Working for Change in India’s Civil Society
通过一位喀拉拉邦非政府组织工作人员的个人叙事，探讨在职业化公民社会背景下，阶级、性别和种姓如何塑造其工作与行动主义观念。
This article discusses the working life of a NGO worker in Kerala, South India, who researches, advocates and campaigns for the rights of India’s most vulnerable communities. It draws on the personal narrative of an individual to explore the ways in which his life chances and experience of working in a professionalising civil society context have allowed him to construct his own notions of activism and work. This article engages with his life history to understand why he has made the decisions about how he and his staff work to tackle issues of injustice, inequality and exploitation. It analyses notions of activism, work and life history in a context shaped by class, gender and caste divisions.