Human Rights As Practice
Subtitle: Dalit Women Securing Livelihood Entitlements in South India
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780198095453
Subjects: Dalits; Marginality, social; Women, india; Women, social conditions
Description: This study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in three villages in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where Dalit women engage in struggles to secure or protect livelihood entitlements such as housing land or work. The research examines the processes of these women organising and evolving collective action strategies to claim access to and control over livelihood resources in different contexts where they face social exclusion.