Tanushree Kaushal
@tanushreekaushal.bsky.social
Lecturer University of Bern and @gvagrad.bsky.social
https://tanushreekaushal.com/
Political economy, India, gender, ethnography, finance, labour, racial capitalism, economic sociology of finance
https://tanushreekaushal.com/
Political economy, India, gender, ethnography, finance, labour, racial capitalism, economic sociology of finance
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Gendered labour produces finance: Navigating profits and care as intermediaries of finance
Financial actors often characterize finance as standardized and depersonalized. This narrative of standardized finance is commonly incorporated in critical finance scholarship which highlights the ...
www.tandfonline.com
Really happy to see my new article in @econsocjournal.bsky.social I followed the everyday labour of microfinance workers as they collect loans from women in India and navigate care with profit-maximisation, showing the social and emotional infrastructures that create finance for the underbanked.
Loved doing this interview about my research on the financialisation of small loans with Lisa Prügl!
@tanushreekaushal.bsky.social 's recently defended PhD thesis traces the financialisation of #microcredit from #WestBengal to Geneva.
Professor Elisabeth Prügl, her thesis supervisor, interviewed Tanushree about her doctoral research in a podcast:
Listen now: shorturl.at/ufUav
Professor Elisabeth Prügl, her thesis supervisor, interviewed Tanushree about her doctoral research in a podcast:
Listen now: shorturl.at/ufUav
August 29, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Loved doing this interview about my research on the financialisation of small loans with Lisa Prügl!
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Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn
July 4, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Breaking news: Boston Consulting Group modelled the costs of 'relocating' Palestinians from Gaza and entered into a multimillion-dollar contract to help launch a new aid scheme for the shattered enclave https://on.ft.com/3TrfEpn
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New publication from LaborTech member Tanushree Kaushal!
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
With increased acceptance of credit as a ‘solution’ for socio-economic challenges, financial inclusion has risen as a top agenda point for international organizations and state governments alike. T...
www.tandfonline.com
May 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
New publication from LaborTech member Tanushree Kaushal!
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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🎙️ India’s government released data showing 3.7 million excess deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic years of 2020 & 2021. Coming up on State of Southasia, the health journalist @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social recounts the mismanagement by the Modi government that led to India’s devastating second wave.
May 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
🎙️ India’s government released data showing 3.7 million excess deaths in the Covid-19 pandemic years of 2020 & 2021. Coming up on State of Southasia, the health journalist @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social recounts the mismanagement by the Modi government that led to India’s devastating second wave.
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Really excited to see this massive collection of work on financial infrastructures ed. by @c-westermeier.bsky.social, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, finally out! 30+ chapters and an incredible list of contributors. And it's all open access.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
www.cambridge.org
May 23, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Really excited to see this massive collection of work on financial infrastructures ed. by @c-westermeier.bsky.social, Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Barbara Brandl, finally out! 30+ chapters and an incredible list of contributors. And it's all open access.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...
Deadline approaching for the LaborTech Annual Awards including the social justice awards, see below for more info or reach me to ask!
Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
Labor Tech
Labor Tech Research Network - A collection of leading experts on technology and work with a commitment to feminism, anti-racism, and social justice
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May 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Deadline approaching for the LaborTech Annual Awards including the social justice awards, see below for more info or reach me to ask!
Wrote a book review for @hgupta.bsky.social’s fantastic new book Experimental Times, on Bangalore’s gendered startup capitalism economy!
NEW ✨ How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture 👩🏾💻🇮🇳
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India by @hgupta.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
#BookReview by @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social
Experimental Times: Startup Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India by @hgupta.bsky.social @uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @ucpress.bsky.social
#BookReview by @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social
How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture - LSE Review of Books
Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
May 19, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Wrote a book review for @hgupta.bsky.social’s fantastic new book Experimental Times, on Bangalore’s gendered startup capitalism economy!
