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Examine how privileged-caste primary school students develop critical consciousness around caste oppression, identity, privilege, and positionality through iterative participatory inquiry.

August 16, 2026Children & SocietyOpen Access

‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

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AMArushi MathurUniversity of Strathclyde

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Qualitative participatory study demonstrates shifting caste consciousness and emergent allyship among primary students, highlighting pathways to dismantle systemic discrimination.

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Examine how privileged-caste primary school students develop critical consciousness around caste oppression, identity, privilege, and positionality through iterative participatory inquiry.
Conducted an 8-month qualitative participatory co-research study across three iterative cycles with 12 10-year-old grade 5 students in New Delhi, India.
Generated data using critical arts-based and play-based methods, including inquiry walls, child-led interviews, drawings, podcasts, zines, maps, comics, puppets, and theatre performances.
Documented a qualitative progression in student dialogues from divisive 'us and them' frameworks of caste-based otherness to concepts of solidarity and anti-caste allyship.
Identified pervasive structural and institutional barriers in schools and communities that constrain children's agency to pursue anti-caste action.

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Arushi Mathur (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a81791ff2fb91fc834ac492 https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.70076

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Qualitative participatory study demonstrates shifting caste consciousness and emergent allyship among primary students, highlighting pathways to dismantle systemic discrimination.

‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

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‘But He Is Only a Human, So Why Do They Hate Them? Because of His Job?’: Children's Critical Co‐Inquiries on Caste, Privilege and Positionality

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