Assistant Professor

Dr Amal M Latif

Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Interests

  1. Gender and Migration
  2. Minorities and Marginalisation
  3. Narrative Studies
  4. Blue Economy

Faculty Details

Education

2017

English And Foreign Languages University(EFLU),Hyderabad,
BA (Hons) English Literature

2019

Tezpur University, Assam,India
Masters In Cultural Studies .

2024

Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad
Ph.D.

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

    • 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.

Publications

Forthcoming

    • Blue Washing and the Struggle for Environmental and Social Justice: The Impact of Vizhinjam Sea Port on the Mukkuva Community in Kerala. Journal of Organisational Ethnography .(2026.)

Published Works

  • “Wronged: The weaponisation of victimhood” (2024). London School of Economics.
    https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2024/09/10/book-review-wronged-the-weaponization-of-victimhood- lilie-chouliaraki/
  • Amal Latif & Chandan Bose (2023). Being a Khaddama: Narratives of Home, Belonging and identity for women domestic workers in the Gulf, Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 29:2, 185-201.
  • Cowan, H., & Percio, A. (Eds.). (2023). Writing Banal Inequalities: How to Fabricate Stories Which Disrupt (Elements in Applied Linguistics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Amal M. Latif & Amrita Datta (2023): Protecting the rights of women migrant domestic workers: structural violence and competing interests in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, South Asian Diaspora
  • Blog post-Disruptive Inequalities(2020) https://disruptiveinequalities.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/with-love-from-a-non-expendable-citizen/

Contact Details

E-mail id:amal.m@srmap.edu.in

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