Rural youth identities in India: Exploring intersections of nation, gender and technology in areas of civil unrest

我的目标是在我的博士研究和关于被边缘化群体的教育、身份和权利的政策工作的基础上再接再厉(Wadhwa等人，2010；NCPCR2011,2012b，2013；Wadhwa，2019)。我的目标是在全球南方，更具体地说，在后殖民时代的印度，批判性地参与这项工作。我将在撰写期刊出版物、新的工作文件和会议报告时，更深入地接触印度的农村和土著社区，以及国家和公民身份的形成过程。在我的博士后工作中，我的目标是研究国家认同是如何通过数字媒体和技术的使用形成、维持和抵制的，并对印度的青年和性别认同产生影响。为此，我计划首先进行有限的文献回顾，共同编辑一期特刊并组织一次关于这个主题的研讨会，为社区会议和影响活动与当地非政府组织和社区看门人建立联系，并最终为未来的研究申请新的资金。在我的博士学位期间，我结合了后结构主义、后殖民主义和女权主义三个理论框架，反对现代、自由和西方对概念的理解，从而引发了一种不同的方式来对社会世界进行理论化，以实现社会正义。我的目标是更坚定地坚持这一理论方法，通过进一步的学术严谨来发展和传播它，形式包括国际出版物、文献综述、会议报告、阅读小组、新的资金建议、学术、政策和社区参与。我在这次奖学金中的目的是有条不紊地鼓励一种新的交叉方法来研究教育和身份。这种做法将为探索少数群体的抵抗和颠覆战略提供空间。特别是，共同编辑的特刊和在布鲁内尔举行的为期一天的专题讨论会将突出上述专题的不同国际视角。博士后工作将结合多个学科，让印度当地社区团体、政府机构、学术和非政府组织合作伙伴参与教育工作，长期目标是召集一个集体，以产生更广泛的学术和社会影响。在布鲁内尔，我的目标是发起一个关于青年、性别和身份认同的理论阅读小组，同时坚定地将自己定位于教育、身份和社会研究小组。我将与玛丽亚·图鲁弗利教授合作，作为我的导师，共同撰写一篇新论文，并共同为一份期刊编辑一期特刊。我将与教育、身份和社会研究小组的其他同事合作，编制新的研究和小组工作文件。我还打算与全球生命研究中心合作，并与环境、健康和社会研究所合作，开发新的研究想法并申请资金。我将通过发起一系列公开讲座，加强教育部的三个研究小组，为布鲁内尔大学的社会和文化生活做出贡献，并在全球范围内建立其学术声誉。我将通过使课程多样化并使该方案具有全球相关性来帮助加强EDD方案。我在女权主义、后结构主义、后殖民主义和非殖民主义理论方面的深厚基础将使布鲁内尔大学的研究和教学视角多样化。我的目标是在学术研究领域，更具体地说，在国际发展和教育领域。我的工作对全球南方在社会正义、平等、社会关系和包容性方面的政策和实践具有影响。这些担忧对UKRI、ESRC、GCRF和Leverhulme Trust提出的未来研究呼吁意义重大，我打算通过资助提案对此做出回应。通过留在一个具有国际倾向的研究小组，我的贡献将是挑战发展话语中关于社会生活的假设，特别是在政策方面，并强调其对去殖民化的影响。

I aim to build on my PhD research and policy work on education, identities and rights of marginalised groups (Wadhwa et al., 2010; NCPCR, 2011, 2012b, 2013; Wadhwa, 2019). I aim to critically engage with this work in the Global South and more specifically in post-colonial India. I will engage more deeply with rural and indigenous communities in India and the processes of state and citizenship formation in my writing for journal publications, new working papers and conference presentations. For my post-doctoral work, I aim to study how national identities are formed, sustained and resisted through digital media and use of technology and have a bearing on youth and gender identities in India. I plan to do this by initially carrying out a limited literature review, co-editing a special issue and organising a symposium on the topic, establishing contact with local NGOs and community gatekeepers for community meetings and impact activities, and eventually applying for new funding for future research. In my PhD, I combined three theoretical frameworks, poststructuralist, postcolonial and feminist, to argue against modern, liberal and Western understandings of concepts, thereby provoking a different way of theorising social world to bring about social justice. I aim to ground myself more firmly in this theoretical approach, develop and disseminate it through further academic rigour in the form of international publications, literature review, conference presentations, reading group, new funding proposals, academic, policy and community engagement. My aim in this Fellowship is to methodically encourage a new intersectional approach for the study of education and identities. This approach will provide space to explore the strategies of resistance and subversion by minority groups. Particularly, the co-edited special issue and the 1-day symposium at Brunel will highlight diverse international perspectives on the above topic. The post-doctoral work will combine multiple disciplines and involve local community groups, government bodies, academic and NGO partners in India working on education, with the long-term aim of convening a collective for wider academic and societal impact.At Brunel, I aim to initiate a theoretical reading group on youth, gender and identities, while firmly locating myself in the Education, Identities and Society research group. I will work with Prof Maria Tsouroufli as my mentor to co-author a new paper and co-edit a special issue for a journal. I will work collaboratively with other colleagues within the Education, Identities and Society research group to produce new research and group working papers. I also aim to work with the Global Lives research centre and collaborate with the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies to develop new research ideas and apply for funding. I will contribute to the social and cultural life at Brunel, along with building its academic reputation globally, by initiating a public lecture series to strengthen the three research groups at the Education Department. I will help strengthen the EdD programme by diversifying curricula and making the programme globally relevant. My strong groundings in feminist, poststructural, postcolonial and decolonial theories will enable diversification of perspectives in research and teaching at Brunel. I aim to be in the academic field of research, more specifically in international development and education. My work has implications for policy and practice in the global South in terms of social justice, equality, social relations and inclusion. These concerns are significant for future research calls arising out of UKRI, ESRC, GCRF and Leverhulme Trust to which I intend to respond through funding proposals. By staying in an internationally inclined research group, my contribution will be to challenge the assumptions made in development discourses about social life, especially in policy, and highlight its implications for decolonisation.