Over the past decade, CARE has had to negotiate the constraints on academic freedom across various spaces of our academic-activist-community interventions. The constraints on academic freedom of course differ in the form of questions asked, the tenor of the conversations, the scrutiny that the work of CARE is subjected to, and the arguments that are offered justifying the various forms of control that our work at the Center is subjected to. As a Center located within the University, CARE negotiates the structures within Universities as well as the broader structures in nation states, regions, and globally in its various projects of engaging and interrogating structures. Universities often are extensions of the hegemonic structures, with the discursive spaces of articulation shaped by these structures. Who can and can't speak at/in/from Universities is often dictated by the normative frameworks that are circulated by these structures. Whereas some of these strategies of
This blog offers Mohan Dutta's reflections on the theoretical framework of the culture-centered approach, examining the interplays among Structure, Culture, and Agency in shaping marginalisation and the ways in which communities at the margins challenge structures. Writings on the blog are continually being revised to reflect the organic analysis of structure and agency.