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Navigating Change: Examining the Intersectionality of Women in Environmental Challenges, Maritime and Governance in Global South Oceania
No full textThe environmental challenges have affected the coastal community and oceanic ecosystems in the Global South Oceanic region substantially. According to the Pacific Community, 80% of Oceania's population depends on coastal resources for their livelihoods. As environmental issues exacerbate, women are advocating for gender-inclusive approaches to enhance climate-change resilience and the sustainability of marine resources within the community. Similarly, in the maritime sector, the growth of women as seafarers is proportionate to their increased participation in maritime leadership roles compared to ‘softer’ roles, such as stewardesses. The policies needed to encourage more participation are, hence, possible through stronger representation of women in the governance of a country. The informal economy is also a crucial sector where women are involved in small-scale businesses and market jobs. The chapter highlights women's role and their potential in facing environmental challenges, the maritime sector, and the interdependence of governance and the informal economy in strengthening the region of Global South Oceania. Through delving into the intersectionality of gender, indigeneity, and maritime governance, this chapter aims to (a) explain the present role of women in Global South Oceania; (b) discuss how they are contributing to the maritime governance and climate change; and (c) shaping the women's role in the future of Global South Oceania and contributing to policy making. This chapter argues that strengthening women's threshold at the ground level is critical for ensuring gender-responsive policies and steady overall development in the Oceanic region
Labors of division: global capitalism and the emergence of the peasant in Colonial Panjab
No full textGovernance in Cloud-Automated Enterprises: Frameworks for Responsible AI Deployment
No full textThe integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with cloud computing is transforming enterprises through unprecedented automation and scalability. However, this convergence introduces significant risks—including algorithmic bias, opacity, and security vulnerabilities—that outpace traditional IT governance. This chapter argues that a new, proactive governance paradigm is essential for responsible AI deployment. It presents a comprehensive framework built on pillars of fairness, transparency, and accountability, and details how Cloud-native technologies like Policy as Code can automate governance within MLOps pipelines. A step- by- step approach for operationalizing this framework is provided. The chapter concludes with a critical analysis of the broad social, ethical, practical, and managerial implications, positioning robust governance not as a barrier, but as a critical enabler of sustainable and trustworthy innovation in the Cloud-automated enterprise
Transformative Social Psychology: Towards Social Change and Justice
No full textThe book adopts a critical interdisciplinary perspective and examines the crisis and prospects of the social psychological domain. It ventures into the realm of social psychology, metatheory, integrative potential, and activism in support of the socially and economically oppressed. This book addresses the sociocultural imagery that stimulated the research in social psychology in India. It explores how trans-disciplinarity will culminate in perspectives and ideas that make social psychology transformative, change-oriented, and responsive to various social challenges. The book will be helpful to teachers, scholars, and students interested in understanding the social psychology of India. This book will be a valuable reference read in interdisciplinary social sciences and schools of psychology, political science, sociology, philosophy, and critical legal studies. It provides an accessible and engaging approach to dealing with the complexities of interdisciplinary social psychology in India
Diplomacy in a Volatile Region: What is the Significance of Modi’s Israel Visit?
