Meena Dhanda
Biographic Data
| ID | 312754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Meena Dhanda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Meena |
| FAMILY NAME | Dhanda |
| SIGNATURE | DHANDA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wolverhampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1146-7816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Race and/or caste: What is at stake
This brief response raises a few key questions emerging from Suraj Yengde's lecture and suggests a critical direction they can be steered towards. It considers in what sense caste may deserve an epistemology of its own. It suggests that we must look at what is at stake in answering the conundrum of which framework to use as primary, though a comparison between anti-racism and anti-casteism is preferable to one between race and caste. A continuing…
Collective Action against Graded Inequality: Lessons from Ambedkar and Sartre
This essay juxtaposes the South Asian system of social hierarchies, conceptualized by Babasaheb Ambedkar as “graded inequality” with “serial relations” as conceptualized by Jean-Paul Sartre. Collective action against casteism faces internal problems. The complex psychological dynamics preserved over millennia through caste systems prevent solidarities across castes. The notion of “seriality” helps us to understand the material limitations placed …
Freedom From Caste: New Beginnings in Transdisciplinary Scholarship
The ten papers included in this special issue of J-Caste on 'Freedom From Caste: Anti-Caste Thought, Politics and Culture' are a culmination of a long process of selection. We received fifty-five abstracts to a call for papers issued in February 2021. We had invited academic papers focusing on the anti-caste thought of important theorists, thinkers and movements in South Asia. In recent scholarship, new critical works have engaged extensively wit…
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism
The article considers three interlocking ways in which we can understand the concurrence of anti‐racism and anti‐casteism in the Indian diaspora. First, at the level of experience—of UK activists and campaigners—it has been found that the concurrence of anti‐racism and anti‐casteism is not conclusively determined at this level. Second, by a juxtaposition of the conceptual apparatus of ‘caste’ and ‘race’ the article considers the fault lines—illum…
"Resisting a "Digital Green Revolution: Agri-logistics, India's New Farm Laws and the Regional Politics of Protest
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Capitalism Nature Socialism, on 27/07/2021, accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2021.1936917 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Confronting Denials of Casteism: An Interview with Prof. Meena Dhanda, a UK-Based Anti-caste Academic Activist
Punjab
Ensuring protection against caste discrimination in Britain: Should the Equality Act 2010 be extended
Section 97 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 requires the addition of caste to the Equality Act 2010 by secondary legislation as ‘an aspect of’ the protected characteristic of race; but despite being mandated, no secondary legislation has been introduced and the addition of caste remains contested by some academics, civil society organizations and politicians who question the adequacy of any definition of caste, the estimates of th…
Punjabi dalit youth: Social dynamics of transitions in identity
This article is based on interviews with young urban dalits in the Indian Punjab and Wolverhampton, UK, and aims to chart their experience of caste border crossings in personal relationships. It links their narratives to the larger political economic context of their respective locations. It suggests that, perhaps due to their preoccupation with economic independence, dalit youth in Punjab are less concerned about maintaining caste borders in mar…
What does the hatred/fear of the veil hide
This paper explores the confusion in values that underpin the stereotyping of ‘the Muslim woman’. From the point of view of the ‘woman who veils’, it addresses the idea of strategic self‐presentation geared by the logic of negotiation. Avoiding any uncritical celebration of such play of identities, it also engages with the internal struggle for self‐definition typified by feminist criticisms of the patriarchal control of women's bodies. It points…
Punjabi dalit youth: Social dynamics of transitions in identity
This article is based on interviews with young urban dalits in the Indian Punjab and Wolverhampton, UK, and aims to chart their experience of caste border crossings in personal relationships. It links their narratives to the larger political economic context of their respective locations. It suggests that, perhaps due to their preoccupation with economic independence, dalit youth in Punjab are less concerned about maintaining caste borders in mar…
"Resisting a "Digital Green Revolution: Agri-logistics, India's New Farm Laws and the Regional Politics of Protest
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Capitalism Nature Socialism, on 27/07/2021, accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2021.1936917 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Ensuring protection against caste discrimination in Britain: Should the Equality Act 2010 be extended
