Social construction of capabilities and intersectional complexities in a Tamil village

Lakshmi Narayanan Venkataraman

Development in Practice, 2015, vol. 25, issue 8, 1170-1181

Abstract: India is an ethnographic museum, well-known for its national motto of “unity in diversity”. It is a country of diverse hierarchies where the social reality is intersected by the varied grades of caste and class, among others. Against this backdrop, this article conceptualises the intersections of primordial identities. The concept of intersection underscores how diverse social positions interact in a Tamil village in India. As intersectionality is “the mutually constitutive relations among social identities” (Shields 2008), the interactions of caste, class, and gender in education are conceptualised to understand the formation of capabilities.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.1083537

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