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Authors:Janaki Abraham, Dhivya Janarthanan Pages: 163 - 178 Abstract: Social Change, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 163-178, June 2024.
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Authors:Dhivya Janarthanan Pages: 208 - 228 Abstract: Social Change, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 208-228, June 2024. While the sociology and anthropology of India are replete with the thematic of caste and caste-based oppression and inequalities, the world of ethnographic film-making is largely silent on these issues. This article analyses an exception to this situation—Sangharsh: Times of Strife [Dir. Nicolas Jaoul, 2018], filmed in the late 1990s–early 2000s and revolving around activists of the Bhartiya Dalit Panthers, an anti-caste formation in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. I examine the film’s enactment of caste relations through its focus on this anti-caste movement and its activists. To this end, I attend to questions of cinematic form and structure, link the film’s representational strategies to film-making lineages, and analyse sequences in which some of the most contentious, topical issues are developed—namely, the connections between caste and labour as well as between caste, religion, and communalism. The article therein analyses the implications of these cinematic engagements to our understanding of caste relations. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-06-14T08:54:58Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241252695 Issue No:Vol. 54, No. 2 (2024)
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Authors:Sambaiah Gundimeda Pages: 304 - 307 Abstract: Social Change, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 304-307, June 2024. Gogu Shyamala, Nene Balanni: T. N. Sadalaxmi Batuku Katha [I Am the Strength: T. N. Sadalaxmi’s Life Story] (Telugu), Hyderabad Book Trust, 2011, xviii + 338 pp., ₹180, (Paperback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-06-14T08:54:58Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241258338 Issue No:Vol. 54, No. 2 (2024)
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Authors:Barbara Harriss-White Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-08-07T07:46:43Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241256734
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Authors:Puja Pal, Amit Kumar Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. The technology-driven gig-platform sector has emerged as a new source of employment generation both globally as well domestically. This recent transformation in the labour market is reshaping the nature of labour practices, labour relations, workers’ rights, and contracts. The sector has huge potential to generate millions of job opportunities by leveraging the use of digital technology. As this sector continues to generate more jobs, such jobs are portrayed as fostering economic growth, while creating ‘meaningful jobs,’ which are mutually beneficial to workers and employers in terms of providing ‘flexibility and freedom,’ ‘better earning opportunity,’ and ‘promoting social inclusion,’ by which it implies that women are increasingly equipped to find better jobs. This article critically examines the developmental roles of platform jobs which are being particularly highlighted within the policy circle, in academic literature, and tech companies through workers’ lens. It delves deeper into the discussion on those very aspects of platform jobs just listed, including the flexibility and freedom debate, workers’ income, and the gender aspect of jobs. In doing so, it carefully examines these aspects with respect to their implications on workers in terms of working conditions and regulatory aspects. The article brings out the workers’ precarity hidden within those developmental aspects of gig-platform jobs. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-08-06T10:35:17Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241257179
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Authors:Surajit Deb Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. The present contribution makes the 21st part of the Social Change Indicators series. We have considered specific social and economic issues in the preceding editions, which included vulnerable households across social classes, poverty, migration, living conditions, social protection, displacement of labour, old-age health and morbidity conditions, women’s time use patterns, intimate partner violence, household assets/indebtedness, and aspects of higher education. In this part, we provide a comparison of maternal health indicators across major states and UTs of India. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-08-06T10:34:37Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241256799
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Authors:Reitumetse Lehema, Vusilizwe Thebe Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. The Lesotho Highlands Water Project Phase II (LHWP II) implementation in Mokhotlong district has generated bitter conflict between affected communities and the Lesotho Highlands Development Authority (LHDA). This conflict has been explained in terms of dissatisfaction by affected communities over compensation. This article argues that the compensation question is complex and that the LHDA failed to appreciate the complexity of the issue. As a result, it did not grasp the realities of displacement and resettlement and treated community losses like a transaction, which could be traded off at market value. It, thus, stresses the significance of the socio-cultural element and the need to consider this for any compensation policy. The conclusion is that conflict occurred due to the gap between the compensation package and realities of losses, which could result in the impoverishment of affected households. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-08-03T04:40:54Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241263840
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Authors:Jandhyala B. G. Tilak Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Azra Razzack, Padma M. Sarangapani, and Manish Jain (Eds.), Education, Teaching, and Learning: Discourses, Cultures, and Conversations—Essays in Honour of Professor Krishna Kumar, Orient BlackSwan, 2023, 379 pp., ₹795, ISBN 9789354425615 (Paperback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-06-23T05:11:18Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241256737
