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Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and the Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living (2017)
Book Chapter
Osella, C. (2017). Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and the Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living. In T. Kuldova, & M. A. Varghese (Eds.), Urban Utopias Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia (227-246). Pluto Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47623-0

Kuldova points out that, “Revealing myths as simplistic or unrealistic does not help, since it does not rob them of their effectivity. Myths, ideologies and illusions are resistant to knowledge. We cultivate them even when we know better. The importa... Read More about Utopia Interrupted: Indian Sex/Gender Dissident Activism and the Everyday Search for a Life Worth Living.

The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia (2016)
Journal Article
Khatun, S. (2017). The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia. Gender and History, 29(1), 8-30. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12258

From 1860 to the 1920s, Muslim merchants and workers from across British India and Afghanistan travelled to Australian shores to work in the extensive camel transportation network that underpinned the growth of capitalism in the Australian interior.... Read More about The Book of Marriage: Histories of Muslim Women in Twentieth-Century Australia.

The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality (2016)
Report
Al-Ali, N., Ali, Z., & Isabel, M. (2016). The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality

This chapter assesses the varying degrees to which young women in Arab countries are empowered or disempowered, included or excluded. Setting aside the stereotypes of subordination, it presents a nuanced picture
of the changing circumstances of youn... Read More about The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women. In:The Arab Human Development Report 2016: Youth and the Prospects for Human Development in a Changing Reality.

Gender, power and violence (2016)
Other
Al-Ali, N. (2016). Gender, power and violence

The article discusses the significance of a gendered lens for understanding war, violence and conflict in the Middle East.

Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong (2016)
Book Chapter
Tan, C. G. (2016). Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong. In J. Elias, & L. Rethel (Eds.), The Everyday Political Economy of Southeast Asia (218-236). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316402092.011

There are currently over 320,000 full-time, live-in migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in Hong Kong, the vast majority of whom are from Southeast Asia. In recent years, women from the Philippines and Indonesia have constituted 48 per cent and 49 per cen... Read More about Enforcing Socioeconomic Rights: Everyday Agency, Resistance and Community Resources Among Indonesian Domestic Workers in Hong Kong.

How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence? (2016)
Other
Al-Ali, N. (2016). How to Talk about Gender-Based Violence?

The articles discusses the challenges for transnational feminists to talk about gender-based violence in an intersectional manner.

Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada (2016)
Journal Article
Bhandar, B. (2016). Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada. Darkmatter (Uxbridge), 14,

In the mid to late nineteenth century, as English and French settlers were in the process of consolidating their colonial Dominion over vast First Nations’ territories in the form of a Canadian federal state, the government enacted legislation to cre... Read More about Status as Property: Identity, Land and the Dispossession of First Nations Women in Canada.