For Us and Everyone!: Dalit-Women Who Built a Check Dam - All by Themselves

• In Event: So Far, So Good, Part 1: Organizational Communication Research Escalator

Abstract

This paper focuses on the symbolic and material disadvantage of women in rural Bundelkhand (central India) to understand organizing, by subaltern women, as a mode of resistance. The unique intersectionality of caste, class and gender creates structural barriers for women that disempower them on both symbolic and material levels. Using theoretical lenses of Feminist perspectives in Organizational Communication, Postcolonial feminism, Subaltern Studies and Culture Centered methodology, I recount voices of women participants as they reflect on their organizing to challenge cultural norms of patriarchy

Author

• Rahul Rastogi, Purdue U