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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.
Dr Shimi Moni Doley
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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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Metaphors of Conquest: Towards the Aesthetics of Dalit Feminism through Select Texts and Contexts
One of the aims of writing dalit literature in India has been to reveal to the readers the injustice, oppression, helplessness and struggles of many of the disadvantaged populations under the social machine of stratification in India.
Jaydeep Sarangi
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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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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
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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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A Literary Study of Dalit Feminism in India
Abstract: Dalit feminism emerged in India as a new school based onthe idea of secular feminism. Since the 1990s, many Dalit women academics, they met, especially in universities, influenced by the expression of black women in the African- American context.
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Unemployed Youth Agency and Geographies of Educational Support in Urban North India
ABSTRACT The emergence of large numbers of educated unemployed people across the world remains a major social challenge. Research on unemployed young people has tended to emphasise a lack of agency. Many studies depict jobless youth as aimless and detached from their social and spatial situation.
Craig Jeffrey, Avishek Jha, Jane Dyson
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The village and the city: Dalit feminism in the autobiographies of Baby Kamble and Urmila Pawar
As a reaction against mainstream Indian feminism that tended to ignore the problems of caste, Dalit women and those who advocate their cause have been making a valid case for Dalit feminism.
Shoma Sen
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Economic functionality is essential for the recovery of cities and communities following disasters. A crucial factor in reducing business disruptions and guaranteeing their continuity is the capacity of employees to resume work. Facilitating the reintegration of employees into the workforce can expedite their post‐disaster recovery process and assist ...
Ezgi Orhan +2 more
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