Perilous Pedagogy: Teaching Gender and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa

IF 3.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Gender Pub Date : 2023-01-24 DOI:10.1017/S1743923X22000186

Nermin Allam, Marwa Shalaby, Hind Ahmed Zaki

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Teaching gender politics has been an increasingly contentious topic in established democracies, with instructors encountering a myriad of pedagogical, institutional, and ideological challenges (Butler 2021; Evans 2019).1 Challenges to teaching gender politics are exacerbated in nondemocratic contexts, where academic institutions operate under close regime scrutiny and surveillance, and where patterns of autocratic power structures are prevalent in society and often reproduced in the classroom. While extant studies have shed important light on some of the trends and issues associated with teaching gender politics in established democracies (Bayes 2012; Han and Heldman 2019; Lyle-Gonga 2013), our knowledge remains limited when it comes to teaching gender and politics of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in Western institutions as well as within the MENA region. Understanding these challenges is particularly relevant given that the MENA region is diverse and has long been “othered,” “racialized,” and “orientalized” in Western discourse (Ahmed 1992; Said 1978), with direct implications for teaching gender and politics of the Middle East in local academic institutions as well as in the West.

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危险的教育学:中东和北非的性别与政治教学

在已建立的民主国家，教授性别政治一直是一个越来越有争议的话题，教师们面临着无数的教学、制度和意识形态挑战（Butler 2021；Evans 2019）。1在非民主环境中，教育性别政治的挑战加剧，在非民主背景下，学术机构在政权的密切监督和监督下运作，专制权力结构模式在社会中普遍存在，并经常在课堂上重现。虽然现有的研究对在成熟的民主国家教授性别政治的一些趋势和问题提供了重要的启示（Bayes 2012；Han和Heldman 2019；Lyle Gonga 2013），但在西方机构以及中东和北非地区教授中东和北非的性别和政治时，我们的知识仍然有限。鉴于中东和北非地区是多样化的，长期以来在西方话语中一直是“另类的”、“种族化的”和“东方化的”，理解这些挑战尤其重要（Ahmed 1992；Said 1978），这对当地学术机构和西方教育中东的性别和政治有直接影响。

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期刊介绍： Politics & Gender is an agenda-setting journal that publishes the highest quality scholarship on gender and politics and on women and politics. It aims to represent the full range of questions, issues, and approaches on gender and women across the major subfields of political science, including comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and U.S. politics. The Editor welcomes studies that address fundamental questions in politics and political science from the perspective of gender difference, as well as those that interrogate and challenge standard analytical categories and conventional methodologies.Members of the Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association receive the journal as a benefit of membership.