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dc.contributor.authorDhanda, Meena
dc.date.accessioned2024-04-11T13:45:12Z
dc.date.available2024-04-11T13:45:12Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-12
dc.identifier.citationDhanda, M. (2022) Collective action against graded inequality: Lessons from Ambedkar and Sartre, Philosophy and Global Affairs, 2(2), pp. 254-270.en
dc.identifier.issn2692-790Xen
dc.identifier.doi10.5840/pga202311140en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/625481
dc.description© 2024 The Authors. Published by Philosophy Documentation Center. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.5840/pga202311140en
dc.description.abstractThis essay juxtaposes the South Asian system of social hierarchies, conceptualized by Babasaheb Ambedkar as “graded inequality” with “serial relations” as conceptualized by Jean-Paul Sartre. Collective action against casteism faces internal problems. The complex psychological dynamics preserved over millennia through caste systems prevent solidarities across castes. The notion of “seriality” helps us to understand the material limitations placed by scripted functional roles on collective action. Internal divisions arising from prioritizing a caste or class perspective can be resolved with a better understanding of how “exigencies of sociality” create an ambiguous unity. A key lesson from Sartre is that it is only through praxis that consciousness remains open to the attractions of solidarity. Cultural otherness disconnected from the materiality of class (or gender) is a distortion. Conceiving of classes as historically determined while ignoring caste-being makes any analysis of revolutionary action incomplete. Reading Ambedkar and Sartre together opens the way for a genuinely historical materialist account of collective action against graded inequality.en
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dc.publisherPhilosophy Documentation Centeren
dc.relation.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5840/pga202311140en
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/pga_2022_0002_0002_0254_0270en
dc.subjectAmbedkaren
dc.subjectcasteismen
dc.subjectcollective actionen
dc.subjectSartreen
dc.subjectserialityen
dc.titleCollective action against graded inequality: Lessons from Ambedkar and Sartreen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.eissn2692-790X
dc.identifier.journalPhilosophy and Global Affairsen
dc.date.updated2024-04-10T14:03:11Z
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW20240411MDen
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rioxxterms.licenseref.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2022-12-31en
dc.source.volume2
dc.source.issue2
dc.source.beginpage254
dc.source.endpage270
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