Aparna Mishra Tarc
Biographic Data
| ID | 758491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aparna Mishra Tarc |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aparna Mishra |
| FAMILY NAME | Tarc |
| SIGNATURE | TARC A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4383-9645 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reading, Again. Reviving Reading
This paper will examine the role of affect as a key force in the experience of reading. I argue reading is an experience rather than an instrument of cognition. The latter, I suggest, gives way to dehumanizing and violating forms of reading as instrument or nomenclature or categorization. I suggest that new relations can be made in, within and from practices of reading that conceive it as a fragile, faltering practice of knowledge production. My …
Reading in exile: Edward Said’s postcolonial humanism
The experience of exile greatly impacted on Edward Said’s intellectual, literary and political writings. Exile, Said writes, creates a terrible rift between one’s self, people, land, language and culture. This paper investigates the condition of exile and how it frames Said’s shifting ideas of humanism in a postcolonial world. I argue that Said’s readings of humanism and faith in the humanities can serve as a forum for understanding the incompreh…
Upholding “the educational” in education: Schooling beyond learning and the market
This article argues that schooling’s driving purpose should be to educate . Given heightening global crises and the potential of education to respond, we agree with the spirit and focus of UNESCO’s (2021) A new social contract for education intervention. Education/schooling should be motivated by progressive, critical visions to contribute to more sustainable and just human and planetary futures. Embodied-affective-cognitive technologically-media…
Troubling childhood: A conversation
The authors explore their interest in child precarity. The discussion begins with autobiographical explorations of events in their lives that have led them to have sensitivity to childhood vulnerability and then moves on to a discussion of their key concerns about childhood today. Discussion includes mention of significant writers that have influenced their thinking
Chasing After Life: Migrating Childhoods in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
This essay engages the border-crossing poetics of transnational migration through an engagement with Valeria Luiselli’s fictional depictions of migrant children in her novel Lost Children Archive. Engaging the migrating and intertextual forum of children’s witness and memory in the novel, I follow Luiselli’s moving depiction of child migrants as wholly undocumented and lost people outside the adult world of articulation. I argue that Luiselli’s n…
Engaging Texts Today or How to Read a Curriculum Poem
The JCT Engaging Texts Section Editor writes about her vision for the Section and its importance to contemporary curriculum thought
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
Those old familial feelings: Transference in reading Thomas Ogden's The Parts Left Out
A novel can alter a change in readers over a lifetime. This paper examines the dynamics of transference animated by novels that affect us. In her reading of Thomas Ogden’s The Parts Left Out, the author follows the novel’s aesthetic and formal operation as it animates transference to one’s own childhood in readers. The conceptualisation of transference in reading advanced in this paper leans on Melanie Klein’s version of the workings of unconscio…
To wake up our minds”: The re-enchantment of praxis in Sylvia Wynter
As a young child, I remember walking to school along Spanish Town Road to a school called Ebenezer School ... So we went to this Ebenezer Elementary School. Our school had an excellent schoolmaster
Anglo-Western international school teachers as global middle class: Portraits of Three Families
This exploratory study on the global middle class (GMC) examines three representative experiences of the tens of thousands of Anglo-Western international schoolteachers (ISTs), who teach in private, K-12, English-immersion international schools for extended periods of time. The notion of GMC provokes consideration of social class making and forms of belonging of professional and managerial service workers who are ‘middling actors’ in the flows of…
Elite international schools in the Global South: Transnational space, class relationalities and the ‘middling’ international schoolteacher
The elite international school is a rich site for sociological inquiry in global times. In this paper, we conceptualize the international school as a transnational space of agonist social class-making given the dynamic positioning of the complement of international school actors. We position international schoolteachers in the middle of these interactions and suggest that the middle position gives much-needed insight into the complex and relation…
Literacy of the other: Renarrating Humanity
Drawing Trauma: The Therapeutic Potential of Witnessing the Child’s Visual Testimony of War
Countertransference plays an often neglected role in witnessing children’s testimony of war and trauma. A dual notion of countertransference, based on the work of Winnicott and Klein, is offered that involves both internal conflict related to early life experience and socially mediated notions of childhood, war, and trauma circulating in a given time and place. A drawing by a thirteen-year-old boy living in the refugee camps in Darfur is used to …
Race moves: Following global manifestations of new racisms in intimate space
This article makes tentative links between abstract global forces and the affective and material reworking of race in intimate spaces of culture and community. Using postcolonial and psychoanalytic resources the article follows enduring manifestations of race as racism surfaces and is mobilized through global shifts of people, ideas and capital. The article argues that as national borders become destabilized under globalization, existing signific…
Disturbing Reading: J.M. Coetzee's ‘The Problem of Evil’
