Fazal Rizvi
Biographic Data
| ID | 308552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fazal Rizvi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fazal |
| FAMILY NAME | Rizvi |
| SIGNATURE | RIZVI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0769-7635 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 364 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Navigating the Pandemic: International Students in Transnational Spaces
This paper examines how, during the COVID-19 pandemic, international students used the resources embedded within the transnational spaces they occupied to secure the affective support they needed. Based on 33 interviews and 23 follow-up interviews with international master’s degree students in Finland, this paper shows how digital connectivity became fundamental to the ways in which international students navigated the COVID-19 pandemic, how they…
Diasporic identities, multiculturalism and pedagogic challenges
Edward Said, critical humanism and resources of hope
This essay provides reflections on the essays in a Special Issue on Edward Said and Humanism, edited by Stephen Chatelier and Sophie Rudolph. It focuses on Said's defence of the idea of humanism, and points to the ways in which his construct of critical humanism can be viewed as a resource of hope, necessary to meet the contemporary challenges of an increasingly complex, fragmented and conflicted world
What’s the use of educational research? Six stories reflecting on research use with communities
The question of how education research can be ‘useful’ is an enduring and challenging one. In recent years, this question has been approached by universities through a widespread ‘impact’ agenda. In this article, we explore the tensions between usefulness and impact and present six stories that reflect on research use with communities. These stories engage issues of the risk of usefulness, the time that is needed to work collaboratively for resea…
Researching Global Education Policy: Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement
Reflections on Sneja Gunew's Achievements on the Australia Council for the Arts
This essay provides the author’s personal reflections on his friendship with Sneja Gunew, focusing on her many contributions to multiculturalism as a member of the Australia Council for the Arts (now called Creative Australia) in the 1990s. It recalls the challenges Senja faced in persuading the Council to take seriously the structural inequalities inherent in its policies and funding programs, which had the effect of marginalizing the creative p…
Obituaries for Dr Ted D'Urso
The authors of the first Obituary are Fazal Rizvi and Bob Lingard The author of the second Obituary is Dan O'NeillDr Ted D’UrsoFounding Editor, Discourse26 May 1928 – 16 June 2022The recent death o
International Encyclopedia of Education
Education and #StopAsianHate: A global conversation
The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed an increase and amplification of anti-Asian racism and violence across the globe. Stop AAPI Hate1 in the United States and the COVID-19 Racism Incident Report2 in Australia have documented this rising overt racism and violence against Asians. The killings of 6 Asian women in the United States in 2021, which was racially motivated, highlighted and brought this racial injustice to the fore
On the public pedagogy of conspiracy: An Epat collective project
Interview: Transnational connectivity is here to stay. How we understand and deal with it is crucial
Populism, the state and education in Asia
In recent years, many populist leaders and parties have succeeded in taking over the levers of state power, in spite of the fact that much of their political rhetoric in opposition expresses anti-state sentiments. This paper examines how populist leaders and parties in Asia have been able to use the institutions of the state, including education, to exercise and perpetuate their power. Focusing on the examples of India, the Philippines and Singap…
Retracted Article: International education in the Asian Century: Decline of Anglophone dominance
International Higher Education and the Formation of Business Diasporas
A contemporary definition of diaspora points to communities that are transnationally dispersed but remain connected to their place of origin. Accordingly, diaspora do not have an objective existence but are forged through a variety of means, involving multiple agencies and sites of formation. One of these sites is higher education. Based on interviews conducted with Indian and Chinese students in Australia, this paper suggests that recent policie…
Diaspora, Internationalization and Higher Education
Traditionally, the term ‘diaspora’ (from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) referred to the dispersion of the Jewish people from ancient Israel. It had a pejorative connotation, associated with Jewish punishment for disobeying divine laws and decrees and was defined broadly by (traumatic/forced) dispersion leading to ‘exile’ and continued longing for an idealized homeland and ‘return’ to it (Cohen, 2008). Over time, the term began to be u…
Reimagining recovery for a more robust internationalization
The crisis surrounding COVID-19 has unsettled some of the key assumptions underlying the dominant understanding of internationalization in Australian higher education. In this paper, I discuss how Australian universities have talked about their recovery from the commercial turbulence, and what this reveals about the hegemonic construction of internationalization and about the prospects for reimagining and reconceptualising internationalization in…
