This paper examines the everyday enactments of participation refugee students in Ugandan higher education emerging from a research project (2020–2022). Habermas’s Theory Communicative Action was used to determine how responded dominant languages, further noting acts othering that occur throughout this process impact and inclusion. Data were collected three public four private universities begin...

In this paper, I discuss the evolution of Buddhist civilisational populism in modern Sri Lankan politics and civil society. do by historicising early forms country, during its occupation British Empire (1815–1945). As some key concepts “civilisationism” central to leading social political movements Ceylon were a result disruptions caused centuries European colonial rule. Consequently, issues id...

Often framed in the public discourse as Europe's ultimate Other, Muslims have been heftily debated and vastly problematised by politicians, pundits, intellectuals unwanted immigrants, part of a bad diversity, problematic, violent, refusals modernity, secularism, freedom. Thinking through body phenomenal lived body, we explore Othering set visual, auditory, olfactory, haptic encounters. Employin...

In her paper, "Taiwan, China, and Yang Mu's Alternative to National Narratives," Lisa L.M. Wong examines the ways Yang Mu's poetry acts as an echo and a dissent to the mainstream national narratives in Taiwan between the late 1970s and early 1980s. During this decade, identity discourse has developed from othering Westernism to preserve Chinese cultural-national integrity to espousing a native ...