Karen Valentin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3638818 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karen Valentin |
| PRENOMES | Karen |
| SOBRENOME | Valentin |
| ASSINATURA | VALENTIN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0585-4542 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
New Middle Classes on the Move
Drawing on two ethnographic studies – Indian students in the post-Soviet country Georgia and Nepalese students in Denmark – this article explores the relationship between geographical imaginaries, migration trajectories, and aspirations of social mobility. Situating the two cases in the wider literature on international student migration, the article highlights the varying motivations and experiences of these students, influenced by factors such …
Bridging Anthropology and Global History
In recent years, the field of comparative education has boldly turned inward, investigating and questioning its own historical and philosophical foundations. By challenging the discipline’s dependence on positivistic, modern modes of comparison, space has emerged for rethinking methodological approaches more broadly. Extending this line of research, this article links modes of comparison from the discipline of anthropology and global history to t…
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge
As a field of research, educational anthropology is involved in cross-cultural debates on formative processes known as education, schooling, learning and socialisation, and many anthropological studies have compared educational processes within and across communities and nation-states. The comparative perspective is pervasive, both as an implicit perspective and as an explicit analytical strategy in anthropological studies on education. Inspired …
Bureaucratising Social Justice
This article draws on ethnographic data on the distribution of scholarship programs at two Nepali state-run schools. Anchored in the cross-field of educational anthropology and the anthropology of bureaucracy, this article examines schools not just as sites of learning but as institutions that control and regulate access through bureaucratized mechanisms. We draw attention to scholarship processes as inherently selective and requiring social and …
Disjunctured reciprocity
Community-based school governance has been promoted as a popular policy for decentralisation of education around the world. Within this policy, schools are expected to create institutional spaces such as School Management Committees with an assumption of reciprocal relation between school and community. This article questions the simplistic assumption through an ethnographic study of community-school relationship in Nepal. While these relationshi…
The Multiple Faces of the State
This article focuses on conditions of prolonged uncertainty for people residing in a squatter settlement, a sukumbasi basti, in Kathmandu and the role assigned to the state in this. Inspired by theoretical debates on urban governmentality and based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows how the threat of eviction has resulted in a permanent state of uncertainty, but also a pragmatic acceptance of the state of affairs which, ove…
Towards a Relational Approach to the State
Introduction to special issue
Mobile Brains and The Question of 'Deskilling
Based on two ethnographic studies on the experiences of high-skilled migrants in Denmark, we argue that it is problematic to presume a simple correlation between 'deskilling' and what is often regarded as low-status jobs. We claim that many of these migrants are, albeit discreetly, actively gaining new skills and knowledge through low-status jobs not related to their qualifications and/or utilising their existing knowledge and skills in their eve…
Susanne Bregnbæk
Anmeldelse
Transnational education and the remaking of social identity
There is no significant history of migration from Nepal to Denmark, but the post-conflict situation in Nepal and the expansion of an international, commercialised education market have resulted in a significant number of Nepalese students in Denmark. This article argues, first, that the current forms of student migration from Nepal must be examined within the context of broader class-based mobility practices and the consolidation of a relatively …
Mobility, education and life trajectories
Travel for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years. This special issue examines, within different cultural and historical contexts, the close relationship between migration, education and social mobility. Adopting the perspective that education includes a broad range of formative experiences, the articles explore different educational trajectories and the local, regional and…
Caught between internationalisation and immigration
An explicit marketisation and national profiling of Denmark as an attractive country for foreign students has resulted in an increasing number of students from poor countries in the global South, including Nepal, being admitted to Danish colleges and universities. The influx of students from these countries has led to several accusations against them of using enrolment in educational institutions primarily as an entrance point to the Danish labou…
The Role of Education in Mobile Livelihoods
This article focuses on the relationship between migration and education as aspects of wider livelihood strategies amongNepalese migrants inIndia. It argues that physical and social mobility are inextricably linked and looks at education (both formal and informal) as a driving force in migration. Combining a broad notion of education with a transnational approach to migration, the article sheds light on the multiple and changing meanings ascribed…
Modernity, education and its alternatives
Ideas of linear progress and predictability are essential to globally circulated ideas of educational planning, but do not necessarily correspond with the realities and priorities of ordinary people whose life trajectories often shape very differently. Thus, shedding light on the contradictory ideas about education and divergent expectations as to the meaning and ‘outcome’ of schooling held by different social actors, the aim of this article is t…
The adult North and the young South
The civilization of the children of the "savages" in the colonial world was seen as a crucial issue from early on was an inherent part of the colonization project in Africa, America and Oceania in the 19th century. The idea of civilizing "the savages," today's South, through children has continued in the post-colonial era with the development of mass-schooling systems and various child-focused development projects. This has led to an export of in…