Education and cosmopolitanism in Asia: An introduction
The city of Cochin (now called Kochi) in the state of Kerala in India is proud of its cosmopolitan history. In describing the city, its managers often point to the ways in which over the past six c
The long read: On the global relevance of the US elections
At almost every election, Americans are inclined to say that this is the most consequential election in American history. 2020 is no exception. However, what is particularly remarkable about the No
Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An Epat Collective Project
Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their worl…
US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading account
In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i
Transnational Perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights and Peace Education
Transnational Perspectives on Democracy, Citizenship, Human Rights and Peace Education considers ways in which national systems of education could work together, across borders, to determine the meaning and significance of the principles of democracy, human rights and peace education, in ways that are comparative and relational. The contributors and editors (Mary Drinkwater, Fazal Rizvi and Karen Edge) argue that in an era of globalization, colla…
Globally mobile middle class lives in government secondary schools
Schooling has long been studied for its role in class formation and reproduction, Australian government secondary schools have also traditionally been associated with ‘the local’ and with ‘nation building’. Some schools might now also be engaged with ideas of the ‘the global’ not only through policy practices and priorities, but also through the social dynamics of migration and movement. In globalizing times neither class formation nor schooling …
Class Choreographies: Elite Schools and Globalization
Awarded Best Book prize by CIES Globalization and Education SIG Awarded 2nd Prize in the Society of Educational Studies Annual Book Prize Elite schools have always been social choreographers par excel
Global mobilities and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan curriculum
This paper is aimed at exploring the possibilities that the notion of everyday cosmopolitanism can open up for pedagogic practices and, at the same time, the opportunities that pedagogy can provide for the construction of a cosmopolitan global ethics. Our argument is that students (and teachers) are involved in everyday experiences of cosmopolitan encounters and that these can and should be used as a starting point for the development of a cosmop…
Revisiting Jullien in an era of globalisation
In this paper, we discuss some of the ways in which forces of globalisation have transformed the spaces in which educational policies are now developed and practices now enacted. We will consider further the widely held claim that the emergence of these transnational spaces requires new ways of thinking about comparative education. We will examine this claim, referring in particular to the questions proposed by Jullien almost two centuries ago. T…
Globalizing Education Policy
Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing on globalisation this book stands out and will become a basic text in education policy courses around the world. - Stephen J Ball, Karl Mannheim Pro…
Debating globalization and education after September 11
This article examines some of the ways in which debates about globalization and education have changed since the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. From a postcolonial perspective, I argue that while some of the claims about the world ‘changing for ever’ are clearly simplistic and grossly exaggerated, there are at least three ways in which new elements have been introduced to the debates about globalization. First, there has…
Reimagining the new pedagogical possibilities for universities post-Covid-19: An Epat Collective Project
Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to ‘normality’, trying to stitch our future to our past and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And in the midst of this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their worl…
Towards cosmopolitan learning
In recent years, the idea of cosmopolitanism has variously been explored as a political philosophy, a moral theory and a cultural disposition. In each of these cases, this new interest in cosmopolitanism is based upon a recognition that our world is increasingly interconnected and interdependent globally, and that most of our problems are global in nature requiring global solutions. In this paper, I argue that this recognition demands new resourc…
Postcolonialism and Globalization in Education
In this short article, the author explores the complex relationship between globalization and postcolonialism. He argues that the contemporary processes of globalization are often described in ahistorical terms, whereas much of recent literature on postcolonialism is reduced largely to apolitical analyses of literary texts, disconnected from issues of current and shifting configurations of power. The author argues for the need to understand globa…
Making Melbourne: Digital connectivity and international students’ experience of locality
Recent scholarship across a range of disciplines has sought to understand how people’s relationship with place is increasingly produced by their interactions with digital entertainment and communications media. This scholarship has pointed to the capacity of social media to foster new ways of experiencing locality, culture and belonging, including for mobile populations and transnational communities. In this article, we draw upon original qualita…
