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Storm in a Water Pot

08/05/2025

4 pages long

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Water rights

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This deals with water rights and the water rights movement in rural India.

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

12/02/2025

15 pages long

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Introduction: Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises

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This is the introduction to the special issue on 'Disaster and resilience: intersectional approaches towards establishing resilient communities during crises'.

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Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

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Tiding over socio-ecological vulnerabilities: experiences of two groups of cleaning/domestic women workers from Kerala, India

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This paper is a preliminary attempt to examine the experience of two groups of women cleaning/domestic workers in two cities in Kerala grappling with vulnerabilities induced by natural disasters and the pandemic. The groups are similar to each other in several crucial respects, as assetless or asset-poor workers of oppressed caste social origins who perform […]

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Neend Udaao Andolan: Bhopali women’s responses to the ongoing environmental and health disaster surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory, Bhopal, India

12/02/2025

21 pages long

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Neend Udaao Andolan: Bhopali women’s responses to the ongoing environmental and health disaster surrounding the abandoned Union Carbide factory, Bhopal, India

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December 2024 marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial disaster: the toxic gas leak on 2–3 December 1984 from the US-owned Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India. Generations of people across the world have grown up with the story of the ‘Bhopal gas disaster’ and governments have passed laws to prevent such […]

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The Community Resilience Fund: a transformative tool for grassroots women-led community resilience

12/02/2025

10 pages long

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The Community Resilience Fund: a transformative tool for grassroots women-led community resilience

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This article discusses a field-tested financial mechanism developed by the Huairou Commission, the CRF resources grassroots women’s organisations across the Asia, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) regions to build their collective leadership, analyse climate and disaster risks, prioritise actions, publicly demonstrate resilience practices, and collaborate with the government to institutionalise or scale up […]

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Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

19/09/2024

20 pages long

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Women’s Search for Public Space and Leisure in Agra: Cots, courtyards, and riverbank

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Historians have often highlighted the centrality of bazaars and the streets in urban public life in India as a space for politics and mobilisation. Historically, these bazaars and streets have been the domain of men, while spaces created by dominant urban planning logics like sequestered parks and enclosed marketplaces are marked by exclusion across various […]

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Transient Spaces, Temporary Alliances: Harvesting breathing spaces in India’s sugarcane fields

19/09/2024

22 pages long

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Transient Spaces, Temporary Alliances: Harvesting breathing spaces in India’s sugarcane fields

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Marathwada is a historically drought-affected and caste-ridden region in Maharashtra, and a reflection of India’s story of exclusionary economic growth. Poor rainfall, extractive agrarian practices, and social exclusion have forced nearly one million marginal farm families and landless communities to harvest sugarcane in neighbouring districts. They are recruited in pairs, as a koyta, almost universally comprising […]

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‘Thinna’ as a Quasi-Public Space: The case of leather homeworkers in Southern India

19/09/2024

17 pages long

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‘Thinna’ as a Quasi-Public Space: The case of leather homeworkers in Southern India

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Homeworkers form a significant part of the informal economy in the global South, are over-represented by women, and are defined by their place of work, that is, their ‘home’. As production and social reproduction intersect in the private sphere of the home, a woman’s mobility and access to public spaces is limited and gendered. Within […]

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‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

12/12/2023

14 pages long

Languages: English

‘Yes caste is important, (but)’: examining the knowledge-production assemblage of Dwij-Savarna scholarship as it invisibilises caste in the context of women’s prisons in India

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Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and many other Dwij-Savarna (‘upper caste’) academics from historically privileged ‘Dwij-Savarna’ Indian castes like Brahmins pioneered subaltern studies in the context of South Asian studies. Their thrust towards decolonising led to an epistemic de-centring of Western hegemony in knowledge production on behalf of marginalised ‘subalterns’. However, Umesh Bagade points out that […]

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Challenging invisibilities: a sensorial exploration of gender and caste in waste-work

12/12/2023

16 pages long

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Challenging invisibilities: a sensorial exploration of gender and caste in waste-work

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Knowledge systems characterised by classification, categorisation, and data collection underlie efforts to govern. This paper critically examines knowledge collected by central governing entities in India about waste in an urban local body – specifically through the National Cleanliness Survey or Swachh Survekshan. Relying extensively on field work in Rajpur (2018–2019), one of the highest ranked […]

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