"Now We Will Have the Dalit Perspective": Dissecting the Politics of Identity
This article seeks to resolve the present impasse within Dalit theology generated by an overreliance on and undertheorizing of the question of Dalit identity. It argues that the implicit location of Dalit theology as a theology of identity does a disservice to Dalit theology itself. Rather, what is...
| Subtitles: | Global Manifestations of Racism Today |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2020]
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
Year: 2020, Volume: 72, Issue: 1, Pages: 116-127 |
| IxTheo Classification: | FD Contextual theology KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Dalit theology
B fluid identities B Subalternity B India |
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| Summary: | This article seeks to resolve the present impasse within Dalit theology generated by an overreliance on and undertheorizing of the question of Dalit identity. It argues that the implicit location of Dalit theology as a theology of identity does a disservice to Dalit theology itself. Rather, what is needed is to nuance the question of Dalit identity and then flesh out what we mean when we speak of "the Dalit perspective." Key to doing this is to reconceptualize Dalit identity as a fluid identity: that is, an identity that both destabilizes and allows for the assemblage of alliances among all afflicted. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12493 |