Faculty Dr Amal M Latif

Dr Amal M Latif

Assistant Professor

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Contact Details

amal.m@srmap.edu.in

Office Location

Education

2024
PhD
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
India
2019
Masters In Cultural Studies
Tezpur University, Assam,India
India
2017
BA (Hons) English Literature
English And Foreign Languages University(EFLU), Hyderabad
India

Experience

  • Post-doctoral research experience from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Actively engaged in the collaborative post-doctoral research within the project titled: “Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change—Water” with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Research Interest

  • Interested in how marginalised communities, including ethnic, religious and gender minorities, navigate and resist dominant social, political, and economic systems through everyday narratives.
  • Examining the intersections of climate change, blue economy, and local adaptation strategies, using anthropological approaches.

Awards

  • Post Doctoral Seed Grant for “Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change” (ESCC-WATER) by Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, July 2024-ESCC-WATER focuses on the interface between the development priorities of national governments and international organisations, the private sector, and bottom-up green initiatives of local communities.
  • UGC NET-Junior Research Fellowship, 2018 Senior Research Fellowship, 2021
  • Gender Champion, Tezpur University (An Indian Govt MHRD Initiative) 2018-2019 As a gender champion, I provided an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and cultural constructs of gender that shape the experiences of women and men in society through gender sensitisation workshops and events.

Memberships

No data available

Publications

  • Wronged: The weaponisation of victimhood”

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Source Title: LSE Review Blog,

    View abstract ⏷

    The self-oriented moral injury concerning the other’s suffering casts Western soldiers “not as perpetrators, but as victims of war devastation” (68). One can also draw parallels to the present, where nation-states employ collective victimhood to gather solidarity and sentiments on a global level. The ongoing war inflicted on Palestine by Israel is a timely example where Israel has been claiming and performing victimhood to justify both direct and structural violence against Palestinians. The review delves deeper into understanding the book 'Wronged: Weaponisation of Victimhood' in the contemporary global context.
  • Being a Khaddama: Narratives of Home, Belonging and identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif & Chandan Bose

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    With minimal access to legal protections, support, and exploitative conditions, Malayali women domestic workers in the Gulf struggle to forge meaningful connections and a sense of home in the UAE. This study aims to understand the experiences and perspectives of Malayali women, with a specific focus on the ways in which their idea of home and belonging are shaped by factors such as identity, diaspora, gender, and motherhood. The work also intends to comprehend how a sense of belonging helps the women to navigate through the sense of grief, guilt, and shame. Through their narratives, the article exposes how the migration of Malayali women domestic workers entail losing belonging, occupying liminal spaces, and relinquishing home.
  • Book: Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories Which Disrupt

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    In this Element, the authors write about the everyday production and experiences of banal inequality. Through a series of sections, each comprising of a blogpost written for Disruptive Inequalities, and a commentary from the author on the predicaments they encountered in the writing process, this Element shares, and confronts, the ways we fabricate stories and use writing to resist. It makes visible the choices, practices, and reflections that have led to the writing of our stories and offers the tools we have used to fabricate them, to all those who may find them meaningful to appropriate, adapt, and translate to fight the struggles that they want to fight. These tools are formulated in a way for writers to develop their own methods of storytelling and activism. The authors hope this Element contributes to an ongoing debate on how writing serves banal resistance.
  • Protecting the rights of women migrant domestic workers: structural violence and competing interests in the Philippines and Sri Lanka: Review

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif & Amrita Datta

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    The feminisation turn in migration studies has been instrumental in shifting the gaze towards the global economies of care and migrant domestic work. Among the fastest-growing occupations globally, domestic work is highly gendered and racialised, dominated by female workers from the Global South. There is now a rich body of empirical scholarship that demonstrates unequal global hierarchies, structural vulnerabilities of workers, their exploitation and unfreedoms associated with this work that often, simultaneously, contribute to pathways out of poverty and social and economic mobility. Through Henderson's work, the review critically analyses the asymmetric power relations between source and destination states that result in the latter dominating the policy discourse on migrant labour.
  • With love, from a non-expendable citizen

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Source Title: Disruptive Inequalities,

Patents

Projects

Scholars

Interests

  • Blue Economy
  • Gender and Migration
  • Minorities and Marginalisation
  • Narrative Studies

