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IDENTITY AND INCLUSION
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This book written in Nepali grasps the people and the sociocultural of Madheshi Society resided in Tarai/Madhesh region of Nepal. The book is based on primary data and empirical study. It deals with the ethnographic study of almost all caste/ethnicity of that region.
In this article I examine the articulation between contexts of agency within two kinds of discursive projects involving Dalit identity and caste relations in Nepal, so as to illuminate competing and complimentary forms of self and group identity that emerge from demarcating social perimeters with political and economic consequences. The first involves a provocative border created around groups of people called Dalit by activists negotiating the symbols of identity politics in the country’s post-revolution democracy. Here subjective agency is expressed as political identity with attendant desires for social equality and power-sharing. The second context of Dalit agency emerges between people and groups as they engage in inter caste economic exchanges called riti maagnay in mixed caste communities that subsist on interdependent farming and artisan activities. Here caste distinctions are evoked through performed communicative agency that both resists domination and affirms status difference. Through this examination we find the rural terrain that is home to landless and poor rural Dalits only partially mirrors that evoked by Dalit activists as they struggle to craft modern identities. The sources of data analyzed include ethnographic field research conducted during various periods from 1988-2005, and discussions that transpired throughout 2007 among Dalit activist members of an internet discussion group called nepaldalitinfo.
Southeast Asia's many Negrito groups have suffered formidable human rights violations during the past century. This article documents some of the abuses that have occurred in one particular Negrito society in the Philippines, the economic and demographic effect these abuses have had on that society, and how the members of that society are today responding (or failing to respond) to what is happening to them. The authors apply the competitive exclusion principle as a heuristic device for exploring why this social injustice is found worldwide whenever small-scale ethnic peoples are outnumbered by more powerful societies.
A most excellent book for academics and beyond
This book re-evaluates the importance of social policies in shaping well-being and combating exclusion, and enhances understanding of how these policies are formed in a globalizing world. It emphasises the context- and path-dependence of patterns and policies of inclusion and exclusion, and provides a framework for supporting social policy making.
In most communities in Cameroon, traditional norms, mandate that rural women fulfill the reproductive roles of child bearing, home management and food provision for the family. Thus, these women are unable to exercise any influential economic voice-they can hardly earn income. Cash agriculture like rice production provides a possible outlet for the empowerment of these women in rice producing areas. However, this agricultural work would solve one problem for the women and create another. Any attempt to encourage these women to work outside their homes may increase their workload. This paper examines the situation of female rice farmers in Ndop, Cameroon and argues that although rice production may have been beneficial to women and the society as a whole, it has implications for gender roles that go beyond the purview of women's empowerment.