recalling that the Macedonians of old were led by Alexander the Great and that they, too, opposed the Greek fraternities, he thus christened the group. The Macedonians encountered racial discrimination in Kent. When attempting to dine with Ed Gray they were refused service in a nklin Street tavern. On another occasion, a white member of the group was harassed in a bar for being a "n--lover." The Macedonian, a former Merchant Marine, decked the verbal abuser with one punch. Fraser interview. Carl Oglesby mentions the Macedonians briefly in Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Antiwar Movement (New York: Scribner, 2008), 8-9. 4. In his interview, Fraser recalled that several Macedonians who also lived on campus had copies of the Daily Worker slipped under the doors of their dormitory rooms. In the 1955-56 academic year there were 5,717 enrolled students at KSU, and of the first 1,055 (listed alphabetically) in the student directory for that year, 570 were from cities, chiefly Cleveland, Akron, and Canton. For further details, see Grace, "Legacy of Dissent." 5.

In the following article, I have attempted to foreground the anti-caste or dalit consciousness of the novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam by Adwaita Mallabarman. It is done in order to resist those readings or adaptations or interpretations of the text that have overlooked its radical content. I have looked at three aspects of the novel: the use of the folk, the question of emotionality and the relationship between spatiality and dalit identity formation. The article also delineates the kind of subject that emerges with the denouement of the novel. It is an interventionist reading of sorts that seeks to place the novel and the author in their socio-historical context. However, the essay does not engage in an anachronistic dalit critic and faults the text for the 'absence' of certain tropes or aesthetics that are considered to be typical of dalit writing.

Cinema has an impactful influence over society and it has foregrounded the burning issues of the society to make a visible change. Cinema and society have enjoyed a reciprocal relationship impacting each other simultaneously but tribal people and culture have been largely sidelined in this. Tribal life usually gets a representation as romantic and exotic backdrop and tribal people as either noble savages or insignificant innocents. Recently a shift is marked in this portrayal in Indian Cinema. This paper studies two film Jai Bhim and Joram, who step away from such stereotypical portrayal and foregrounds the socioeconomic marginalisation, surveillance and identity as the lived realities of indigenous communities.

The paper explores the subtle nature of marginality that the women go through in the plays of choice of Mahesh Dattani, in which the intersections of gender, identity, and socio-cultural constraints in modern Indian society have been prefigured. The dramaturgy by Dattani challenges the micro-level, but widespread forms of exclusion that exist within family and social systems and that especially impact women who must deal with multiple identities in their personalities formed by patriarchy, tradition, and modernity. The study examines the placement of female characters in the peripheral space that can be visible and invisible, and the voice of the female characters as resistance, negotiation, and sometimes silence through a close text analysis of select plays. Although the current literature has already discussed the role that Dattani played in drawing attention to the gender and social issues, this paper will elaborate on that by grounding female marginality on a wider critical paradigm that includes the issues of agency, performativity, and cultural conditioning. Reconsidering the experienced realities of women characters in the plays of Dattani, the paper will argue that marginality is not just an external condition but also internalised and reproduced in the relationships within or among family members. The paper, therefore, adds to the current debates concerning the Indian English drama by providing a fine interpretation of the gendered marginalisation in the theatrical world of Dattani.

This study explores the critical role of emotional and moral maturity in fostering institutional coherence within post-colonial, multicultural workplace environments. Adopting a qualitative, hermeneutic phenomenological methodology, the research analyzes the lived experiences of 22 emerging leaders from a South African business school to understand how they navigate complex institutional dynamics. The findings indicate that emotional maturity, characterized by self-awareness and regulation, and moral maturity, defined by ethical reasoning, function interdependently as micro-foundations for organizational stability. Together, they empower leaders to align personal integrity with institutional demands. Furthermore, the study identifies emotional labor as a crucial bridge that translates individual values into organizational practice through authentic "deep acting". While enablers such as empathy, reflection, and vulnerability promote institutional transformation and inclusivity, stumbling blocks like fear, systemic bias, and egocentric tendencies inhibit emotional maturity and reinforce exclusionary "shadow values". Ultimately, the research concludes that integrating emotional and moral maturity within organizational institutionalism provides a dynamic framework for understanding leadership. Emotionally mature actors do not merely conform to existing institutional norms; they actively challenge and reshape them to cultivate more equitable, value-driven, and coherent workplaces.

