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Jolanda Brunnekreef

Radboud University, Netherlands

After graduating in Cultural Anthropology in 1993 on Labour Migration of Sri Lankan women to the Middle East, Jolanda worked for 20 years in the field of human rights and peace. She got deeply involved in the anti-caste solidarity movement in India. In 2019 she published a book in Dutch language on the anti-caste movements in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. This book resulted in a PhD-candidate position at the Radboud University Nijmegen, with the researchgroup Development Studies/Cultural Anthropology.
From the anti-caste movements in India, new counter-hegemonic, post-colonial academic knowledge has been developing over the past decades. With a containerterm this can be called "Dalit Knowledge", and serves as an example of "standpoint theory", stemming clearly from the anti-caste resistance movements. In India formulated discourses such as "Dalit Feminism" and "Dalit Studies" and "Critical Caste Theory" came into existence. In her PhD research Jolanda will investigate what these new discourses contain and what relevance they have within India, for the broader context of South Asia, and academia globally.
The positionality of the researcher, being non-Dalit and a white woman from the global North will be taken into account as a specific part of the research.

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