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Voices from the Periphery: Subalternity and Empowerment in India

Voices from the Periphery: Subalternity and Empowerment in India

Carrin, Marine
Guzy, Lidia

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138662453
ISBN13: 9781138662452
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Jan 21 2016
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In India as elsewhere, peripheries have frequently been viewed through the eyes of the centre. This book aims at reversing the gaze, presenting the perspectives of low castes, tribes, or other subalterns in a way that amplifies their ability to voice their own concerns.

This volume takes a multidimensional perspective, citing political, economic and cultural factors as expressions of the autonomous assertions of these groups. Questioning the exclusive definitions of the Brahmanical, folk and tribal elements, the articles bring together the empowering possibilities enabled by three recent theoretical developments: of anthropologies questioning the fringes of mainstream society in India; critically engaged histories from below, which problematize subaltern identities; and a conceptual emphasis on everyday ethnography as an arena for negotiations and transactions which contest wider networks of power and hegemony.

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