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September 10, 2025Anthropology & Education Quarterly

Power, Positionality, and Questioning Corporal Punishment: Caste Dynamics and the Ethics of Anthropological Research in Indian Schools

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JCJessica ChandrasUniversity of North Florida

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Reflection highlights corporal punishment as a tool of caste oppression in Indian education, suggesting anthropologists must confront ethical dilemmas.

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Corporal punishment in Indian schools perpetuates caste inequalities, emphasizing a need for ethical considerations.
The author's positionality, as both insider and outsider, reveals critical insights about systemic oppression and neoliberal education.
The ethical dilemmas confronted are deeply rooted in cultural relativity, challenging anthropologists to question their frameworks.
This reflection calls for a deeper understanding of power dynamics in anthropological fieldwork to address educational violence.

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Jessica Chandras (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c192459b7b07f3a0616744 https://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70045

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Reflection highlights corporal punishment as a tool of caste oppression in Indian education, suggesting anthropologists must confront ethical dilemmas.

Power, Positionality, and Questioning Corporal Punishment: Caste Dynamics and the Ethics of Anthropological Research in Indian Schools

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Power, Positionality, and Questioning Corporal Punishment: Caste Dynamics and the Ethics of Anthropological Research in Indian Schools

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