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Unkept Promises, Unequal Worlds: A Sociological Study of Intimate Abuse in Promise‐to‐Marry Cases in India

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Feminist Temporalities of Agrarian‐Climate Crises: Synchronisation and the Afterlives of Speculation in India

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper brings a feminist temporal perspective to understandings of agrarian‐climate crises in monsoon‐dependent regions of India, examining how time operates as a site of material struggle and social differentiation. Drawing on ethnographic research in Vidarbha, it explores how farmers synchronise diverse temporalities to navigate ...
Arianna Tozzi
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A Literary Study of Dalit Feminism in India

open access: yes, 2023
Abstract: Dalit feminism emerged in India as a new school based onthe idea of secular feminism. Since the 1990s, many Dalit women academics, they met, especially in universities, influenced by the expression of black women in the African- American context.
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‘Beyond “Dull and Sterile Routines”? Dalits Organizing for Social Change in Tamil Nadu’ [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Drawing on fieldwork with Dalit movements in Tamil Nadu, this article focuses on often neglected aspects of activism. A pervasive lack of resources has rendered Tamil Dalit movements overly incident-sensitive: reacting to caste atrocities rather than ...
Gorringe, Hugo, Hugo Gorringe
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From Housing to Infrastructure of Racialisation: The Politics of Caste in Smart Housing Interventions in India

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 6, November 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper conceptualises housing as an infrastructure of racialisation in smart cities. With smart urbanism becoming central to urban governance, housing is emerging as a new geography of technological interventions in India. I argue that these interventions are central to the reproduction of unequal power relations and difference in everyday
Syeda Jenifa Zahan
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Coloniality of Skill Codification: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis of “Ideal Workers” in the “Future of Work” Policy Discourses

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 2388-2403, November 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the last decade, policy actors have produced a surge of “future of work” reports that reimagine workers through the dual logics of digitalization and human capital. Drawing on 25 policy documents (WEF, World Bank, OECD, EU, and major consultancies) and combining Bacchi and Goodwin's WPR approach with decolonial feminist theory, this paper
Muneeb Ul Lateef Banday
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Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper shows how India's wind electricity regime does not simply decarbonize electricity; it reorganizes power through a distinctive wind masculinity—a caste‐coded, infrastructural mode of rule that keeps money, machines, and people moving.
David Singh
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Nepali Women at Work: Menstruation in Informal and Formal Workplaces

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 1595-1605, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Women of specific castes in Nepal are socialized to adhere to a range of menstrual customs. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews, we examine the relevance of menstrual customs in informal and formal workplaces in Kathmandu, Nepal. We expand upon Acker's work on gendered institutions cross‐culturally, highlighting its global significance, and ...
Srijana Karki, Tamara L. Mix
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Politicising the Public Space: On Dalit Women Sanitation Workers in India

open access: yesCaste
Caste determines the life worlds of people in India in particular and South Asia in general. Historically, it is observed that caste has conditioned the nature of public spaces.
Smita M. Patil
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Dalit Feminism: A Voice for the Voiceless in Aruna Gogulamanda’s “A Dalit Woman in the Land of Goddesses”

open access: yesShanlax International Journal of English, 2020
Dalit Feminism is feminism, which has great significance in the contemporary casteist society. It aims at equality, right, and justice for the lowest strata of the society, that is, Dalit Women. Aruna Gogulamanda’s “A Dalit Woman in the land of Goddesses” focuses on the double-edged swordf marginalization, which a Dalit woman has to suffer in the ...
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