Browsing by Author "Ridon, Manjeet"

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    Myth and Patriarchy in Deepa Mehta's Heaven on Earth
    (University of California, 2014-10-08) Ridon, Manjeet
    This article analyses how Heaven on Earth (2008) uses Indian mythology to expose the reality of culturally driven violence against Sikh Punjabi women in Canada, occurring as a result of transnational marriages between diaspora-based Non-Resident Indian (hereafter NRI) men and Sikh Punjabi women. Referring to Bruce Lincoln’s theory of myth as ideology, I argue that the film explores how some of these women have experienced marginalisation and how a discourse of abuse can be challenged through myth.
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    No Place Like Home in Srinivas Krishna’s Masala
    (Taylor and Francis, 2016-06) Ridon, Manjeet
    Masala launched the filmmaking career of Srinivas Krishna. His debut feature film uses aspects of ancient Indian mythology to explore issues of diasporic identity from the perspective of an Indian community living in Toronto during the early 1990s. This issue, of how South Asian communities have experienced marginalization in Canada is explored in this article within the context of Canadian multiculturalism. This article begins with an analysis of the film and in particular examines where myth is located in the film and explains why this is important. Focusing on the types of spaces inhabited by the Indian god in Masala, I draw on Marc Augé's concept of "empirical non-places", by which he means "spaces of circulation, consumption and communication" (viii). Examples of these spaces include airports, service areas, televisions and computers. Specifically, I will argue that the film uses the "non-place" as "the" place inhabited by a displaced Lord Krishna in order to comment on issues affecting the diasporic Indian community in Canada.
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    Putting Sustainable Development at the heart of Transnational Education: Principles and Practice from a UK-UAE Partnership
    (Springer, 2023) Reeves, Andrew; Ridon, Manjeet; Lawson, Stuart
    Transnational Education (TNE) is a significant and growing area of activity for higher education institutions, through which universities establish overseas partnerships or campuses to enable international students to study close to home to achieve internationally recognised qualifications. Whilst TNE is frequently understood as being income-driven and has been critiqued from the stance of post-colonialism, there is arguably significant potential for its adoption to positively contribute to the sustainable development agenda embodied in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This potential contribution is addressed here by discussing the experience of De Montfort University (DMU) in the UK, in seeking to put sustainable development at the heart of its TNE approach when establishing its DMU Dubai campus in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), launched in 2021. A range of innovative curriculum-based, co-curricular and operational practices at DMU Dubai are highlighted, that extended the Education for Sustainable Development initiatives already underway at DMU’s UK campus and contextualised them for the UAE environment. These practices are used to illustrate a proposed framework of principles and indicators that can shed light on how TNE activity can address the SDGs. In so doing, the paper introduces ‘Transformative TNE’ as a concept which highlights an aspirational approach to TNE practice which delivers educational, civic and socio-economic benefits aligned to the sustainable development agenda.
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    Sustainable Development and Transnational Education Partnerships: Towards Global Sustainability Leadership and Transformative TNE
    (Quality Assurance Agency, 2024-07-22) Reeves, Andrew; Ridon, Manjeet
    In this guidance document, we aim to outline key principles, issues to consider and practical steps that can enable TNE partnerships to impact upon the Sustainable Development agenda. We also outline how HEIs can offer global sustainability leadership through their international collaborations and how an aspirational model of “Transformative TNE” can guide decision making in this area.