Making Political Solidarity: Kinship and Care among Dalit Feminist Activists
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Hariharan, Anusha
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract
- In this thesis, I examine the everyday life and labors of Dalit feminist activists in Tamil Nadu, India. I demonstrate that ‘political solidarity’ among this community of activists is forged through idioms of consanguineal, affinal, as well as ‘fictive’ kinship. I argue that political solidarity is consolidated through practices of care, that often circulate as indebtedness. I illustrate how a movement for social justice is a site of social reproduction, intending to nurture further generations of Dalit activists. By situation this ethnographic research against the backdrop of neoliberalism in India, I show how the meaning of ‘activism’ has changed across generations of kin, resulting in what I call, ‘activist anxiety’. Ultimately, I contend that these anxieties circle back to how older generations of activists are cared for pointing to the infrastructure that both makes, and unmakes, a movement for social justice.
- Date of publication
- December 2017
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- Middleton, Townsend
- Chua, Jocelyn
- Price, Charles
- Degree
- Master of Arts
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
- Graduation year
- 2017
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