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Title:
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THE I IN DALIT: SELF-IDENTITY, SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE PERSONALIZATION OF SUBALTERN POLITICS |
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Author(s):
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Johannes G. de Kruijf |
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ISBN:
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978-989-8533-29-6 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Tomayess Issa, Dian-Fu Chang and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2014 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Personalization of Politics; Social Media; Dalits; e-Activism; Political Participation; Self-Identity |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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104 |
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Last Page:
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108 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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This short paper discusses an ongoing ethnographic study of emerging Dalit activism in online realms. After some contextualizing reflections on literature on Dalit media and e-activism, it focuses on attempts of several prominent Dalit bloggers to employ social media in their battle for justice, representation and socio-economic mobility. Contributing to debates on new and/or personalized politics especially since Web 2.0 the report stresses the importance of embracing a broad conceptualization of online political practice and the need to explore such practice as part of contemporary projects of self. It is argued that, in order to explore the dynamics of personalized politics within marginalized communities, one needs to assess the way in which the intertwinement of these individual projects of self and the Dalits collective emancipatory project manifests in online social networking strategies of digital Dalits |
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