A literary representation can give us grief. J.M. Coetzee's ‘The Problem of Evil’ follows the crisis of reading of his main character Elizabeth Costello as she struggles to comprehend discursive images of evil. Costello's trouble with reading is not attributed to a cognitive deficiency in her ability to read the text but to a psychical disturbance she experiences while reading. Thinking through our ‘disturbances’ while and after reading gives rea…
Reparative Curriculum
Supporting learners' public engagement with traumatic histories of mass human violence can develop and sustain reparative relations across and between strained social collectives. In this article I theorize the intrapersonal and inter-political dynamics of psychical and social reparation through a classroom case of reparative learning. I analyze the emotional responses of beginning teachers engaging with traumatic Aboriginal history as depicted i…
Education as Humanism of the Other
This paper explores how educators might intervene in canonized texts of the human subject on which a particular and exclusive kind of humanism rests. In imagining possible interventions educators might make, I turn to and trace Jacques Derrida's on‐going deconstruction of the philosophical texts of subjectivity. In his body of work, Derrida destabilizes fixed notions of the human subject and the institutions it founds (like philosophy and educati…
Reparative Curriculum
Supporting learners' public engagement with traumatic histories of mass human violence can develop and sustain reparative relations across and between strained social collectives. In this article I theorize the intrapersonal and inter-political dynamics of psychical and social reparation through a classroom case of reparative learning. I analyze the emotional responses of beginning teachers engaging with traumatic Aboriginal history as depicted i…
Elite international schools in the Global South: Transnational space, class relationalities and the ‘middling’ international schoolteacher
The elite international school is a rich site for sociological inquiry in global times. In this paper, we conceptualize the international school as a transnational space of agonist social class-making given the dynamic positioning of the complement of international school actors. We position international schoolteachers in the middle of these interactions and suggest that the middle position gives much-needed insight into the complex and relation…
Anglo-Western international school teachers as global middle class: Portraits of Three Families
This exploratory study on the global middle class (GMC) examines three representative experiences of the tens of thousands of Anglo-Western international schoolteachers (ISTs), who teach in private, K-12, English-immersion international schools for extended periods of time. The notion of GMC provokes consideration of social class making and forms of belonging of professional and managerial service workers who are ‘middling actors’ in the flows of…
Race moves: Following global manifestations of new racisms in intimate space
This article makes tentative links between abstract global forces and the affective and material reworking of race in intimate spaces of culture and community. Using postcolonial and psychoanalytic resources the article follows enduring manifestations of race as racism surfaces and is mobilized through global shifts of people, ideas and capital. The article argues that as national borders become destabilized under globalization, existing signific…
Education as Humanism of the Other
This paper explores how educators might intervene in canonized texts of the human subject on which a particular and exclusive kind of humanism rests. In imagining possible interventions educators might make, I turn to and trace Jacques Derrida's on‐going deconstruction of the philosophical texts of subjectivity. In his body of work, Derrida destabilizes fixed notions of the human subject and the institutions it founds (like philosophy and educati…
To wake up our minds”: The re-enchantment of praxis in Sylvia Wynter
As a young child, I remember walking to school along Spanish Town Road to a school called Ebenezer School ... So we went to this Ebenezer Elementary School. Our school had an excellent schoolmaster
Reading in exile: Edward Said’s postcolonial humanism
The experience of exile greatly impacted on Edward Said’s intellectual, literary and political writings. Exile, Said writes, creates a terrible rift between one’s self, people, land, language and culture. This paper investigates the condition of exile and how it frames Said’s shifting ideas of humanism in a postcolonial world. I argue that Said’s readings of humanism and faith in the humanities can serve as a forum for understanding the incompreh…
Those old familial feelings: Transference in reading Thomas Ogden's The Parts Left Out
A novel can alter a change in readers over a lifetime. This paper examines the dynamics of transference animated by novels that affect us. In her reading of Thomas Ogden’s The Parts Left Out, the author follows the novel’s aesthetic and formal operation as it animates transference to one’s own childhood in readers. The conceptualisation of transference in reading advanced in this paper leans on Melanie Klein’s version of the workings of unconscio…
Education as Humanism of the Other
This paper explores how educators might intervene in canonized texts of the human subject on which a particular and exclusive kind of humanism rests. In imagining possible interventions educators might make, I turn to and trace Jacques Derrida's on‐going deconstruction of the philosophical texts of subjectivity. In his body of work, Derrida destabilizes fixed notions of the human subject and the institutions it founds (like philosophy and educati…
Disturbing Reading: J.M. Coetzee's ‘The Problem of Evil’
A literary representation can give us grief. J.M. Coetzee's ‘The Problem of Evil’ follows the crisis of reading of his main character Elizabeth Costello as she struggles to comprehend discursive images of evil. Costello's trouble with reading is not attributed to a cognitive deficiency in her ability to read the text but to a psychical disturbance she experiences while reading. Thinking through our ‘disturbances’ while and after reading gives rea…
Reparative Curriculum