Listening to this excellent podcast series on Swiss colonial history and linkages, with a segment discussing the "Village Noir" in Geneva, which hosted a human zoo among other forms of dehumanization - located so close to the central Plainpalais square in the city.
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Boulevard du Village noir – Bande-annonce
Dans cette deuxième saison de « La face cachée de la Suisse », Shyaka Kagame raconte l’agression raciste qu’il a subie à Genève ainsi que le combat judiciaire qui a suivi, et il explore l’histoire des...
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May 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Listening to this excellent podcast series on Swiss colonial history and linkages, with a segment discussing the "Village Noir" in Geneva, which hosted a human zoo among other forms of dehumanization - located so close to the central Plainpalais square in the city.
www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
www.rts.ch/audio-podcas...
Really happy to see my new article in @econsocjournal.bsky.social I followed the everyday labour of microfinance workers as they collect loans from women in India and navigate care with profit-maximisation, showing the social and emotional infrastructures that create finance for the underbanked.
Gendered labour produces finance: Navigating profits and care as intermediaries of finance
Financial actors often characterize finance as standardized and depersonalized. This narrative of standardized finance is commonly incorporated in critical finance scholarship which highlights the ...
www.tandfonline.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Really happy to see my new article in @econsocjournal.bsky.social I followed the everyday labour of microfinance workers as they collect loans from women in India and navigate care with profit-maximisation, showing the social and emotional infrastructures that create finance for the underbanked.
Reposted by Tanushree Kaushal
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Tomorrow Yanis Varousfakis and Michael Hudson will be giving the David Graeber Institute a talk.
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
Michael Hudson & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
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April 13, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Tomorrow Yanis Varousfakis and Michael Hudson will be giving the David Graeber Institute a talk.
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
They will be joined by Ann Pettifor and it will be streamed live on our YouTube page.
Here is the link to the page: www.youtube.com/live/JmAeVwC...
My article (written with Signe Predmore) on finance's women's inclusion agenda across Indian microfinance and US high finance is out in a fantastic volume in @finandsoc.bsky.social with excellent articles on performativity, inclusion, green transition and more!
@gvagrad-gc.bsky.social
@gvagrad-gc.bsky.social
The women’s inclusion agenda: Gender and everyday practices across registers of finance | Finance and Society | Cambridge Core
The women’s inclusion agenda: Gender and everyday practices across registers of finance - Volume 11 Issue 1
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April 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
My article (written with Signe Predmore) on finance's women's inclusion agenda across Indian microfinance and US high finance is out in a fantastic volume in @finandsoc.bsky.social with excellent articles on performativity, inclusion, green transition and more!
@gvagrad-gc.bsky.social
@gvagrad-gc.bsky.social
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Deadline for abstracts for Digital Geographies is fast approaching. Lisbon will be lovely in November time!
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Digital Geographies Conference
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March 31, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Deadline for abstracts for Digital Geographies is fast approaching. Lisbon will be lovely in November time!
ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeogr...
ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeogr...
Fully funded PhD position on Marathi film Industry at University of Groningen
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www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
Vacatures bij de RUG
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March 31, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Fully funded PhD position on Marathi film Industry at University of Groningen
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www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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In 1915, Lenin called the Economist "a journal that speaks for the British millionaires". 100+ years later, update "British" to "Anglophone" and "m" to "b" and things are the same.
Textbook demonstration from the Economist of the uncomfortably thin line between liberalism and fascism…
March 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
In 1915, Lenin called the Economist "a journal that speaks for the British millionaires". 100+ years later, update "British" to "Anglophone" and "m" to "b" and things are the same.
