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On Friday Paula Mählck, Department of Education, Stockholm University and researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, will hold a seminar titled: "Academic mobility at the intersection of development aid and research policy: internationalization, development or post-colonial knowledge relations?".
Paula Mählck will present findings from her recent research project on Academic mobility at the intersection of development aid and research policy, funded by the Swedish Development aid Co-operation (Sida).While Academic mobility is a policy priority worldwide, little is known on how academic mobility is lived in practice and research on the mobility of African researchers is practically non-existent. This research project focuses explicitly on conditions for academic mobility and what happens when those bodies not expected to occupy certain places do so. And more specifically, what happens when women and racialized minorities take up ‘privilged’ positions, which have not been ‘reserved’ for them, for which they have not been the somatic norm. What are the terms of co-existence and how do mobility interplay with these processes? Welcome to the seminar
