Ascriptive hierarchies: Caste and its reproduction in contemporary India

Jodhka, Surinder S.

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“…Caste's association with occupation is an important channel (second only to endogamy) that enables its intergenerational transmission (Jodhka 2016(Jodhka , 2017. Larger cities offer diverse economic opportunities representing a more varied occupational choice set, potentially opening up newer avenues for socio-economic mobility.…”

Section: City Size and Residential Segregationmentioning

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Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India

Bharathi

Malghan

Mishra³

et al. 2021

World Development

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We present the first ever large-scale snapshot of urban residential segregation in India at the neighborhood-scale. Our analysis from 147 largest cities in contemporary India shows how caste-based residential segregation is independent of city size (our sample includes all cities in India with at least 0.3 million residents in 2011). The extent of segregation in the largest metropolitan centers with over ten million residents closely tracks cities that are nearly two orders-of-magnitude smaller. We also show how residential segregation across a large swathe of urban India mirrors the spatial geometry of rural India. Our findings call into question one of the central normative promises of modernization in India and elsewhere ---the gradual withering of traditional ascriptive identities such as caste. Our paper also contributes to the emerging debates in urban segregation by developing an interdisciplinary framework for analytical and empirical operationalization of a neighborhood unit.

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Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India

Bharathi

Malghan

Mishra³

et al. 2021

World Development

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“…“Neoliberal multiculturalism” supports ethnic and cultural rights while glossing over the wider intended white racial project of neoliberal market reform (Richards 2013:9). In India, Dalits are protected in the constitution, but their systemic exclusion from social capital and economic resources, and the overt hiring practices around “suitability” and “soft skills,” has accentuated their marginalization (Jodhka 2016:236).…”

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A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness

Christian

2018

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Twenty years after Bonilla-Silva developed the analytic components of a structural race perspective and called for “comparative work on racialization in various societies,” U.S.-centric race theory continues to be mostly rooted in a U.S. focus. What is missing is a framework that explores race and racism as a modern global project that takes shape differently in diverse structural and ideological forms across all geographies but is based in global white supremacy. Drawing from Bonilla-Silva’s national racialized social systems approach, global South scholars, and critical race scholars in the world-systems tradition, the author advances a global critical race and racism framework that highlights two main areas: (1) core components that include the “state,” “economy,” “institutions,” and “discourses” and “representations,” as divided by “racist structure” and “racist ideology” and shaped by the “history” of and current forms of transnational racialization and contemporary “global” linkages, and (2) the production of deep and malleable global whiteness. With this framework, both the permanence and flexibility of racism across the globe can be seen, in all its overt, invisible, and insidious forms, that ultimately sustains global white supremacy in the twenty-first century.

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“…As a system of ascriptive hierarchies (Jodhka 2016), however, the inequalities of caste are as much about power as are those of race, ethnicity or gender. Following Ambedkar, we understand caste as a relational system, such that 'caste in the singular number is an unreality.…”

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Caste: experiences in South Asia and beyond

Gorringe

Jodhka

Takhar

2017

Contemporary South Asia

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This special issue of Contemporary South Asia seeks to capture the diversity and situatedness of the caste experience and deepen our understanding of caste dynamics and lives in the twenty-first century. In this Introduction, we highlight the continuing salience of caste, offer an overview of theoretical understandings of caste and foreground the importance of analysing caste in the present as a dynamic form of human relations, rather than a remnant of tradition. Following on from this, we highlight the increasingly global spread of caste and reflect on what happens to castebased social relations when they traverse continents. In conclusion, we introduce the papers that make up this special issue. Taken together, they speak to changes in attitudes towards caste, but also the persistence of caste-based identities and dynamics in India and Britain. Even though the papers presented in this special issue work with the assumption of caste being a reality in and among the Indians, caste-like status hierarchies have existed in most, if not all, societies, and they continue to persist and intersect with other forms of differences/inequalities.

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Ascriptive hierarchies: Caste and its reproduction in contemporary India

Cited by 52 publications

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Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India

Fractal urbanism: City size and residential segregation in India

A Global Critical Race and Racism Framework: Racial Entanglements and Deep and Malleable Whiteness

Caste: experiences in South Asia and beyond

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