Pratima Sambajee
Biographic Data
| ID | 5153508 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pratima Sambajee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pratima |
| FAMILY NAME | Sambajee |
| SIGNATURE | SAMBAJEE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8867-877X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender mainstreaming in climate change policy
Climate change is intrinsically linked to gender. Evidence shows women face the greatest impacts of climate change due to higher poverty presence, reliance on land, family responsibilities, and less societal power. Our study uses Carol Bacchi’s "What is the Problem Represented to Be?" (WPR) approach to analyse climate change and gender policies in Mauritius, a small island state. We apply a two-dimensional theory of gender justice that foreground…
Contesting Labour Violations in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields
This article shares a co-written work and life biography of a prominent female international human rights defender working to strengthen civil society in Uzbekistan. We centre the article on the experience of Malika Nazar, who was falsely imprisoned and remains a person of interest to the authorities. Drawing on participant reflexivity interviews, a workshop and a public lecture, we contribute to the literature on coercive labour and actor agency…
Migrant worker well-being as a struggle for meaningful work
This article analyses the well-being of migrants in the global South for whom employment precarity has become normalized, and working and living conditions are associated with poor health, isolation, limited voice and a general lack of protection. Well-being in such contexts may be considered as a multifaceted phenomenon which manifests itself across work and other life domains to include collective sources of well-being. We also recognize the po…
An African dilemma
Kenya is facing irreconcilable tensions by competing interests from conservationists, tourism developers and pastoralists. Concerns arising from the well-being of flora and, in particular, fauna by conservationists; tourists and commercial tourism; and the increasingly restricted use of traditional lands and herding animals by pastoralist indigenous communities, have populated the discourse of land use in Kenya. In this paper, we look into the va…
The dynamics of language and ethnicity in Mauritius
The link between ethnicity and language is well established in research but its contextual, perceptual and variable nature demands that this connection be re-examined in each attempt to understand a nation. This article is about Mauritius, a postcolonial context where French and British colonization has left salient features which continue to influence the dynamics around language and ethnicity in the country. By describing its demographic charac…
Rethinking non-traditional resistance at work
Resistance at work can take many forms and be theorised in multiple ways. In this paper, I use postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha's concepts of mimicry, ambivalence and hybridity to explore non-traditional forms of resistance among Indo-Mauritians working in the hotel industry. I employ a two-stage qualitative research approach by conducting focus groups in eight hotels in Mauritius followed by focused ethnography with 20 Indo-Mauritians. The find…
The dynamics of language and ethnicity in Mauritius
The link between ethnicity and language is well established in research but its contextual, perceptual and variable nature demands that this connection be re-examined in each attempt to understand a nation. This article is about Mauritius, a postcolonial context where French and British colonization has left salient features which continue to influence the dynamics around language and ethnicity in the country. By describing its demographic charac…
Rethinking non-traditional resistance at work
Resistance at work can take many forms and be theorised in multiple ways. In this paper, I use postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha's concepts of mimicry, ambivalence and hybridity to explore non-traditional forms of resistance among Indo-Mauritians working in the hotel industry. I employ a two-stage qualitative research approach by conducting focus groups in eight hotels in Mauritius followed by focused ethnography with 20 Indo-Mauritians. The find…
Rethinking non-traditional resistance at work
Resistance at work can take many forms and be theorised in multiple ways. In this paper, I use postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha's concepts of mimicry, ambivalence and hybridity to explore non-traditional forms of resistance among Indo-Mauritians working in the hotel industry. I employ a two-stage qualitative research approach by conducting focus groups in eight hotels in Mauritius followed by focused ethnography with 20 Indo-Mauritians. The find…
The dynamics of language and ethnicity in Mauritius
The link between ethnicity and language is well established in research but its contextual, perceptual and variable nature demands that this connection be re-examined in each attempt to understand a nation. This article is about Mauritius, a postcolonial context where French and British colonization has left salient features which continue to influence the dynamics around language and ethnicity in the country. By describing its demographic charac…
An African dilemma
Kenya is facing irreconcilable tensions by competing interests from conservationists, tourism developers and pastoralists. Concerns arising from the well-being of flora and, in particular, fauna by conservationists; tourists and commercial tourism; and the increasingly restricted use of traditional lands and herding animals by pastoralist indigenous communities, have populated the discourse of land use in Kenya. In this paper, we look into the va…
Migrant worker well-being as a struggle for meaningful work
This article analyses the well-being of migrants in the global South for whom employment precarity has become normalized, and working and living conditions are associated with poor health, isolation, limited voice and a general lack of protection. Well-being in such contexts may be considered as a multifaceted phenomenon which manifests itself across work and other life domains to include collective sources of well-being. We also recognize the po…
Gender mainstreaming in climate change policy
Climate change is intrinsically linked to gender. Evidence shows women face the greatest impacts of climate change due to higher poverty presence, reliance on land, family responsibilities, and less societal power. Our study uses Carol Bacchi’s "What is the Problem Represented to Be?" (WPR) approach to analyse climate change and gender policies in Mauritius, a small island state. We apply a two-dimensional theory of gender justice that foreground…
Contesting Labour Violations in Uzbekistan’s Cotton Fields
This article shares a co-written work and life biography of a prominent female international human rights defender working to strengthen civil society in Uzbekistan. We centre the article on the experience of Malika Nazar, who was falsely imprisoned and remains a person of interest to the authorities. Drawing on participant reflexivity interviews, a workshop and a public lecture, we contribute to the literature on coercive labour and actor agency…
Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Economic Zones and Regional Development (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)