CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion advances peer-reviewed scholarship across disciplines into caste systems in South Asia and beyond and considers the marginalization and inter-generational oppression of religious, racial and cultural minorities throughout the world.
J-CASTE assesses social policies meant to counter exclusion in multiple spheres and intolerance in multi-faith democracies. Our authors come from varying disciplines including philosophy and ethics, theology and culture, sociology and anthropology, economics, law, health, literature and art among others. We welcome critical reviews of our papers, as well as book and film reviews and commentaries.
2023-06-07
We are pleased to announce the results of the international competition for the Bluestone Rising Scholar Prize for 2023. The journal received outstanding submissions from South Asia, North America, the UK, and Europe. Our jury, consisting of respected scholars from South Asia and the USA, deliberated together over a period of two months. Read the full announcement.
2023-05-01
J-Caste and the Center for Global Development and Sustainability at Brandeis University announce the Sixth International Conference on the Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, October 20 to 22, 2023. The theme of the conference is Law, Caste, and the Pursuit of Justice.
2023-01-30
Caste is one of the most complex, dynamic, and oppressive social systems existing today. Over the last two hundred years, scholars have examined caste from multiple disciplinary perspectives and documented its societal and economic underpinnings. However, as Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar emphasized, caste also has a psychological dimension. Among other things, caste is also a state of mind – an entity that emerges from the interaction between the human mind and society. Therefore, caste would not simply wither away with broad socio-economic changes but would require a radical transformation in people's cognition, emotion, and behavior. It has been more than 80 years since Babasaheb Ambedkar pointed out the need for addressing psychology of caste. The experience of past 80 years suggests that despite sweeping changes brought by forces of democratization, globalisation and development, caste still persists as a decisive psychological factor affecting people’s bodies, minds and social relations. Strangely, despite this ubiquitous relevance of psychological study of caste, a glaring gap exists between caste and psychology.
2022-12-08
The Real Utopias Project was started in the early 1990s by Marxist sociologists in search of alternatives to existing structures of power, privilege, and inequality. However, this philosophical framework did not widen its study to diverse categories, dimensions, and manifestations of social stratification in different societies outside the Western world. This themed issue of J-Caste intends to critique, engage and expand The Real Utopias Project within a Dalit Bahujan framework of emancipatory social transformation.
Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023): HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY ANTI-CASTE UTOPIAS: A DALIT BAHUJAN DISCOURSE
Published: 2023-10-30