"I'm a Dalit, so What?": The Pragmatism of Highlighting and Hiding Caste among Educated Dalit Women.
(2017) SANM03 20171Social Anthropology
Department of Sociology
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The literature on dalit women is limited and in particular knowledge on young dalit women who have completed a social mobility journey is inadequate. Redressing this, the study enquires into the role caste plays for well educated dalit women concerning being ‘cast(ed)’1 as dalits, their education, marriage and special opportunities. Moreover, this study seeks to understand how these perspectives and lived experiences are resistance to the caste system. The study draws on two months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Kerala, India among a group of educated dalit women. It argues that young well educated dalit women exercise everyday resistance through pragmatic manoeuvring where they highlight and hide their caste for... (More)
- The literature on dalit women is limited and in particular knowledge on young dalit women who have completed a social mobility journey is inadequate. Redressing this, the study enquires into the role caste plays for well educated dalit women concerning being ‘cast(ed)’1 as dalits, their education, marriage and special opportunities. Moreover, this study seeks to understand how these perspectives and lived experiences are resistance to the caste system. The study draws on two months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Kerala, India among a group of educated dalit women. It argues that young well educated dalit women exercise everyday resistance through pragmatic manoeuvring where they highlight and hide their caste for self-advancement. (Less)
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- author
- Busk Larsen, Dea LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SANM03 20171
- year
- 2017
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Social anthropology, India, dalits, caste, resistance
- language
- English
- id
- 8924807
- date added to LUP
- 2017-09-06 17:21:32
- date last changed
- 2018-05-23 15:04:16
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