“we cannot write about complicity together”: limits of cross-caste collaborations in western academy

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    Writing as caste-oppressed Pakistani Muslim settler (Patel) and dominant caste Indian settler (Da Costa), the authors write primarily across caste power lines to focus on the failure in the own efforts at collaborative writing. Considering the contours of what Sara Ahmed calls structural "usefulness" of collaborative writing to the colonial and neoliberal academy, the authors use historical and life-writing approaches to make caste violence legible to refuse the cover that collaborative writing provides to dominant caste South Asians engaged in research with Indigenous, Black, Muslim, caste-oppressed and multiply and differentially colonized . . .

     

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