This study critically examines fatherless families across diverse societies, emphasising that paternal absence creates profound emotional, social and developmental challenges. Fatherlessness destabilises family structures and erodes social cohesion; yet practical theology offers limited inclusive engagement. Employing...
This article engages with the sociology of education to interrogate how identities (caste, tribe, race and ethnicity) are read, constructed and contested within the classroom spaces of Northeast India. Through analysis of everyday acts of ‘reading identity’, I argue that the classroom is a microcosm of the sociopolitic...
Our article explores how young Kichwa people who migrated from rural territories to Quito, and whose lives are structured by Ecuador’s racialized social hierarchies, imagine the city’s future. We developed a methodology grounded in critical, feminist, and decolonial geographies. Through embroidery, a culturally signifi...
This article examines how former sex workers in Sonagachi, Kolkata, India, navigate occupational and place‐based stigma through spiritual repertoires, of which mukti (liberation) is a central tool. Drawing on critical, embedded ethnography across three fieldwork periods (2001, 2011, and 2019) with long‐term engagemen...
Although contemporary university campuses are increasingly diverse, the internalization of patriotic values among students often remains superficial and confined to seasonal national symbols. This limitation is compounded by persistent self segregation and social polarization, which continue to obstruct organic cross-e...
This article explores how black women in Brazil navigate intersecting dimensions of race, gender, and socio‐economic status, illustrating the sociocultural factors that shape their daily experiences, with a focus on female autonomy. Drawing on a qualitative design, we conducted semi‐structured interviews with 97 wo...
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