Marriage, Violence, and Choice

Rao, Nitya

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“…They express that agency when navigating through educational, employment and motherhood norms and structures in their everyday lives. This reflects a conceptualisation of agency as a complex mix of modalities, varying from active resistance to willing adherence to norms and structures (Mahmood 2004;Madhok, Wilson, and Phillips 2013;Rao 2015).…”

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“…In this paper, 'agency' is used to describe young mothers' navigation processes in a complex world of educational and employment structures and norms. This conceptualisation is informed by gender studies, development studies and philosophy, which emphasise that the concept of agency is usually entwined with the notion of coercion or inequality, but cannot be reduced to a binary opposition in which agency only manifests when oppression occurs (Mahmood 2001;Madhok, Wilson, and Phillips 2013;Rao 2015). Furthermore, Mahmood (2004) claims that agency can also lead to continuity or stability of a social situation.…”

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Navigating norms and structures: young mothers’ pathways to economic independence

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2018

Journal of Youth Studies

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Navigating norms and structures: young mothers’ pathways to economic independence

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2018

Journal of Youth Studies

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“…238-239, emphasis added). It also explains how these factors co-constitute inequalities (Choo and Ferree, 2010;Collins, 1998;Rao, 2015).…”

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How does climate change adaptation policy in India consider gender? An analysis of 28 state action plans

2021

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Gender mediates climate vulnerability and adaptation action. Consequently, climate change adaptation policy has seen a push towards 'mainstreaming' gender and prioritising 'genderresponsive' climate action. However, it is unclear to what extent this mainstreaming advances or obscures gender considerations and whether current climate policies reflect developments in the gender and climate change literature. This paper explores how gender is operationalised in adaptation policy in India through a policy review of 28 State Action Plans on Climate Change. We juxtapose normative goals around reducing differential vulnerability with policy approaches to mainstreaming gender to propose entry points that link advances in gender and feminist studies with climate change adaptation policy. Our analysis indicates that most subnational climate policies in India explicitly mention gender as a mediator of vulnerability and adaptive capacity but operationalise it inadequately and unevenly. We also reflect on how the heuristics of mainstreaming get operationalised in policies (gender-blind, gender-sensitive, to gender-transformative approaches) and what that means for addressing gendered vulnerability.

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“…He famously declared, "The Brahmin is the root of caste. To eradicate caste, we must eradicate the Brahmin" (Raman, 2020). Such positionality was disputed even by Dalit leader and jurist Dr. B.R.…”

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Animating caste: visceral geographies of pigs, caste, and violent nationalisms in Chennai city

Narayanan

2021

Urban Geography

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The paper introduces porcine bodies as landscapes upon which caste as wildness, primitive, or savage are inscribed and asserted in India, by the Hindu Right and the Dalit Right, to respectively advance parochial nationalisms. The general obscuration of the pig in violent nationalist discourses, is itself due to her inherent caste status as impure/polluting. Hindu Vedic scriptures endorse a civilizational rhetoric of the cows as Brahminical and divine, and the pigs as associated with filth and ferality. Caste advances or obstructs political and economic power, and is interlocked with market capitalism, which relies on nature -and casteised subhuman/nonhuman bodies -as both profitable (and venerable), and expendable (and despicable). The visceral socio-political contempt the pig evokes is intertwined with their use in performing economic labor as waste scavenger, and political labor as superfluous to a nation in which pigs, and people associated with pigs do not belong. Via empirical work in Chennai city, this paper focusses the pig, ecologically and sociologically wild, feral and promiscuous, as enmeshed in a long-enduring, constructed caste conflict around Brahmin/Dravida; Hindu/Tamil; civilized/primitive; and even, human/animal binaries. Finally, it specifies species as also core to identity politics, as part of a transformative praxis to a post-casteist society.

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Marriage, Violence, and Choice

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Navigating norms and structures: young mothers’ pathways to economic independence

Navigating norms and structures: young mothers’ pathways to economic independence

How does climate change adaptation policy in India consider gender? An analysis of 28 state action plans

Animating caste: visceral geographies of pigs, caste, and violent nationalisms in Chennai city

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