CANCELLED - Ed Res Seminar Series - Aspirations, hope and the being and becoming of everyday heroes: Juxtaposing the struggles of revolutionaries against those of women for their daughters’ education
Wednesday 26 January 2022, 12:30pm to 2:00pm
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Event Details
This paper proposes a decolonial move by seeking to problematise the discourse on the role of mothers for their daughters’ education in the field of comparative and international education.
Drawing on the life stories of women in Pakistan, the main critique posed is that women’s struggles are seen in masculinist and colonial terms of power, minimising the everyday struggles of women and the heroism implicit therein. I seek common grounds between the struggles of historical revolutionaries and local women in a rural community of Pakistan and propose a decolonial move to envision women’s struggles (de) legitimized and their experiences recognized as knowledge in the field, making a case for the creation of theory in place.
Speaker
Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK
Aliya teaches on the Comparative and International Education MSc programme at the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK. Her research focuses on how mothers in the South navigate their agency in highly constrained circumstances. Her specialised areas of interest are the capability approach, negative capability and epistemic paradoxicality and justice and the promotion of knowledges (plural) and Southern epistemologies. Aliya is currently accepting doctoral students with an interest i
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