Supporting learners' public engagement with traumatic histories of mass human violence can develop and sustain reparative relations across and between strained social collectives. In this article I theorize the intrapersonal and inter-political dynamics of psychical and social reparation through a classroom case of reparative learning. I analyze the emotional responses of beginning teachers engaging with traumatic Aboriginal history as depicted i…
Race moves: Following global manifestations of new racisms in intimate space
This article makes tentative links between abstract global forces and the affective and material reworking of race in intimate spaces of culture and community. Using postcolonial and psychoanalytic resources the article follows enduring manifestations of race as racism surfaces and is mobilized through global shifts of people, ideas and capital. The article argues that as national borders become destabilized under globalization, existing signific…
Drawing Trauma: The Therapeutic Potential of Witnessing the Child’s Visual Testimony of War
Countertransference plays an often neglected role in witnessing children’s testimony of war and trauma. A dual notion of countertransference, based on the work of Winnicott and Klein, is offered that involves both internal conflict related to early life experience and socially mediated notions of childhood, war, and trauma circulating in a given time and place. A drawing by a thirteen-year-old boy living in the refugee camps in Darfur is used to …
Elite international schools in the Global South: Transnational space, class relationalities and the ‘middling’ international schoolteacher
The elite international school is a rich site for sociological inquiry in global times. In this paper, we conceptualize the international school as a transnational space of agonist social class-making given the dynamic positioning of the complement of international school actors. We position international schoolteachers in the middle of these interactions and suggest that the middle position gives much-needed insight into the complex and relation…
Literacy of the other: Renarrating Humanity
To wake up our minds”: The re-enchantment of praxis in Sylvia Wynter
As a young child, I remember walking to school along Spanish Town Road to a school called Ebenezer School ... So we went to this Ebenezer Elementary School. Our school had an excellent schoolmaster
Anglo-Western international school teachers as global middle class: Portraits of Three Families
This exploratory study on the global middle class (GMC) examines three representative experiences of the tens of thousands of Anglo-Western international schoolteachers (ISTs), who teach in private, K-12, English-immersion international schools for extended periods of time. The notion of GMC provokes consideration of social class making and forms of belonging of professional and managerial service workers who are ‘middling actors’ in the flows of…
Engaging Texts Today or How to Read a Curriculum Poem
The JCT Engaging Texts Section Editor writes about her vision for the Section and its importance to contemporary curriculum thought
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
Those old familial feelings: Transference in reading Thomas Ogden's The Parts Left Out
A novel can alter a change in readers over a lifetime. This paper examines the dynamics of transference animated by novels that affect us. In her reading of Thomas Ogden’s The Parts Left Out, the author follows the novel’s aesthetic and formal operation as it animates transference to one’s own childhood in readers. The conceptualisation of transference in reading advanced in this paper leans on Melanie Klein’s version of the workings of unconscio…
Chasing After Life: Migrating Childhoods in Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive
This essay engages the border-crossing poetics of transnational migration through an engagement with Valeria Luiselli’s fictional depictions of migrant children in her novel Lost Children Archive. Engaging the migrating and intertextual forum of children’s witness and memory in the novel, I follow Luiselli’s moving depiction of child migrants as wholly undocumented and lost people outside the adult world of articulation. I argue that Luiselli’s n…
Upholding “the educational” in education: Schooling beyond learning and the market
This article argues that schooling’s driving purpose should be to educate . Given heightening global crises and the potential of education to respond, we agree with the spirit and focus of UNESCO’s (2021) A new social contract for education intervention. Education/schooling should be motivated by progressive, critical visions to contribute to more sustainable and just human and planetary futures. Embodied-affective-cognitive technologically-media…
Troubling childhood: A conversation
The authors explore their interest in child precarity. The discussion begins with autobiographical explorations of events in their lives that have led them to have sensitivity to childhood vulnerability and then moves on to a discussion of their key concerns about childhood today. Discussion includes mention of significant writers that have influenced their thinking
Reading, Again. Reviving Reading
This paper will examine the role of affect as a key force in the experience of reading. I argue reading is an experience rather than an instrument of cognition. The latter, I suggest, gives way to dehumanizing and violating forms of reading as instrument or nomenclature or categorization. I suggest that new relations can be made in, within and from practices of reading that conceive it as a fragile, faltering practice of knowledge production. My …
Reading in exile: Edward Said’s postcolonial humanism
The experience of exile greatly impacted on Edward Said’s intellectual, literary and political writings. Exile, Said writes, creates a terrible rift between one’s self, people, land, language and culture. This paper investigates the condition of exile and how it frames Said’s shifting ideas of humanism in a postcolonial world. I argue that Said’s readings of humanism and faith in the humanities can serve as a forum for understanding the incompreh…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Politics (5 works)