Decolonising gender in South Asia: a border thinking perspective

Hussein, Nazia; Hussain, Saba

doi:10.1080/23802014.2019.1701545

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“…As Brown (1992: 300) rightly summarised, the Western discussions about women ‘reinforce the notion that the experiences of white middle-class women are the norm; all others become deviant – different from’. Also missing in these discussions, as Hussein and Hussain (2019: 262) argued, are both epistemological and ontological positions of ‘Other’ women that can ‘destabilise narratives that (re)produce dominant ideas about “gender” [or women] outside the western world’. The problem of social work with women, as this has been conceived in the mainstream social work, is that it universalises the experiences and struggles of women globally.…”

Section: Decolonising Social Work With Nepali Women: Need and Prospectmentioning

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Decolonising social work with Nepali women

Ghimire

Yadav

Davis

2022

International Social Work

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A plethora of discussion informs decolonising social work. However, how social work can be decolonised from women’s perspective is still unexplored. Using the context of Nepal as a case study, this article theoretically explores ‘the what’, ‘the why’ and ‘the how’ of decolonising social work from women’s standpoint. It is hoped this analysis will initiate and contribute to the critical debate on women, social work and decolonisation in Nepal and elsewhere.

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Section: Decolonising Social Work With Nepali Women: Need and Prospectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonising social work with Nepali women

Ghimire

Yadav

Davis

2022

International Social Work

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Asian Muslim women's struggle to gain value: The labour behind performative visibility as everyday politics in Britain

Hussein

2023

Women's Studies International Forum

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Race-making, religion and rights in the post-colony: unmasking the pathogen in assembling a Hindu nation

Kapur¹

2022

International Journal of Law in Context

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This paper intervenes in critical socio-legal/post-colonial scholarship on human rights directed at how religion is constitutive of race and shapes who and what is regarded as ‘human’ and entitled to rights. It focuses on the Indian post-colony and legal persecution of the Tablighi Jamaat, a global, quietest Islamic movement, by the Hindu Right government during the Covid pandemic. It analyses how religion structures race in Hindu nationalist discourse to transform the Muslim into a perpetual outsider and an existential and epistemic threat to the Hindu nation and rights of the Hindu racial majority. The discussion connects to the epistemic anxiety generated by the alternative worldviews presented by this racialised ‘Other’ that shape legal consciousness and rights interventions globally. In complicating how anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia are integral to the transnational histories of race and race-making, the analysis triggers a rethinking of human rights interventions and the epistemological closures they enact.

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Decolonising gender in South Asia: a border thinking perspective

Cited by 4 publications

References 26 publications

Decolonising social work with Nepali women

Decolonising social work with Nepali women

Asian Muslim women's struggle to gain value: The labour behind performative visibility as everyday politics in Britain

Race-making, religion and rights in the post-colony: unmasking the pathogen in assembling a Hindu nation

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