Racial microaggressions in the contemporary U.K. context: exploring the experiences of British Asians

A critical literature review on racial microaggression literature revealed an evident knowledge gap. Racial microaggression literature originating in the U.K. was limited, especially that which examined experiences of British Asians. While the academic literature fails to provide an in-depth account of individuals’ experiential realities it demonstrates the importance of studying racial microaggressions. Therefore, the current study aimed to expand the current literature base by exploring British Asian experiences of racial microaggressions using a phenomenological approach. Eight participants were recruited through volunteer sampling and were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. The study aimed to gain better insight into their experiences. Hence, interview questions inquired about the experiences of racial microaggressions they have encountered, how the encounters impacted them mentally, physically, and/or psychologically, how they dealt with the encounter and its effects. The interview transcripts were analysed using an interpretative phenomenological approach (IPA). The analysis rendered three superordinate themes. Superordinate theme one ‘Racial microaggression experiences’ looked at the nature of racial microaggression experiences described by participants and consisted of the following subthemes: Direct racial microaggression experiences, indirect racial microaggression experiences and environmental racial microaggressions. The next superordinate theme ‘Reactions to racial microaggressions’ encompassed the following subthemes: Attempting to make sense of experiences, acceptance, and confrontation and action. The third superordinate theme ‘Impact of racial microaggressions’ includes these subthemes: Emotional experience, impacts on identity, personality, and self-image, impact on professional and personal life, and learning opportunity and self-development

Understanding the impacts of racial microaggressions on British Asians

Using a phenomenological approach this research explored racial microaggression experiences of British Asians. Eight participants were interviewed using semi-structured interviews. By employing the interpretative phenomenological approach (IPA), three superordinate themes were identified. This article focuses on the superordinate theme of ‘impact of racial microaggressions’ which encompasses four subthemes. Racial microaggressions were found to impact participants emotionally, personally, professionally, and socially

Scratching the surface(s): examining the complexity of geological contexts for the Palaeolithic of the Sonar Basin, Madhya Pradesh

Abstract The Sonar River Valley is centrally located in Madhya Pradesh, flanked by rich Palaeolithic and fossiliferous localities in the Son and Narmada valleys and has historically been overlooked in favour of the latter rivers, which tend to preserve well-stratified Quaternary formations along varying portions of their length. Here an attempt is made to look at the Sonar Basin through a broader lens, examining the various landforms found in the district of Damoh through which the Sonar flows before joining the Ken. The objective of this paper is threefold: to bring together the geomorphology of the area both in association with and as a result of fluvial action but also as a product of other geomorphic processes; to understand the consequences these processes have for the visibility of the prehistoric archaeological record within the region; and to look at this geoarchaeological relationship in the wider context of some of the major river basins in Madhya Pradesh, notably the Son and Narmada. Secondary sources on geology and geoarchaeology have been integrated with preliminary fieldwork in Districts Damoh and Narsinghpur, and to a smaller extent in Sagar, Chhatarpur and Panna. This work demonstrates the complexity of the South Asian Palaeolithic record that stretches beyond fluvial contexts, in turn helping to spatially expand our understanding of hominin behaviour beyond narrow riverine corridors.</jats:p