Mass mobilization and the struggle over the youth
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young people in Hanoi, the article explores the role of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the youth branch of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in the formal organization of youth in contemporary, urban Vietnam. The aim of the article is to examine the institutional paradox of the organization and the way in which inherent processes of social in– and exclusion are related to the nation–building project in whic…
Hanoi
The article discusses the role that cities play in constructing and mediating particular historical accounts. Drawing on fieldwork experiences from Hanoi and Kathmandu it adopts a comparative perspective and explores how history is mediated, experienced and interpreted through the physical organisation of the city. History is conceptualised both chronologically as sequences of events that can be traced in the physical environment of the city and …
Storbyens Børn
En risiko? Med udgangspunkt i etnografisk materiale indsamlet på et feltarbejde udført over i alt 18 måneder i 1994-98 i en squatterbosættelse i Kathmandu, Nepals hovedstad, vil jeg problematisere selve risikobegrebet såvel som de praktiske og analytiske implikationer heraf. Jeg vil for det første argumentere for det problematiske i at kategorisere bøm i forhold til forskellige risikogrupper, fordi der bag denne tilgang skjuler sig en forestillin…
Mobility, education and life trajectories
Travel for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years. This special issue examines, within different cultural and historical contexts, the close relationship between migration, education and social mobility. Adopting the perspective that education includes a broad range of formative experiences, the articles explore different educational trajectories and the local, regional and…
The Role of Education in Mobile Livelihoods
This article focuses on the relationship between migration and education as aspects of wider livelihood strategies amongNepalese migrants inIndia. It argues that physical and social mobility are inextricably linked and looks at education (both formal and informal) as a driving force in migration. Combining a broad notion of education with a transnational approach to migration, the article sheds light on the multiple and changing meanings ascribed…
The adult North and the young South
The civilization of the children of the "savages" in the colonial world was seen as a crucial issue from early on was an inherent part of the colonization project in Africa, America and Oceania in the 19th century. The idea of civilizing "the savages," today's South, through children has continued in the post-colonial era with the development of mass-schooling systems and various child-focused development projects. This has led to an export of in…
Modernity, education and its alternatives
Ideas of linear progress and predictability are essential to globally circulated ideas of educational planning, but do not necessarily correspond with the realities and priorities of ordinary people whose life trajectories often shape very differently. Thus, shedding light on the contradictory ideas about education and divergent expectations as to the meaning and ‘outcome’ of schooling held by different social actors, the aim of this article is t…
Mass mobilization and the struggle over the youth
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young people in Hanoi, the article explores the role of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the youth branch of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in the formal organization of youth in contemporary, urban Vietnam. The aim of the article is to examine the institutional paradox of the organization and the way in which inherent processes of social in– and exclusion are related to the nation–building project in whic…
Mobile Brains and The Question of 'Deskilling
Based on two ethnographic studies on the experiences of high-skilled migrants in Denmark, we argue that it is problematic to presume a simple correlation between 'deskilling' and what is often regarded as low-status jobs. We claim that many of these migrants are, albeit discreetly, actively gaining new skills and knowledge through low-status jobs not related to their qualifications and/or utilising their existing knowledge and skills in their eve…
Disjunctured reciprocity
Community-based school governance has been promoted as a popular policy for decentralisation of education around the world. Within this policy, schools are expected to create institutional spaces such as School Management Committees with an assumption of reciprocal relation between school and community. This article questions the simplistic assumption through an ethnographic study of community-school relationship in Nepal. While these relationshi…
The Multiple Faces of the State
This article focuses on conditions of prolonged uncertainty for people residing in a squatter settlement, a sukumbasi basti, in Kathmandu and the role assigned to the state in this. Inspired by theoretical debates on urban governmentality and based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows how the threat of eviction has resulted in a permanent state of uncertainty, but also a pragmatic acceptance of the state of affairs which, ove…
Storbyens Børn
En risiko? Med udgangspunkt i etnografisk materiale indsamlet på et feltarbejde udført over i alt 18 måneder i 1994-98 i en squatterbosættelse i Kathmandu, Nepals hovedstad, vil jeg problematisere selve risikobegrebet såvel som de praktiske og analytiske implikationer heraf. Jeg vil for det første argumentere for det problematiske i at kategorisere bøm i forhold til forskellige risikogrupper, fordi der bag denne tilgang skjuler sig en forestillin…
Hanoi
The article discusses the role that cities play in constructing and mediating particular historical accounts. Drawing on fieldwork experiences from Hanoi and Kathmandu it adopts a comparative perspective and explores how history is mediated, experienced and interpreted through the physical organisation of the city. History is conceptualised both chronologically as sequences of events that can be traced in the physical environment of the city and …
Mass mobilization and the struggle over the youth
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young people in Hanoi, the article explores the role of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the youth branch of the Communist Party of Vietnam, in the formal organization of youth in contemporary, urban Vietnam. The aim of the article is to examine the institutional paradox of the organization and the way in which inherent processes of social in– and exclusion are related to the nation–building project in whic…
