Dalit feminist thought

Paik, Shailaja

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“…Dalit scholars such as Shailaja Paik ( 2016 , 2018 ; 2021 ) and Sunaina Arya ( 2020 ) who shoulder the responsibility of unsilencing Dalit and marginal voices in the academy have documented the rich history of Dalit and marginal feminist resistance in India. As Paik ( 2021 ) details, the earliest Dalit activist‐intellectuals, Savitribai Phule and Jotirao Phule in the 1800s, empowered many young Dalit feminists through their “emancipation through education” project. As Paik ( 2021 ) shows, Muktabai Salve, one notable Dalit activist‐intellectual, deconstructed the lived experiences of Dalit mothers, invoked a politics of difference, and interrogated the brahminical denial of womanhood to poor women and Dalit mothers, while also forging womanist solidarities with all women as an oppressed class.…”

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“…As Paik ( 2021 ) details, the earliest Dalit activist‐intellectuals, Savitribai Phule and Jotirao Phule in the 1800s, empowered many young Dalit feminists through their “emancipation through education” project. As Paik ( 2021 ) shows, Muktabai Salve, one notable Dalit activist‐intellectual, deconstructed the lived experiences of Dalit mothers, invoked a politics of difference, and interrogated the brahminical denial of womanhood to poor women and Dalit mothers, while also forging womanist solidarities with all women as an oppressed class. According to Paik, Salve was one of the earliest enunciators of intersectional oppressions, linking the everyday mothering experiences of Dalit women to the structures of gender, caste, and class stratifications.…”

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“…The movement started by the Phules, Salve, and other Dalit women activists found political voice in the words and actions of the inspiring leadership of B.R Ambedkar in the early mid 20 th century. Ambedkar rejected hinduism as a religion based on hierarchies that denied basic human dignity to Dalits and spent his life “building dignified humanity for Dalits” (Paik, 2021 , p. 130); his approach intentionally included Dalit women, establishing the premise of equality of genders in his emancipation projects while acknowledging the violence toward the bodies of Dalit women.…”

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“…Along with the mainstream media discourse, most postcolonial and sociological literature produced in India and the Global North is also guilty of epistemologically positing caste‐blind theorizations and empiricization of labor and organizations in the Global South as underscored by Dalit oriented scholarship (Guru, 2002 ; Jangam, 2015 ; Kannabiran & Swaminathan, 2017 ; Kawade, 2019 ; Paik, 2021 ). We locate our study discursively within this paradigm, that critiques the erasure of casteist violence and caste politics in the broader fields of feminist studies and feminist organizing in dominant discourses.…”

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Deep care: The COVID‐19 pandemic and the work of marginal feminist organizing in India

Banerjee

Khandelwal

Sanyal

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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In this paper, we adopt a Southern feminist epistemology to critically appraise the ways in which media discourse on gendered organizing during the Indian COVID‐19‐induced migrant crisis resists or reinforces hegemonic caste hierarchies. To contextualize this work, we briefly historicize scholarship on feminist organizing around land rights, hunger, and violence, while noting the politics of contagion and pollution narratives plaguing the pandemic discourse in India. After conducting a qualitative content analysis (QCA) followed by a critical discourse analysis (CDA) of media discourses across three tiers (international, national, and local), we found that international and national tiers of discourse largely deployed a savarna gaze that worked to 1) Reinforce brahminical and technocratic pandemic narratives and 2) Delegitimize Dalit marginal organizing feminist work and Dalit sensibilities through seven overlapping metrics of erasure. On the other hand, local tier of discourse confronted the savarna gaze, amplified voices of Dalit and Muslim women by centering their narratives of resistance, and tackled the exacerbation of casteist oppression under the pandemic in the service of emancipation. Local discourses also highlight how marginal organizing during the first pandemic lockdown involved provision of essential resources and services (food, medical care, security) for mostly Dalit and Muslim migrant workers, and women intersectionally facing domestic violence and savarna violence. Despite the brahmininal structural oppression, Dalit feminist praxis' emblematic resistance of oppressive structures, during and beyond times of crisis, constitutes what we call the work of deep care .

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Deep care: The COVID‐19 pandemic and the work of marginal feminist organizing in India

Banerjee

Khandelwal

Sanyal

2022

Gender Work & Organization

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“…Thus, she instead proposes the framework of 'womanist-humanist complex' along the lines of intersectionality, which acknowledges the unique location of Dalit women in society. Pertinently, she observes how Dalit women are often vulnerable to sexual exploitation due to their female identity, while at the same time losing all protection due to their Dalit identity (Paik, 2021).…”

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Conceptualising Marginalisation: Agency, Assertion, and Personhood

Chandrachud¹

2022

Journal of Social Inclusion Studies

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The Indian Institute of Dalit Studies (IIDS) has been regularly organising Ambedkar Memorial Lecture since 2004. The 13th Ambedkar Memorial Lecture, organised on December 6, 2021, was delivered by Dr Justice Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud (Judge, Supreme Court of India) on the topic “Conceptualising Marginalisation: Agency, Assertion, and Personhood”. The speech given by Justice Chandrachud is being published in form of this article.

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Risk

Gupta

2022

Feminist Anthropology

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Risk as a term invokes a sense of uncertainty and danger. Risk in androcentric discourses operates on gender binary modes postulating male and masculine as active risk-takers; embedded in themes that rarely account for women's knowledge, opinions, and decisions. In this paper, I oppose such notions and propose risk as a feminist keyword-a term that provides potential to women's everyday worlds and presents women as active technicians of their own lives. Risk in its feminist rendition emerged in my ethnographic fieldwork in Banaras (North India). Banaras is a Hindu holy city that has obscured its women inhabitants and their experiences in its sacred rhetoric. In mapping women's worlds in Banaras, by privileging lived and embodied experiences, risk surfaced as an integral part of the everyday for women to contemplate their ways of being vis-à-vis the control, containment and violence deployed by patriarchy and its custodians. The paper argues that risk-taking exists in ordinary domains and is not restricted to unique situations. It is taken by women to actualize their worlds through corporeal, experiential, and sensorial knowledge. Thus, risk as a feminist keyword provides unique ways to comprehend everyday insistences and resistances by marginal bodies.

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Dalit feminist thought

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Deep care: The COVID‐19 pandemic and the work of marginal feminist organizing in India

Deep care: The COVID‐19 pandemic and the work of marginal feminist organizing in India

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