The wageless life of the subaltern

Abstract

One of the most striking political and intellectual legacies of the Subaltern Studies project has been the innovative methodologies and archives that it has mobilized to articulate the singular position of the subaltern outside the hegemonic terms of representation. Yet in its sweeping classification of non-hegemonic social groups and classes, Subaltern Studies has often tended to elide the precise economic determinants that define the subaltern as a class, and thereby foreclose the forms of agency that are available to people who occupy such singular positions of radical alterity that cannot be identified in hegemonic terms. Gayatri Spivak's deconstructive rethinking

Discovering critical-subaltern voices: an interpretive approach for transforming OD

“…They do not form any positive image, are rare and thus stay fragmented. As a result, these versions do not make it to the mainstream and are never reported, thus excluding the subaltern groups to be part of mainstream version (Srinivas, 2013;Bracke, 2016;Morton, 2016;Dickinson, 2017). Therefore, little documentation is available with respect to subaltern in the literature (Gramsci cited in Hoare and Nowell-Smith, 1971).…”