Abstract

In this panel, three distinguished speakers will explore how caste manifests, evolves and reproduces through emotions. They will provide a comparative perspective by examining caste alongside race.

About the speakers Eduardo Bonilla-Silva is James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Duke University. He will be spending this academic year at the Department of Sociology at Cambridge as the Pitt Professor. Among his acclaimed publications are Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the White Supremacy and Racism in the Post-civil Rights Era.

Hugo Gorringe is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of several influential books, including Untouchable Citizens: Dalit Movements and Democratization in Tamil Nadu and Panthers In Parliament: Dalits, Caste, and Political Power in South India. More recently, he co-edited (with Dhaneswar Bhoi) Caste in Everyday Life: Experience and Affect in Indian Society.

Gopal Guru is a retired Professor of Political Science from the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University and a former editor of Economic & Political Weekly. His major works include the edited volume Humiliation: Claims and Context, and co-authored books with Sundar Sarukkai, The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and, more recently, Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social.

Jusmeet S. Sihra is a British Academy International Fellow at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge. He is interested in understanding caste inequalities rooted in space. His dissertation provided a micro view of segregation from below through disaggregated caste categories. His postdoctoral research views segregation from above, highlighting how colonial and postcolonial state institutions promoted caste segregation.