In the seminar so far, I have dealt with scholarships which are unfamiliar and written with a different perspective. It is helping me develop an understanding of the nature of data I use in my own research and how certain biases and prejudices are inbuilt in the date which I am oblivious about. I often take for granted the categorization I use in the research and the readings and discussions we have done in the seminar thus far have been reflecting on these biases. I realized how these categorizations can itself assert their hegemonic voices in the research which I constantly try to subvert in my own research I conduct. The paradoxical nature of the data and the interest is something I realized through my conversations. In the coming edition of the seminars, I hope to find tools through which we can target these biases in scholarships of humanities.

Unit 2a