The Kongu region's freedom movement has a distinct identity of its own. At every step of the liberation struggle, the Kongu region's citizens made outstanding contributions. Even in the early phases of the conflict, every segment of society took part. The independence spirit that is characteristic of the Kongu people was brought forth by Kongu hero Deeran Chinnamalai and other unsung heroes. Men and women in India worked together to bring about the success of the liberation movement. The duty of releasing the homeland from the bonds of colonial control fell equally to both. The fight for liberation claimed the lives of thousands of Indian women. The struggle for Indian freedom is a heroic and powerful tale of women's bravery. India should never forget the many unsung women who fought for freedom. They embodied the spirit of nationalism. The heroic South Indian women freedom fighters from the Kongu region are highlighted in this article.

This paper examines how the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into disaster risk reduction (DRR) can unintentionally reinforce existing inequalities through a process described as “double exclusion”. It argues that exclusion occurs at two connected stages: first, in the data used to train AI systems, where marginalised and undercounted populations are often absent; and second, in the deployment of AI-enabled tools, which frequently rely on digital access, infrastructure, and formal identification that many at-risk groups do not have.

Drawing on examples from humanitarian and development contexts, the paper shows how groups such as displaced populations, informal settlement residents, and people without documentation are systematically overlooked in both data systems and service delivery. It also explores less visible dynamics, including proxy bias in datasets, gaps in participatory design, and the impact of compound crises, which can deepen exclusion while AI systems continue to operate as if conditions are stable.

The paper finds that these patterns are not isolated technical issues but structural outcomes shaped by long-standing inequalities in data collection, digital access, and governance. It highlights significant gaps in accountability and oversight, noting that those most affected by AI-driven decisions often have the least ability to understand or challenge them.

The paper concludes that addressing double exclusion requires a shift in how AI is designed and governed in DRR. This includes improving data inclusion, reducing access barriers, strengthening participation of marginalised groups in system design, and establishing clearer accountability and regulatory frameworks. Without these changes, there is a risk that AI will scale and automate existing inequalities rather than reduce them.

Cet article explore le potentiel thérapeutique du pixel art digital dans le champ de l'art-thérapie contemporaine. En s'appuyant sur les neurosciences de la créativité, la théorie du flow de Csikszentmihalyi, et les recherches récentes sur les interventions d'art-thérapie numérique (Miller & White, 2023 ; Garner, 2017 ; Malchiodi, 2020), l'auteure avance la thèse que le pixel art, par la nature même de son geste-discret, répétitif, sérialisé-, constitue une forme de méditation moderne ancrée dans un rituel structurant. L'article examine également les précautions cliniques indispensables à une pratique responsable.

Geet are the folk songs sung mostly by rural Jaat women. These songs are used since time
immemorial as a means of entertainment, knowledge preservation, communication and for
cultural appropriation. Coming from a patriarchal society, the Jaat women are rarely allowed
to speak or share their thoughts publicly; hence, these songs are also used as resistance from
the hegemony. These folk songs, like any other folklore, are dynamic and keep updating with
the changing time and society. There are several themes available in these songs. These songs
are sung by women belonging to different castes but this paper would focus and analyze the
folk songs sung by married Jaat women. This paper with some examples of Geet would
attempt to examine the various emotions which find an outlet in these folk songs. The analysis
would be based on Alan Dundes' theory of “Text, Context, and Texture' and would help to
analyze the society and culture of the Jaat community.
Keywords: Folklore, folk songs, emotions, women, patriarchy

The paper explores the subtle nature of marginality that the women go through in the plays of choice of Mahesh Dattani, in which the intersections of gender, identity, and socio-cultural constraints in modern Indian society have been prefigured. The dramaturgy by Dattani challenges the micro-level, but widespread forms of exclusion that exist within family and social systems and that especially impact women who must deal with multiple identities in their personalities formed by patriarchy, tradition, and modernity. The study examines the placement of female characters in the peripheral space that can be visible and invisible, and the voice of the female characters as resistance, negotiation, and sometimes silence through a close text analysis of select plays. Although the current literature has already discussed the role that Dattani played in drawing attention to the gender and social issues, this paper will elaborate on that by grounding female marginality on a wider critical paradigm that includes the issues of agency, performativity, and cultural conditioning. Reconsidering the experienced realities of women characters in the plays of Dattani, the paper will argue that marginality is not just an external condition but also internalised and reproduced in the relationships within or among family members. The paper, therefore, adds to the current debates concerning the Indian English drama by providing a fine interpretation of the gendered marginalisation in the theatrical world of Dattani.

This report presents the preliminary results of the ''IN or OUT'' Project, a collaborative, interdisciplinary effort which aims to investigate social exclusion, marginality and the adoption of anomalous funerary rites in late prehistoric Italy. In particular, this contribution explores the incidence and meaning of practices of ritual marginalisation and funerary deviancy in the region of Veneto between the Bronze Age and the early Iron Age period.

