Liz Mount
Biographic Data
| ID | 238553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liz Mount |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liz |
| FAMILY NAME | Mount |
| SIGNATURE | MOUNT L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Flagler College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2262-5354 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Negotiating modernity: NGO interventions and the transformation of hijra families in South India
Development discourse often positions families as harmful for young cisgender women in the global South. In India, NGOs make similar claims about gender non-conforming hijras’ families, asserting they harm younger hijras. To what extent are such interpretations related to understandings about modernity and the place that families occupy in the lives of individuals? How do these ideas impact hijra responses to such criticism? Through a case study …
Enhancing Student Engagement through Self-Care Reminders in Online Courses: A Quasi-experimental Study
Through a quasi-experimental research design, we show that incorporating self-care reminders in an online sociology course correlates with greater student engagement. Online learning has received enhanced attention since it became the primary learning modality during COVID-19 shutdowns. Despite inconclusive evidence about the efficacy of online learning, students report feelings of isolation and disconnection they attribute to reduced learning in…
Between emancipatory potential and hierarchical reproduction: Social movement aspirations and class in a South Indian NGO
Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India
‘New’ Women: Trans Women, Hijras and the Remaking of Inequality in India
Recent global attention to transgender issues and new opportunities for trans people can appear as positive and progressive social change. 'New' Women challenges this assumption through an ethnography of emerging trans women and traditional gender non-conforming hijras in India. In many countries, people identify as either cisgender or non-cis identities like transgender and nonbinary. India is unique for its recognized, yet stigmatized, gender n…
‘Happy’ activists: Non‐governmental organization staff navigating the social movement/service provider divide in India
In the Global South, non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) face criticism; staff employ strategies to mitigate it. What happens when NGO staff express different levels of awareness about such criticism? How are these differences shaped by whether staff identify themselves as ‘community’ members the NGO serves or ‘non‐community’ members whose work serves the community? How do these identities impact NGOs? Through an 18‐month ethnographic study at …
Funding does something to people: NGOs navigating funding challenges in India
This article offers an ethnographic exploration of NGO “mission creep” as a result of obtaining funding. Many scholars express scepticism about funding on NGO goals, while others encourage a nuanced critique. This 18-month ethnographic study of two NGOs in Bangalore, India explores NGO workers navigating the acceptance of funding while maintaining their original missions. When one NGO failed to uphold this goal, staff members created their own NG…
I Am Not a Hijra: Class, Respectability, and the Emergence of the 'New' Transgender Woman in India
This article examines the mutual imbrication of gender and class that shapes how some transgender women seek incorporation into social hierarchies in postcolonial India. Existing literature demonstrates an association between transgender and middle-class-status in the global South. Through an 18-month ethnographic study in Bangalore from 2009 through 2016 with transgender women, NGO (nongovernmental organization) workers and activists, as well as…
Teaching in Unfamiliar Terrain: Empowering Student and Teacher Learning through a Photography Assignment
This article addresses a challenge for sociologists who teach at institutions located in unfamiliar cultural contexts through a photo elicitation project to develop students’ sociological imaginations while teaching the instructor about students’ social contexts. In introductory courses, we must present sociology as a field of study that is relevant for students’ lives and teach students to connect their experiences with sociological perspectives…
Behind the Curtain: Strip Clubs and the Management of Competition for Tips
Ethnographers have amassed a large body of literature on exotic dance and strip clubs. However, this literature contains little information about strip club managers and the work they perform "behind the curtain." This article draws on participant observation in strip clubs and semistructured interviews with managers of strip clubs to explore how managers must work to mitigate the consequences of a payment and staffing structure that exacerbates …
Saris and contemporary Indian womanhood: How middle-class women navigate the tradition/modernity split
Despite the major changes in urban middle-class Indian women’s clothing in the past 30 years, there are few accounts of women’s perspectives on their changing dress. This paper analyzes 31 semi-structured interviews with urban middle-class women in Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune to examine the changing meanings associated with saris in contemporary India. While the sari has entered the realm of global fashion and can thus be characterized as modern and …
I Am Not a Hijra: Class, Respectability, and the Emergence of the 'New' Transgender Woman in India
This article examines the mutual imbrication of gender and class that shapes how some transgender women seek incorporation into social hierarchies in postcolonial India. Existing literature demonstrates an association between transgender and middle-class-status in the global South. Through an 18-month ethnographic study in Bangalore from 2009 through 2016 with transgender women, NGO (nongovernmental organization) workers and activists, as well as…
Funding does something to people: NGOs navigating funding challenges in India
This article offers an ethnographic exploration of NGO “mission creep” as a result of obtaining funding. Many scholars express scepticism about funding on NGO goals, while others encourage a nuanced critique. This 18-month ethnographic study of two NGOs in Bangalore, India explores NGO workers navigating the acceptance of funding while maintaining their original missions. When one NGO failed to uphold this goal, staff members created their own NG…
Teaching in Unfamiliar Terrain: Empowering Student and Teacher Learning through a Photography Assignment
