Category: Events
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Unfair and Unjust-The Economic Rights and Entitlements of Separated/ Divorced Women in India
ABSTRACT: The patriarchal Indian state has ensured that the economic rights and entitlements of separated women remain at a minimum. My study of these women surveys the conditions under which they live and to what extent they are able to access and benefit from the law which anyway gives them limited rights in their homes.…
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Sex work & Feminism in India -The vexed relationships
Feminist understandings and standpoints about ‘agency’ ‘consent’ and ‘voluntary entry into sex work’ remain fertile ground for discussions and debates but also possible disconnections among the two movements, which lead them to work on parallel lines that are difficult to connect. In India a common feminist perspective concerning sex work is not only to see…
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Gender Identity, Sex Work and the Dissonance of Government in Pandemic Times
In thinking with the problematics of sex work, this paper reconsiders commensuration as the structuring relation between the rhetoric of liberal governance and the exercise of state-sanctioned power in everyday life. Within debates on sex work, understanding the dissonance between the law’s rhetoric and the ways laws are interpreted, ignored or violated on the street…
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Book Launch: Rhacel Salazar Parreñas – Unfree: Migrant Domestic Work in Arab States
A stirring account of the experiences of migrant domestic workers, and what freedom, abuse, and power mean within a vast contract labor system. In the United Arab Emirates, there is an employment sponsorship system known as the kafala. Migrant domestic workers within it must solely work for their employer, secure their approval to leave the…
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Book Launch: Gowri Vijayakumar – At risk: Indian sexual politics and the global AIDS crisis
Gowri Vijayakumar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Her research and teaching use feminist and transnational perspectives to illuminate the trajectories of social movements, the everyday life of the state, and the political economy of globalization. Her new book, At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis,…
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Book Launch: Selma James Our Time is Now: Sex, Race, Class and Caring for People and Planet
For over sixty years, Selma James has been organizing from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race—whatever else they do. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere, in every culture. It is not prioritized economically, politically, or socially, and women are discriminated against and impoverished…
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Class and Social Reproduction: Interrogating Time Use Data for Clues
The literature on agrarian change in India has largely employed class categories based upon data on land, assets and occupational status. Land and asset data tend to exist at the level of households. Indicators of occupation have neither fully counted unpaid reproductive labor nor accounted for diversified livelihood strategies. As a result, categorizations of class…
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Webinar on the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill
We have recently made a submission to the Ministry of Women and Child Development on the Trafficking in Persons (Prevention, Care and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2021, on behalf of the Laws of Social Reproduction Project (Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London & IWWAGE, New Delhi). A multi stake holder international webinar to discuss the Bill…
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From Reproducing Labor Power to Reproducing our Struggle: A Strategy for a Revolutionary Feminism
Speaker: Professor Silvia Federici, Professor Emerita at Hofstra UniversityChair and Moderator: Professor Sanita Sen, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of CambridgeVia Eventbrite and YouTube liveHeld on 13th July, 9-11am EDT, 2-4 PM BST, 6:30-8:30pm IST. For further details please see poster.
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Social reproduction as method: pandemic neoliberalism, and reproductive crises of work, life and death
June 2021 – Dr Alessandra Mezzadri is a Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS and holds degrees in Economics from La Sapienza, Rome, and in Development Studies from SOAS She writes and teaches on issues related to inequality and trade; global commodity chains and production networks; labour informality, informalisation and labour regimes; global labour…