Empowerment or alienation? Teaching gender and development in postcolonial contexts

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3886571
AutoresSara Nuzhat Amin (0000-0002-2231-3505, School of Law and Social Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, autor correspondente), C Girard (0000-0003-4186-2144, School of Law and Social Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji)
Ano2024
Volume34
Fascículo7
Páginas857-867
Data de publicação2024-10-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDevelopment in Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0961-4524 • E-ISSN: 1364-9213
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09614524.2024.2344524
OpenAlexW4396583986
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas22

This paper explores how culture, religion, gender, and the politics of knowledge production were entangled in the mission, policies, and practices of the Asian University for Women (AUW) in Bangladesh. The article contributes to documenting how decolonisation efforts in women’s education and empowerment play out in an institution located in the periphery and established with an explicit mission for women’s empowerment. The article critically looks at the (sometimes) contradictory discourses, desires, and agencies at the student, community, staff, and institutional levels, along with the power dynamics and reproduction of colonial and postcolonial practices and legacies in the context of operationalising gender and development (GAD), highlighting the paradoxes and challenges that arise from such endeavours. Finally, this case study highlights how pedagogies of community building at the institutional level become integral in responding to such tensions and conflicts and in countering the alienation from culture and religion that global practices of GAD often create

Alienation · Colonialism · Decolonization · Economic growth · Empowerment · Institution · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Social and Economic Development in India