Girls about town: educated subjectivities, gender and the urban public space in India

关于城镇的女孩:受过教育的主观性、性别和印度的城市公共空间

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    ES/T008318/1
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 12.48万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    英国
  • 项目类别:
    Fellowship
  • 财政年份:
    2019
  • 资助国家:
    英国
  • 起止时间:
    2019 至 无数据
  • 项目状态:
    已结题

项目摘要

As an anthropologist, I am interested in how individual experiences of higher education accrete to bring about a change in the role of women in a society. I study how college education changes young women's characters and life expectations, and how their families and the society perceive their new personalities. I worked in a non-elite government college in Ghaziabad, 30 miles east of Delhi, and many of the young women I followed are the first in their families to receive a college education. During my doctoral fieldwork, I interviewed college-going young women about their educational experiences and observed them over a longer period of time. This in-depth engagement makes visible that most of the learning at the colleges in small towns of India takes place outside of the classrooms-and is not derived from textbooks. Young people redefine education and devise emotional ways of knowing and being in the world. The focus of education is on the emotional transformation of a student's character and on the practical know-how of living a freer life. My interest in these research questions began as journalist for the Financial Times in Delhi when I reported on India's response to large-scale youth protests over gendered access to public spaces in 2011-12. My research illustrates that higher education changes gender power relations and educated young women are more confident and assertive in independently speaking with men in the bazaars, the malls and the McDonald's in provincial India. The caveat to this is that young women are expected to give up these sexual and social freedoms on marriage. Upon marriage, a number of them are haunted by what they once thought that they could become. My research emphasises the emotional development through education that enables young women to claim social and sexual freedoms in a patriarchal society. Recent media panic over rape in India has paradoxically restricted women's access to public spaces to certain hours of the day and certain places at night, notably in the small towns outside of the metropolitan cities of Delhi and Mumbai. A policy implication of my research is to illustrate how young women access public spaces without threat of intimidation. During the fellowship, I plan to publish 2-3 strong academic articles to influence a range of educational researchers and policymakers. In addition, I plan to undertake a 2-month long internship at the Education Department of Uttar Pradesh State Government, to conduct knowledge exchange and learning with the state-level educational policymakers on the challenges for women's access to higher education and public spaces in India. Further by facilitating a workshop at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla with Dr Satendra Kumar, I would translate these findings into published articles that can inform policy-making. My research on women's movement in public spaces provides an evidence base for policy safeguarding access to public spaces without threat of intimidation in contemporary India. It will contribute to debates on the expansion of higher education in India by arguing that cuts to state-funded universities directly constrict women's access to higher education. It will also emphasise the role of a university learning experience in shaping emotional dispositions and gender practices. These student experiences have a more powerful role in transforming broader male-dominated public culture of north India than government-funded Skills Development Programmes and unregulated skills-development institutes. My work showcases the role low-ranking public universities play in enhancing female employability. They enable women's entry into service sector work, such as call centres and retail, in urban India. Overall, it will underscore the importance of education-led changes in gender relations and the redefining of public space.
作为一名人类学家,我感兴趣的是高等教育的个人经验如何增加,以改变妇女在社会中的角色。我研究大学教育如何改变年轻女性的性格和生活期望,以及她们的家庭和社会如何看待她们的新个性。我在德里以东30英里的加济阿巴德的一所非精英政府大学工作,我跟踪的许多年轻女性都是家中第一个接受大学教育的人。在我的博士实地考察期间,我采访了正在上大学的年轻女性,了解她们的教育经历,并对她们进行了较长时间的观察。这种深入的参与使得印度小城镇大学的大部分学习都发生在教室之外,而不是来自教科书。年轻人重新定义教育,并设计情感的方式来认识和存在于世界上。教育的重点是学生性格的情感转变和过上更自由生活的实际知识。我对这些研究问题的兴趣始于我在德里担任《金融时报》记者时,当时我报道了印度对2011年至2012年大规模青年抗议公共场所性别准入的反应。我的研究表明,高等教育改变了性别权力关系,受过教育的年轻女性在印度各省的集市、购物中心和麦当劳里与男性独立交谈时更加自信和自信。对此需要注意的是,年轻女性在结婚时被要求放弃这些性和社会自由。在婚姻中,他们中的许多人都被他们曾经认为他们可以成为的东西所困扰。我的研究强调通过教育使年轻女性能够在父权社会中要求社会和性自由的情感发展。最近媒体对印度强奸案的恐慌自相矛盾地限制了妇女在白天的某些时间和晚上的某些地方进入公共场所,特别是在德里和孟买大都市以外的小城镇。我的研究的一个政策含义是说明年轻女性如何在没有恐吓威胁的情况下进入公共空间。在奖学金期间,我计划发表2-3篇强有力的学术文章,以影响一系列教育研究人员和政策制定者。此外,我计划在北方邦政府教育部进行为期2个月的实习,与邦一级的教育决策者就印度妇女获得高等教育和公共空间的挑战进行知识交流和学习。此外,通过与Satendra Kumar博士在西姆拉的印度高级研究所(IIAS)举办研讨会,我将把这些发现转化为可以为决策提供信息的出版文章。我对妇女在公共空间的运动的研究提供了一个证据基础,为政策保障获得公共空间,而没有恐吓的威胁,在当代印度。它将通过论证削减国家资助的大学直接限制妇女接受高等教育的机会,为关于印度高等教育扩张的辩论做出贡献。它还将强调大学学习经历在塑造情感倾向和性别实践方面的作用。这些学生的经历在改变印度北部更广泛的男性主导的公共文化方面比政府资助的技能发展方案和不受管制的技能发展机构发挥了更有力的作用。我的工作展示了低排名公立大学在提高女性就业能力方面的作用。它们使妇女能够进入印度城市的服务部门工作,如呼叫中心和零售业。总的来说,它将强调以教育为主导的两性关系变革和重新界定公共空间的重要性。

项目成果

期刊论文数量(2)
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One should enjoy with many people: mock improvisations of love in North India
一个人应该和很多人一起享受:模仿北印度的即兴爱情
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  • 影响因子:
    2.3
  • 作者:
    Awal, A
  • 通讯作者:
    Awal, A
Work, Society, and the Ethical Self
工作、社会和道德自我
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  • 发表时间:
    2021
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    0
  • 作者:
    Awal, A
  • 通讯作者:
    Awal, A
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