K Desai
Biographic Data
| ID | 52581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Desai |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Desai |
| SIGNATURE | DESAI K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9441-257X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Mera Jamia, Mera Ghar”: The corporeal collective willfulness of young Muslim women at Jamia Milia Islamia University
Passed in December 2019, the Citizenship Amendment Act intensified Hindu majoritarian rule, emerging as another legal measure to systematically deny citizenship to Muslims and other minoritized populations. These legislations were met by protests which were responded to by police violence. Young Muslim women at Jamia Milia Islamia University followed the lead of elders in Shaheen Bagh, crafting an intergenerational feminist‐led protest which emer…
Immaterial Precarity and Affective States of Anticipation: NGO Afterlives of Non-Elite Young Women in Urban India
Aspirations have gained significant attention within educational anthropology and yet the effects (and affects) of the imperative to aspire that undergird educational projects have been underexamined. This paper argues that aspirations within the context of material depravity often produce immaterial precarity, which I index as affective states of anticipation drawing on ethnographic research with non-elite young women who were alumni of a girls'…
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies
This article centres a transnational feminist framing that engages racial capitalism and colonialisms in the study of "the global" within childhood studies. We unsettle the dichotomies of North/South and rather theorize their imbrications. We argue for attending to the conjunctions of racial capitalism and colonialisms to make visible different yet overlapping forms of extraction. We offer intimacies as a reading practice that intervenes in and o…
Desirable and disposable: Educative practices and the making of (non) citizens
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Towards decolonial praxis: Reconfiguring the human and the curriculum
This theoretical inquiry applies threads of Sylvia Wynter’s intellectual project to scholarship in curriculum studies to consider how Wynter’s insights might urge new potential in educational theorising and practice. The central concern driving Wynter’s intellectual project is that our present understanding about what it means to be human is entrenched in epistemological legacies of colonialism that preserve a Western bourgeois genre of Man. This…
Teaching the Third World Girl: Girl Rising as a precarious curriculum of empathy
This article examines the recently released Girl Rising film and associated campaign to analyze how the guarantee that girls’ education is panacea for local, national and global solutions is sedimented through affective logics. I view Girl Rising as a curriculum inclusive of the film, accompanying packaged lesson plans for educators, and related discourses and affects. The Girl Rising curriculum is part of a larger discursive development apparatu…
Teaching the Third World Girl: Girl Rising as a precarious curriculum of empathy
This article examines the recently released Girl Rising film and associated campaign to analyze how the guarantee that girls’ education is panacea for local, national and global solutions is sedimented through affective logics. I view Girl Rising as a curriculum inclusive of the film, accompanying packaged lesson plans for educators, and related discourses and affects. The Girl Rising curriculum is part of a larger discursive development apparatu…
Towards decolonial praxis: Reconfiguring the human and the curriculum
This theoretical inquiry applies threads of Sylvia Wynter’s intellectual project to scholarship in curriculum studies to consider how Wynter’s insights might urge new potential in educational theorising and practice. The central concern driving Wynter’s intellectual project is that our present understanding about what it means to be human is entrenched in epistemological legacies of colonialism that preserve a Western bourgeois genre of Man. This…
Immaterial Precarity and Affective States of Anticipation: NGO Afterlives of Non-Elite Young Women in Urban India
Aspirations have gained significant attention within educational anthropology and yet the effects (and affects) of the imperative to aspire that undergird educational projects have been underexamined. This paper argues that aspirations within the context of material depravity often produce immaterial precarity, which I index as affective states of anticipation drawing on ethnographic research with non-elite young women who were alumni of a girls'…
Desirable and disposable: Educative practices and the making of (non) citizens
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies
This article centres a transnational feminist framing that engages racial capitalism and colonialisms in the study of "the global" within childhood studies. We unsettle the dichotomies of North/South and rather theorize their imbrications. We argue for attending to the conjunctions of racial capitalism and colonialisms to make visible different yet overlapping forms of extraction. We offer intimacies as a reading practice that intervenes in and o…
Towards decolonial praxis: Reconfiguring the human and the curriculum
This theoretical inquiry applies threads of Sylvia Wynter’s intellectual project to scholarship in curriculum studies to consider how Wynter’s insights might urge new potential in educational theorising and practice. The central concern driving Wynter’s intellectual project is that our present understanding about what it means to be human is entrenched in epistemological legacies of colonialism that preserve a Western bourgeois genre of Man. This…
Teaching the Third World Girl: Girl Rising as a precarious curriculum of empathy
This article examines the recently released Girl Rising film and associated campaign to analyze how the guarantee that girls’ education is panacea for local, national and global solutions is sedimented through affective logics. I view Girl Rising as a curriculum inclusive of the film, accompanying packaged lesson plans for educators, and related discourses and affects. The Girl Rising curriculum is part of a larger discursive development apparatu…
Desirable and disposable: Educative practices and the making of (non) citizens
we are drowning here still in the difficulty as if the faces in the images hold all the consequences and the fiction of the facts assumes randomness and indeterminacy He said, I don't know what the water wanted.It wanted to show you no one would come.(Rankine, 2014, p. 85) We are drowning, in the global and local aftermaths of natural disasters, man-made atrocities, historic and unrelenting in the lessons of citizenship denied, conferred, obscure…
Unsettling the global, moving beyond liberalism: Intimacies as a reading practice in childhood studies
This article centres a transnational feminist framing that engages racial capitalism and colonialisms in the study of "the global" within childhood studies. We unsettle the dichotomies of North/South and rather theorize their imbrications. We argue for attending to the conjunctions of racial capitalism and colonialisms to make visible different yet overlapping forms of extraction. We offer intimacies as a reading practice that intervenes in and o…
Immaterial Precarity and Affective States of Anticipation: NGO Afterlives of Non-Elite Young Women in Urban India
Aspirations have gained significant attention within educational anthropology and yet the effects (and affects) of the imperative to aspire that undergird educational projects have been underexamined. This paper argues that aspirations within the context of material depravity often produce immaterial precarity, which I index as affective states of anticipation drawing on ethnographic research with non-elite young women who were alumni of a girls'…
“Mera Jamia, Mera Ghar”: The corporeal collective willfulness of young Muslim women at Jamia Milia Islamia University
Passed in December 2019, the Citizenship Amendment Act intensified Hindu majoritarian rule, emerging as another legal measure to systematically deny citizenship to Muslims and other minoritized populations. These legislations were met by protests which were responded to by police violence. Young Muslim women at Jamia Milia Islamia University followed the lead of elders in Shaheen Bagh, crafting an intergenerational feminist‐led protest which emer…
Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Global Educational Policies and Reforms (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Pedagogy (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Art (2 works)