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Authors:Sujit Kumar Mishra Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Pratibha Ray, Yajnaseni [Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi] (Odia), Adya Prakashani, 2012 (76th ed.), 429 pp., ₹200, ISBN: 978-81-908545-0-2 (Hardcover). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-06-09T01:29:52Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241254198
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Authors:Sarthak Kumar Das, Sambit Mallick Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Seeds are the building blocks of food security, and their free exchange amongst the farming community has formed the bedrock for maintaining genetic diversity in addition to food security and sovereignty. The appropriation of production, exchange, and marketing of seeds by the corporate over the past decades has altered the agricultural scene in the Global South. Given the conflicting perspectives, mandates, and practices of multiple stakeholders, this article attempts to critically evaluate seed policies in India considering the cultural, economic, and social undertones that characterise them. From the perspective of the sociology of science, this article attempts to trace the shifts in the decline of the ‘rural,’ erosion of national agriculture, policy gaps, and why values matter in India’s development narratives vis-à-vis science and technology solutions. Further, this article investigates, through a case study of Vrihi Community Seed Bank (CSB),1 located in the eastern state of Odisha, how CSBs are progressively being seen as a possible long-term solution to combat the diverse challenges posed by changing agro-climatic conditions, increasing corporatisation, and industrialisation of agricultural and allied practices of food production. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-06-09T01:29:23Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241257110
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Authors:Debosree Banerjee Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. K. B. Saxena (Ed.), Poverty and Deprivation: Changing Contours (Sage, 2023), 335 pp., ₹1,495, ISBN: 978-93-9137-076-3 (Hardcover). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-06-06T04:30:25Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241255256
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Authors:K. Kalyani Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. This article aims to understand the acts of resistance in the everyday music of oppressed caste communities and the repertoire of anti-caste musical performances in specific moments in history. The everyday soundscape has the potential to bring together shared experiences of displacement, casteism, and social exclusion. For dalit–bahujan singers, an engagement with music is a resource with which to ‘talk back’ to the structures of caste and to recast their identity. The practices of such musical form have also been part of the cultural transmission of an anti-caste narrative. Using printed material and oral narratives collected during fieldwork in selected regions of North India, this article explores anti-caste musical practices. It engages with the concept of ‘counterpublics’ and the implications of the term ‘anti-caste counterpublics’ for an understanding of anti-caste movements. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-22T05:06:32Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241252697
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Authors:K. V. Cybil Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Narayana Guru (1856–1928), in whose name the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam was formed in early twentieth-century Kerala, challenged the claim that brahmins made to the exclusive possession of the wisdom and practices of the Vedic and Vedantic texts. Guru did this by preaching a variant of Upanishadic philosophy and establishing temples in which he installed the deities. Drawing mainly upon the writings of a disciple, Nataraja Guru (1895–1973), this article explores the links between the spiritual and the political through a historicising perspective. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-22T05:05:33Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241252696
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Authors:Pushpesh Kumar, Sayantan Datta Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. In this article, we recount the development of an anti-caste consciousness in queer and transgender rights movements in India. We begin by tracing the history of queer mobilisation in India, especially the political participation of Hijras and the movement for decriminalisation of consensual adult homosexuality. This movement was shaped by the context of economic liberalisation and a burgeoning public health crisis due to a rise in HIV infections among several sexually minoritised groups. The movement, however, was focused on the law, and issues of caste and marginality within the queer and trans communities were not addressed. This changed in the 2000s. We trace this phase of the movement in which questions of class and non-urban geographies were foregrounded and look at the way critical moments in the second decade of the twenty-first century precipitate the foregrounding of caste questions in contemporary queer and transgender movements in India. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-17T04:53:41Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241248989
