Remy Yi Siang Low
Biographic Data
| ID | 4607822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Remy Yi Siang Low |
| GIVEN NAMES | Remy Yi Siang |
| FAMILY NAME | Low |
| SIGNATURE | LOW R Y S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3182-251X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The critical educator’s two bodies, or, why the personal is still not political
Where is the body in critique? By this, I do not mean the body as an object of critical inquiry; we have had several generations of fruitful works that have called the apparent ‘naturalness' of the body into question – from feminist to postfeminist criticism, from Foucault to Bourdieu to Butler. We are, read in one way or another by these luminaries, inhabitants of bodies that serve as carriers of social meanings and signs, which are in turn orde…
Daoist inner peace, social justice and peace education
Decolonising education otherwise: Rabindranath Tagore and the spirit of secular criticism
‘Decolonise education!’ This exhortation has travelled far and wide – in the Global North and Global South, in formally independent former colonies and settler colonial societies. As such voices grow, we might ask: What does decolonising education entail? How should this be undertaken? And, importantly, who decides on the terms by which such an undertaking should be guided and by what authorities?If this line of questioning appears abstract or te…
Learning to Stop: Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-violence Pedagogy
This book explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence.
Oceania and the history of education
In this article, we offer a survey of histories of education in the region commonly known as ‘Oceania’, which broadly encompasses the subregions today known as Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The first part of this article addresses ‘the history of education in Oceania’ as a topic of both interest and omission. In the second part of this article, we attend to the question of how Oceania was crucial to the for…
Teachers taking spiritual turns: A practice-centred approach to educators and spirituality via Michel Foucault
In the face of challenging circumstances, many teachers turn to spirituality for sustenance and strength. Yet spirituality’s place in education and in educators’ lives has long been a matter of confusion and contention, not least because of the ambiguity of the term in its common usage. What is its relationship to religion? And what defines it? In this article, I submit that the later work of Michel Foucault offers a helpful approach to spiritual…
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
Recovery as resistance: Bell hooks, engaged pedagogy, and Buddhist thought
How do we style ourselves and others as scholars in the field of critical education? What parts of ourselves and others do we regard as salient (or not) in our accounts? And what are the forces that underlie such decisions? In this article, I submit that secularisation is a persistent epistemic and ontological condition that shapes the study of key figures in critical education. Through a sketch of how eminent radical educator bell hooks is commo…
Education as/against cruelty: On Etienne Balibar's Violence and Civility
The issue of violence and strategies for its attenuation present perennial conundrums for those seeking to reduce the quantity of avoidable suffering in the world. Despite the best efforts of committed practitioners, activists, and scholars, violence its various forms remain rife at all levels of social life. Paradoxically and tragically, at times, the proliferation of violence accompanies those very efforts aimed at its eradication or resolution…
Making up the Ummah: The rhetoric of Isis as public pedagogy
To become radicalized. This process has historically been associated with agendas for profound social change that have been pursued by a diverse range of political parties and actors. However, in r
My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking
On January 28, 2010 the Federal Government of Australia introduced a much-vaunted website designed to give parents and policy makers information about the educational performance of Australian scho
My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking
On January 28, 2010 the Federal Government of Australia introduced a much-vaunted website designed to give parents and policy makers information about the educational performance of Australian scho
Making up the Ummah: The rhetoric of Isis as public pedagogy
To become radicalized. This process has historically been associated with agendas for profound social change that have been pursued by a diverse range of political parties and actors. However, in r
Decolonising education otherwise: Rabindranath Tagore and the spirit of secular criticism
‘Decolonise education!’ This exhortation has travelled far and wide – in the Global North and Global South, in formally independent former colonies and settler colonial societies. As such voices grow, we might ask: What does decolonising education entail? How should this be undertaken? And, importantly, who decides on the terms by which such an undertaking should be guided and by what authorities?If this line of questioning appears abstract or te…
Education as/against cruelty: On Etienne Balibar's Violence and Civility
The issue of violence and strategies for its attenuation present perennial conundrums for those seeking to reduce the quantity of avoidable suffering in the world. Despite the best efforts of committed practitioners, activists, and scholars, violence its various forms remain rife at all levels of social life. Paradoxically and tragically, at times, the proliferation of violence accompanies those very efforts aimed at its eradication or resolution…
My School, Education, and Cultures of Rating and Ranking
On January 28, 2010 the Federal Government of Australia introduced a much-vaunted website designed to give parents and policy makers information about the educational performance of Australian scho
Making up the Ummah: The rhetoric of Isis as public pedagogy
To become radicalized. This process has historically been associated with agendas for profound social change that have been pursued by a diverse range of political parties and actors. However, in r
Education as/against cruelty: On Etienne Balibar's Violence and Civility
The issue of violence and strategies for its attenuation present perennial conundrums for those seeking to reduce the quantity of avoidable suffering in the world. Despite the best efforts of committed practitioners, activists, and scholars, violence its various forms remain rife at all levels of social life. Paradoxically and tragically, at times, the proliferation of violence accompanies those very efforts aimed at its eradication or resolution…
Recovery as resistance: Bell hooks, engaged pedagogy, and Buddhist thought
How do we style ourselves and others as scholars in the field of critical education? What parts of ourselves and others do we regard as salient (or not) in our accounts? And what are the forces that underlie such decisions? In this article, I submit that secularisation is a persistent epistemic and ontological condition that shapes the study of key figures in critical education. Through a sketch of how eminent radical educator bell hooks is commo…
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
Learning to Stop: Mindfulness Meditation as Anti-violence Pedagogy
This book explores how meditative practices for cultivating mindfulness can be regarded as a unique form of education against violence.
Oceania and the history of education
In this article, we offer a survey of histories of education in the region commonly known as ‘Oceania’, which broadly encompasses the subregions today known as Australia, New Zealand/Aotearoa, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The first part of this article addresses ‘the history of education in Oceania’ as a topic of both interest and omission. In the second part of this article, we attend to the question of how Oceania was crucial to the for…
Teachers taking spiritual turns: A practice-centred approach to educators and spirituality via Michel Foucault
In the face of challenging circumstances, many teachers turn to spirituality for sustenance and strength. Yet spirituality’s place in education and in educators’ lives has long been a matter of confusion and contention, not least because of the ambiguity of the term in its common usage. What is its relationship to religion? And what defines it? In this article, I submit that the later work of Michel Foucault offers a helpful approach to spiritual…
The critical educator’s two bodies, or, why the personal is still not political
Where is the body in critique? By this, I do not mean the body as an object of critical inquiry; we have had several generations of fruitful works that have called the apparent ‘naturalness' of the body into question – from feminist to postfeminist criticism, from Foucault to Bourdieu to Butler. We are, read in one way or another by these luminaries, inhabitants of bodies that serve as carriers of social meanings and signs, which are in turn orde…
Daoist inner peace, social justice and peace education
Decolonising education otherwise: Rabindranath Tagore and the spirit of secular criticism
‘Decolonise education!’ This exhortation has travelled far and wide – in the Global North and Global South, in formally independent former colonies and settler colonial societies. As such voices grow, we might ask: What does decolonising education entail? How should this be undertaken? And, importantly, who decides on the terms by which such an undertaking should be guided and by what authorities?If this line of questioning appears abstract or te…
Sociology (10 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works)