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Black bodies, White rural spaces: Disturbing practices of unbelonging for 'refugee' students
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posted on 2023-05-18, 05:21 authored by Edgeworth, KIn global times, when the forced migration of refugees from war-torn countries like Sudan impacts the demography of once ethnically homogenous schooling spaces, I consider the need to better understand the geographical making of racism. This article explores the lived experience of two newly arrived Sudanese students studying at a rural high school in Australia. Using Foucaultian theory, and Foucault’s theories as they have been taken up by Judith Butler, I explore the production of educational exclusions at a rural school. I investigate the Sudanese students’ struggle for belonging against particular discourses of rural Whiteness. In the students’ rural schooling space, their Black bodies are highly visible and are discursively cast as ‘out of place’. I examine the way discourses of rural Whiteness produce schooling exclusions that implicate schools in the spatial regulation of unbelonging.
History
Publication title
Critical Studies in EducationVolume
56Pagination
351-365ISSN
1750-8487Department/School
Faculty of EducationPublisher
RoutledgePlace of publication
AustraliaRights statement
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