I will begin this blog post with a story. This is the story of a Brown woman, Shilpa, who had migrated to the U.S. on a spousal visa, married to a newly minted Assistant Professor, Sanjeev, who had just started his job as an Assistant Professor at a Research Intensive University. Shilpa, an artist, who worked in a non-profit organization, making puppets and putting together puppetry exhibitions on themes such as caste violence and dowry and social change, gave up that identity as an art worker and a change worker to travel to a new land and make home. In over two decades, she reared her three children, who were now all gone to College. Pushpa decided that she wanted to turn to her art work. With her three children away most of the time, this was the time for Shilpa to return to an identity and passion that anchored her journey the first twenty-three years of life. She decided to look up for opportunities at the University where Sanjeev worked. Browsing through the University websit
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.