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Unbelonging as a Postcolonial Predicament: My Tryst With European Academia

  • Sanam Roohi(author)
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Title Unbelonging as a Postcolonial Predicament
SubtitleMy Tryst With European Academia
ContributorSanam Roohi(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0331.02
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0331/chapters/10.11647/obp.0331.02
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
CopyrightSanam Roohi
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-05-11
Long abstract

As a first-generation university graduate with a PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam and working in German academia for more than three years, in this piece I reflect upon my academic trajectory so far. Looking back at my tenuous relationship with academia over the last decade and the struggles I have encountered as a minority woman in India and a person of colour in Europe, in this short piece, I further contemplate upon the postcolonial predicament of unbelonging and the embodied negotiations I continue to make as a temporary jobholder and a part of the growing international academic precariat.

Page rangepp. 9–20
Print length22 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Sanam Roohi

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International Fellow at Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2483-841X
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