Promissory Capital: State Legitimacy among Women Community Health Workers in India

Marwah, Vrinda

doi:10.1007/s11133-021-09487-y

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“…The suspense of the possibility of getting the government job fuelled fantastical attachments to it and eventually led to eroding a sense of the present. The wait was ad infinitum in the hope of that an eventual sweet victory embodied by a sarkari naukri (government employment) (Marwah, 2021). But this experience of suspense was different for my interlocutors.…”

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Feminization of the Health and Care Workforce in India and South Asia: Implications for Women’s Labor and Decent Work

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Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance

Silliman Bhattacharjee

2024

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Across the globe, people who mobilize to protect their rights in highly oppressive contexts may have to navigate government institutions that not only fail to implement protections but also engage in discriminatory practices. This article introduces the term “circumventive legal resistance” to describe practices of making legally grounded claims but facilitating relief through processes of expression and negotiation that are distinct from explicit mechanisms of legal enforcement. Based upon a study of twenty-seven rural, semi-rural, and urban areas across the north and north-west regions of India, this article documents how Dalit women—from the most marginalized groups at the base of the caste pyramid—mobilize to protect their rights in contexts where local institutions do not enforce laws prohibiting caste discrimination and instead perpetrate caste-based forced labor practices. In particular, I focus on a campaign to end manual scavenging—a form of caste-based forced labor that is one of the worst surviving symbols of untouchability. With local channels to legal relief largely foreclosed, Dalit women who leave manual scavenging engage in circumventive legal resistance: they draw on law to make claims but win relief through avenues distinct from those envisioned within the parameters of the law.

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Promissory Capital: State Legitimacy among Women Community Health Workers in India

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

Book review: Abhishek Saha, No Land’s People: The Untold Story of Assam’s NRC Crisis

Book review: Abhishek Saha, No Land’s People: The Untold Story of Assam’s NRC Crisis

Feminization of the Health and Care Workforce in India and South Asia: Implications for Women’s Labor and Decent Work

Contesting Caste: Institutionalized Oppression and Circumventive Legal Resistance

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