Human Rights as Practice
Dalit Women Securing Livelihood Entitlements in South India
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ISBN:
9780198095453
Publication date:
14/01/2014
Hardback
312 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Price: 850.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198095453
Publication date:
14/01/2014
Hardback
312 pages
216.0x140.0mm
Jayshree P. Mangubhai
Suitable for: This book will be of interest to teachers and students of sociology, development studies, subaltern-Dalit studies, political sociology, women's studies, and social movements. It would also have a good regional market in southern India.
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Jayshree P. Mangubhai
Description
Based on rich ethnographic fieldwork across three villages in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Human Rights as Practice captures and examines the processes and struggles Dalit women engage in to secure or protect livelihood entitlements such as housing, land, and work. By focusing on the power dynamics between state and non-state actors and these women, the author brings to the fore their strife and agency while negotiating social exclusion. Jayshree P. Mangubhai emphasizes the need to factor issues of culture, status, identity, and unequal power relations into livelihood entitlement struggles. Straddling a broad canvas of socio-economic and civil–political rights, this book highlights the importance of linking human rights and the praxis of grassroots social movements.
Jayshree P. Mangubhai
Table of contents
CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Situating Dalit Women Within Rights and Development
1. Collective Action, Exclusion, and Entitlements
2. Political Responses to Social Exclusion and Discrimination: State Discourses and Practices
3. Asserting the Right to Adequate Housing: Kovilur Village
4. Ongoing Struggle for Land Entitlement: Vettriyur Village
5. Uneven Political Economics of an Entitlement Struggle: Mallibakkam Village
Conclusion : Human Rights as Practice—Agency, Power, and Strategies
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Jayshree P. Mangubhai
Jayshree P. Mangubhai
Description
Based on rich ethnographic fieldwork across three villages in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Human Rights as Practice captures and examines the processes and struggles Dalit women engage in to secure or protect livelihood entitlements such as housing, land, and work. By focusing on the power dynamics between state and non-state actors and these women, the author brings to the fore their strife and agency while negotiating social exclusion. Jayshree P. Mangubhai emphasizes the need to factor issues of culture, status, identity, and unequal power relations into livelihood entitlement struggles. Straddling a broad canvas of socio-economic and civil–political rights, this book highlights the importance of linking human rights and the praxis of grassroots social movements.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Situating Dalit Women Within Rights and Development
1. Collective Action, Exclusion, and Entitlements
2. Political Responses to Social Exclusion and Discrimination: State Discourses and Practices
3. Asserting the Right to Adequate Housing: Kovilur Village
4. Ongoing Struggle for Land Entitlement: Vettriyur Village
5. Uneven Political Economics of an Entitlement Struggle: Mallibakkam Village
Conclusion : Human Rights as Practice—Agency, Power, and Strategies
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
