Solidarity with Hong Kong protestors event organized by CARE, with colleagues and activists One of the profound lessons in carrying out justice-based scholarship is the role of a wider collective. My public scholarship and the public scholarship of CARE would be just about impossible without the embodied support and nourishment offered by an entire infrastructure of care. This infrastructure holds us in joy, kindness, and security, comforting us amidst the targeted attacks, and nourishing us with strength and courage. To articulate claims for justice and to raise questions that challenge the status quo requires academics and our wider networks to turn within and beyond to find courage. In my journey with struggles to raise claims at the "margins of the margins," the courage I draw upon is rooted in the wider collective. It emerges from the many friendships with activists who embody courage in their questioning of structures, who offer insights into strategies for sustena
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.