Description
Over the years, international security has witnessed cross disciplinary exploration with the inclusion issues such as social structures (such as race, ethnicity, gender), cyberspace and their interaction with each-other. Nonetheless, on reviewing international security, on can see (1) an overwhelming emphasis on statist cyberspace (2) The absence of caste (a mode of social stratification primarily present in South Asia but now a global reality) from mainstream as well as critical security discourse. This paper aims to apply anti-casteist approach to cyberspace to identify how Dalits, a marginalized community, battles casteism in cyberspace and how it impacts Dalits in cyberspace. This paper aims to make two contributions to international security. The first contribution is empirical which is drawn from casteism on twitter in cyberspace. The second contribution is theoretical, demonstrating how a anti-casteist approach in cyberspace can promote reconnecting international security across disciplines, theoretical debates and points.
