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Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement' [PDF]
The methodology of ‘occupation’ through rereading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James, Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261–270, 1977)
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7 Questions of Representation in Dalit Critical Discourse: Premchand and Dalit Feminism
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Developmentalism, gender and rights: from a politics of origins to a politics of meanings [PDF]
In this paper, I argue for a refusal of the ‘politics of origins’ framework that dominates human rights talk and towards one that privileges a ‘politics of meanings’.
Madhok, Sumi
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ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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Dark Looks: Sensory Contours of Racism in India [PDF]
This chapter explores the intersections of caste, color, and class that become visible on the bodies of brown and black women moving through public spaces in India. The authors argue that a pervasive “haptic gaze,” that deploys staring as a prosthetic of
Prasad, Pavithra, Raghavan, Anjana
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Short Abstract This article introduces the concept of internal deportation as a form of intra‐state expulsion of citizens to their ‘spaces of origin’. ABSTRACT This article introduces the concept of internal deportation as a form of intra‐state expulsion of citizens to their ‘spaces of origin’.
Ayushman Bhagat
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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
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Identity politics and the need for a ‘tomorrow’ [PDF]
Recent years have witnessed a general backlash against identity politics, both in the academy and the public sphere. This paper recognises the problems in identity politics as arising from an apparent difficulty in conceptualising identity separately
Bhambra, Gurminder K., Margree, Victoria
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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Politicising the Public Space: On Dalit Women Sanitation Workers in India
Caste determines the life worlds of people in India in particular and South Asia in general. Historically, it is observed that caste has conditioned the nature of public spaces.
Smita M. Patil
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