Full text linkPrime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel marks a significant moment in India’s evolving foreign policy and carries far-reaching geopolitical implications. More than a routine diplomatic exchange, the visit demonstrates the transformation of India-Israel relations from a defence partnership into a broad-based strategic alliance. Coming at a time of heightened tensions in West Asia, the trip reflects New Delhi’s willingness to assert its interests even in complex and sensitive geopolitical circumstances
ChatGPT in research and practice: Insights into applications, challenges, and future prospects
No full textThe emergence of ChatGPT, a sophisticated language model developed by OpenAI, has revolutionized the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP). This study offers a comprehensive overview of current research directions related to ChatGPT, analyzing its applications, challenges, and prospects. This most up-to-date study extracts and analyzes keywords and abstracts from 7,455 research articles in the Scopus database, providing a thorough overview through text mining techniques. The evaluation, conducted through descriptive statistical analysis involving keyword frequency, co-occurrence, and related metrics, highlights the current research issues, indicating efficacy evaluation remains an ongoing area of investigation. Particular concerns are placed on the application of ChatGPT in education and healthcare, as well as its accuracy in computational tasks. Distinct from previous studies, this research extends the findings by classifying the overarching impact of ChatGPT across all fields, leveraging deep learning algorithms through Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), utilizing BERT Base Multilingual Uncased for sentiment analysis. Concurrently, it contrasts these results with those obtained from traditional analysis using the Vader Lexicon machine learning approach, revealing a consistent and overwhelmingly positive impact that significantly outweighs negative biases. The metrics evaluation using Gen AI and machine learning shows good performance. The findings further suggest that Gen AI opens more promising avenues for evaluating documents, specifically, and natural language processing more broadly
Human-Centric AI: Reinventing Employee Experience Through Cloud-Native Intelligence
No full textCloud-native AI is not just a mere automation, but a combination of contextual knowledge, pattern recognition, behavioral analytics and predictive intelligence (Qin et al., 2025). These mechanisms interpret complicated employee cues, grasp dynamic shifts in motivation or well- being, and provide information that may be utilized to recommend individualized interventions (Segarra, and Williams, 2025). Workers are faced with new pressures like never before as global workplaces grow more digital and distributed, including increased skill transitions and/or the psychological strain of hybrid work (Choudhary et al., 2023). This poses an organizational need to develop HR processes that can help create resilience, engagement, and fulfillment. Human- centered AI will meet these essential needs by engraving compassion, personalization, and justice in the development of workplace technologies (Buhmann and Fieseler, 2022)
Building a Digital Infrastructure for Blue Economy Investment Through FinTech
Full text linkThe sustainable blue economy represents a critical yet underfinanced frontier in global climate and biodiversity governance. Despite its potential to drive inclusive growth and ocean resilience, investment flows into marine and coastal sectors remain fragmented, opaque, and institutionally constrained. This article examines how financial technology (FinTech) innovations can build a digital infrastructure to mobilize and govern blue economy investments effectively. Using a mixed-method framework that integrates case studies of digital blue bonds, blockchain-based traceability systems, and artificial intelligence-driven impact assessment platforms, the paper develops a conceptual model for a digital blue finance infrastructure. The model highlights the interoperability between tokenized financing instruments, distributed ledger verification, and data analytics for transparent monitoring of marine investment outcomes. Empirical findings suggest that FinTech-enabled systems can significantly enhance accountability, reduce transaction costs, and attract blended capital into sustainable ocean projects. Furthermore, the study situates digital blue finance within emerging global policy frameworks such as the EU Sustainable Finance Strategy, the United Nations Ocean Decade, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations blue finance initiatives. By linking FinTech architecture with environmental governance, the paper contributes to both sustainable finance theory and practical innovation design. It argues that digitalization is not merely a financial enabler but a structural catalyst for scaling equitable, accountable, and climate-aligned blue economy investments. Received: 26 October 2025 \textbar Revised: 26 January 2025 \textbar Accepted: 25 February 2026 Conflicts of Interest The author declares that he has no conflicts of interest to this work. Data Availability Statement Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study. Author Contribution Statement Kolawole Afuwape: Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Investigation, Resources, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Visualization, Supervision, Project administration
Abortion and Autonomy: The Struggle for Reproductive Rights in the United States and India
No full textIn June 2022, the Supreme Court of the United States in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overturned Roe v. Wade (1973) ruled that the Constitution of the United States does not recognize the right to abortion, reversing nearly 50 years of protection of women’s access to safe and legal abortion. The decision further empowered states to frame their laws. Nearly 29% of women in the United States who are of reproductive age live in states where abortion is heavily restricted. According to the 2025 Guttmacher Institute fact sheet, as of March 2024, none of the 14 states with complete abortion bans had any abortion clinics, which earlier had a total of 63 clinics providing such health facilities
The gig economy is designed to fragment labour, absorb disruption and sustain extraction
Full text linkWhen Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal publicly declared — claims disputed by unions — that the recent gig workers’ strike had “failed,” the statement was meant to project normalcy. Orders were delivered, apps stayed online, and capital circulated uninterrupted. But what this moment really affirmed was not the resilience of service delivery but the success of platform capitalism in organising labour so completely that even collective resistance struggles to appear as resistance at all. The uninterrupted flow of orders was presented as evidence of fairness, when it is better understood as proof of how thoroughly disruption has been engineered out of the system