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Kumar, Amitava

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“…In exploring artistic and inventive possibilities for photography in educational research, I want to pay homage to and join scholars who have pushed our understanding of what does and does not constitute research. In particular, my own thinking and practices have been influenced by the works of arts-based and humanities researchers like Anzaldúa (2015), Campt (2017), Greene (2000), Kimmerer (2013), Kumar (2000), Sharpe (2016), Sousanis (2015), Trinh (2011), and Tuck and Yang (2014) to name a few. I want to steer clear of collapsing these scholars/artists and their works under a singular umbrella.…”

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Shifting the Frame: Theoretical and Methodological Explorations of Photography in Educational Research

Vellanki

2021

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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In this article, I focus on the relationship between photography and educational research, situating this conversation at the interstices of fact/fiction, indexical/imaginary, and art/data. I ask: How has our understanding and use of photography, the camera, and the photographer been shaped by the field of qualitative research? What possibilities exist for reimagining the role of photography in educational research and practice? Drawing on a diverse body of theoretical, empirical, and artistic works, I respond to the questions by looking at three key elements shaping image-based visual research: the ontology of photography, collaboration and photography, and thinking with art/photography. Across these three key elements, I interrogate taken-for-granted assumptions about the camera, photographs, and the relationships between the photographer-photographed in the context of educational research and articulate some shifts that help reframe our understanding of photography and how it is used within educational research and practice.

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Shifting the Frame: Theoretical and Methodological Explorations of Photography in Educational Research

Vellanki

2021

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“…Instead, it is a report on postcolonialism. 4 Kumar's foregrounding of the oppositional energies of his project in relation to some of the dominant discourses of both government bureaucracies and postcolonialism, as conceptualized in the academy, is enabling for my purposes here.…”

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Travel and/as Travail: Diasporic Dislocations in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Masterson

2010

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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This article looks at two novels exploring the pains and gains of the immigrant experience. Both By the Sea and The Inheritance of Loss feature protagonists struggling to build their lives anew in a foreign land. I discuss them in relation to some of the key trends in postcolonial studies, arguing that Gurnah's and Desai's texts provide a necessary "re-grounding" to some of the more romanticizing tendencies in writing on diaspora and dislocation. I also consider how they might be seen in relation to ongoing debates about globalization, suggesting both provide timely reminders that celebrations of "fluidity and flow" are often only applicable to a privileged few. By attending to the material realities of bodies, both individual and collective, and to specific geo-political spaces, both Gurnah and Desai shift our readerly focus from the indeterminacies of "globalization" to the actualities of "glocalization".The only measure, sooner or later, which is going to stop immigration and stop large numbers of sub-Saharan Africans dying on the way to get over here is to get very tough with those coming over. Frankly, they need to sink several of those boats. (Nick Griffin) 1The gradual retreat of national frontiers across Europe has not only fostered a culture of inclusion, unchecked movement and borderless reunification,

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Turning transnational: notes on the theorisation of international migration

Bailey

2001

International Journal of Population Geography

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This paper takes stock of transnational perspectives on international migration. Transnationalism concerns itself with social processes that are both rooted in, and transcend, nations. While more generally referring to complex economic, cultural and political relations, I focus on scholarship that describes how migrants contribute to the daily life of emerging transnational communities. I argue that poststructural readings of transnationalism have opened the way for accounts of international migration under globalisation. However, key questions of migrant agency and hybridity remain under-theorised. The paper concludes with a discussion of the potential of postcolonial theorisations of international migration.

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Passport Photos

Cited by 166 publications

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Shifting the Frame: Theoretical and Methodological Explorations of Photography in Educational Research

Shifting the Frame: Theoretical and Methodological Explorations of Photography in Educational Research

Travel and/as Travail: Diasporic Dislocations in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss

Turning transnational: notes on the theorisation of international migration

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