This article analyzes the online political discourse of the international Dalit Solidarity networ... more This article analyzes the online political discourse of the international Dalit Solidarity network (iDSn, www.idsn.org), an international network organization working to eliminate caste discrimination through the engagement of multiple stakeholders, including civil society, Un and eU institutions and governments. iDSn was founded in March 2000, and operates out of Denmark. its members and associates include international human rights groups such as Human rights Watch and anti-Slavery international, development agencies, national Dalit solidarity networks in europe, and national platforms in india, nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. iDSn also works to raise public awareness of caste discrimination and mobilize public opinion on a global platform, and increase political pressure. This organization serves as a catalyst for linking the Dalit struggle against casteism with the social forum process and the global justice movement. Caste discrimination has always been a subject of human right...
This article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups ... more This article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups to highlight inspirational stories of bottom-up change across rural India. These agential narratives are featured in the community-run alternative digital media portal, Video Volunteer’s series, “Videos that Created Change.” I contend that marginalized groups’ articulation of structural change against systemic oppression takes the form of vernacular discursive practices, which foreground place-based identities and regional languages. Such newly emerging digital media practices have the potential to disrupt the hegemonic mainstream template of marginalized citizens’ abject victimhood.
This article analyzes the online political discourse of the international Dalit Solidarity networ... more This article analyzes the online political discourse of the international Dalit Solidarity network (iDSn, www.idsn.org), an international network organization working to eliminate caste discrimination through the engagement of multiple stakeholders, including civil society, Un and eU institutions and governments. iDSn was founded in March 2000, and operates out of Denmark. its members and associates include international human rights groups such as Human rights Watch and anti-Slavery international, development agencies, national Dalit solidarity networks in europe, and national platforms in india, nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan. iDSn also works to raise public awareness of caste discrimination and mobilize public opinion on a global platform, and increase political pressure. This organization serves as a catalyst for linking the Dalit struggle against casteism with the social forum process and the global justice movement. Caste discrimination has always been a subject of human right...
This article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups ... more This article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups to highlight inspirational stories of bottom-up change across rural India. These agential narratives are featured in the community-run alternative digital media portal, Video Volunteer’s series, “Videos that Created Change.” I contend that marginalized groups’ articulation of structural change against systemic oppression takes the form of vernacular discursive practices, which foreground place-based identities and regional languages. Such newly emerging digital media practices have the potential to disrupt the hegemonic mainstream template of marginalized citizens’ abject victimhood.
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