Old elite schools, history and the construction of a new imaginary
Elite schools established in the nineteenth century in the image of British public schools now face intense competition from newly established elite schools. Located within the broader research project that this special issue discusses, this paper examines some of the ways in which an old elite school in India has sought to utilise is history to strategically re-position itself within the emerging global market of elite schools. The paper notes t…
Imagination and the globalisation of educational policy research
A number of theorists, including Charles Taylor, Arjun Appadurai and Dilip Gaonkar all associated with the University of Chicago based journal, Public Culture, have developed the idea of social imaginary. Their notion of imagination departs significantly from traditional philosophical and sociological analyses that view imagination as an individual capacity, located within the aesthetic realm. Instead, Public Culture theorists interpret imaginati…
Beyond the Social Imaginary of ‘Clash of Civilizations’
In recent years, the notion of a ‘clash of civilizations’, first put forward by Samuel Huntington (1996), has been widely used to explain the contemporary dynamics of geo‐political conflict. It has been argued that the fundamental source of conflict is no longer primarily ideological, or even economic, but cultural. Despite many trenchant and largely debilitating academic critiques of Huntington's argument, the popular appeal of the ‘clash of civ…
Identity, Culture and Cosmopolitan Futures
Democracy and Education after September 11
Millions of words written in the wake of the horrific terror of September 11, 2001 appear to reinforce the feelings of despair at the current state of the world politics. Most analyses seem to offer little hope for the prospects of peace. Indeed, if the so-called 'war on terror' is designed to achieve peace then it is difficult to see how it could be won in any determinate sense, yet the popular media and others in the position of influence seem …
Theorising the Ambiguities of Devolution
(1992). Theorising the Ambiguities of Devolution. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 111-123
Global mobilities and the possibilities of a cosmopolitan curriculum
This paper is aimed at exploring the possibilities that the notion of everyday cosmopolitanism can open up for pedagogic practices and, at the same time, the opportunities that pedagogy can provide for the construction of a cosmopolitan global ethics. Our argument is that students (and teachers) are involved in everyday experiences of cosmopolitan encounters and that these can and should be used as a starting point for the development of a cosmop…
Edward Said and the Cultural Politics of Education
This introductory essay to this special issue of Discourse on Edward Said and the cultural politics of education provides an overview discussion of four inter-related themes representing the wideranging scope of Said's academic and political writings. The first of these themes relates to his idea of Orientalism, through which Said sought to describe the relationship between colonial knowledge and the exercise of imperial power. The second concern…
Stuart Hall on racism and the importance of diasporic thinking
In this article, I want to show how my initial encounter with the work of Stuart Hall was grounded in my reading of the later philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and was shaped by my interest in understanding the nature of racism across the three countries in which I had lived. Over the years, Hall's various writings have helped me to make sense of the shifting logics of racism, especially his insistence that racism cannot be understood in its own…
Equity and marketisation: A Brief Commentary
Beginning with a reflection on the Participation and Equity Program (PEP) in Australia in the 1980s, this response describes the distinctive ideological shift from a social democratic to a market conception of equity in education over the past three decades. This shift has been accompanied by changes in the techniques of educational governance, from the collaborative approach of the PEP, which emphasised the importance of trust in teachers as pro…
International Higher Education and the Formation of Business Diasporas
A contemporary definition of diaspora points to communities that are transnationally dispersed but remain connected to their place of origin. Accordingly, diaspora do not have an objective existence but are forged through a variety of means, involving multiple agencies and sites of formation. One of these sites is higher education. Based on interviews conducted with Indian and Chinese students in Australia, this paper suggests that recent policie…
Diaspora, Internationalization and Higher Education
Traditionally, the term ‘diaspora’ (from the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) referred to the dispersion of the Jewish people from ancient Israel. It had a pejorative connotation, associated with Jewish punishment for disobeying divine laws and decrees and was defined broadly by (traumatic/forced) dispersion leading to ‘exile’ and continued longing for an idealized homeland and ‘return’ to it (Cohen, 2008). Over time, the term began to be u…
US–China Rivalry and ‘Thucydides’ Trap’: Why this is a misleading account
