Coloniality

Disasters are often constructed as unique and extraordinary events. Such accounts ignore the social histories and inequalities that render specific communities/regions prone to disaster. In this paper, we focus on how coloniality and caste function together to produce dispossession among Dalits, Bahujans, and Adivasis (DBAs) through continuous violence and illegal appropriation of land and resources […]

Understanding the coloniality of gendered lives, family dynamics, social arrangements, and political structures in Indigenous communities begins with confronting and interrogating a history written largely by and for men in positions of power. The archives are limited in terms of what can be gleaned about gender equality and what existed before the proliferation of European […]