@ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social
Linguistics, Education, Postdigital https://ibrarspace.net
Check out my latest video: a three-way conversation with Syed Farid Alatas and Shuchen Xiang (项舒晨) on decolonisation in universities, held at the Society for Research into Higher Education:
youtu.be/DFXxvceAF20?...
Check out my latest video: a three-way conversation with Syed Farid Alatas and Shuchen Xiang (项舒晨) on decolonisation in universities, held at the Society for Research into Higher Education:
youtu.be/DFXxvceAF20?...
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education by Matt Lumb and Penny Jane Burke. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education
Points of Departure paper by Matt Lumb and Penny Jane Burke
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #Equity #EDI
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond) by Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Jamie J. Hagen and Lewis Turner. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link) in both English and Spanish.
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond)
Enseñar a decir no: pedagogías del rechazo en el aula de ciencias sociales (y más allá)
By Jennifer Philippa Eggert et al.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation
It's out 🎉😊❤️ In 'Teaching to say "no"' (published now in
@teachinginhe.bsky.social) Jennifer P. Eggert,
@lewisturner.bsky.social
& I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research.
bit.ly/43XMzYG
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. In the picture, the word ’perspectives’ is crossed out and replaced with the term ‘conversations’.
New podcast! 🚨
In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt talks to Claire Timperley (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) about her article “Assessment as pedagogy”.
On Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/0Nj4...
On Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
We explore semiotic ideologies associated with particular self-naming practices on RED, incl tropes like ‘Doctoral Big Sister’ (博士姐姐), ‘research dog’ (科研狗; kē yán gǒu) & ethnic names & their cultural significance
Well done Alex, I enjoyed writing this with you
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢 New publication, co-authored with my PhD student Alex Wang (王阳陆):
‘Big sister’ (姐姐), ‘Dog’ (狗) & ethnic names: Semiotic ideologies of self-naming on Xiaohongshu (Red)
This one is for all you 科研狗 ('research dogs') out there! 👇
This work has triggered a call for papers for a Special Issue on ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’:
ibrarspace.net/wp-content/u...
This article’s ideas took shape through various talks, incl at Manchester China Institute, HBKU, Qatar University, Lancaster, HKUST & more. Data draw from China.
academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
New article: 'Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam'. One of my most important pieces. Built on my research & enriched by collab with Othman Barnawi & Rizwan Ahmad
academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
It brings together many voices, places & perspectives
See below article & related special issue CfPs..
This work has triggered a call for papers for a Special Issue on ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’:
ibrarspace.net/wp-content/u...
This article’s ideas took shape through various talks, incl at Manchester China Institute, HBKU, Qatar University, Lancaster, HKUST & more. Data draw from China.
academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
New article: 'Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam'. One of my most important pieces. Built on my research & enriched by collab with Othman Barnawi & Rizwan Ahmad
academic.oup.com/applij/advan...
It brings together many voices, places & perspectives
See below article & related special issue CfPs..
📣 Upcoming event: On Wednesday 2 July we will be joined by Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Professor Shuchen Xiang and @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social to discuss Re-thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia. Find out more and register here to join us: bit.ly/3HWKQtX
24.06.2025 15:13 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
We explore semiotic ideologies associated with particular self-naming practices on RED, incl tropes like ‘Doctoral Big Sister’ (博士姐姐), ‘research dog’ (科研狗; kē yán gǒu) & ethnic names & their cultural significance
Well done Alex, I enjoyed writing this with you
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
📢 New publication, co-authored with my PhD student Alex Wang (王阳陆):
‘Big sister’ (姐姐), ‘Dog’ (狗) & ethnic names: Semiotic ideologies of self-naming on Xiaohongshu (Red)
This one is for all you 科研狗 ('research dogs') out there! 👇
Check out my latest podcast with Shuchen Xiang (项舒晨) about her article titled “Problematizing the critique of culture: an alternative Chinese hermeneutics for teaching the humanities”
20.05.2025 22:33 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. In the picture, the word ’perspectives’ is crossed out and replaced with the term ‘conversations’.
New TiHE podcast! 📣
In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt talks to Shuchen Xiang (项舒晨) about her article titled “Problematizing the critique of culture: an alternative Chinese hermeneutics for teaching the humanities”
Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/77Ya...
Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Studying critique locally and pluralistically: a comparative study of critique from a Kuwaiti cultural perspective by Sara Alnufaishan and Ali Watfa. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Studying critique locally and pluralistically: a comparative study of critique from a Kuwaiti cultural perspective
Points of Departure paper by Sara Alnufaishan and Ali Watfa
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEducation #Critique
New online collection! 🚨
Pedagogical Knowledge Enrichments: Critical Perspectives from the Nordic countries
This collection includes 14 earlier TiHE studies conducted in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland in the past five years
🇩🇰🇳🇴🇸🇪🇫🇮
www.tandfonline.com/journals/cth...
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Gaza: an indictment of critical philosophy by Alison MacKenzie. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Gaza: an indictment of critical philosophy
Points of Departure paper by Alison MacKenzie
#HigherEducation #Criticality
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You can read Alison’s article here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. In the picture, the word ’perspectives’ is crossed out and replaced with the term ‘conversations’.
New TiHE podcast is out! 📢
In this podcast, Ibrar Bhatt talks with Alison MacKenzie on her article ‘Gaza: an indictment of critical philosophy’
On Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/2lD8...
On Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
You can read Jialei's article here:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. In the picture, the word ’perspectives’ is crossed out and replaced with the term ‘conversations’.
New TiHE podcast is out! 📢
In this episode, Jialei Jiang talks about how Qi onto-epistemology, rooted in Chinese philosophical and aesthetic traditions, can decolonise critique in higher education
On Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/1HOq...
On Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Read the original article here ⬇️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge. In the picture, the word ’perspectives’ is crossed out and replaced with the term ‘conversations’.
The new TiHE podcast is out! 📢
In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt speaks to Yulong Li about the role of Greco-Roman philosophies in mediating the thought processes necessary for criticality
On Spotify:
open.spotify.com/episode/1X7q...
On Apple:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Problematizing the critique of culture: an alternative Chinese hermeneutics for teaching the humanities by Shuchen Xiang. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).
A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspecitives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.
New publication alert! 🚨
Problematizing the critique of culture: an alternative Chinese hermeneutics for teaching the humanities
By Shuchen Xiang
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#HigherEd #Confucianism
Come join us for this interesting event on Chinese language policy in the Arabian Gulf countries — an emerging and significant topic in linguistic research.
🗓️ Sat 12th April
⏰ 11:30am BST / 1:30pm Saudi / 6:30pm China
📍 Online
To register see link / QR code: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
