Identity, Rights, and Awareness
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Identity, Rights, and Awareness

Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices

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Identity, Rights, and Awareness

Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices

About this book

For over a decade, Jeremy Rinker, Ph.D. has interacted, observed, and studied Dalit anti-caste social movements in India. In this critical comparative approach to India's modern anti-caste resistance, Dr. Rinker emphasizes the complex interdependence between narrative practices and social transformation in understanding the centuries old caste basis of India's most fundamental of social conflicts. Through the comparative case study of three modern social movement organizations, this book provides a fresh lens to both better understand and potentially transform caste marginalization and oppression. Through theoretical analysis, auto-ethnographic field notes, and narrative storytelling, Dr. Rinker brings the lived experience of modern Dalits to life for a Western reader unfamiliar with the entrenched nature of India's complex caste dynamics. The book is also written for anti-caste activists in that it endeavors to develop reflective practice insights into activists' own sense and use of narrative agency. A timely reappraisal of Indian anti-caste movement infighting and ideological discord, this book will be of interest to both students of South Asian caste and those that want to better understand injustice narration as an important means of structural change. With sharp analysis and insight Identity, Rights, and Awareness: Anticaste Activism in India and the Awakening of Justice through Discursive Practices will be of interest to scholars of South Asian studies as well as activists working for conflict transformation and peace.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. 1 Caste and Anticaste Identity
  5. 2 Narrative Violence and Injustice Awareness
  6. 3 Doing Strategy in Indian Anticaste Activism
  7. 4 Fostering Dalit Buddhist Identity
  8. 5 All-India Rise Up
  9. 6 Narrative Testimony as Rights Agitation
  10. Conclusion
  11. Epilogue
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index
  14. About the Author