Dhivya Janarthanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1268065 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dhivya Janarthanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dhivya |
| FAMILY NAME | Janarthanan |
| SIGNATURE | JANARTHANAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Views From an Anti-Caste Movement
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…
Anti-Caste Movements, Resistance, and Caste
Learning and Everyday Life
Lave, Jean. Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 187 pages. An article from journal Anthropologica (Dignity, Conviviality, Moral Contests of Belonging), on Érudit
Beyond contiguity
The contiguity of the divine, the human, and the object is routinely noted in scholarship on South Asia. In this article, I re-examine this model of contiguity by focusing on the vandalism of what I term a caste-iconic statue in 2008 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and track the effects of this incident in a village and on its caste groups until 2015. Beyond contiguity, I here offer a relational approach to studying space, caste, and statues
Beyond contiguity
The contiguity of the divine, the human, and the object is routinely noted in scholarship on South Asia. In this article, I re-examine this model of contiguity by focusing on the vandalism of what I term a caste-iconic statue in 2008 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and track the effects of this incident in a village and on its caste groups until 2015. Beyond contiguity, I here offer a relational approach to studying space, caste, and statues
Learning and Everyday Life
Lave, Jean. Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 187 pages. An article from journal Anthropologica (Dignity, Conviviality, Moral Contests of Belonging), on Érudit
Beyond contiguity
The contiguity of the divine, the human, and the object is routinely noted in scholarship on South Asia. In this article, I re-examine this model of contiguity by focusing on the vandalism of what I term a caste-iconic statue in 2008 in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, and track the effects of this incident in a village and on its caste groups until 2015. Beyond contiguity, I here offer a relational approach to studying space, caste, and statues
Views From an Anti-Caste Movement
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…
Anti-Caste Movements, Resistance, and Caste
Sociology (4 works) · Caste (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · South Asian Cinema and Culture (2 works)