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Labouring Dance, Labouring Performance: Interdisciplinary Conversations on Erotic Dancing in India
July 2020 Panel 1: Historicizing Bar/Erotic Dancing in India Chair and moderator: Sutapa Majumdar, King’s College London, Dickson Poon School of Law Discussant: Bishnupriya Dutt, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Public Lecture :Liminal spaces in Indian cities and the consumption of sexual entertainment in India today Panel 2: Feminist Discourse and the Political Economy of Bar/Erotic Dancing Chair and moderator: Shakthi Nataraj, King’s College London, Dickson Poon School […]
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Street, Footpath, Gated Community: Masculinity, Pornography and the Erotics of Tradition and Modernity
July 2020 – Public Lecture by Sanjay Srivastava This talk explores the relationship between urban spaces and the narratives of contemporary Indian pornography. The broader context of the discussion concerns relationships between new cultures of consumerism and space, changing class configurations, and narratives of sexual intimacy. In an earlier work, I have investigated the spatialized meanings […]
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Precarious Pasts, Emancipatory Futures: Interdisciplinary Conversations on Sex Work in India
July 22 – 24 2020 In July 2020, we at the Laws of Social Reproduction Project held a three-day interdisciplinary workshop on the state of sex work-related research and mobilisation in India. The workshop had an exciting range of panellists from activist, legal and academic backgrounds, and included panels on the state of the Indian sex […]
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Paid Domestic Work as “Decent Work”: Inter-Disciplinary – Conversations in the Indian Context
18 – 20th August 2020 Visibility and Value at Work First Annual Lecture on the Laws of Social Reproduction 18th August 2020 – Professor Kerry Rittich Feminists have long troubled the status of reproductive work, arguing for the recognition of its value and the sharing of its burdens. International initiatives like the new ILO Domestic Workers’ Convention seek to […]
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Troubling Gifts: Revisiting the Indian ART and Surrogacy Bills
October 2020 Speaker: Since the 1970s, assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have offered a unique opportunity for millions of infertile individuals and couples around the world to complete their families. However, ART and related processes like surrogacy give rise to a range of legal and ethical issues that require thoughtful consideration particularly by policy makers. Although […]
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India’s First National Time-Use Survey 2019: Critical Perspectives
November 2020 Women in India spend up to 352 minutes per day on domestic work which is 577 per cent more than men (52 minutes) (OECD). Making women’s “invisible” unpaid work “visible” through the use of Time-Use Survey (TUS) is one of the most effective ways to highlight the unequal distribution of unpaid work and […]
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Surrogacy as Reproductive Labour – Shifting Registers of Recognition
11th December 2020 We approach surrogacy through the lens of social reproduction alongside our study of other forms of women’s reproductive labour including sex work, erotic dancing, paid domestic work and unpaid domestic work. As materialist feminists theorising surrogacy in these terms, participants debated how we might understand the continuum of Indian feminist positions on […]
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Engaging with Dalit- Bahujan perspectives on work and labour in paid domestic work
December 2020Lotika Singha, University of Wolverhampton The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed how India’s caste system remains entrenched in everyday life, with many domestic workers being treated as a ‘necessary threat’. It is widely agreed that regulation of domestic work from a labour rights’ perspective is crucial to ensure dignity of the workers. However, domestic workers’ dignity […]
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Legalizing sex: sexual minorities, AIDS, and citizenship in India
August 2020 As part of our Conversations on Social Reproduction Seminar, we had Prof. Chaitanya Lakkimsetti present on her recent book, Legalizing Sex: Sexual Minorities, AIDS, and Citizenship in India, with comments from Dr. Shakthi Nataraj. Here we share the recording of the seminar, along with Shakthi’s notes on the book. Shakthi’s comments: The turbulent […]