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Authors:R. Saravana Raja Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. The Vanniyar caste became an important political player in Tamil Nadu in the 1980s, a decade widely acknowledged as a crucial and interesting decade in Indian politics in general and Tamil politics in particular. The Vanniyar caste mobilisation that re-emerged in this period indicates the changes in articulation that are important to our understanding of caste politics and social movements. This article highlights the process by which Vanniyar mobilisation initially emerged to represent caste concerns and later negotiated electoral politics. This process involved going beyond caste concerns and the inclusion of issues related to language, ethnicity, concerns of backward classes, and Tamil ‘common masses.’ The article maps the dynamics in the trajectory of Vanniyar mobilisation in the 1980s by bringing to light the shifts in concerns and identity claims. It thereby points to the nature of caste mobilisation in contemporary times, particularly within the larger context of an anti-caste initiative in the form of the Dravidian movement/politics. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-13T07:04:55Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241248992
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Authors:Yaduvendra Pratap Singh Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. In the last three decades or so, there have been considerable political changes in Uttar Pradesh (UP), particularly where caste is concerned. This is linked to the anti-caste movements in the state and the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party, which is seen to address issues of Jatavs and other Scheduled Castes that had been politically marginalised. In the years since it first came to power, dalits in the city of Meerut have not witnessed the kind of brutal state aggression they did in Shergarhi after an Ambedkar statue was installed in a local park in 1994. And yet casteism and the fear of it continue to shape the everyday lives of dalits in the city. This article is based on fieldwork conducted in three neighbourhoods in Meerut city in western UP. It explores the ways Jatavs experience casteism as well as the modes of resistance and the multiple strategies employed by them to gain dignity and self-respect. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-11T06:22:19Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241248993
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Authors:Anand Chakravarti Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Manoj Mitta, Caste Pride: Battles for Equality in Hindu India, Context, 2023, xxviii + 596 pp., ₹999, ISBN 978-9-3577-6294-6 (Hardback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-11T06:21:19Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241239230
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Authors:Priya Ranjan Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Ajantha Subramanian, The Caste of Merit: Engineering Education in India, Harvard University Press, 2019, 374 pp., GBP 22.02, ISBN 978-0-6749-8788-3 (Hardback).Anna Ruddock, Special Treatment: Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Stanford University Press, 2021, 282 pp., GBP 11.69, ISBN 978-1-5036-2825-0 (Paperback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-11T06:20:40Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241245562
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Authors:Surinder S. Jodhka Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Joel Lee, Deceptive Majority: Dalits, Hinduism and Underground Religion, Cambridge University Press, 2021, xviii + 327 pp., ₹706, ISBN 978-1-10882666-2 (Paperback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-06T12:14:06Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241247438
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Authors:Surajit Deb Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. This contribution makes the 20th part of the Social Change Indicators series. In this analysis, we attempt to compare aspects of social and economic attainments for Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and Other Backward Classes across states in India. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-05-06T12:13:26Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241245168
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Authors:Seema Mahi Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Anand Teltumbde, Dalits: Past, Present and Future (2nd ed.), Routledge, 2024, 194 pp., ₹995, ISBN 9780367633233 (Paperback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-04-16T04:54:57Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241241253
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Authors:Raj Kumar Thakur Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. Jayaseelan Raj, Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt. UCL Press, 2022, 212 pp., ₹2,268, ISBN 9781800082281 (Paperback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-03-26T04:23:04Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241236849
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Authors:Jinee Lokaneeta Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. K. G. Kannabiran. The Speaking Constitution: A Sisyphean Life in Law (Translated from Telugu by Kalpana Kannabiran). Harper Collins, 2022, 340 pp., ₹699, ISBN 978-93-5629-314-4 (Paperback). Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-03-26T04:22:25Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857241236851
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Authors:Pinku Muktiar, Chandan Kumar Sharma Abstract: Social Change, Ahead of Print. The massive migration of the rural population, triggered by agrarian distress, to the more developed regions of India for lowly paid jobs in the informal sector has been one of the most striking phenomena in neoliberal India. The last two decades have also witnessed an unprecedented out-migration of rural population from the northeast Indian state of Assam to the metropolises and growth centres in other parts of India in search of livelihood. Based on a study conducted in Bengaluru among migrant workers from Assam, this article examines the networks that facilitate such out-migration, its circular nature, and their working and living conditions in the city. The remittances of the migrants provide only temporary relief to their families in the villages and despite their periodic return to the village with the intent to settle down, poverty and lack of alternative livelihood force them to migrate to the city again. The oscillation between the dehumanising conditions of their life in the city and the economic hardship in the village continues without any reprieve. Citation: Social Change PubDate: 2024-02-25T08:47:06Z DOI: 10.1177/00490857231221200
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