Karen’s research agenda is situated in the interdisciplinary field of anti-racist transnational feminist studies. She is currently pursuing three research projects. One project explores how feminist education in general and literacy education in particular have become central pillars of neoliberal development and post-war reconstruction efforts. A second research project draws from traditions of anti-colonial, indigenous, and postcolonial thought to re-imagine literacy as decolonial and freedom-enhancing feminist political practice. Her third research project examines the transnational politics of “post-feminism.”
