Subjected to Sanitation: Caste Relations and Sanitation Adoption in Rural Tamil Nadu
通过民族志调查，研究了印度泰米尔纳德邦农村种姓关系如何导致七次卫生干预失败，揭示了种姓在清洁、补贴、厕所设计和纯洁性方面的作用。
If solving the global sanitation crisis lies within Indian borders, then it is important to understand the influence of caste relations on sanitation building and usage. Our ethnography investigated three villages in rural Tamil Nadu where seven separate sanitation interventions had failed. The analysis indicates caste relations played a key role in the failed interventions by creating and reinforcing the means by which caste groups distinguished themselves from each other at the village scale. Issues of cleaning, access to subsidies, latrine design, and purity served to facilitate and limit the processes that enable the everyday, unequal relationships of caste.