Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post‐Beijing Platform for Action

Navtej Purewal

IDS Bulletin, 2015, vol. 46, issue 4, 47-53

Abstract: This article examines how girls' education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the ‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial processes during this time, particular shifts are traced which show how girls' education has been a symbolic part of the geopolitical canvas in Pakistan and Afghanistan alongside the ‘war on terror’ and universalisation of education. The article refers to alternative voices which have attempted to disrupt the global narrative of the post‐Beijing ‘rights’ agenda and points to the problems of this in the context of occupations, militarisation, and markets being used simultaneously as strategies for global governance and order.

Date: 2015
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