Caste in the Online and Offline with Damni Kain
In this episode, Damni walks us through her research on online caste hate speech and its many manifestations online and offline. We further will discuss her research on caste and curriculums to better understand how the absence of caste in the curriculum aids its presence in the pedagogy. We try to reimagine an alternative classroom space, powered by the potential of student activism and Dalit scholarship.
Damni Kain is a student leader and researcher. Damni works as a Research Associate at Fairwork India. She previously worked as a Legislative and Research Assistant to a Member of Indian Parliament as well as a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology. She worked on platform economy, condition of gig workers, and India’s biometric system by assisting the MP in parliamentary interventions and IT Committee engagement on these issues.
She is a recipient of prestigious research grants from Women’s Fund Asia and the Indian Association for Women’s Studies where she studied the women’s labour movement in India and the working conditions of Aanganwadi workers through fieldwork in Haryana.