Child laborers in Bangladesh face multidimensional violencerooted in poverty, neglect, and institutional weakness. Addressing the issue requires coordinated efforts involving families, communities, schools, and the government, ensuring protection, education, and dignity for vulnerable children. Child labour remains a critical socioeconomic and human rights concern in Bangladesh, where poverty and structural inequalities force millions of children into exploitative work environments, exposing them to widespread abuse and violence. The study aims to explore the diverse forms of violence against child laborers in Bangladesh, identify the root causes behind such exploitation, and propose practical recommendations for effective prevention and protection.

Creative Flight is an international half-yearly open access peer-reviewed e-journal in English. The aim of this journal is to give opportunity to all writers to publish their originality especially in the field of language, literature and literary theory. In order to maintain quality based publication, the journal, instead of publishing literary outputs rapidly follows a strict time frame of minimum gap of six months bringing out only two regular issues (April and October) in a year. During these six months, submission undergoes a strict and rigorous process of blind review. The journal is intentionally kept open access so that it may serve as a storehouse of resources to all and sundry without access barrier. The main motto of this journal is to prefer quality to quantity and hold this motto all time.

More than a numerical concept, a minority is a relational term that refers to a disadvantaged group of people with regard to power, status and resources, compared to the dominant group in a society. In India, there are religious, linguistic, ethnic, Dalit, tribal and sexual minorities. However, these minorities are not always static but sometimes negotiable in response to changing situations. For example, nationally identified religious and linguistic minorities like Muslims, Sikhs and Christians are identified as state majorities in Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Mizoram respectively, whereas nationally identified majority Hindus are state minorities there. Again, tribal minorities are majorities in many Northeast states.  But, the condition of sexual minorities like people of LGBTQ community is more or less same, irrespective of place and situation. The diversity that produces out of the co-existence of such variety of people undoubtedly gives India a special charm but one cannot deny that this diversity sometimes also creates a complex web of social reality, giving rise to a conflict between majorities and minorities over the question of power and identity, exclusion and inclusion that bring many adverse and uninvited results, though the Constitution of India safeguards minorities with so many rights and provisions like Article 29 conserves the right to language, script, and culture and Article 15 prohibits discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex or place of birth. The National Commission for Minorities (NCM), the National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) and the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) are also there to monitor these rights and provisions and address grievances but due to social prejudices, historical inequalities, political challenges and structural discrimination, minorities are often deprived of their minimum rights and provisions. The present book is an endeavour to bring issues and challenges of Indian minorities to the fore.

This paper forwards the narratives of waste pickers who materialize the demand of everyday episodes of waste management by bringing positional and structural transition in solid wastes of the city. The study advocates the mechanism of a city's inclination towards urban transformation by invisibly pressurizing a marginalized community to manage wastes. The precarization of waste picking, occurring at the dumpsite expose the intersections of odor and toxicity of wastes with inevitability of waste pickers' indulgence. While ageing and infant cries of city dwellers continue against crowded garbage, trash or wastes on sight, little is realized about the covert movements of waste pickers' attempt to get appreciated for their labor service concentrated around corners of the dumping ground. Based on substantial interviews of forty dumpsite waste pickers residing in the vicinity of Boragaon dumping ground in Guwahati city in Assam, India, this work reflects upon the inescapability of waste pickers from waste picking, and their efficient labor practices in integrating waste (a global commodity) in daily use and private recycling sector. This study examines important facets of waste pickers as an impoverished community bereft of contesting negotiations, administering efforts to deconstruct common notions of waste defined negatively, and instituting routines to represent waste that promotes utility and monetary value. Hence, attention to the marginalized waste pickers in enabling them to occupy a space under Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) may be held viable to foster reformative work in the occupation of waste picking, and bestow a sense of security in their work.

The present volume examines the political, epistemic, and economic structures through which modern welfare states produce, stabilize, and functionalize social vulnerability. The point of departure is the observation that poverty, institutional marginalization, and epistemic invisibility cannot be understood merely as accidental side effects of social systems, but frequently arise from specific administrative logics, knowledge orders, and labour regimes.

The first contribution develops the concept of povertism as an analytical category describing mechanisms through which poverty is not merely administered but actively produced and deployed as an instrument of social discipline. Using the German Hartz IV and Bürgergeld systems as central examples, the analysis shows how administrative procedures, sanction regimes, and categorical classifications generate structural vulnerability while simultaneously delegitimizing the knowledge and experiences of those affected. In this context, a functional concept of right-wing radical effects is proposed that does not refer to ideological self-descriptions but to institutional practices in which human dignity becomes effectively conditionalized.

