67.025 - Contested Liminalities, Erasures, Invisibility, and Hypervisibility: Global South Perspectives on De/Colonizing Social Context of Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The status of evidence and truth in educational research needs to be disrupted for the erasure it creates for several minoritized communities. Anti-oppressionist discourses about differences and intersectionalities often thrust people from Global South and South Asian heritage outside the Black/white binary. As educators on this panel, we identify as Desi, South Asian, or South African with Indian heritage, and describe how our liminal locations influence us as transnational, de/colonial educators physically situated in the Global North. We put contested issues of racialization, colonial education, ableism, identity development/loss, and gendered oppression in dialogic relationship, privileging often ignored/erased Global South, Desi, diasporic sensibilities. We offer provocations about our ethical obligations regarding theorizing, inquiry, and engagements in classrooms, schools, communities, and cultures.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Differences and Intersectionalities

Chair

• Kakali Bhattacharya, Kansas State University

Papers

• Desi Consciousness: A Way of Thinking and Acting in the Writing of Gayatri Spivak - Aparna Rita Mishra Tarc, York University

• Reflections on Borders, Binaries, and Democratizing Evidence in Educational Research Today - Nina Asher, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• Crossing Oceans, Trading Worlds: A Desi Global South De/Colonial Exploration of Social Context of Education - Kakali Bhattacharya, Kansas State University

• The Oppositional Labor of Disability in Framing South Asian Feminist Identities in Diasporic Educational Contexts - Nirmala Erevelles, The University of Alabama

• Global South Grassroots Transgressions Against Gender Inequity - Sharon S. Subreenduth, University of Massachusetts - Lowell