Section 97 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 requires the addition of caste to the Equality Act 2010 by secondary legislation as ‘an aspect of’ the protected characteristic of race; but despite being mandated, no secondary legislation has been introduced and the addition of caste remains contested by some academics, civil society organizations and politicians who question the adequacy of any definition of caste, the estimates of th…
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism
The article considers three interlocking ways in which we can understand the concurrence of anti‐racism and anti‐casteism in the Indian diaspora. First, at the level of experience—of UK activists and campaigners—it has been found that the concurrence of anti‐racism and anti‐casteism is not conclusively determined at this level. Second, by a juxtaposition of the conceptual apparatus of ‘caste’ and ‘race’ the article considers the fault lines—illum…
What does the hatred/fear of the veil hide
This paper explores the confusion in values that underpin the stereotyping of ‘the Muslim woman’. From the point of view of the ‘woman who veils’, it addresses the idea of strategic self‐presentation geared by the logic of negotiation. Avoiding any uncritical celebration of such play of identities, it also engages with the internal struggle for self‐definition typified by feminist criticisms of the patriarchal control of women's bodies. It points…
Punjabi dalit youth: Social dynamics of transitions in identity
This article is based on interviews with young urban dalits in the Indian Punjab and Wolverhampton, UK, and aims to chart their experience of caste border crossings in personal relationships. It links their narratives to the larger political economic context of their respective locations. It suggests that, perhaps due to their preoccupation with economic independence, dalit youth in Punjab are less concerned about maintaining caste borders in mar…
Ensuring protection against caste discrimination in Britain: Should the Equality Act 2010 be extended
Section 97 of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 requires the addition of caste to the Equality Act 2010 by secondary legislation as ‘an aspect of’ the protected characteristic of race; but despite being mandated, no secondary legislation has been introduced and the addition of caste remains contested by some academics, civil society organizations and politicians who question the adequacy of any definition of caste, the estimates of th…
"Resisting a "Digital Green Revolution: Agri-logistics, India's New Farm Laws and the Regional Politics of Protest
This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by Routledge in Capitalism Nature Socialism, on 27/07/2021, accessible here: https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2021.1936917 \nThe accepted version of the publication may differ from the final published version
Confronting Denials of Casteism: An Interview with Prof. Meena Dhanda, a UK-Based Anti-caste Academic Activist
Punjab
Collective Action against Graded Inequality: Lessons from Ambedkar and Sartre
This essay juxtaposes the South Asian system of social hierarchies, conceptualized by Babasaheb Ambedkar as “graded inequality” with “serial relations” as conceptualized by Jean-Paul Sartre. Collective action against casteism faces internal problems. The complex psychological dynamics preserved over millennia through caste systems prevent solidarities across castes. The notion of “seriality” helps us to understand the material limitations placed …
Freedom From Caste: New Beginnings in Transdisciplinary Scholarship
The ten papers included in this special issue of J-Caste on 'Freedom From Caste: Anti-Caste Thought, Politics and Culture' are a culmination of a long process of selection. We received fifty-five abstracts to a call for papers issued in February 2021. We had invited academic papers focusing on the anti-caste thought of important theorists, thinkers and movements in South Asia. In recent scholarship, new critical works have engaged extensively wit…
The Concurrence of Anti‐Racism and Anti‐Casteism
The article considers three interlocking ways in which we can understand the concurrence of anti‐racism and anti‐casteism in the Indian diaspora. First, at the level of experience—of UK activists and campaigners—it has been found that the concurrence of anti‐racism and anti‐casteism is not conclusively determined at this level. Second, by a juxtaposition of the conceptual apparatus of ‘caste’ and ‘race’ the article considers the fault lines—illum…
Race and/or caste: What is at stake
This brief response raises a few key questions emerging from Suraj Yengde's lecture and suggests a critical direction they can be steered towards. It considers in what sense caste may deserve an epistemology of its own. It suggests that we must look at what is at stake in answering the conundrum of which framework to use as primary, though a comparison between anti-racism and anti-casteism is preferable to one between race and caste. A continuing…
Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Caste (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (3 works)