Journal of Humanities and Applied Social Sciences: Volume 5 Issue 3 , Open Access

Financial inclusion and human development: is there a nexus?

Radwa Ahmed Abdelghaffar, Hebatalla Atef Emam, Nagwa Abdallah Samak

The purpose of this study is to investigate the nexus between financial inclusion and human development for countries belonging to different income groups during 2009–2019, and…

Challenges of orientalist productions and frames of an imagined other: a media monitoring analysis

Yasmine Loza

This paper offers a critical discussion to contribute to sociological work by emphasizing deconstruction(s) of the markers of gendered and racialized borders and epistemological…

Nature governance for collective well-being: reconciling holistic sustainability and human development

Carolina Londono-Escudero

This article aims to contribute to the literature linking the three pillars of sustainable development with the human development field. To do so, it analyzes how a group of…

“Decolonizing” the minds of children in Africa: Youssef in Egypt and Achebe in Nigeria

Loubna A. Youssef

This paper aims to shed light on how children's literature in Africa deserves to be studied because African writers “decolonize” the minds of African children and children and…

Shifting shapes and unknown spirits at play on the borders of the human imagination: a critical reading of the serpent-woman

Emily Golson

The primary purpose of this study is to determine if the main character is a shapeshifter and, if so, how does the tale contribute to shapeshifting lore.

Immigrant Indians’ identity in second-generation Asian American context: interpretation of ethnicity, gender and religion

Saheeh Shafi

This paper aims to interpret the multidimensional Asian American identity of immigrant Indians in terms of pan-ethnicity, gender and religion.