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Hierarchies of knowledge, incommensurabilities and silences in South African ECD policy: Whose knowledge counts?
2017
AbstractPolicy for young children in South Africa is now receiving high-level government support through the ANC’s renewed commitment to redress poverty and inequity and creating ‘a better life for all’ as promised before the 1994 election. In this article, I explore the power relations, knowledge hierarchies and discourses of childhood, family and society in National Curriculum Framework (NCF) as it relates to children’s everyday contexts. I throw light on how the curriculum’s discourses relate to the diverse South African settings, child rearing practices and world-views, and how they interact with normative discourses of South African policy and global early childhood frameworks. The NCF…
Revealing colonial power relations in early childhood policy making: An autoethnographic story on selective evidence
2021
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes uncertainty, instability and glaring inequality that requires urgent global policy decisions. Historically, bureaucrats regard uncertainty as the enemy and look for tested solutions (Stevens, 2011). In contrast, Fielding & Moss (2010) acknowledge an uncertain future and encourage shifting policy making towards the search for possibilities instead of replicating singular solutions. Escobar (2020) advocates for pluriversal politics, with many possibilities created through collective decision-making by autonomous interlinked networks. In this paper, I combine autoethnography with policy analysis drawing on my own experience in South African early childhood pol…
FIFAn valtapeli : Etelä-Afrikan jalkapallon MM-kisat 2010 keskitettynä mediaspektaakkelina
2014
Nykyisiä miesten jalkapallon MM-kisoja voi kutsua keskitetyiksi mediaspektaakkeleiksi. Ne ovat myös merkittäviä vallankäytön areenoita. Kansainvälinen jalkapalloliitto, kisaisäntä ja televisio muodostavat jalkapallon MM-kisojen tuotanto- ja valtakoneiston. Miten valta toimii jalkapallon MM-kisoissa? Millaisia strategioita valtakoneistolla on rakenteiden uusintamiseksi ja omien etujensa ja intressiensä edistämiseksi? Mitä valta tekee näkyväksi ja mitä se jättää näkymättömäksi? FIFAn valtapeli on Suomen ensimmäinen väitöskirjatason tutkimus jalkapallon MM-kisoista. Se tarkastelee vuoden 2010 Etelä-Afrikan kisoja tuotantokoneiston näkökulmasta kriittisesti, monitieteellisesti ja erilaisia aine…
"Kulttuurinen kiinnostus heräsi tanssiharrastukseni myötä" : flamenco, itämainen tanssi ja länsiafrikkalaiset tanssit tanssinopettajien ja -harrastaj…
2013
Education and training in Ethiopia : an evaluation of approaching EFA goals
2005
Digital solutions for multilingual learning environments : the case of GraphoGame™ adaptations in Kenya
2015
Poverty, Consent, and Choice in Early Marriage : Ethnographic Perspectives from Urban Tanzania
2018
The assumed inability of adolescents to voluntarily consent to marriage is a key definition of child marriage. Using ethnography, this study approaches consent, self-determination, and fulfillment ...
Koleraepidemia Zimbabwessa : diskurssianalyysi The Heraldin ja Helsingin Sanomien uutisoinnista
2012
Tässä pro gradu -tutkimuksessa tarkastellaan zimbabwelaisen valtio-omisteisen sanomalehden The Heraldin ja Helsingin Sanomien uutisointia Zimbabwen koleraepidemiasta vuosina 2008-2009. Tutkimuksen tavoitteena on selvittää millaisin diskurssein eli äänenpainoin lehdet kertovat Zimbabwen tapahtumista. Kehitysmaajournalismia on tutkittu viime vuosina monesta näkökulmasta, mutta tutkimusta, jossa olisi vertailtu kehitysmaan ja länsimedian uutisointia, ei juurikaan ole tehty. Koska valtiolliset lehdet ovat tiukasti maiden hallitusten kontrollissa, on syytä kysyä millaisen kuvan ne antavat maansa tapahtumista. Saivatko zimbabwelaiset maassaan riehuvasta koleraepidemiasta erilaisen kuvan valtiolli…
At the Intersection of Instrumentalism, Understanding, and Critique : Reflections on Development Research on Citizenship in Uganda
2022
This special issue showcases four analyses of lived citizenship in Uganda – a country previously known as a donor darling but, recently, better known for its steady slide towards authoritarian rule (Ssentongo 2021, Tapscott 2021, Wilkins et. al. 2021, Wiegratz et. al. 2018). Individually, the articles draw on and contribute to diverse strands of debate within the field of citizenship studies. As a collection, however, they serve to illustrate a space characterized by three different knowledge interests in development-related research on African societies. A central contention is that the very notion of ‘development-related research’ requires definition; as a field, it is constituted and its…
Tiny Citizenship, Twisted Politics, and Christian Love in a Ugandan Church Choir
2022
In 1977, the Archbishop of the Church of Uganda, Janani Luwum, was killed under orders from President Idi Amin following his public criticism of Amin’s reign of terror. This article offers an ethnographic case study of a choir named in Luwum’s honour to extend existing research on the interrelations of Christianity, citizenship, and politics in contemporary Uganda. To do so, I draw a number of conceptual tools – tiny citizenship, authentic citizenship, twisted politics, and love – from work by and referencing Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin, and Gary Alan Fine. First, analyzing the choir’s participation in the national commemoration of Janani Luwum Day at Uganda’s State House in 2021, I argue …