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Dalit Autobiographies as Counter Publics: An Exploratory Essay
South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2022 Despite Bourdieu’s warning that autobiography is a form of narcissism and a decline into navel gazing, as it were, the genre of autobiography is a well-recognized medium in contemporary scholarship.
Meenakshi Thapan
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‘Fine Men from Afar’: Cricket and Empire on the Home Front
History, EarlyView.Abstract During the Second World War, contrary to enduring images of bombardment and scarcity, people on Britain's ‘Home Front’ continued to take part in a broad array of sporting activities. Cricket played a more significant role in the wartime sporting landscape than many historians have previously recognized.
Michael Collins
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Reading Dalit Autobiographies in English: A Top Ten List
Caste, 2021 Dalit autobiography has joined protest poetry as a leading genre of Dalit Literature since the nineteen seventies. Finding their inspiration in the social and political activism of B. R.
Christopher Queen
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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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“Depressed Sufferings”: Reading Dalit Life-Writings as Testimonies of Collective Resistance
New Horizons in English Studies, 2021 Dalit life-writings have often been identified as reified spaces of protest against the Brahmanic oppression continuing since centuries in the Indian society.
Paulomi Sharma
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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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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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CasteThis article engages Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (1995), one of the earliest ethnographies to foreground a Dalit woman’s voice, marking thirty years since its publication.
Jebaroja Singh
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Narratives of Strength: Exploring Storytelling as a Tool for Resilience in Families
Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Resilience, originally viewed as a psychological capacity to ‘bounce back’ from challenges, is now understood to be shaped by broader social inequalities, including gender, socio‐economic status, politics and ethnicity. This study explores how stories and narratives can help nurture resilience and improve well‐being among those residing in an ...
Chandra Ramamurthy +3 more
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CINEJ Cinema JournalThis article intends to analyze the intermingled relationship between caste and gender and its intertwining impact in the case of the subjugation of the Dalit women’s section in India.
Debdatta Chakraborty, Sarbani Banerjee
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