“When there is a loss of the symbolic universe alongside the loss of language, then people’s epistemological and ontological imagination…

Gender is an organizing principle of society, historically constituted and works in intersection with other structural features of society such…

Leaving the Land: Indigenous Migration and Affective Labour in India by Dolly Kikon and Bengt G. Karlsson (published by Cambridge…

“Establishing economic value requires the disvaluing of all other forms of social existence” (Esteva, 2010) This article argues that hyper-consumerism…

As part of a research project awarded through the Shivlal Sawhney Scholarship by the Department of Sociology, University of Delhi,…

The history of the emergence of the branch called Feminist Economics in the 1970s lies in two important processes. First,…

The children of Jharkhand, when not collecting ‘dhibra’[i] with the elders, go to school, or play, at the foothills of…

Meena Gopal is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Women’s Studies, Pondicherry University. Her areas of interest in research…

In Gendered Bodies and Worlds of Labour: Re-Conceptualising Dignity After Puttaswamy vs. Union of India (published by Zubaan in 2024),…

The Gulf always reminds me of my mother’s recurring tales of how her uncle, who migrated to the Gulf from…