On being a space invader and the thing around my neck
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13017565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naasiha Abrahams (KU Leuven, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 73-83 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Teaching Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9843 • E-ISSN: 2053-9843 |
| Publisher | NomadIT (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.22582/ta.v10i4.620 |
| OpenAlex | W4205707886 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
This article presents itself as an autoethnographic reflection on my positionality as a veiled, South African Muslim of Cape Malay descent and lower middle class background, attempting to navigate access to white educational space, as part of my doctoral research in Flemish primary schools. I explore what it means to be racialized as ‘other’ whilst also assuming a position of ‘authority’ as researcher, and occupying a particular space (positioned as neutral and secular) as a ‘body out of place’ (Puwar, 2004), in which a symmetry can be seen between myself and those categorised as ‘other’. The aim of this article is to reflect on how this occurs through certain processes, namely: (in)visibilisation; reprimanding; compartmentalisation; and, interpellation. I also reflect on the body of the anthropologist and the idea of the ‘objective researcher’ in order to illuminate how the mechanisms of racialization work. I engage the ensuing psychological burden brought about by the encounter with the ‘white gaze’ (Fanon, 2008). As a complement to the autoethnography, I make use of literary fiction as a method of analysis, in order to highlight the way in which literature can stimulate the formation of analytical insights (see Craith & Kockel, 2014) and, I draw on film
Aesthetics · Antinomy · Aotearoa · Art · Autoethnography · Epistemology · Gaze · Psychoanalysis · Race (biology · Racialization · Sociology · White (mutation · Children's Rights and Participation · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |