Picture Book Refugees as Imaginative Humanitarian Ethnography

Ethical Dilemmas in Representing the Girmitiya Traumatic Past in Fiji

This paper examines the ethical complexities surrounding the representation and memorialisation of Girmitiyas, Indian indentured labour employed in a system that operated in Fiji from 1879 to 1916. It examines how the history of these labourers continues to generate ethical dilemmas for contemporary Fijian society, i...

Seeing and being seen: Intersectional ecofeminism, methodological insights, and women’s embodied experiences with nature in the UAE

This article is a reflexive piece that draws on the methodological application of intersectionality in understanding women’s material relationship with nature in the highly urbanised context of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Drawing on situated knowledge and the deconstruction of binaries, such as nature/culture and g...

Es Un Angelito: Navigating Discourses, Policies, and Worldviews About Disability with Love

Background: This autoethnography focuses on my contradictory lived experiences as a bi/multilingual Chicana mother-scholar of my son (Roberto, age 7), who was diagnosed with Down syndrome in utero. It addresses the contradictory discourses, educational and social policies, and epistemologies about disability and Down s...

Navigating Deficiency and Excess: Ethical Challenges and Affordances of Auto/Biographical Narratives of Desperate Care

Narrating Female Consciousness: Narrative Empathy as a Feminist Practice

This article analyses Ivy Pochoda's These Women (2020) as an example of the successful use of narrative empathy as a feminist strategy in serial killer fiction. This subgenre of crime fiction is known for its formulaic nature, which grants most of the narrative space to the serial killer, as an abject individual, and t...

Female Characters in Leo Tolstoy’s Fiction: Psychological Depth, Moral Agency, and Social Constraint

This article examines the representation of women in Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace and Anna Karenina, with particular attention to psychological narration, moral agency, family relations, and social constraint. Using qualitative close reading and comparative character analysis, the study considers Natasha Rostova, Anna K...