Being and Becoming in Many Worlds: A Sudanese Scholar’s Journey Through Power, Place, and Educational Reform

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Abstract

In this critical autoethnography I trace my transformation journey as a Sudanese scholar navigating identity, education, and activism across two geopolitical and ideological contexts, Sudan and the United States. Drawing on Foucault’s concepts of power and docility, Deleuze’s notion of becoming, Gramsci’s theory of organic intellectuals, and furthering that with the lived curriculum of places (Kissling, 2012), this paper reflects on my journey from indoctrinated subject to intellectual agent. It examines the effects of political-religious hegemony on Sudanese education and identity, and the tensions of resisting systemic oppression. In this paper, I critique curriculum as a tool of marginalization and I call for educational practices rooted in, critical literacy, and socioculturalism, lived experience and curricular reform.

Author

• Jubara AbuSin, Pennsylvania State University