Ravikant Kisana
Biographic Data
| ID | 829815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ravikant Kisana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ravikant |
| FAMILY NAME | Kisana |
| SIGNATURE | KISANA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1759-7929 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Yes caste is important, (but)’
Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that caste is not a homogenising identi…
Seeking a break from home’
In 2018, Nuh, barely 75 km from India’s parliament, was ranked by the Government as the country’s most ‘backward’ district. It is a region fraught with many challenges including endemic poverty and simmering communal tensions, which among other factors have contributed to historically limiting women from pursuing higher education or building career aspirations. While the state has attempted to correct this by building new colleges, this paper exp…
The Radical in Ambedkar
The caste system in South Asia is among the oldest surviving anthropological systems of structural social exploitation. For nearly three thousand continuous years people have been segregated into occupational guilds or castes based on birth, with no possibility of mobility between these. The castes are arranged in a hierarchy with the priestly groups, called Brahmins, placed at the top. Historically, only the Brahmins were allowed to monopolize k…
No one understands what we go through’
This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health risks and needs. We document their internal negotiation of health risks, and their narratives p…
Even if I die I won’t get a holiday”
In the absence of proper legislative regulation, women domestic workers in India are vulnerable not just to low wages but are subject to a host of unfair social practices and disrespectful behavior. This is because domestic work is part of deeper and ingrained casteist and patriarchal mores and practices. As such, these workers have to deal with many indignities as part of their employment. This paper attempts to highlight the daily humiliation a…
No one understands what we go through’
This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health risks and needs. We document their internal negotiation of health risks, and their narratives p…
Seeking a break from home’
In 2018, Nuh, barely 75 km from India’s parliament, was ranked by the Government as the country’s most ‘backward’ district. It is a region fraught with many challenges including endemic poverty and simmering communal tensions, which among other factors have contributed to historically limiting women from pursuing higher education or building career aspirations. While the state has attempted to correct this by building new colleges, this paper exp…
No one understands what we go through’
This paper speaks of the women sanitation workers who are working at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in Pune city, an epicentre of rising COVID-19 cases in India. Prevailing caste and gendered norms of labour roles render the women doubly vulnerable. Within that context, we investigate how the women sanitation workers self-identify their health risks and needs. We document their internal negotiation of health risks, and their narratives p…
Even if I die I won’t get a holiday”
In the absence of proper legislative regulation, women domestic workers in India are vulnerable not just to low wages but are subject to a host of unfair social practices and disrespectful behavior. This is because domestic work is part of deeper and ingrained casteist and patriarchal mores and practices. As such, these workers have to deal with many indignities as part of their employment. This paper attempts to highlight the daily humiliation a…
Yes caste is important, (but)’
Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that caste is not a homogenising identi…
Seeking a break from home’
In 2018, Nuh, barely 75 km from India’s parliament, was ranked by the Government as the country’s most ‘backward’ district. It is a region fraught with many challenges including endemic poverty and simmering communal tensions, which among other factors have contributed to historically limiting women from pursuing higher education or building career aspirations. While the state has attempted to correct this by building new colleges, this paper exp…
The Radical in Ambedkar
The caste system in South Asia is among the oldest surviving anthropological systems of structural social exploitation. For nearly three thousand continuous years people have been segregated into occupational guilds or castes based on birth, with no possibility of mobility between these. The castes are arranged in a hierarchy with the priestly groups, called Brahmins, placed at the top. Historically, only the Brahmins were allowed to monopolize k…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (2 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works)