This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative actio... more This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative action programmes, as well as to unpack the veil of merit and provide justifications for affirmative action for the underprivileged in Kerala. For this purpose, Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and its origin would be introduced as the central focus of analysis. Next, hate campaigns through social media against affirmative action and misconceptions about merit will be introduced briefly. Second, this article will present the implications of Bourdieu's concepts for affirmative action in India. Third, it will critically explore how caste system creates different fields for the reproduction of cultural capital with family habitus and the circulation of capital in different forms on behalf of the dominant communities. Fourth, the relative aspect of merit regarding the caste bound traditional occupational culture will be discussed. Fifth, this article will critically analyse the extent to which dominant communities reproduce embodied cultural capital historically and claim privileges in political engagements. To conclude, some recommendations to deal with anti-affirmative action mind-sets in relation to merit will be presented.
This article seeks to develop a critical perspective on silence, dialogue, and oppression in out-... more This article seeks to develop a critical perspective on silence, dialogue, and oppression in out-of-school education, in dialogue with Freire. It also shows how my classroom experiences or fieldwork incidents mediated this dialogue. Freire's concept of problem-posing education has been chosen as the central theoretical framework; that further informed me to develop a dialogical methodology for researching oppression and marginalisation with the Adivasi community in Southern Wayanad in Kerala. The article also explores the complexities of applying Freirean in forming dialogue with participants. My research led me to partially critique Freire, partially apply Freire and partially extend Freire into Kerala's context of out-of-school education. This article primarily explores the practices of silence and dialogue outside classrooms and shows how they form a dialogue with Freire or related scholars. Following that dialogue, it then revisits Freire to identify silence and dialogue as meeting practices and their oscillation in research and community work. The major outcomes of these dialogues and this article include: 'silence and dialogue as oscillating meeting
This article raises the following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) p... more This article raises the following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) perspective of Hindu society as a myth; Durkheim's (1979) interpretations of absence of crime as pathology, suicide as social phenomenon; and Freire's (2000) theme of 'banking education as patronization' to get a richer perspective of the reality.
• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
This article raisesthe following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) pe... more This article raisesthe following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) perspective of Hindu society as a myth; Durkheim's (1979) interpretations of absence of crime as pathology, suicide as social phenomenon; and Freire's (2000) theme of 'banking education as patronization' to get a richer perspective of the reality.
• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
• To what extent does Kerala's media discussion about Rohith and caste-exclusion itself contribute to exclusionary spaces and patronizing interventions?
This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative actio... more This article aims to offer a theoretical critique of the propaganda against the affirmative action programmes, as well as to unpack the veil of merit and provide justifications for affirmative action for the underprivileged in Kerala. For this purpose, Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital and its origin would be introduced as the central focus of analysis. Next, hate campaigns through social media against affirmative action and misconceptions about merit will be introduced briefly. Second, this article will present the implications of Bourdieu's concepts for affirmative action in India. Third, it will critically explore how caste system creates different fields for the reproduction of cultural capital with family habitus and the circulation of capital in different forms on behalf of the dominant communities. Fourth, the relative aspect of merit regarding the caste bound traditional occupational culture will be discussed. Fifth, this article will critically analyse the extent to which dominant communities reproduce embodied cultural capital historically and claim privileges in political engagements. To conclude, some recommendations to deal with anti-affirmative action mind-sets in relation to merit will be presented.
This article seeks to develop a critical perspective on silence, dialogue, and oppression in out-... more This article seeks to develop a critical perspective on silence, dialogue, and oppression in out-of-school education, in dialogue with Freire. It also shows how my classroom experiences or fieldwork incidents mediated this dialogue. Freire's concept of problem-posing education has been chosen as the central theoretical framework; that further informed me to develop a dialogical methodology for researching oppression and marginalisation with the Adivasi community in Southern Wayanad in Kerala. The article also explores the complexities of applying Freirean in forming dialogue with participants. My research led me to partially critique Freire, partially apply Freire and partially extend Freire into Kerala's context of out-of-school education. This article primarily explores the practices of silence and dialogue outside classrooms and shows how they form a dialogue with Freire or related scholars. Following that dialogue, it then revisits Freire to identify silence and dialogue as meeting practices and their oscillation in research and community work. The major outcomes of these dialogues and this article include: 'silence and dialogue as oscillating meeting
This article raises the following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) p... more This article raises the following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) perspective of Hindu society as a myth; Durkheim's (1979) interpretations of absence of crime as pathology, suicide as social phenomenon; and Freire's (2000) theme of 'banking education as patronization' to get a richer perspective of the reality.
• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
This article raisesthe following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) pe... more This article raisesthe following questions in three sub-sections: drawing on Ambedkar's (1944) perspective of Hindu society as a myth; Durkheim's (1979) interpretations of absence of crime as pathology, suicide as social phenomenon; and Freire's (2000) theme of 'banking education as patronization' to get a richer perspective of the reality.
• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
• To what extent does Kerala's media discussion about Rohith and caste-exclusion itself contribute to exclusionary spaces and patronizing interventions?
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• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
• To what extent does Kerala's media discussion about Rohith and caste-exclusion itself contribute to exclusionary spaces and patronizing interventions?
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• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
• To what extent does Kerala's media discussion about Rohith and caste-exclusion itself contribute to exclusionary spaces and patronizing interventions?
• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
• To what extent does Kerala's media discussion about Rohith and caste-exclusion itself contribute to exclusionary spaces and patronizing interventions?
See more at
http://roundtableindia.co.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8514%3Arohith-vemula-the-antecedents-and-aftermaths-of-his-institutional-murder&catid=119%3Afeature&Itemid=132
• To what extent are Rohith's protests against the 'Hindutva' politics mutually related to the socio-political factors leading to his suicide?
• To what extent does Rohith's suicide become a social and political act beyond an individual act?
• To what extent does Kerala's media discussion about Rohith and caste-exclusion itself contribute to exclusionary spaces and patronizing interventions?