Caste, Body and Dalit Politics - Sociology - Lecture Slides, Slides of Sociology

Download Caste, Body and Dalit Politics - Sociology - Lecture Slides and more Slides Sociology in PDF only on Docsity! ‘Now we too can twirl our moustaches’: Caste, The Body and Dalit Politics in Tamil Nadu Docsity.com Caste: Given or Made? • Deistic models: – Brahma’s Body: Top down; Zero sum; Static • Continuous creation models: – Occupation, Exclusion: Bottom up; Productive; Dynamic Docsity.com Foucault: Technologies of Power “Resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” Resistance is internal to power Unstable identities Permanent process Overt coercion The suffering body Pride and shame Docsity.com Re-Thinking Power • “Not a history of mentalities” • Mechanisms of Power and Political anatomy: – Power relations work in and through bodies: stimulating, disciplining, ordering, signifying, censuring, sexing, classing, aging, racing them – Subjectivity arises later and is always a collective achievement – Power does not exist independently of interaction: the ‘origins’ of power cannot be conceived outside the mechanisms exercised in relationships Docsity.com Essential Attributes of Caste? • Birth • Occupation • Pollution • Interaction • Seeing the Shanars – Caste Change – Breastcloth Controversy Docsity.com