Understanding Economic Inequality Through the Lens of Caste

Bapuji, Hari; Chrispal, Snehanjali

doi:10.1007/s10551-018-3998-8

Cited by 82 publications

(30 citation statements)

References 77 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The work of deep care for marginalized communities has been a way for marginalized groups, especially women at the intersections of various oppressive axes, to mark their presence in the realm of work and organization (Bapuji & Chrispal, 2020 ; Raman, 2020 ). The scholarship on work and organizations conceptualizes care as paid carework instead of care as an expression of caring for the collective.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Banerjee

Khandelwal

Sanyal

2022

Gender Work & Organization

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

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 .

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Banerjee

Khandelwal

Sanyal

2022

Gender Work & Organization

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The Indian society is a complex society with an interactive role of multiple identities, with caste identity being one of the most unique. While the caste system is a historical and overarching reality, it does not function in isolation but in interaction with variables such as political power (e.g., caste-based composition of bureaucracy; Gorringe, 2017;Vithayathil, 2018), economic power (e.g., caste groups as financial networks; Mosse, 2020), wealth (e.g., differential endowment of financial resources; Bapuji & Chrispal, 2020;Gupta, 2005), and regional identity (e.g., sociopolitical practices of different castes in rural vs. urban areas; Borooah, 2017;Sankaran et al, 2017;Singh et al, 2019). It would be interesting to investigate whether other multiethnic societies that have undergone transition processes concerning power and hierarchy (from more vertical to more horizontal relations) might report similar findings of no differences in cooperation with regard to specific ingroups/ outgroups.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Tiwari

Ścigała

Schild

et al. 2021

Asian J of Social Psycho

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Ingroup/outgroup categorisation is a repeatedly found phenomenon. Given the long‐standing caste system, the Indian societal structure provides a unique perspective on such social categorisation. The Indian caste system contains hereditarily inherited identity roles defining profession and status‐based hierarchies. In this preregistered experiment, we investigate the influence of caste‐based identity on cooperation using a (hypothetical) Prisoner’s Dilemma. Specifically, Indian participants (N = 685) were paired with a (hypothetical) other in a Prisoner’s Dilemma, whose last name reflected either a general caste (i.e., a “high” caste) or a backward (“lower”) caste including the scheduled caste, scheduled tribe, and other backward classes. Because participants indicated belonging to a general or a backward caste themselves, they thus played the (hypothetical) Prisoner’s Dilemma with either a member of the same or a different caste group. We did not find that the partner’s caste group membership in terms of stemming from an ingroup (same caste) or outgroup (different caste) influenced participants’ cooperation. Further, we found participants from the general caste to be more cooperative when paired with (hypothetical) backward caste others (outgroup), compared to backward caste participants when paired with (hypothetical) general caste participants (outgroup); however, this difference disappeared once controlling for other demographic characteristics.

show abstract

“…Income provides a flow of economic resources to individuals and households and dictates the budget available for food. Across the world, wealth and pay gaps have been observed with respect to gender, race, ethnicity, age, religion, caste, and body size (201)(202)(203)(204)(205)(206)(207)(208)(209)(210). Both the level and the stability of income flows are important for yearround access to healthy foods.…”

Section: Economic Resourcesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Inequity in access to healthy foods

Schneider¹,

Bellows²,

Downs³

et al. 2023

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with governments, businesses and civil society, we aim to transform food systems so that they deliver more nutritious food for all people, especially the most vulnerable. ABOUT FSECThe Food System Economics Commission (FSEC) is an independent academic commission set up to analyse the economics of a sustainable food system transformation and to identify a feasible agenda for implementing positive change. Our goal is to present lessons and feasible options for economic decisionmakers on what needs to be done to ensure a more inclusive, healthier, and nature-positive future for our food systems, by drawing on the best scientific analysis from economics and across the social sciences.

show abstract

Understanding Economic Inequality Through the Lens of Caste

Cited by 82 publications

References 77 publications

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

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

Indian caste names and cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma

Inequity in access to healthy foods

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About