Thought Leaderships

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Top Achievements

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Education
2017
BA (Hons) English Literature
English And Foreign Languages University(EFLU), Hyderabad
India
2019
Masters In Cultural Studies
Tezpur University, Assam,India
India
2024
PhD
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
India
Experience
  • Post-doctoral research experience from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Actively engaged in the collaborative post-doctoral research within the project titled: “Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change—Water” with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Research Interests
  • Interested in how marginalised communities, including ethnic, religious and gender minorities, navigate and resist dominant social, political, and economic systems through everyday narratives.
  • Examining the intersections of climate change, blue economy, and local adaptation strategies, using anthropological approaches.
Awards & Fellowships
  • Post Doctoral Seed Grant for “Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change” (ESCC-WATER) by Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, July 2024-ESCC-WATER focuses on the interface between the development priorities of national governments and international organisations, the private sector, and bottom-up green initiatives of local communities.
  • UGC NET-Junior Research Fellowship, 2018 Senior Research Fellowship, 2021
  • Gender Champion, Tezpur University (An Indian Govt MHRD Initiative) 2018-2019 As a gender champion, I provided an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and cultural constructs of gender that shape the experiences of women and men in society through gender sensitisation workshops and events.
Memberships
No data available
Publications
  • Wronged: The weaponisation of victimhood”

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Source Title: LSE Review Blog,

    View abstract ⏷

    The self-oriented moral injury concerning the other’s suffering casts Western soldiers “not as perpetrators, but as victims of war devastation” (68). One can also draw parallels to the present, where nation-states employ collective victimhood to gather solidarity and sentiments on a global level. The ongoing war inflicted on Palestine by Israel is a timely example where Israel has been claiming and performing victimhood to justify both direct and structural violence against Palestinians. The review delves deeper into understanding the book 'Wronged: Weaponisation of Victimhood' in the contemporary global context.
  • Being a Khaddama: Narratives of Home, Belonging and identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif & Chandan Bose

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    With minimal access to legal protections, support, and exploitative conditions, Malayali women domestic workers in the Gulf struggle to forge meaningful connections and a sense of home in the UAE. This study aims to understand the experiences and perspectives of Malayali women, with a specific focus on the ways in which their idea of home and belonging are shaped by factors such as identity, diaspora, gender, and motherhood. The work also intends to comprehend how a sense of belonging helps the women to navigate through the sense of grief, guilt, and shame. Through their narratives, the article exposes how the migration of Malayali women domestic workers entail losing belonging, occupying liminal spaces, and relinquishing home.
  • Book: Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories Which Disrupt

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    In this Element, the authors write about the everyday production and experiences of banal inequality. Through a series of sections, each comprising of a blogpost written for Disruptive Inequalities, and a commentary from the author on the predicaments they encountered in the writing process, this Element shares, and confronts, the ways we fabricate stories and use writing to resist. It makes visible the choices, practices, and reflections that have led to the writing of our stories and offers the tools we have used to fabricate them, to all those who may find them meaningful to appropriate, adapt, and translate to fight the struggles that they want to fight. These tools are formulated in a way for writers to develop their own methods of storytelling and activism. The authors hope this Element contributes to an ongoing debate on how writing serves banal resistance.
  • Protecting the rights of women migrant domestic workers: structural violence and competing interests in the Philippines and Sri Lanka: Review

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif & Amrita Datta

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    The feminisation turn in migration studies has been instrumental in shifting the gaze towards the global economies of care and migrant domestic work. Among the fastest-growing occupations globally, domestic work is highly gendered and racialised, dominated by female workers from the Global South. There is now a rich body of empirical scholarship that demonstrates unequal global hierarchies, structural vulnerabilities of workers, their exploitation and unfreedoms associated with this work that often, simultaneously, contribute to pathways out of poverty and social and economic mobility. Through Henderson's work, the review critically analyses the asymmetric power relations between source and destination states that result in the latter dominating the policy discourse on migrant labour.
  • With love, from a non-expendable citizen

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Source Title: Disruptive Inequalities,

Contact Details

amal.m@srmap.edu.in

Scholars
Interests

  • Blue Economy
  • Gender and Migration
  • Minorities and Marginalisation
  • Narrative Studies