In Book 2 of The Peloponnesian War, the ancient Greek historian Thucydides describes the Plague of Athens which killed an estimated 75,000 people in 430 BC, the second year of the war. Thucydides i
Globally mobile middle class lives in government secondary schools
Schooling has long been studied for its role in class formation and reproduction, Australian government secondary schools have also traditionally been associated with ‘the local’ and with ‘nation building’. Some schools might now also be engaged with ideas of the ‘the global’ not only through policy practices and priorities, but also through the social dynamics of migration and movement. In globalizing times neither class formation nor schooling …
Revisiting Jullien in an era of globalisation
In this paper, we discuss some of the ways in which forces of globalisation have transformed the spaces in which educational policies are now developed and practices now enacted. We will consider further the widely held claim that the emergence of these transnational spaces requires new ways of thinking about comparative education. We will examine this claim, referring in particular to the questions proposed by Jullien almost two centuries ago. T…
Re)membering, (Dis)membering: ‘Aboriginality’ and the art of Gordon Bennett
(1994). (Re)membering, (Dis)membering: ‘Aboriginality’ and the art of Gordon Bennett. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 26, pp. 75-89
Edward Said, critical humanism and resources of hope
This essay provides reflections on the essays in a Special Issue on Edward Said and Humanism, edited by Stephen Chatelier and Sophie Rudolph. It focuses on Said's defence of the idea of humanism, and points to the ways in which his construct of critical humanism can be viewed as a resource of hope, necessary to meet the contemporary challenges of an increasingly complex, fragmented and conflicted world
On the public pedagogy of conspiracy: An Epat collective project
The global auction: The broken promises of education, jobs and incomes
Towards a view of policy analysis as practical reason
This paper presents a philosophical critique of the widely accepted ‘technological’ conception of policy analysis in education. With the use of a Wittgensteinian understanding of language, it is argued that the assumptions upon which the technological conception is based are fundamentally mistaken. In particular it is argued that the fact‐value distinction is epistemologically incoherent, and that questions of moral value, which lie at the heart …
Wittgenstein on grammar and analytic philosophy of education
(1987). Wittgenstein on grammar and analytic philosophy of education. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 33-46
Multiculturalism in Australia: The construction and promotion of an ideology
(1988). Multiculturalism in Australia: the construction and promotion of an ideology. Journal of Education Policy: Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 335-350
Theorising the Ambiguities of Devolution
(1992). Theorising the Ambiguities of Devolution. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 111-123
Tom Greenfield and Educational Administration
Greenfield on Educational Administration: towards a human science Thomas Greenfield & Peter Ribbins (Eds), 1993 London: Routledge. pp. 285, ISBN )‐415–08080–0 £10.95 (paperback), ISBN 0–415–08045–2
Re)membering, (Dis)membering: ‘Aboriginality’ and the art of Gordon Bennett
(1994). (Re)membering, (Dis)membering: ‘Aboriginality’ and the art of Gordon Bennett. Third Text: Vol. 8, No. 26, pp. 75-89
A New Discourse: Cultural Politics of Education
(1995). A New Discourse: cultural politics of education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 3-4
Democracy and Education after September 11
Millions of words written in the wake of the horrific terror of September 11, 2001 appear to reinforce the feelings of despair at the current state of the world politics. Most analyses seem to offer little hope for the prospects of peace. Indeed, if the so-called 'war on terror' is designed to achieve peace then it is difficult to see how it could be won in any determinate sense, yet the popular media and others in the position of influence seem …
Debating globalization and education after September 11
This article examines some of the ways in which debates about globalization and education have changed since the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. From a postcolonial perspective, I argue that while some of the claims about the world ‘changing for ever’ are clearly simplistic and grossly exaggerated, there are at least three ways in which new elements have been introduced to the debates about globalization. First, there has…
Identity, Culture and Cosmopolitan Futures
Postcolonialism and education: Negotiating a contested terrain
This paper sets the context for those that follow in this special issue of Pedagogy, Culture & Society. In so doing, it provides a brief overview of postcolonialism as theory, politics and practice. It considers postcolonialism’s ambivalent reception amongst differing constituencies, a sign both of desire and danger, as Stuart Hall has put it. Criticisms of postcolonialism have come from both the left and the right and from indigenous scholars as…
Imagination and the globalisation of educational policy research
A number of theorists, including Charles Taylor, Arjun Appadurai and Dilip Gaonkar all associated with the University of Chicago based journal, Public Culture, have developed the idea of social imaginary. Their notion of imagination departs significantly from traditional philosophical and sociological analyses that view imagination as an individual capacity, located within the aesthetic realm. Instead, Public Culture theorists interpret imaginati…
