{"id":11302,"date":"2023-07-26T17:09:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/kita\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=11302"},"modified":"2023-07-26T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T09:11:03","slug":"swk2023-05","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/kita\/event\/swk2023-05\/","title":{"rendered":"KITA Discourse Series 5\/2023: Aspiring Outside the City: Socialisation, (Academic) Migration and Middle-Class Projects in Postcolonial Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"

ASPIRING OUTSIDE THE CITY: SOCIALISATION, (ACADEMIC) MIGRATION AND MIDDLE-CLASS PROJECTS IN POSTCOLONIAL MALAYSIA<\/strong>
\nBy<\/strong>
\nDr. Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar<\/strong>
\nSchool of Social, Political and Global Studies,<\/strong>
\nKeele University, United Kingdom<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong><\/p>\n

Malaysia is one of the most rapidly urbanising nations in Southeast Asia, with the rate of urbanisation signalling the extent of national development. Through the window of Malay young people\u2019s aspirations, this presentation is part of an ongoing project that ethnographically traces what it means to \u201cencounter\u201d education policy in rural sites of Malaysia\u2014geographic regions categorised by the postcolonial developmentalist state as luar bandar (literally \u201coutside of the city\u201d in Malay). In this light, I pay attention to desires associated with place-based social bonds, cultural and subjective formations as well pressures of (academic) migration among the young people. To make sense of their aspirations from one site of the luar bandar, I bring together scholarship in anthropology of education and development as well as postcolonial studies. I suggest that such aspirations manifest a material critique of exclusion and inequality. In turn, the findings point to complex socialisations into what Johan Fischer (2017) calls \u2018middle-class projects\u2019 emanating from urban Malaysia, to be felt within one site at the blurring edge of modernity.<\/p>\n

PRESENTER\u2019S PROFILE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar<\/strong> ialah pensyarah pendidikan di School of Social, Political and Global Studies, Keele University, UK. Beliau menerima Ijazah Doktor Falsafah dalam bidang pendidikan di University of Oxford, sebagai felo pengajar kedoktoran dan Sarjana Clarendon. Kajian Dr. Aizuddin dalam bidang pendidikan perbandingan dan antarabangsa berkait hubungan pendidikan dan pembangunan, pendidikan luar bandar, polisi, pengajian pasca kolonial and politik pembentukan ilmu.<\/p>\n

TENTATIVE PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date: 2 August 2023 (Wednesday)
\nTime: 10 a.m. \u2013 12 p.m. (GMT +8)
\nVenue: KITA Meeting Room
\nPlatform: Zoom & KITA Facebook page (links below)<\/p>\n

10.00 a.m.: Introduction by Moderator
\n10.10 a.m.: Seminar by Dr. Aizuddin Mohamed Anuar
\n11.10 a.m.: Q & A Session
\n12.00 p.m.: Closing<\/p>\n

Join via Zoom<\/a><\/p>\n

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