Critical spaces: processes of othering in British Institutions of Higher Education

Phiri, Aretha

Title: Critical spaces: processes of othering in British Institutions of Higher Education
Creator: Phiri, Aretha
Date Issued: 2014
Date: 2014
Type: article
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60741
Identifier: vital:27824
Identifier: http://www.jfsonline.org/issue7-8/articles/phiri/
Description: Global recession and the economic crisis have affected contemporary British society in predictable ways. But this age of austerity has also unveiled the continued sinister machinations of whiteness. While not necessarily homogeneous, austerity rhetoric, as it is currently conventionally deployed, works to perpetuate white masculinist privilege and further entrenches the normative value of whiteness, while simultaneously masking and marginalizing those ethnic minority populations traditionally othered from mainstream sociopolitical discourse. More specifically, recent austerity measures adversely affect the situation of women and the future of feminist theory and practice in British higher education. This paper investigates and problematizes the deployment of austerity discourse within higher learning for its perpetuation of the normativity and hegemony of a masculinist whiteness, which further disadvantages (white) women and disrupts the practice of feminism(s) in academia.
Format: 15 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Relation: Phiri, A., 2014. Critical spaces: Processes of Othering in British institutions of higher education. Journal of Feminist Scholarship, 7(8), pp.13-27
Relation: Journal of Feminist Scholarship 7 vol. 8 no. 13 27 2014 2158-6179
Rights: Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Rights: Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship Open Access Statement

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