Education
2017
BA (Hons) English Literature
English And Foreign Languages University(EFLU), Hyderabad
India
2019
Masters In Cultural Studies
Tezpur University, Assam,India
India
2024
PhD
Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
India
Experience
  • Post-doctoral research experience from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Actively engaged in the collaborative post-doctoral research within the project titled: “Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change—Water” with Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Research Interests
  • Interested in how marginalised communities, including ethnic, religious and gender minorities, navigate and resist dominant social, political, and economic systems through everyday narratives.
  • Examining the intersections of climate change, blue economy, and local adaptation strategies, using anthropological approaches.
Awards & Fellowships
  • Post Doctoral Seed Grant for “Engaged Scholarship against Climate Change” (ESCC-WATER) by Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, July 2024-ESCC-WATER focuses on the interface between the development priorities of national governments and international organisations, the private sector, and bottom-up green initiatives of local communities.
  • UGC NET-Junior Research Fellowship, 2018 Senior Research Fellowship, 2021
  • Gender Champion, Tezpur University (An Indian Govt MHRD Initiative) 2018-2019 As a gender champion, I provided an integrated and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social and cultural constructs of gender that shape the experiences of women and men in society through gender sensitisation workshops and events.
Memberships
No data available
Publications
  • Wronged: The weaponisation of victimhood”

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Source Title: LSE Review Blog,

    View abstract ⏷

    The self-oriented moral injury concerning the other’s suffering casts Western soldiers “not as perpetrators, but as victims of war devastation” (68). One can also draw parallels to the present, where nation-states employ collective victimhood to gather solidarity and sentiments on a global level. The ongoing war inflicted on Palestine by Israel is a timely example where Israel has been claiming and performing victimhood to justify both direct and structural violence against Palestinians. The review delves deeper into understanding the book 'Wronged: Weaponisation of Victimhood' in the contemporary global context.
  • Being a Khaddama: Narratives of Home, Belonging and identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif & Chandan Bose

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    With minimal access to legal protections, support, and exploitative conditions, Malayali women domestic workers in the Gulf struggle to forge meaningful connections and a sense of home in the UAE. This study aims to understand the experiences and perspectives of Malayali women, with a specific focus on the ways in which their idea of home and belonging are shaped by factors such as identity, diaspora, gender, and motherhood. The work also intends to comprehend how a sense of belonging helps the women to navigate through the sense of grief, guilt, and shame. Through their narratives, the article exposes how the migration of Malayali women domestic workers entail losing belonging, occupying liminal spaces, and relinquishing home.
  • Book: Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories Which Disrupt

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    In this Element, the authors write about the everyday production and experiences of banal inequality. Through a series of sections, each comprising of a blogpost written for Disruptive Inequalities, and a commentary from the author on the predicaments they encountered in the writing process, this Element shares, and confronts, the ways we fabricate stories and use writing to resist. It makes visible the choices, practices, and reflections that have led to the writing of our stories and offers the tools we have used to fabricate them, to all those who may find them meaningful to appropriate, adapt, and translate to fight the struggles that they want to fight. These tools are formulated in a way for writers to develop their own methods of storytelling and activism. The authors hope this Element contributes to an ongoing debate on how writing serves banal resistance.
  • Protecting the rights of women migrant domestic workers: structural violence and competing interests in the Philippines and Sri Lanka: Review

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif & Amrita Datta

    Quartile: Q1

    View abstract ⏷

    The feminisation turn in migration studies has been instrumental in shifting the gaze towards the global economies of care and migrant domestic work. Among the fastest-growing occupations globally, domestic work is highly gendered and racialised, dominated by female workers from the Global South. There is now a rich body of empirical scholarship that demonstrates unequal global hierarchies, structural vulnerabilities of workers, their exploitation and unfreedoms associated with this work that often, simultaneously, contribute to pathways out of poverty and social and economic mobility. Through Henderson's work, the review critically analyses the asymmetric power relations between source and destination states that result in the latter dominating the policy discourse on migrant labour.
  • With love, from a non-expendable citizen

    Dr Amal M Latif, Amal Latif

    Source Title: Disruptive Inequalities,

Contact Details

amal.m@srmap.edu.in

Scholars