Becoming Good Women

Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Laura Batatota, Laura Batatota Batatota, Laura Shamali Batatota

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For female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, the school serves as a significant base for cultural production, particularly in reproducing ethno-religious hegemony under the guise of ‘good’ Buddhist girls. It illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. Drawing on theories of social reproduction, the book examines young people’s aspirations of ‘figuring out’ their identity and visions of the future against the backdrop of nation-building processes within the school.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-11-01
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt395 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
Antal sidor160
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781805397625

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PrefaceIntroduction: Nation-Building and Imagined Becomings at MayadeviChapter 1. Becoming a Mayadevian: Schooling, Nation-Building, and the Construction of a National IdentityChapter 2. ‘Who do I want to become?’ Ways of Aspiring Among Female YouthChapter 3. School Is Where You Should Be Learning; Tuition Is Something ExtraChapter 4. Interrogating Ideas of Freedom and Becoming Within the Tuition SpaceChapter 5. Future Imaginings and Social PossibilitiesChapter 6. Becoming Someone: A Landscape of Social PossibilitiesConclusionBibliography