[Air-L] previous research on dalits online?

[Ertug Altinay]

Hello,

There is "Global primordialities: virtual identity
politics in online Hindutva and online Dalit
discourse" by Rohit Chopra. You can find the abstract
at http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/8/2/187

There is also a book, Untouchable Citizens: Dalit
Movements And Democratization In Tamil Nadu by Hugo
Gorringe. It's available online if you google for it.

Hope it helps.

Cheers,

Ertug



--- Mia Lövheim <mia.lovheim at teol.uu.se> wrote:

> Greetings to all list-members,
> 
> I am a lecturer in sociologi of religion and media,
> religion and 
> culture at Uppsala university, Sweden. I will this
> semester be 
> supervising a master thesis on
> "Ambedkar as an icon of dalit-assertion:
> Post-Ambedkar discourses and 
> representations on the Internet". The focus is to
> study how the 
> dalit-movement (a marginalised social group in
> India) construct and 
> strengthen their identity through relating
> themselves and their claims 
> to the central figure of the movement Dr Amdebkar.
> The intention of my 
> student is further to study both iconic
> representations of Amdebkar and 
> transformations of his symbolic meaning in the
> process.
> 
> I would be very grateful for any information of
> previous research in 
> this area, that is the dalit-movement and uses of
> the internet. Also 
> other studies of the role of the internet in hindu
> minority movements 
> with political and religious claims would be helpful
> of course, or on 
> the construction of religious leaders as icons for
> such groups through 
> the internet.
> 
> Thank you for your attention, and I look forward to
> what you may have 
> to share on this subject!
> 
> sincerely,
> 
> Mia Lövheim, TD
> Sociology of Religion
> Theological Faculty, Uppsala University
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