Buscar recursos académicos

Materias / palabras clave: Caste; Tamil Nadu; Dravidian Politics; Equality; Histories of Caste; Subaltern

In recent times, several claims have been made before Indian courts to seek the change of one’s first name or surname. Such claims are being made for many different reasons out of which one reason stands out which is t...

This article examines the representation of caste, labour, and marginality in Turning the Pot, Tilling the Land: Dignity of Labour in Our Times and Disaibon Hul: The Call of the Bending Sky through the theoretical lenses...

 Pudhumaipithan, born in the early half of the 1900s, is well known for his satirical short stories that poke fun at contemporary Tamil society. Pudhumaipithan is a revolutionary writer for his satires of the fundamenta...

This article engages Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (1995), one of the earliest ethnographies to foreground a Dalit woman’s voice, marking thirty years since its publication. Viramma’s oral testimonies in this work ...

The empirical ordering of the upper castes through scriptural doctrines delegitimized the subaltern epistemology and impeded the possibility of any form of resistance. The article finds relevance in delving deep into the...

The tea plantations of Assam, remnants of the British Raj in postcolonial India, comprise an important epistemic site for interrogating transformations in the ancient caste system within Indian modernity. Two theoretical...

Recensión del libro de Jorge Castellanos Claramunt: La participación ciudadana en el ámbito local. La integración democrática de lo local y de lo global en la era digital, Valencia, Corts Valencianes, 2020.

This article examines social boycott as a contemporary form of caste power in rural Telangana society and economy, focusing on the role of Village Development Committees (VDCs) originating from the informal caste council...

En este artículo se examina la complejidad y los desafíos de la práctica del tequio y su representación en la novela bilingüe Laxdao yelazeralle/El corazón de los deseos del escritor zapoteco Javier Castellanos. Si...

This article explores the process of caste stigma and questions about its reliability. The Chandals were a social group primarily comprising the aboriginal peoples of the Indian subcontinent, later placed at the bottom o...

This article examines how B.R. Ambedkar deployed three interconnected Buddhist philosophical categories—swayambhu (self-becoming), skandha (aggregates), and anattā (selflessness)—to construct a systematic critique o...

Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted from 2022 to 2024 in two urban villages in Delhi, I investigate how Dalit women’s laughter functions as a powerful site of anti-caste resistance and feminist praxis. Moving...

Corrections to Castelli 2022:1.

The behavioral response of a parasitoid shows the effect on host parasitism patterns at a given host distribution. As a result, an increase or decrease in parasitism intensity according to local host densities is found. ...

This article explores Karukku, the groundbreaking autobiography by Dalit Christian writer Bama, through the lens of cultural ambivalence and Dalit identity. It critically examines how Bama navigates the intersection of c...

Panochthus frenzelianus was described by Ameghino in 1889 based on a skull, mandible, cephalic shield, osteoderms from the posteriormost rows of carapace, and caudal rings. Unfortunately, the type specimen was not specif...

Materias / palabras clave: Hope; solidarity; Ambedkar; anti-caste; Book review; Resistance

Background : The reduced levels of circulating ADAMTS13 antigen (Ag), at first presentation in patients (P) with non- inhibitory antibodies (ab), appear to be a major determinant of disease severity in aTTP (Thomas, 2015...

The use of unmanned aircraft systems to collect data for photogrammetry models has grown significantly in recent years. The accuracy of a photogrammetric model can depend on image georeferencing. The distance from a refe...

In the year 2019 were celebrated the thousand years of the founda- tion of the Zalavár Benedictine Monastery under the Patrocinium of Saint Hadrian the Martyr on the western shore of the Lake Balaton in Hungary, and thi...

This article analyses oppressive familial dynamics through memory in The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. The research employs Antonio Gramsci’s notion of cultural hegemony and Sigmund Freud’s concept of repress...

This article reconstructs B.R. Ambedkar as a philologist by engaging with three different strands of his scholarship. First, it traces his work on language in general and his construction of Pali as a language emblematic...

The genetic diversity was analyzed among spotted paca (Agouti paca) from three commercial flocks located in Brazil. As the genome of this species is unknown, the RAPD-PCR technique was used. Ten primers generated sixty p...