The Power of Dialogue in Conditions of Care and Climate: A Feminist Participatory and Intersectional Study of Dalit Women’s and Girls’ Unpaid Care Labour in Coastal Bangladesh

This study was conducted with Dalit women and Girls from the Clobber community in the coastal zone of Tala Upazila, Satkhira, which is predominantly affected by salinity and flooding due to climate change. Vulnerabilities of Dalit communities are deeply rooted in their anthropological issues that produced untouchability, which confines them to stigmatized caste-assigned labor. However, Dalit women and girls are experiencing compounded, gendered, and intergenerational forms of exclusion and care burden. These vulnerabilities are further intensified through their intersections with age, poverty, religion, disability, entrenched social norms, and geographically specific contexts, producing layered and unequal experiences of risks, exclusion, and deprivations.

Unpaid care work; Dalit women; Intersectionality; Feminist political economy

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