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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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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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Trafficking of labour in Global Supply Chains: Understanding the central debates
Critical engagement with contemporary discourses on extreme exploitation such as ‘modern slavery’, ‘trafficking’, ‘forced labour’, ‘indenture labour’ and ‘bonded labour’ throw open not only academic debate on forms of neo-servitude, but also outlines the failures of regulatory approaches on the ground which have for centuries sought to address the historical crime of slavery. The international…
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Of Freedoms & Agency: Commercial Surrogacy and Reproductive Rights – by Sneha Banerjee
Dr. Sneha Banerjee is a research associate exploring commercial surrogacy in India On 5-6th December 2019, I participated in the International Conference on (Non)Reproductive Freedom: Theories, Experiences and Movements at the Ca’Foscari University of Venice organised by the feminist journal – DEP. Apart from a larger focus on the conceptual and activist insights on reproductive…
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Has the Dial Moved on the Indian Sex Work Debate?
Download Prabha Kotiswaran’s latest piece in Economic & Political Weekly.
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