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Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship

Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship. Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India. Francis Cody. Presented by Orlando Hernandez. Francis Cody, Ph.D. Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropologist

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Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship

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  1. Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India Francis Cody Presented by Orlando Hernandez

  2. Francis Cody, Ph.D. • Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropologist • Received Doctorate from the University of Michigan in 2007 • Written language and the social dynamics of collective political action in southern India.

  3. Tamil, India

  4. Problem • The residents of Katrampatti have lost access to their cremation grounds • This has led to feelings of disenfranchisement

  5. Solution • “ArivoliIyakkam” = Enlightenment Movement • State and NGO run movement to increase literacy. • Tamilnadu Science Forum • Female Literacy Rate has risen from 44.2% to 60.9%

  6. Problems With This Approach • “We encourage people to write their own petitions. Sometimes what happens is, though people know how to write, they are not able to put out their thoughts in a very cogent manner. That is where petition writers… their functions to come in. They reduce it to a cogent and logical structure.” – Petition Collector

  7. Methods • Participant Observation • Interviews

  8. Why Is This Important?

  9. Sources • CODY, F. (2009), INSCRIBING SUBJECTS TO CITIZENSHIP: Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India. Cultural Anthropology, 24: 347–380. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1360.2009.01035.x • http://www.anthropology.utoronto.ca/people/faculty-1/faculty-profiles/francis-cody • http://cdn.coastalcare.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/sand-mining-tamil-nadu.jpg

  10. Questions???

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