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Accepted Paper:
Higher Education Aspirations and Urban Marginalities in India
Amardeep Kumar
(National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA))
Paper short abstract:
Higher education has been traditionally elitist in nature, an institutional domain that has assisted the process of social, economic, and political advancement of the elite in India. Exclusions and marginalities in higher education have been identified on the basis of social categories such as class, caste, gender, religion, region, ethnicity, and by a physical category of disability. This paper is based on ethnographic field work conducted in the state of Bihar, India. Due to landlessness and lack of other source of livelihood Higher education remains only means to bring social changes in the lives of dalit student in Bihar however students in higher education navigate not only through social, economic and cultural marginalisation but also urban marginalisation.
Paper long abstract:
Higher education has been traditionally elitist in nature, an institutional domain that has assisted the process of social, economic, and political advancement of the elite in India. Exclusions and marginalities in higher education have been identified on the basis of social categories such as class, caste, gender, religion, region, ethnicity, and by a physical category of disability. However, these also have a spatial dimension—for example denial of access to spaces that further provide opportunities in social, economic, political, educational spheres. This paper attempts to understand this complex process of urban marginalization through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bihar, India. Due to landlessness and lack of other source of livelihood Higher education remains only means to bring social changes in the lives of dalit students however students in higher education navigate not only through their social, cultural and economic marginalisation but also urban marginalisation.
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Accepted Paper:
Paper short abstract:
Paper long abstract:
Higher education has been traditionally elitist in nature, an institutional domain that has assisted the process of social, economic, and political advancement of the elite in India. Exclusions and marginalities in higher education have been identified on the basis of social categories such as class, caste, gender, religion, region, ethnicity, and by a physical category of disability. However, these also have a spatial dimension—for example denial of access to spaces that further provide opportunities in social, economic, political, educational spheres. This paper attempts to understand this complex process of urban marginalization through ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Bihar, India. Due to landlessness and lack of other source of livelihood Higher education remains only means to bring social changes in the lives of dalit students however students in higher education navigate not only through their social, cultural and economic marginalisation but also urban marginalisation.
Urban design from the global South/East: Imagining just futures
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -