Becoming Good Women

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

Laura Batatota (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2024
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-762-5 (ISBN)

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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 in the backdrop of nation-building processes within the school.

Laura Batatota has extensive experience in working within applied research and evaluation and has led impact functions across the not-for-profit and social sectors. Her research interests span anthropology of education, youth identities, social reproduction theories and aspirations, with a focus on South Asia.

Preface

Introduction: Nation-Building and Imagined Becomings at Mayadevi

Chapter 1. Becoming a Mayadevian: Schooling, Nation-Building, and the Construction of a National Identity

Chapter 2. ‘Who do I want to become?’ Ways of Aspiring Among Female Youth

Chapter 3. School Is Where You Should Be Learning; Tuition Is Something Extra

Chapter 4. Interrogating Ideas of Freedom and Becoming Within the Tuition Space

Chapter 5. Future Imaginings and Social Possibilities

Chapter 6. Becoming Someone: A Landscape of Social Possibilities

Conclusion

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	08.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80539-762-1 / 1805397621
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-762-5 / 9781805397625
Zustand	Neuware