This article addresses a challenge for sociologists who teach at institutions located in unfamiliar cultural contexts through a photo elicitation project to develop students’ sociological imaginations while teaching the instructor about students’ social contexts. In introductory courses, we must present sociology as a field of study that is relevant for students’ lives and teach students to connect their experiences with sociological perspectives…
Saris and contemporary Indian womanhood: How middle-class women navigate the tradition/modernity split
Despite the major changes in urban middle-class Indian women’s clothing in the past 30 years, there are few accounts of women’s perspectives on their changing dress. This paper analyzes 31 semi-structured interviews with urban middle-class women in Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune to examine the changing meanings associated with saris in contemporary India. While the sari has entered the realm of global fashion and can thus be characterized as modern and …
Behind the Curtain: Strip Clubs and the Management of Competition for Tips
Ethnographers have amassed a large body of literature on exotic dance and strip clubs. However, this literature contains little information about strip club managers and the work they perform "behind the curtain." This article draws on participant observation in strip clubs and semistructured interviews with managers of strip clubs to explore how managers must work to mitigate the consequences of a payment and staffing structure that exacerbates …
Saris and contemporary Indian womanhood: How middle-class women navigate the tradition/modernity split
Despite the major changes in urban middle-class Indian women’s clothing in the past 30 years, there are few accounts of women’s perspectives on their changing dress. This paper analyzes 31 semi-structured interviews with urban middle-class women in Delhi, Mumbai, and Pune to examine the changing meanings associated with saris in contemporary India. While the sari has entered the realm of global fashion and can thus be characterized as modern and …
Teaching in Unfamiliar Terrain: Empowering Student and Teacher Learning through a Photography Assignment
This article addresses a challenge for sociologists who teach at institutions located in unfamiliar cultural contexts through a photo elicitation project to develop students’ sociological imaginations while teaching the instructor about students’ social contexts. In introductory courses, we must present sociology as a field of study that is relevant for students’ lives and teach students to connect their experiences with sociological perspectives…
Behind the Curtain: Strip Clubs and the Management of Competition for Tips
Ethnographers have amassed a large body of literature on exotic dance and strip clubs. However, this literature contains little information about strip club managers and the work they perform "behind the curtain." This article draws on participant observation in strip clubs and semistructured interviews with managers of strip clubs to explore how managers must work to mitigate the consequences of a payment and staffing structure that exacerbates …
I Am Not a Hijra: Class, Respectability, and the Emergence of the 'New' Transgender Woman in India
This article examines the mutual imbrication of gender and class that shapes how some transgender women seek incorporation into social hierarchies in postcolonial India. Existing literature demonstrates an association between transgender and middle-class-status in the global South. Through an 18-month ethnographic study in Bangalore from 2009 through 2016 with transgender women, NGO (nongovernmental organization) workers and activists, as well as…
Funding does something to people: NGOs navigating funding challenges in India
This article offers an ethnographic exploration of NGO “mission creep” as a result of obtaining funding. Many scholars express scepticism about funding on NGO goals, while others encourage a nuanced critique. This 18-month ethnographic study of two NGOs in Bangalore, India explores NGO workers navigating the acceptance of funding while maintaining their original missions. When one NGO failed to uphold this goal, staff members created their own NG…
‘New’ Women: Trans Women, Hijras and the Remaking of Inequality in India
Recent global attention to transgender issues and new opportunities for trans people can appear as positive and progressive social change. 'New' Women challenges this assumption through an ethnography of emerging trans women and traditional gender non-conforming hijras in India. In many countries, people identify as either cisgender or non-cis identities like transgender and nonbinary. India is unique for its recognized, yet stigmatized, gender n…
‘Happy’ activists: Non‐governmental organization staff navigating the social movement/service provider divide in India
In the Global South, non‐governmental organizations (NGOs) face criticism; staff employ strategies to mitigate it. What happens when NGO staff express different levels of awareness about such criticism? How are these differences shaped by whether staff identify themselves as ‘community’ members the NGO serves or ‘non‐community’ members whose work serves the community? How do these identities impact NGOs? Through an 18‐month ethnographic study at …
Between emancipatory potential and hierarchical reproduction: Social movement aspirations and class in a South Indian NGO
Rescuing the reformable: NGO interventions, queer necropolitics, and the criminalization of hijra families in India
Negotiating modernity: NGO interventions and the transformation of hijra families in South India
Development discourse often positions families as harmful for young cisgender women in the global South. In India, NGOs make similar claims about gender non-conforming hijras’ families, asserting they harm younger hijras. To what extent are such interpretations related to understandings about modernity and the place that families occupy in the lives of individuals? How do these ideas impact hijra responses to such criticism? Through a case study …
Enhancing Student Engagement through Self-Care Reminders in Online Courses: A Quasi-experimental Study
Through a quasi-experimental research design, we show that incorporating self-care reminders in an online sociology course correlates with greater student engagement. Online learning has received enhanced attention since it became the primary learning modality during COVID-19 shutdowns. Despite inconclusive evidence about the efficacy of online learning, students report feelings of isolation and disconnection they attribute to reduced learning in…
Sociology (7 works) · Ethnography (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works)