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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 The Outsiders Within: Stereotypes, Definitions and Boundaries -- Terminology -- Gypsies and Travellers -- Girls or Young Women -- Ethnicity and Race -- Educational Experience -- Boundaries and Limitations -- The Collection of Data -- Participants -- References -- 2 Power and Silence: The Social Construction of Gypsies and Travellers -- The Scope of This Work: A Disclaimer -- The Construction of 'Gypsies and Travellers' in Scotland -- Definitions and Language -- The Myth of Nomadism as Defining Characteristic -- Problematising Identity and Community -- History and Origins of Gypsies and Travellers in Scotland -- The Demonised Other: Past and Present -- Gendering the Gypsy and Traveller Experience -- References -- 3 Gypsies and Travellers in Education: Hidden, Deviant or Excluded -- Academic Literature in England and Wales -- The Scottish Educational Context -- What Does 'Being in Education' Mean in Scotland? -- Academic Literature in Scotland -- Reports, Recommendations and Guidelines -- References -- 4 Gypsies, Travellers and Intersectionality -- What Is Intersectionality? -- Using an Intersectional Framework -- Differences in Interpretation -- Intersectionality and Gypsy and Traveller Girls -- Challenges of Intersectionality -- Gaining Access -- Ethical Considerations -- References -- 5 'I Am Not Big, Fat or Just Gypsy': The Racialised and Gendered Experiences of Gypsy and Traveller Girls in School -- Types of Schools -- Definitions and Understandings of Education and Learning -- School Experience-Positives -- Challenges and Barriers -- Friendships -- Coping Strategies -- Relations with Staff -- Silences, Tensions and Contradictions -- References -- 6 'Honour Thy Father and Mother': Love, Freedom and Control at Home -- Cultural Norms and Expectations.

The female outsider in the modern -- Modernisms and the woman in history -- Figuring the female in modern realisms -- Magical women in the modern -- Modern women in feminist realisms

Tamizhini, In the Shadow of a Sword: The Memoir of a Woman Leader in the LTTE (Yoda Press, 2021), 197 pp., ₹495, ISBN 9789353886837 (Paperback).

The idea that a change of government can alter the foreign policy orientation of a state is nothing new in international relations. This paper presents a preliminary investigation into the causal linkages between domestic political regime changes and foreign policy restructuring in Malaysia and South Korea. It assumes that regime changes allow for a greater propensity for the recalibration of foreign policy interests. Since the effectiveness of any bilateral cooperation depends on successful formulation and implementation, this paper dissects the transition, convergence and challenges in bilateral cooperation between the two countries. Both Mahathir Mohamad and Moon Jae-in saw a necessity to diversify economic partners that had resulted from the policies of previous administrations. While the basic elements of their foreign policy remained the same, both Malaysia and South Korea reevaluated their policies with regard to the international issues affecting their domestic interests. While relations had once been transactional at best, the convergence of the Look East Policy (LEP) 2.0 and the New Southern Policy (NSP) advanced bilateral relations for 22 months until the collapse of Mahathir's government in 2020.

The Madras Anti-Devadasi Act was passed in 1947 with the primary objective of liberating women from the oppressive norms of the Devadasi system. Sanctioned by religion, the institutionalization of the Devadasi system within the Hindu community legitimated women from certain caste groups to become 'servants of god'. Through ritualistic norms, the Devadasis were wedded to God and the caste Hindu patriarchs were authorized to control the sexuality of the Devadasis. Given their vulnerable status in terms of caste, class, and gender, women from the castes lower in hierarchy were forced into the system. Despite the legislative intervention of the Anti-Devdasi Act seven decades ago, there are newspaper reports, which substantiate the continuation of the Devadasi systems in some villages in Tamil Nadu, reiterating the power of caste and sexist ideologies within Hindu society. In contemporary times, the Devadasis are mainly drawn from the Scheduled castes, otherwise referred to as Dalits. Literatures by historically marginalized communities play a pivotal role in their liberation. On the contrary an analysis of the literatures by (or on) the Devadasis reveal the internalization of societal ideologies which impedes their empowerment and emancipation. Drawing on Simone de Beauvoir's conceptualizations of the gendered body and Pierre Bourdieu's theory of "habitus", which underlines the embodied nature of social positions, this paper discusses the physical and psychological conditioning of the Devadasis within the caste Hindu society. Through an analysis of two Tamil novels, Moovalur Ramamirtham's Dasigalin Mosavalai allathu Mathi Petra Minor and Imayam's Sedal, this paper argues that the Devadasis depicted in the novels are embedded in caste and gender norms that denigrate and oppress them. Hence, as a paradox, their resistance to the system results in perpetuating the oppressive and discriminative social system rather than enabling liberation.

Dwaipayan Sen, The Decline of the Caste Question: Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 305 pp.

Multi-racial identity construction is understood to be fluid, contextual and dynamic. Yet the dynamics of multi-racial identity construction when racial identities are ascribed and formulated as static by governments is less explored in psychological studies of race. This paper examines the dynamics of racial identity construction among multi-racial Malaysians and Singaporeans in a qualitative study of 31 semi-structured interviews. Thematic analysis was used to identify the different private racial identity constructions of participants who were officially ascribed with single racial identities at birth. Participants reflected on the overwhelming influence of the state and significant Others in limiting their ability to express their multiple racial identities when they were in school, and highlighted their capacity to be agentic in their private racial identity constructions when they were older. This paper shows that across the life course multi-racial individuals possess (1) the ability to adopt different racial identity positions at different times, (2) the ability to hold multiple racial identity constructions at the same time when encounters with Others are dialogical, (3) the reflexivity of past identity positions in the present construction of identities.