Description
The discussion regarding cybersecurity in international relations today are reflective of two broader trends: (a) the conscious co-option of cybersecurity within the western dominated state-centric narrative of security- and (b) the use of this same lens to study the diverse insecurities faced by people in the third world within cyberspace owing to their existing unequal social structures. This article argues that a Dalit perspective will reveal the discriminating, oppressive and marginalizing practices within cyberspace experienced by people of a specific social communities consequently making them insecure within cyberspace, in this case, Dalits in India. More importantly, through Ambedkar’s annihilation of caste, the article aims to resurrect the debate around the sources of varied insecurities in cyberspace that people from Global South face in their day-to-day lives thereby challenging the centrality of state security and its application to Global South. To support this theoretical framework the article will examine the case study of #casteisttwitter where the Dalits along with other social groups in India demanded equal cyberspace ergo triumphantly bringing the insecurities faced by people as a result of caste within cyberspace at the core of cybersecurity in particular and international relations in general.
