Disruptive Discourses: Kenyan Maasai Schoolgirls Make Themselves
Disruptive Discourses: Kenyan Maasai Schoolgirls Make Themselves
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颠覆性话语：肯尼亚马赛女学生的自我塑造
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2009
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Heather D. Switzer
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Heather D. Switzer
作者：Heather Switzer |摘要：这篇关于马赛女学生和破坏性话语的简短讨论来自我的论文（正在进行中），《创造马赛女学生：在边缘发展现代性》，这是一项关于地方层面发展的民族志案例研究，探讨了当代肯尼亚马赛社会中一个新兴的社会类别：“女学生”。直到最近，在过去的一代人中，马赛女性才开始上学，而且入学机会仍然相对有限。本文分析了农村女学生日常生活中的教育和发展叙事，其特点是对“传统”性别规范和社会形式的矛盾抵制。这些叙述嵌入到关于后殖民肯尼亚边缘化土著社区当地身份形成过程中种族、性别和阶级的跨国交叉的更大问题中。整个项目基于对肯尼亚卡贾多区九所公立小学的 10 至 20 岁马赛女学生的 98 次采访。从这部更大的作品中，这个简短的讨论通过考察两个核心颠覆性话语的实际影响来思考性别——主流发展的“女孩”和马赛人的“女学生”之间的紧张关系，以及对未来的阐述和欲望的理想视野的限制——当它们在新自由主义发展主义话语政权中发挥作用时。
Author(s): Switzer, Heather | Abstract: This abridged discussion of Maasai schoolgirls and disruptive discourses comes from my dissertation (in progress), Making the Maasai Schoolgirl: Developing Modernities on the Margins, an ethnographic case study of development at the local level that examines an emergent social category in contemporary Kenyan Maasai society: the “schoolgirl.” It is only recently, in the past generation, that Maasai females have attended school in any number, and access remains relatively limited. The dissertation analyzes rural schoolgirls’ narratives of education and development in their daily lives, which are characterized by a contradictory resistance to ‘traditional’ gender norms and social forms. These narratives are embedded in larger questions regarding the transnational intersections of ethnicity, gender, and class in the formation of local identities in marginalized indigenous communities in postcolonial Kenya. The overall project relies on 98 interviews with Maasai schoolgirls ages 10-20 in nine primary government day schools in Kajiado District, Kenya. From this larger work, this short discussion thinks gender by examining the practical effects of two central disruptive discourses--thetensions between mainstream development’s “girl-child” and the Maasai “schoolgirl” and the articulation of futurity and the limits of the aspirational horizon of desire—as they play out within a neoliberal developmentalist discursive regime.