“No Place That I Could Go”: Navigating Mathematics From Its Margins (Poster 27)

• In Event: Sunday Poster Session 11:25 am
  In Poster Session: Sociopolitical Issues in Mathematics and Science Education: Navigating Learning Pathways

Abstract

In recent decades, mathematics education research has become invested in the idea that mathematical subjectivity is formed at the intersection of culture, history, and politics (e.g., Darragh, 2016; Esmonde et. al., 2013; Gholson & Martin, 2019; Gutiérrez, 2013; Sengupta-Irving, 2021). In this paper, I offer an account of the kinds of labor that sustain mathematical life by tracing how a mathematician in the sociopolitical margins of the field comes to see herself as a mathematician. I provide a close analysis of one interview to explore how she narrates her mathematical self, and the various negotiations of time, place, and relations that make mathematical work possible.

Author

• Arundhati Velamur, New York University