Middle-class Women and Domestic Work in India and the United States: Caste, Race and Patriarchy
Sociological Bulletin, 2022
This study compares middle-class women’s experience of domestic work in India and the United Stat... more This study compares middle-class women’s experience of domestic work in India and the United States(US), highlighting similarities in how domestic work is organised in its paid and unpaid forms across both sites. The focus on middle-class women’s experience as unpaid workers and employers of domestic workers provides an insight into how the social and economic values of domestic work are determined. Despite social and political differences, the political economies of India and the US and interlocking systems of oppression including patriarchy, neoliberalism, caste and race have produced similarities in the undervaluation of domestic work at both sites.
Jewish Identity and Community Participation in the Era of Croatian Neoliberalism
Contemporary Jewry, 2018
This paper explores Jewish identity and community life in Croatia in the new millennium. Examinin... more This paper explores Jewish identity and community life in Croatia in the new millennium. Examining the interconnectedness of neoliberalism and the politics of rewriting and suppressing historical narratives, I consider Jewish identity negotiation and community participation in a post-socialist capitalist system. With Croatia’s unsettling history and changing political economy as the backdrop, I examine how the expansion of neoliberal cultural values has made room for multiple views of Croatian history: I argue that the sociocultural climate has produced an essentialized view of Jews and the Jewish community, whose survival is not aided by populist historical revisionism. In line with the changing political economy, Jewish community leadership has adopted a more restricted understanding of the survival of Jewish identity and community participation. I suggest that the perceived monocausal disappearance of the Croatian Jews and the one-size-fits-all solution is problematic given the particular sociocultural context of Croatian Jewry. I further suggest that the promotion of individualism over collectivism, popularized through the neoliberalization of Croatian society, has negatively affected the Jewish communities in Croatia.
Life at the Crossroads of Social Change: Invigorating Romani Women's Empowerment in Post-Socialist Croatia
Human Organization, 2008
This paper describes the challenges of Romani women's empowerment in the context of Croa... more This paper describes the challenges of Romani women's empowerment in the context of Croatia's rapidly changing political economy. Romani womenfor the first time in Croatia's historyare positioned to reap substantial benefits from state largesse, including minority rights ...
From the Yucatan to Chicago-land to Ireland: Race gender, and other sociocultural issues surrounding labor experiences in our deepening economic crisis
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Bridging Food Scarcity: Croatian Women's Responses to Consumer Capitalism
Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment, 2016
Community Practice 2005
Pedegogies Checks and Balances 2007
Pedagogies Introduction 2007
Cultural Dymanics 2010
Healthcare International 2004
Practicing Anthropology 2008
Human Organization 2008
Gender, Place & Culture 2012
Healthcare International 2003
Accessing Romani Women Study Participants: Collaborating with Their Gatekeepers and Other NGO Entrepreneurs
Practicing Anthropology, 2008
I recently spent twenty-two weeks in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, for the purpose of establish... more I recently spent twenty-two weeks in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, for the purpose of establishing a Romani women's empowerment program2. My objectives were to help invigorate Croatian Romani women's lives, and to bring their lived experiences into public view. Given the demanding nature of my research agenda and preferred ethnographic approach, I had relatively little time to achieve those objectives.
Course-Based Action Research and Anthropology
Anthropology News, 2008
Renewed Survival: Jewish Community Life in Croatia (review)
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, 2007
... Zoran Mir-kovic, Mira Wolf. Zoran Babic, Lea Kriesbacher. Vukan Marinkovic-Siljo. Sanja Zoric... more ... Zoran Mir-kovic, Mira Wolf. Zoran Babic, Lea Kriesbacher. Vukan Marinkovic-Siljo. Sanja Zoricic-Tabakovic, Neven Tabakovic, Maja Binenfeld. Sonja Makek Bar-Sela. Sasa Cvetkovic, Lea Lustig. Hana Vojnic, Ada Lucic, Ana Domas. ...
Notes From the Field: Service Learning and the Development of Multidisciplinary Community-Based Research Initiatives
Journal of Community Practice, 2010
Recent literature suggests that community-based research (CbR) is a model of service learning tha... more Recent literature suggests that community-based research (CbR) is a model of service learning that can advance student learning, as well as support the research interests of community organizations. For the pedagogy to be successful, however, faculty must overcome a number of challenges. This article discusses these challenges and illustrates how multidisciplinary, multiyear CbR initiatives are important vehicles for furthering university–community
Selling Dreams and Buying Hope
Journal of Community Practice, 2005
Abstract This paper discusses the deceptive practices of unqualified immigration counselors and t... more Abstract This paper discusses the deceptive practices of unqualified immigration counselors and the prospects for community-based organizing and peer education as a means of steering potential victims away from such practices. Although legislators have recently ...
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