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Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and DemocracyResisting the Destruction of Social Reproduction: Dalit women’s Struggle in South India

Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy: Resisting the Destruction of... [This chapter is about a women-led struggle against a particular form of destruction of social reproduction. For more than three decades, Dalit rural women, most of them landless, fought to maintain the possibility of making their livelihood, and more broadly sustaining life, on their own territory. We describe how a common identity around the preservation of their livelihood on their territory and more broadly on the will to fight has emerged. We analyse the embeddedness of the struggle into caste, class, gender, space and time. We analyse the multiple ways through which women have slowly constructed themselves as political subjects, and the key role of emotions in this. We also analyse the contradictions of the State, both main supporter and main opponent of women’s struggles.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and DemocracyResisting the Destruction of Social Reproduction: Dalit women’s Struggle in South India

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Verschuur, Christine; Guérin, Isabelle; Hillenkamp, Isabelle
Guérin, Isabelle; Kumar, Santosh; Venkatasubramanian, G.
Social Reproduction, Solidarity Economy, Feminisms and Democracy — Sep 7, 2021
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-71530-4
Pages
87 –117
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-71531-1_5
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Abstract

[This chapter is about a women-led struggle against a particular form of destruction of social reproduction. For more than three decades, Dalit rural women, most of them landless, fought to maintain the possibility of making their livelihood, and more broadly sustaining life, on their own territory. We describe how a common identity around the preservation of their livelihood on their territory and more broadly on the will to fight has emerged. We analyse the embeddedness of the struggle into caste, class, gender, space and time. We analyse the multiple ways through which women have slowly constructed themselves as political subjects, and the key role of emotions in this. We also analyse the contradictions of the State, both main supporter and main opponent of women’s struggles.]

Published: Sep 7, 2021

Keywords: Territory; Sand mining; Solidarity; Caste; Gender; Tamil Nadu; Social reproduction; Emotions

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