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Slum Evictions through the Lens of Labour: Capture, Value Generation, and Belonging in the Indian City

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Following the lead of labour movements, this article frames slums as labour geographies whose evictions constitute the devaluation of labour in spatial terms. This devaluation occurs in two modes: in the first, through the rendering of workers as “encroachers” or “the urban poor” in policy documents and public discourse, thereby unmooring ...
Priti Narayan
wiley   +1 more source

Unsung melodies from margins - By Antony John Baptist

open access: yesThe South Asianist, 2016
In modern India of 2016, the question as to whether caste is still a moral issue or a political tactic is fiercely debated. The ruling political party and their supporters insist that caste is no longer a relevant issue today, whereas others say that ...
Michael T Balonek
doaj  

African Decolonial Theory: A Conversation

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.
Abstract Antipode has become a key platform for engaging with decolonial and anticolonial scholarship, as well as adjacent fields such as Black geographies, Indigenous studies, Latin American feminism, and work on settler‐colonialism. African reference points in this literature, however, have been far less common, both in the journal and more broadly ...
Patricia Daley   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indian Wives of Incarcerated Men Tell Their Own Stories: An Intersectional Narrative Analysis of Disenfranchisement and Resilience

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, Volume 88, Issue 1, Page 7-22, February 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective Guided by intersectional feminism and symbolic interactionism, the purpose of this study was to document the untold stories of women with incarcerated spouses in India. Background When a family member is incarcerated, the task of emotionally and financially supporting the family often falls upon women, who are likely to be ...
Shivangi Gupta, Caroline Sanner
wiley   +1 more source

Maadhuri Hireker: Education, Emancipation, and an Ambedkarite-Buddhist Woman’s Journey from India to the UK

open access: yesCaste
This article presents a transnational oral history of Maadhuri Hireker (b. 1940), a first-generation educated Ambedkarite woman whose life traverses rural Maharashtra, the historic moment of Buddhist conversion in 1956, and the institutionalization of ...
GAURAV J. PATHANIA, Sat Pal Muman
doaj   +1 more source

Intersectionality and structural barriers in the last‐mile delivery of social protection: Evidence concerning women’s access to social protection in Gujarat, India

open access: yesInternational Social Security Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 69-93, January/March 2026.
Cette étude mobilise des méthodes mixtes pour examiner à travers un prisme intersectionnel l’influence des obstacles structurels du dernier kilomètre sur l’accès à la protection sociale des femmes membres de ménages qui élèvent du bétail dans les régions urbaines du Gujarat, Inde, durant et après la pandémie de COVID‐19.
Sanjana Rajasekar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Living in fear: The psychological impact of the threat of sexual violence on women in India

open access: yesAnalyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, Volume 25, Issue 3, December 2025.
Abstract In today's society, women are increasingly vulnerable to sexual violence, whether at home, in the workplace, or in public spaces. This study aims to explore how the perceived threat of sexual violence affects the psychological well‐being and daily behavior of women aged 20–30 in northern India, with a focus on fear, stress, and anxiety.
Afreen Waseem, Naila Firdous, Shah Alam
wiley   +1 more source

Ghinn: Colorism and gendered revulsion in North India

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, Volume 6, Issue 2, November 2025.
Abstract This article examines how colorism is gendered in North India by foregrounding women's narratives of being subjected to ghinn—disgust or repugnance—around their skin tone. I argue that paying attention to the ghinn directed at dark skin shows how colorism here builds on casteism, and how there is a gendered dimension to it: ghinn at women ...
Katyayani Dalmia
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons on touch: Caring for pesticide exposure in toxic geographies

open access: yesGeographical Research, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 507-519, November 2025.
This article studies touch as a tool to sense and care for chronic pesticide exposure. It uncovers how agricultural communities come in contact with toxic chemicals and learn to live within toxic geographies as well as possible. Such understandings can cultivate more compassionate and liveable worlds.
Mayra Sánchez Barba
wiley   +1 more source

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