A Spoonful of Yogurt: Matter as an Organizational Stakeholder in Learning Spaces

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Materiality, Embodiment, and Learning

Abstract

The caste system in India is one of the oldest structures of sociocultural and economic oppression that continues to structure spaces towards making invisible marginalized communities’ ways of being. Using micro-analytic interaction analysis, this paper explicates the ways in which recognizing matter as an organizational stakeholder in framing intra-actions illuminates how cultural practices of two upper-caste teachers are positioned as normative, over that of the researcher and teachers from marginalized communities. Considering matter as an organizational stakeholder opens up possibilities for revealing how upper-caste pre-colonial knowledge is framed as normative in learning spaces.

Author

• Rishi Krishnamoorthy, Rutgers University