The Artist’s Vision: Study Focus

The Artist’s Vision: Study Focus The study participants were 13 women (9 from North America; 4 from Asia and Africa) who work in civil society organizations in the global sphere and who have done so for at least 5 years. These stories name a different kind of subaltern positionality, one that is both shifting and elusive. This identity politics interrupts and transgresses the status quo and suggests new directions for working with those who practice international adult education. These identities cannot be categorized — they are ambivalent and challenging, transgressing all centralized or mainstream sites, in favor of in-between fluid spaces that are alternately named third spaces (Khan, 2000). This research turns third space on its head because its focus is in a different direction (North America to Asia and Africa, and vice versa), and provides a critique of third space itself.