Becoming Good Women - Schooling, Aspirations Imagining Future Among Female Students in Sri

This book illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for identity formation and placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. It focuses on narratives of female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka.

About the author

Laura Batatota has extensive experience in working within applied research and evaluation and has led impact functions across the not-for-profit and social sectors. Her research interests span anthropology of education, youth identities, social reproduction theories and aspirations, with a focus on South Asia.

Product details

• Authors: Laura Batatota, Laura Shamali Batatota
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2024
• EAN: 9781805397625
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-762-5
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships, SDG 4; SDG 5