Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-5-2025
Abstract
This reflection critically examines corporal punishment in Indian schools, highlighting how pedagogical violence perpetuates caste and socioeconomic class inequalities. Drawing from my fieldwork experiences, I explore how my insider/outsider positionality helped me to understand systemic oppression and frameworks of modernity within the neoliberal education system I was studying. Additionally, I interrogate the limitations of cultural relativity by emphasizing a need for anthropologists to confront ethical dilemmas entrenched within the power dynamics in our field sites.
Publication Title
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
Volume
e70045
First Page
1
Last Page
8
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://doi.org/10.1111/aeq.70045
Citation Information
Chandras, Jessica, "Power, Positionality, and Questioning Corporal Punishment: Caste Dynamics and the Ethics of Anthropological Research in Indian Schools" (2025). UNF Faculty Research and Scholarship. 3404.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/unf_faculty_publications/3404