31.019 - Intersectionality and Transnational Education Research for a New World Order?

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The session’s objective is to apply and assess intersectionality as theoretical and methodological approach to transnational education research in a dramatically changing world order. The significance of the session is: 1) deep elaboration of intersectionality and transnationalism beyond buzzwords, 2) presentations from five contexts, 3) dialogue amongst international scholars about intersectionality (versus gender, Critical Race Theory, post-colonialism, multiculturalism) for documenting, interrupting, and protagonizing for transformation in transnational spaces. Participants and audience are provoked to dialogue by a pre-eminent critical scholar. Session facilitated by an experienced chair. The panel is timely and contextually powerful: can researchers take on the challenge demanded of intersectionality and transnationalism and do so in dialogue with and for turbulent power dynamics?

Sub Unit

• International Relations Committee

Chair

• Sarah A. Robert, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Discussant

• Gustavo E. Fischman, Arizona State University

Papers

• Intersectionality in China's Migrant Community - Min Yu, Wayne State University; Danielle V. Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Is Gender Not Enough? Intersectionality for Contextualizing Teachers' Work in Transnational Spaces - Sarah A. Robert, University at Buffalo - SUNY; Danielle V. Lewis, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Becoming an Educated Woman in a Rural Village of Pakistan: (Un)Making of Indigenous/Modernist Muslim Identity - Ayesha Khurshid, Florida State University

• First-Generation Indigenous Students and Intersectionality in Chilean Universities - Andrea Flanagan-Borquez, Univeridad de Valparaiso; Silvana del Valle Bustos, Universidad Academia de Humanismo Cristiano