This article explores the discursive strategies employed by Dalits and other marginalized groups to highlight inspirational stories of bottom-up change across rural India. These agential narratives are featured in the community-run alternative digital media portal, Video Volunteer’s series, “Videos that Created Change.” I contend that marginalized groups’ articulation of structural change against systemic oppression takes the form of vernacular discursive practices, which foreground place-based identities and regional languages. Such newly emerging digital media practices have the potential to disrupt the hegemonic mainstream template of marginalized citizens’ abject victimhood.

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另类数字空间中的颠覆性白话话语

本文探讨的贱民和其他边缘化群体用来突显印度各地乡村自下而上变化的励志故事的话语策略。这些代理叙事出现在社区运营的替代数字媒体门户网站 Video Volunteer 的系列“创造变革的视频”中。我主张边缘化群体应对系统性压迫结构变化的衔接需要的白话话语实践，其前景的地方为基础的身份和地区的语言形式。这种新兴的数字媒体的做法有扰乱边缘化公民赤贫受害的霸权主流模板的潜力。