Papers by nisha thapliyal
Adult education quarterly, Feb 20, 2024
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Globalisation, Societies and Education, Jan 15, 2023
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Children, Youth and Environments, 2007
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Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sep 16, 2022
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Journal of Childhood Studies
Childhood and time constitute key sites of regulation for nationalist authoritarian regimes. Howe... more Childhood and time constitute key sites of regulation for nationalist authoritarian regimes. However, the influence of time on contemporary nationalist discourses of childhood located in the Global South remains an underresearched area. This paper critically analyzes two spectacles involving Hindu nationalist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and secondary school students on the occasions of Teachers Day 2014 and 2015. Temporal language, markers, and symbols rooted in discourses of colonialism/Orientalism, Brahminical Hinduism, and capitalist development are deconstructed to show how nationalist constructions of childhood can penetrate deep into the everyday lives of particular children who are deemed worthy to serve their nation. The paper concludes by highlighting specific ways in which time and temporality are weaponized to reproduce and legitimize a social hierarchy of childhoods that is necessary to sustain Hindu ethno-religious nationalism.
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Policy and Practice: A Development Education Review, 2022
Education systems and practices shaped by a colonial global imaginary played a central role in th... more Education systems and practices shaped by a colonial global imaginary played a central role in the settler colonial project and continue to be complicit in contemporary national and regional processes of expropriation, exploitation and hyper-consumption. How do we unlearn dominant economic logics of migrant settler colonialism and neoliberal development? How do we explicate the linkages between nature, economy and culture? How do we cultivate alternative relational rather than exploitative economic imaginaries and practices? This article presents a critical reflection on the pedagogical possibilities and complexities of interrupting hegemonic economic logics in development education in an Australian teacher education setting. In framing the article around the notion of Economic Literacy Otherwise, it takes direct inspiration from the work of the Decolonial Futures Collective (DCF) which is premised on Indigenous conceptions of care, earth-centeredness, social justice and solidarity. Specifically, I discuss selected pedagogical strategies that are responsive to two salient identities and subjectivities: 1) being teachers and 2) earthcare-centred sustainable livelihoods and living. This analysis identifies fruitful openings for decoding dominant economic logics of development as well as cultivating alternative economic and citizen imaginaries and practices.
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University of Malta. Faculty of Education, 2018
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Navigating Precarity in Educational Contexts, May 20, 2022
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Original article was written in Portuguese by Elisabete Witcel and translated to English by Nisha... more Original article was written in Portuguese by Elisabete Witcel and translated to English by Nisha Thapliyal.
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Original article was written in Portuguese by Elisabete Witcel and translated to English by Nisha... more Original article was written in Portuguese by Elisabete Witcel and translated to English by Nisha Thapliyal.Abstract in Portuguese by Elizabete Witcel included.In this article Elisabete Witcel gives a brief account of her 25 years of experience as a member of the 'Movimento dos Trabalhadores sem Terra' (Landless Workers' Movement). Witchel also discusses her tough childhood and growing up as daughter of landless workers from the northwest region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, in the border region between Brazil and Argentina.peer-reviewe
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Journal of Critical Thought and Praxis, 2018
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Global Studies of Childhood, 2015
The aim of this article is to posit children as political beings and becomings in every aspect of... more The aim of this article is to posit children as political beings and becomings in every aspect of their lives including schooling. This discussion explores the multiplicity of ways in which children actively make meaning about themselves in relation to the actors, institutions and discourses that constitute their lived worlds. It is empirically grounded in critical media analysis of two 2009 prime-time English language television news programmes about school reform. Both these programmes presented ‘what kids think’1 through interactions between a total of 22 private secondary school students and Human Resources Development Minister, Kapil Sibal. The analysis draws on a relational reading of the politics in childhood as constituted and enacted in the domain of schooling. In this context, it focuses on how children perceive and negotiate the subject positions and subjectivities presented to them by their families, the state and media. More specifically, this article argues that childr...
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Education for rural Brazilians has historically been dominated by two imperatives: human capital ... more Education for rural Brazilians has historically been dominated by two imperatives: human capital and political patronage. For the last four decades, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) have maintained a struggle to democratise public education and democracy itself. In this article, I make a situated analysis of the educational politics of the MST for adult education. I focus on the time period between 1988 and 2002 to examine the ways in which the MST i) resisted neoliberal literacy initiatives, and ii) pressured the state to recognise and support their radical adult education philosophy and practice. I argue that MST educational politics embody possibilities for the democratisation of knowledge as well as democracy itself.
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This article provides an introduction to the Brazilian social movement known as the Landless Work... more This article provides an introduction to the Brazilian social movement known as the Landless Workers Movement (MST). After a brief history of the landless struggle and the international organisation of the movement, the article discusses educational philosophy and practice in the MST. The MST actively cultivates a 'culture of study' within all the diverse spaces of the movement including (but not limited to) its schools and literacy programmes, political education, agricultural production, and culture and media communications. These processes of knowledge production and dissemination are informed by the philosophical principles that constitute the MST 'Pedagogy of the Land'. which links anti-capitalist struggles for land, education, and culture. Readers are also provided with an extensive reference list on publications about and by the MST - in English and Portuguese.
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The assault on public education in India and the USA has been facilitated by a powerful assemblag... more The assault on public education in India and the USA has been facilitated by a powerful assemblage of proprivatisation corporate media. Representations of education in news and popular culture media tend to harp on two themes -– a public education system in crisis, and, relatedly, the private or corporate business sector as the only viable savior. Two recent activist documentary films present a counter-narrative to this discourse – ‘We shall Fight, We shall Win’ (India) and ‘An Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman’ (USA). This paper analyses the situated ways in which education activists use the medium of documentary film to contest dominant media representations of the benefits of educational privatisation. These activist narratives in defense of public education provide insights into how progressive education struggles are essentially cultural struggles. Introduction In the last 15 years, there has been an explosion of high-profile documentary films attacking public educ...
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Green left weekly, 2014
Two thousand activists for free and public education gathered in the Indian city of Bhopal on Dec... more Two thousand activists for free and public education gathered in the Indian city of Bhopal on December 4.
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The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2013
Education for rural Brazilians has historically been dominated by two imperatives: human capital ... more Education for rural Brazilians has historically been dominated by two imperatives: human capital and political patronage. For the last four decades, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) have maintained a struggle to democratise public education and democracy itself. In this article, I make a situated analysis of the educational politics of the MST for adult education. I focus on the time period between 1988 and 2002 to examine the ways in which the MST i) resisted neoliberal literacy initiatives, and ii) pressured the state to recognise and support their radical adult education philosophy and practice. I argue that MST educational politics embody possibilities for the democratisation of knowledge as well as democracy itself.
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Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2021
The world we live in today compels what Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandes describes as ‘intensified enco... more The world we live in today compels what Ruben Gaztambide-Fernandes describes as ‘intensified encounters with difference’ constituted by contradictory and paradoxical movements. A decolonial approach to constructing global imaginaries centres on reconfiguring human relations in ways that unmask complicity and denial and further healing, justice and solidarity. In this paper, we reflect on the possibilities and challenges for alternative approaches to global citizenship education (GCE) in India through the experience of a thirty-year old educational programme called Avehi-Abacus (AA). The paper begins with an overview of the historical influence of colonial, nationalist and neoliberal discourses on citizenship and citizenship education. We then reflect on specific pedagogical challenges and possibilities in relation to (a) unlearning socio-cultural diversity as deficit and danger, and (b) reimagining ourselves and our relationships with other living beings. The discussion highlights t...
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