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Kannabirān, Kalpana; Swaminathan, Padmini

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“…Despite the fact that the feminization of agriculture and labour has detrimental effects on women’s work, this also implies a shift in traditional gender roles and existing honour codes as more and more women are moving into the public sphere for paid work. Moreover, the feminization of agriculture and labour has provided women with a new sense of autonomy (Kannabiran & Swaminathan, 2017, p. 42). Women doing paid work means more and more women are going out every day, crossing the threshold of the home and entering the liberating domain of public space.…”

Section: Honour As a Conceptual Categorymentioning

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Negotiating Honour by Jat and Muslim Women in Muzaffarnagar, Western Uttar Pradesh

Mishra

Rayaprol

2023

Sociological Bulletin

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In this article, we critically examine honour as a daily cultural code which is pivotal in organising gender relations, and go beyond culture-centric and Eurocentric conceptions of honour. By looking at everyday honour practices of Jat and Muslim women, in Muzaffarnagar, western Uttar Pradesh, we argue against the dominant understanding of honour as a product of religious mannerism and a culturally specific trait. Rather by looking at two religiously different, but agriculturally intertwined communities, we argue that both the communities have an analogous underpinning of honour which is embedded in agrarian ecology. Through empirical evidence, we argue that honour is a regional ethos, embedded and organised around the resource of agrarian land. As anxieties around agriculture and the agrarian way of life are increasing because of agrarian transformation, we see a resurgence of honour in the region. We focus the analytical lens around honour as a negotiated process and argue that women of both communities, in the region are ‘doing’ honour to bargain with patriarchy and negotiate for their upward mobility.

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Section: Honour As a Conceptual Categorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Negotiating Honour by Jat and Muslim Women in Muzaffarnagar, Western Uttar Pradesh

Mishra

Rayaprol

2023

Sociological Bulletin

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“…If we cannot incorporate them into our course syllabus, then one way is through collective reading sessions. For example, Ketki Ranade’s book on Growing up Gay in Urban India (2020), this book questions the idea of ‘normal’ childhood and address questions with regard to socialisation process, norms and gendered behavioural patterns; article by Wolf (1993), conceptualising the feminist dilemma of how a sense of privilege enters onto our field of research even with the best of reflexive methodological practices; or the issue of masculinity and gender sensitive field work, articulated by Chowdhury (2017), where focus is on a ‘male researcher studying men and male positionalities within a homosocial, homophobic, heterosexual, patriarchal setting’ (Kannabiran & Swaminathan, 2017, p. 8); the interesting and nuanced book by Chayanika Shah and others, No Outlaws in Gender Galaxy—that is based on 50 life history narratives that explored the circumstances and situations of queer PAGFB (Persons Assigned Gender Female at Birth). Among many issues it highlights how even being privileged upper class background does not protect queer persons, especially if they happen to challenge gender and sexuality norms.…”

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Interrogating Privilege: An Autoethnographic Pedagogical Exercise

Wagh

2023

Sociological Bulletin

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The article focuses on the challenges of interrogating privilege, so as to initiate a process of making classrooms space conducive to inclusive and collaborative learning. In doing so, it addresses three aspects of privilege; one, the need to make visible the ‘invisible’ presence of privilege and highlights the structures that renders it normalised and naturalised. Two, to emphasise the interrogation as a significant step towards democratising teaching and learning experience. Three, the necessity to reflect and document the pedagogical exercises essential to engage with privilege within the classrooms. The article using the autoethnographical method, places the ‘self’ at the core of interrogation and highlights the complexities of experience and the practice of self-reflexivity. In doing so the article makes an attempt to initiate a conversation on interrogation of one’s privilege as a pedagogical exercise.

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“…While our paper focuses on discourse produced by mainstream, national, international, and local media on the organizing work around relief during the COVID‐19 crisis, and its potential for perpetuating casteist oppression, we acknowledge that this discourse is not isolated, but is shaped by centuries of casteist assertions put forth by savarna activism, as documented in Dalit literature. Existing scholarship in Dalit studies that adopts an anti‐casteism orientation routinely criticizes mainstream postcolonial and sociological literature in India for being epistemologically, discursively, and empirically caste blind (Guru, 2002 ; Jangam, 2015 ; Kannabiran & Swaminathan, 2017 ; Kawade, 2019 ; Paik, 2021 ).…”

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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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Negotiating Honour by Jat and Muslim Women in Muzaffarnagar, Western Uttar Pradesh

Negotiating Honour by Jat and Muslim Women in Muzaffarnagar, Western Uttar Pradesh

Interrogating Privilege: An Autoethnographic Pedagogical Exercise

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

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