CAE Seminar | Enhancing ethical practice through reducing interpersonal distance

Insights from feminist thought for health and welfare interventions conducted across lines of culture, privilege, and power

Speaker: Dr Hamsa Rajan, Research Associate, School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford

Building on the six years she has lived in both eastern and western China, Dr Rajan uses ethnographic and qualitative methods to investigate family life on the Tibetan plateau. Her work explores ethnic minority conditions, gender politics, family conflict and abuse, and intergenerational household relationships in Tibetan towns, villages, and nomadic settlements. Seeking to bridge the divide between dominant academic theories, largely reflecting global North experiences, and the often very dissimilar lived realities of the global South, her publications also explore issues of transnational feminist ethics and theory.