The adult North and the young South
The civilization of the children of the "savages" in the colonial world was seen as a crucial issue from early on was an inherent part of the colonization project in Africa, America and Oceania in the 19th century. The idea of civilizing "the savages," today's South, through children has continued in the post-colonial era with the development of mass-schooling systems and various child-focused development projects. This has led to an export of in…
Modernity, education and its alternatives
Ideas of linear progress and predictability are essential to globally circulated ideas of educational planning, but do not necessarily correspond with the realities and priorities of ordinary people whose life trajectories often shape very differently. Thus, shedding light on the contradictory ideas about education and divergent expectations as to the meaning and ‘outcome’ of schooling held by different social actors, the aim of this article is t…
Caught between internationalisation and immigration
An explicit marketisation and national profiling of Denmark as an attractive country for foreign students has resulted in an increasing number of students from poor countries in the global South, including Nepal, being admitted to Danish colleges and universities. The influx of students from these countries has led to several accusations against them of using enrolment in educational institutions primarily as an entrance point to the Danish labou…
The Role of Education in Mobile Livelihoods
This article focuses on the relationship between migration and education as aspects of wider livelihood strategies amongNepalese migrants inIndia. It argues that physical and social mobility are inextricably linked and looks at education (both formal and informal) as a driving force in migration. Combining a broad notion of education with a transnational approach to migration, the article sheds light on the multiple and changing meanings ascribed…
Transnational education and the remaking of social identity
There is no significant history of migration from Nepal to Denmark, but the post-conflict situation in Nepal and the expansion of an international, commercialised education market have resulted in a significant number of Nepalese students in Denmark. This article argues, first, that the current forms of student migration from Nepal must be examined within the context of broader class-based mobility practices and the consolidation of a relatively …
Mobility, education and life trajectories
Travel for educational purposes, once the privilege of the upper class, has become a global mass phenomenon in recent years. This special issue examines, within different cultural and historical contexts, the close relationship between migration, education and social mobility. Adopting the perspective that education includes a broad range of formative experiences, the articles explore different educational trajectories and the local, regional and…
Susanne Bregnbæk
Anmeldelse
Disjunctured reciprocity
Community-based school governance has been promoted as a popular policy for decentralisation of education around the world. Within this policy, schools are expected to create institutional spaces such as School Management Committees with an assumption of reciprocal relation between school and community. This article questions the simplistic assumption through an ethnographic study of community-school relationship in Nepal. While these relationshi…
The Multiple Faces of the State
This article focuses on conditions of prolonged uncertainty for people residing in a squatter settlement, a sukumbasi basti, in Kathmandu and the role assigned to the state in this. Inspired by theoretical debates on urban governmentality and based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork, the article shows how the threat of eviction has resulted in a permanent state of uncertainty, but also a pragmatic acceptance of the state of affairs which, ove…
Towards a Relational Approach to the State
Introduction to special issue
Mobile Brains and The Question of 'Deskilling
Based on two ethnographic studies on the experiences of high-skilled migrants in Denmark, we argue that it is problematic to presume a simple correlation between 'deskilling' and what is often regarded as low-status jobs. We claim that many of these migrants are, albeit discreetly, actively gaining new skills and knowledge through low-status jobs not related to their qualifications and/or utilising their existing knowledge and skills in their eve…
Bureaucratising Social Justice
This article draws on ethnographic data on the distribution of scholarship programs at two Nepali state-run schools. Anchored in the cross-field of educational anthropology and the anthropology of bureaucracy, this article examines schools not just as sites of learning but as institutions that control and regulate access through bureaucratized mechanisms. We draw attention to scholarship processes as inherently selective and requiring social and …
Educational anthropology and the comparative challenge
As a field of research, educational anthropology is involved in cross-cultural debates on formative processes known as education, schooling, learning and socialisation, and many anthropological studies have compared educational processes within and across communities and nation-states. The comparative perspective is pervasive, both as an implicit perspective and as an explicit analytical strategy in anthropological studies on education. Inspired …
New Middle Classes on the Move
Drawing on two ethnographic studies – Indian students in the post-Soviet country Georgia and Nepalese students in Denmark – this article explores the relationship between geographical imaginaries, migration trajectories, and aspirations of social mobility. Situating the two cases in the wider literature on international student migration, the article highlights the varying motivations and experiences of these students, influenced by factors such …
Bridging Anthropology and Global History
In recent years, the field of comparative education has boldly turned inward, investigating and questioning its own historical and philosophical foundations. By challenging the discipline’s dependence on positivistic, modern modes of comparison, space has emerged for rethinking methodological approaches more broadly. Extending this line of research, this article links modes of comparison from the discipline of anthropology and global history to t…
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