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A Cultural Psychological Reading of Dalit Literature: A Case Study of 'Joothan' By Om Prakash Valmiki

Caste, 2020
Dalit literature has been a major cultural artefact in struggles against caste based oppression and discrimination. It not only negotiates a collective identity for Dalits but also introduces variability in negotiations for the same.
Aparna Vyas
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SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTAL ‘UNFREEDOMS’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Housing Violence in Bengaluru, India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
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DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP: Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
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Towards a Vision of the Whole Sky: Tracing the Changing Contours of Dalit Life in Baby Kamble’s Jinna Amucha and Urmila Pawar’s Aaydan

ILN Journal: Indian Literary Narratives
Autobiographical writing was one of the genres employed by Dalit women in India to explore new possibilities for constructing, confirming and subverting their caste based gendered subjectivity. These writings are a literary and historical corpus for both
Dr Shimi Moni Doley
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Contemporary Tamil Dalit Feminist Poetics

Journal of Contemporary Poetics, 2020
Contemporary Tamil Dalit feminist poets challenge dominant ideas in mainstream Hinduism with its inscribed caste and gender discriminations oppressing Dalits.
Pramila Venkateswaran
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The enigma of caste atrocities

Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2023
The dominant narrative on caste today asserts that the people belonging to the Scheduled Castes or “Dalits” and Scheduled Tribes or “Tribals” face pervasive and disproportionately more violence.
Nihar Sashittal
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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Conference report : Dalit Women Rights and Citizenship in India, 19th March, 2010, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi; organised by Indian Institute of Dalit Studies and International Development Research Centre [PDF]

, 2010
Dalits and Poverty are synonymous to each other in almost all the writings, and this poverty is induced by social exclusion. This conference provided a forum for knowledge-sharing between policy-makers, practitioners and academics on challenges faced by ...
Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS)
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Guardians Under Siege: Civil Society Access and Reform of the UN Human Rights Council

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how restrictions on civil society participation at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) undermine the institution's effectiveness. Through stakeholder interviews and analysis of recent developments, we show that civil society engagement does not merely fulfil a democratic aspiration, but it is an operational ...
Inés M. Pousadela, Samuel King
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Researching with Dalit Women Activists: An Intersectional Feminist Social Work Approach

Caste
Aligning with an intersectional feminist social work approach in a simultaneity of process and praxis, this article traces and attempts to create an agenda of research that foregrounds how ‘Dalit women’s lives matter’ in feminist research and ...
Shewli Kumar
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