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Rashpal Singh Bhardwaj : Education on Casteism in Canada
This interview is part of the “Caste in Canada” oral history project. “Caste in Canada” comprises interviews with nineteen Canadians of Dalit background, documenting their histories, experiences, and understanding of the implications of caste in Canada ...
Yengde, Suraj +2 more
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(Non)belonging and (un)freedom
Abstract This article centers on the concept of “belonging” to argue that belonging and freedom are fundamentally related, and that this relationship cannot be easily captured in formal terms alone. I contend that experiences of incomplete belonging among citizens deserve attention from political science because, in addition to their more obvious ...
Yuna Blajer de la Garza
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Knitting together India’s many political subcultures, represented as castes, is key to democratic success. Caste is the unspeakable reality that also happens to be the great unavoidable in the Indian electoral scene. Early in his campaign, Prime Minister
Muralidharan, Sukumar
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Making Meets Informal Innovation: Formalisation, Access and Openness in Indian Makerspaces
ABSTRACT Makerspaces and fabrication labs (fablabs) are inclusive and open infrastructures. They democratise access to tools and technologies and facilitate bottom‐up innovation. Research on these spaces thus highlights the importance of openness, community orientation and the ability to foster informal experimentation that these spaces enable. In this
Gautam Sharma
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Introducing Mid‐Level Dental Providers in Iran: Challenges and Opportunities
ABSTRACT Objectives The WHO Global Strategy and Action Plan on Oral Health 2023–2030 encourages innovative approaches such as shifting tasks from dentists to Mid‐level Dental Providers (MLDPs), who work independently to improve access to and equity in oral health.
Homa Fathi +4 more
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WHO IS THE IDENTIFIABLE VICTIM?--CASTE INTERACTS WITH SYMPATHY IN INDIA [PDF]
Earlier studies have documented an “identifiable victim effect”-- people donate more to help individual people than to groups. Evidence suggests that this is in part due to an emotional reaction to the identified recipients, who generate more sympathy ...
ASHWINI DESHPANDE, DEAN SPEARS
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Beyond tolerance: Distinct pathways shape human attitudes toward wildlife conflict
We surveyed 412 households in Nepal to understand how crop loss and livestock loss shape tolerance and opposition toward wildlife. We found that acute shock from livestock loss reduced tolerance but did not increase opposition, whereas crop loss reduced both tolerance and increased opposition.
Purushottam Jaishi +11 more
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While Maya Pandit identifies the State’s wrath against lower-caste female sexuality as the root cause of the ban on dancing, this comment on dance bar debate argues that the very reason for the legal ban can be found in the caste and gender politics in ...
Dalwai, Sameena
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Which Decolonization? Theorizing Decolonization beyond Decoloniality and its Critics
ABSTRACT The debate on decolonial thought has reached an unhelpful stalemate. A core problem in assessing decolonial thought is that the term ‘decolonization’ has been stretched so widely that it now allows for many competing uses. For some critics of decolonial thought such as Nigerian philosopher Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, this overuse points to conceptual ...
David Myer Temin
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Demystifying Decoloniality: Epistemic Rupture and Material Reality
ABSTRACT Decolonial thought has become increasingly influential across the social sciences, foregrounding coloniality, epistemic injustice, ontological difference and pluriversality as alternatives to Western universalism. This Introduction to the Forum Debate ‘Debating Decolonial Thought’ critically examines the ‘decolonial turn’ in development ...
Sreerekha Sathi
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