Numa identifies as Bangladeshi-Austrian for the sake of convenience, and works in the field of International Development for which she sometimes gets paid a living wage. She has the ambition of engaging and encouraging wider dialogue on development from a dusty perspective and hopes that she can contribute to making the world less fail in [...]
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Privilege, Power, Colonialism, and International Development – Part 1
Posted by Jaded on June 27, 2011
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/privilege-power-colonialism-and-international-development-%e2%80%93-part-1/
On Charting Invisible Bodies
As a Lady born on the brink of globalisation, English is something that comes to me as naturally as breathing. As a kid, I had access to all sorts of books, movies and songs from the ‘Center’ of civilisation — U.S. and Europe of course! — and was encouraged to speak in English as much [...]
Posted by Jaded on October 25, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/on-charting-invisible-bodies/
Cartologising Contraception Edition Of Cemented Stereotypes
Since the advent of the industrial revolution, there are apparently only the two sects of people in the world, the People With Machines and the People With Farms and Dung if I were to believe Marx for every word he ever wrote — and I don’t — between all the fine print where he justified [...]
Posted by Jaded on October 22, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/cartologising-contraception-edition-of-cemented-stereotypes/
Re-Making While Break-ing Bodies And Meanings
The past few days have been emotionally as well as physically taxing, as I prepared for a seminar, re-wrote, re-edited and then wrote again my paper. Then deleted it and started all over again. A few years ago I had the nasty habit of never saving any of my writing, so I went along and [...]
Posted by Jaded on September 16, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/re-making-while-break-ing-bodies/
Caught Between Colonised Consonants
These last few weeks have been rather stressful for me, so by the time I get home, I’m more than exhausted, crash on my sofa and let the TeeVee numb my LadyLobes into oblivion for a while. This is around the time my grandmother’s favourite soaps are aired and we’ve developed a routine between the [...]
Posted by Jaded on November 18, 2010
http://jaded16.wordpress.com/2010/11/18/caught-between-colonised-consonants/