Edward Said and the Cultural Politics of Education
This introductory essay to this special issue of Discourse on Edward Said and the cultural politics of education provides an overview discussion of four inter-related themes representing the wideranging scope of Said's academic and political writings. The first of these themes relates to his idea of Orientalism, through which Said sought to describe the relationship between colonial knowledge and the exercise of imperial power. The second concern…
Postcolonialism and Globalization in Education
In this short article, the author explores the complex relationship between globalization and postcolonialism. He argues that the contemporary processes of globalization are often described in ahistorical terms, whereas much of recent literature on postcolonialism is reduced largely to apolitical analyses of literary texts, disconnected from issues of current and shifting configurations of power. The author argues for the need to understand globa…
Youth Moves: Identities and Education in Global Perspective
Foreword. Series Editor's Introduction Allan Luke Introduction: Youth, Mobility, and Identity Nadine Dolby and Fazal Rizvi Section 1: New Times, New Identities 1. The Corporate Curriculum and the Young Cyberflaneur as Citizen Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen 2. Shoot the Elephant: Antagonistic Identities, Neo-Marxist Nostalgia, and the Remorselessly Vanishing Past Cameron McCarthy and Jennifer Logue 3. New Textual Worlds: Young People and Compute…
Globalizing Education Policy
Rizvi and Lingard's account of the global politics of education is thoughtful, complex and compelling. It is the first really comprehensive discussion and analysis of global trends in education policy, their effects - structural and individual - and resistance to them. In the enormous body of writing on globalisation this book stands out and will become a basic text in education policy courses around the world. - Stephen J Ball, Karl Mannheim Pro…
Racism and education: Coincidence or conspiracy
Towards cosmopolitan learning
In recent years, the idea of cosmopolitanism has variously been explored as a political philosophy, a moral theory and a cultural disposition. In each of these cases, this new interest in cosmopolitanism is based upon a recognition that our world is increasingly interconnected and interdependent globally, and that most of our problems are global in nature requiring global solutions. In this paper, I argue that this recognition demands new resourc…
Beyond the Social Imaginary of ‘Clash of Civilizations’
In recent years, the notion of a ‘clash of civilizations’, first put forward by Samuel Huntington (1996), has been widely used to explain the contemporary dynamics of geo‐political conflict. It has been argued that the fundamental source of conflict is no longer primarily ideological, or even economic, but cultural. Despite many trenchant and largely debilitating academic critiques of Huntington's argument, the popular appeal of the ‘clash of civ…
Theorizing student mobility in an era of globalization
Over the past two decades, considerable importance has been attached around the world to international student mobility as a way of internationalization of higher education. A whole range of institutional strategies have been employed to encourage students to consider education abroad, either on a short term basis, on a study tour or educational exchange, or enrolling for a longer period in degree awarding programs. At the same time, in many ways…
The global auction: The broken promises of education, jobs and incomes
Managerialism and Educational Policy in a Global Context: Foucault, Neoliberalism, and the Doctrine of Self-Management
International Education and the Production of Global Imagination1 - 1
Equity and marketisation: A Brief Commentary
Beginning with a reflection on the Participation and Equity Program (PEP) in Australia in the 1980s, this response describes the distinctive ideological shift from a social democratic to a market conception of equity in education over the past three decades. This shift has been accompanied by changes in the techniques of educational governance, from the collaborative approach of the PEP, which emphasised the importance of trust in teachers as pro…
Old elite schools, history and the construction of a new imaginary
Elite schools established in the nineteenth century in the image of British public schools now face intense competition from newly established elite schools. Located within the broader research project that this special issue discusses, this paper examines some of the ways in which an old elite school in India has sought to utilise is history to strategically re-position itself within the emerging global market of elite schools. The paper notes t…
Making Melbourne: Digital connectivity and international students’ experience of locality
Recent scholarship across a range of disciplines has sought to understand how people’s relationship with place is increasingly produced by their interactions with digital entertainment and communications media. This scholarship has pointed to the capacity of social media to foster new ways of experiencing locality, culture and belonging, including for mobile populations and transnational communities. In this article, we draw upon original qualita…
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