Ann Phoenix
De?colonising practices: negotiating narratives from racialised and gendered experiences of education
University of London
abstract paper uses feminist work diaspora postcolonial theory examine ways women serial migrants children left caribbean join parents uk experienced racialised gendered intersections contact zone school drawing narrative accounts women serial migrants paper argues school key site racialised subjectification even though girls new uk participants yet come understanding racialisation mastery new school system occurred contexts reported subjected racist discourses teachers children epistemically violent involved learning constructed inadequate learners undesirable femininities result experienced subjectification school painful processes however reported agency resisting subjection representations innately incapable retrospective accounts indicated postcolonial theory illuminate migrant children negotiate complex racialised experiences education help decolonise everyday practices keywords caribbean womencontact zonesidentitiespostcolonial feminismschoolingserial migration acknowledgement would like thank participants transforming experiences project without whose generous contribution time ideas narratives paper would imagined thanks also two anonymous referees read article quickly made constructive incisive comments pui sin kindly reformatted references notes 1 transforming experiences reconceptualising identities nonnormative childhoods research programme funded economic social research council professorial fellowship awarded ann phoenix award number res051270181 elaine bauer stephanie davisgill research fellows programme 2 italics indicates emphasis