Essays about: "Anna-carin Svensson"

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  1. 1. Stories from the grassroots : Garima activists about their fight for freedom and dignity as Dalit women in Indian Madhya Pradesh

    University essay from Institutionen för kommunikation, medier och it

    Author : Anna-Carin Svensson; [2012]
    Keywords : Garima campaign; manual scavenging; India; Dalit women; empowerment; Bourdieu; symbolic violence; human rights; grassroots level; rhetoric;

    Abstract : This research is a result of a nine week field study during spring 2012, with the purpose of highlighting the stories of Dalit women in Madhya Pradesh, India. Together with a fellow student at Södertörn University, I investigated the Garima Campaign, an ActionAid project working with Dalit women forced to endure the illegal practice of manual scavenging, the manual removal of human excreta from dry toilets. READ MORE