Voice, silence and privilege in the neoliberal university
The ‘irresponsibility’ of Gender and Women's Studies pedagogies in higher education in India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6460176 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Tsouroufli (0000-0002-0547-4956), Anant Tambe (0009-0002-4014-3551), Ourania Filippakou, Suma P Shankar (0000-0001-7100-5691), S Shankar (0009-0007-5428-2399) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Pages | 103198-103198 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s Studies International Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-5395 • E-ISSN: 1879-243X |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103198 |
| OpenAlex | W4414016065 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 30 |
In this paper we focus on the Indian higher education context, where expansion of Gender and Women's Studies (GWS), as well as institutional and national gender equality policies have not resulted in unsettling intersectional injustices in educational participation and practice. We draw on qualitative data (interviews with staff and focus groups with students) from a mixed-methods study aiming to advance gender equality. Gender and Women's Studies pedagogies were imbued with professionalizing gender, depoliticising criticality and individualising gender equality. Gender sensitising rather than engaging with the affective dimensions of hegemonic power and knowledge, and silencing mechanisms against marginalized groups, implicated in classroom and institutional politics, affirmed privileged subjectivities and diverted from a pedagogical ethic of speaking, listening and participating responsibly in education and society. A shift to pedagogies of discomfort and for democratic citizenship might facilitate intellectual and political activism and alleviate some of the ‘irresponsibility’ of neo-liberalised Gender and Women's Studies in India
Aesthetics · Art · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political science · Privilege (computing · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Psychology
Destruction in the Performative
Voice, silence, and diversity in 21st century organizations
The Imaginary Institution of Society
The Terror of Neoliberalism
On Being Included
Critical pedagogy and emotion
Theory and methodology in researching emotions in education
Can Political Science Decolonise? A Response to Neema Begum and Rima Saini
A Note on the New International
These are not ‘regular places’
The sexual politics of introducing women's studies
Just us, just discussing
Reparative Curriculum
From ‘therapeutic’ to political education
Frames of war
Gendered resistances and emotions to neo-liberalism in a post-1992 university in England
Breaking in and breaking out a medical school
A second skin
Tronto's notion ofprivileged irresponsibilityand the reconceptualisation of care
Sexuality, Caste, Governmentality
The Impossibility of Women's Studies
Under Western Eyes
Shamanism, Colonialism, and the Wild Man
Politics, Passion and Professionalization in Contemporary Indian Feminism
Pedagogy, Public Sociology and Politics in India
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |