Gender, caste, and class in South India's technical institutions / Nandini Hebbar N..
Series: Education and society south asia seriesPublication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.Description: 257pISBN:- 9780198914457
- 23 306.460954 H35G
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books
|
Central Library, IISER Bhopal Reference Section | Reference | 306.460954 H35G (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not For Loan | Title recommended by Dr Renny Thomas | 11811 |
Browsing Central Library, IISER Bhopal shelves, Shelving location: Reference Section, Collection: Reference Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
| No cover image available | ||||||||
| 306.01 St74C8 Cultural theory and popular culture : | 306.2095483 C392V Violence of democracy : | 306.450973 C674S Smoother pebbles : | 306.460954 H35G Gender, caste, and class in South India's technical institutions / | 306.60954558 K960B Between Muslim pīr and Hindu saint : | 306.609548 S6173D Dead in Banaras : | 306.766 G129H Homelandings : |
"The introductory chapter examines how the immense social value placed on technical education as a viable route to a good life, respectable middle-class identity, and high status have contributed to a specific kind of subject-making on engineering campuses across Tamil Nadu. While enforcing a performativity of the acceptable in the social realm, the institutional structure also propagates a pedagogy that is uncritical and mechanically derived; a pedagogy that emphasizes application over criticism, and structure over individual. Though students are not simply 'interpellated' by this pedagogy and disciplinary framework in an Althusserian manner, it does have a role to play in crafting a distinct subjectivity and sense of self-worth. Even as students negotiate these institutional constraints, it has become an integral part of college life and the ways in which 'youth' is experienced"--
There are no comments on this title.