My latest book Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India delves into arguments around co-option to offer a different way to think of feminism’s entanglement in power, especially in a conjuncture shaped by global neoliberalism. First, unlike arguments around co-option [...]
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The overturning of Roe vs. Wade in the USA highlights the precariousness of legal institutions and the necessity for continuous struggle to both push for and enforce social rights. It shows the limitations of legal and state apparatuses, that are themselves a reflection of existing power [...]
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It is all about the taxes these days, whether in discussions among G7 leaders about the global tax rate, in tax reforms sparking protests in Colombia, or in President Biden’s attempts to reverse Trump’s tax cuts in the United States. But when it comes to gendered inequalities, we argue, it is [...]
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It was almost inevitable that microfinance would be proposed as a solution to COVID-19 related financial problems of the poor. But COVID-19 has plunged the incomes of the poor into free-fall, and as a result, many microfinance institutions are in dire straits. As sub-prime lenders, microfinance [...]
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The COVID19 pandemic is not a war and we should resist the temptation of using securitising language that is easily deployed by elites to avoid scrutiny and accountability for their actions. And yet, thinking through the arguments and research behind my article on gender and the political [...]
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When we wrote our article Whose Recovery?: IFI Prescriptions for Postwar States, the “recovery” we had in mind was recovery from war, not recovery from a pandemic. Yet now, after 18 months of Covid-19, the extent to which our arguments apply to the need to recover from the global Covid crisis [...]
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This series of blog posts builds upon a Special Issue on International Financial Institutions and Gendered Circuits of Labour and Violence in Review of International Political Economy (RIPE). The issue was first published online in April 2020, at the peak of the initial wave of the COVID-19 [...]
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A sweep through key arguments about the abstracting logic of capital will yield a common emphasis, which is a stress on the “indifference” of capital to those it exploits. For sure, this is evident in some of Marx’s own writings. Witness points in the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts on [...]
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