The second contribution extends this analysis to the political economy of knowledge production. It examines a largely overlooked form of structural exploitation: the exploitation of neurodivergent epistemic labour. Many forms of long-term analysis, theoretical innovation, and cultural production emerge under conditions of institutional distance and material insecurity, while their results may simultaneously circulate within scientific, cultural, or political discourses. This constellation leads to a systematic decoupling of epistemic production from economic recognition.

The volume brings together perspectives from political economy, Critical Disability Studies, theories of epistemic injustice, and critical analyses of state administration. It argues that poverty, institutional marginalization, and epistemic invisibility in modern knowledge societies should not be understood solely as social problems but as structural components of existing orders of power and knowledge.

Against this background, the volume raises the question under which institutional and economic conditions socially necessary forms of work—particularly long-term epistemic labour—can be stabilized. Models of universal social security, such as the Universal Care Income, appear in this context not only as social policy reforms but also as possible infrastructural conditions for sustaining forms of knowledge production that cannot easily be integrated into existing labour and value regimes.

Ghana's Parliament is once again trying to push through the ‘Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill’ – a piece of legislation that would criminalize LGBT+ people and anyone who supports them. This is not the first time this bill has appeared: after an outpouring of international and local resistance last year, it was stopped. But now, with a newly elected President openly supporting harsher anti-LGBT+ laws and key politicians rushing the process, the risk of rapid approval has never been higher.

My write-up seeks to explore, pinpoint, address and suggest the requisite way forward to prevent the coming into force the draconian Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill.

The Cultural Pedagogy of EOF Navigation is a practitioner framework developed from lived experience as an Educational Opportunity Fund (EOF) scholar and decades of work supporting under-resourced students across educational, clinical, and community settings. The framework centers the whole student, addressing the financial, social, emotional, and cultural barriers that prevent full academic engagement, and positions culturally informed mentorship as the primary vehicle for student retention and completion. This framework operates from a foundational belief: students who are seen, supported, and mentored by someone who understands their lived experience are more likely to persist, engage, and succeed. Institutional knowledge alone is not enough. Connection is the curriculum.

Resumen: Nos aproximamos al fenómeno del Apachismo surgido en Francia a finales del siglo XIX para realizar un estudio transnacional en el que seguiremos las conexiones de estas primeras bandas callejeras parisinas con el submundo criminal barcelonés, bilbaíno o madrileño. Analizaremos la aparición de la figura del Apache a través de la prensa de la época, donde veremos un dibujo de estos jóvenes criminales cargado de sensacionalismo desde una visión reaccionaria que transitará entre la criminalización y el exotismo. Comprobaremos la evolución de este fenómeno subcultural y el calado que tuvo en la cultura popular francesa y española hasta su desaparición en los años treinta. En este proceso, pondremos especial atención a la transformación de las categorías de "Apache" o "Apachismo" como vocabulario para denominar una tipología específica de criminales o crímenes, sin estar directamente relacionados con las bandas criminales.

Mahesh Dattani as a dramatist of modern India has shown his concern for the fringe issues, the issues of hijras who were either avoided as a non-issue or a taboo for they were not the subject of the mainstream society.The present paper deals with Seven Steps Around the Fire that focusses on the plight and predicament ofthe class. The methodologies used are critical analyses under extant literary theories on the subject, analytical study, comparative study of other dramas of the author and myth to establish the fact as to how the community of eunuchs are subjugated and pushed to a virtual world of margins in which they find no space for themselves as human beings. Life seems to be a drudgery and disrespect, yet none speaks for them. It also highlights Dattani's social concern whileshowing a heightened consciousness of existential pain that these people endure as a result of prejudice in their daily lives. One distinct tool of Dattani's use of indigenous English that creates a distinction between the educated and semi-literate and marginalized class is taken support of that gives way of acceptance, graduallythough. A straightjacketed classes and groups are shown on its path of change and mobility heralding a new India.

Se examinan los fenómenos de la marginación o marginalidad y la subsecuente subjetividad en los casos de yos autobiográficos masculinos sexodiversos y de mujeres desde la textualidad de 4 autobiografías. Se hace una discusión de estos aspectos de autores tradicionalmente excluidos del canon o estudiados desde perspectivas falocéntricas. Todo el volumen es de acceso libre y puede distribuirse sin restricción alguna citando la fuente.