New article in Globalizations! What drives financial inclusion for marginalized Indigenous communities—when they’re simultaneously framed as 'high-risk'? Through a historically-attentive ethnography, I show that financial inclusion is not just about economic efficiency or profit—
🚨New publication
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
@tanushreekaushal.bsky.social explores how contemporary financial inclusion projects in West Bengal carry colonial continuities & reproduce racialized hierarchies shorturl.at/NsdO5
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
@tanushreekaushal.bsky.social explores how contemporary financial inclusion projects in West Bengal carry colonial continuities & reproduce racialized hierarchies shorturl.at/NsdO5
Imperial durabilities of debt: indigeneity, racial capitalism and the ‘tribal’ figure in finance
With increased acceptance of credit as a ‘solution’ for socio-economic challenges, financial inclusion has risen as a top agenda point for international organizations and state governments alike. T...
shorturl.at
March 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
New article in Globalizations! What drives financial inclusion for marginalized Indigenous communities—when they’re simultaneously framed as 'high-risk'? Through a historically-attentive ethnography, I show that financial inclusion is not just about economic efficiency or profit—
Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
Labor Tech
Labor Tech Research Network - A collection of leading experts on technology and work with a commitment to feminism, anti-racism, and social justice
labortechresearchnetwork.org
March 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Apply for the LaborTech Annual Awards, deadline June 1 2025. Welcoming submissions for monographs, graduate student papers and *social justice awards* which invite tech workers, labor organisers, activists, designers and others! @labortech.bsky.social
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
labortechresearchnetwork.org/awards
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📝 Early Career Scholars - join our Online Writing Retreat on 27 March, 10:30-13:30 CET!
✅ Joana Ricarte, Samarjit Ghosh, and Natalie Welfens will share writing strategies, followed by a 2-hour writing session
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4hIkUhY
✅ Joana Ricarte, Samarjit Ghosh, and Natalie Welfens will share writing strategies, followed by a 2-hour writing session
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4hIkUhY
March 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
📝 Early Career Scholars - join our Online Writing Retreat on 27 March, 10:30-13:30 CET!
✅ Joana Ricarte, Samarjit Ghosh, and Natalie Welfens will share writing strategies, followed by a 2-hour writing session
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4hIkUhY
✅ Joana Ricarte, Samarjit Ghosh, and Natalie Welfens will share writing strategies, followed by a 2-hour writing session
🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4hIkUhY
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Join us on March 25 for this talk by David Adler, General Coordinator of the @progintl.bsky.social, about current possibilities for radical geopolitical transformation.
March 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Join us on March 25 for this talk by David Adler, General Coordinator of the @progintl.bsky.social, about current possibilities for radical geopolitical transformation.
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This is the spirit in which I coined a few years ago the term, decommodified labor. Of interest?
www.academia.edu/36822760/Dec...
www.academia.edu/36822760/Dec...
March 4, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is the spirit in which I coined a few years ago the term, decommodified labor. Of interest?
www.academia.edu/36822760/Dec...
www.academia.edu/36822760/Dec...
Sharing here my recently published article on the politics of regulating microfinance in India. I look at political struggles in the Indian state in defining and legislating microfinance. State actors debated if microfinance is moneylending or a financial service? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India
The Andhra Crisis of 2010 is well known as a critical juncture for microfinance as borrowers were coerced and reportedly committed suicide due to repayment pressures. This presented a regulatory ch...
www.tandfonline.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Sharing here my recently published article on the politics of regulating microfinance in India. I look at political struggles in the Indian state in defining and legislating microfinance. State actors debated if microfinance is moneylending or a financial service? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Timely CfP on shiftint political actors/ roles/ authority
Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social
#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
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#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk
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Science as Culture Forum on “Tech Oligarchy”
think.taylorandfrancis.com
February 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Timely CfP on shiftint political actors/ roles/ authority
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🚨Breaking🚨
Uni of Lausanne now holds the sad title of being the first university in Switzerland to fire (sorry, "not renew the contract") of a professor, my friend and comrade Prof Joseph Daher, for his solidary with the pro-palestinian students.
Sign in solidarity here 👇
clads.ch/solidarite-e...
Uni of Lausanne now holds the sad title of being the first university in Switzerland to fire (sorry, "not renew the contract") of a professor, my friend and comrade Prof Joseph Daher, for his solidary with the pro-palestinian students.
Sign in solidarity here 👇
clads.ch/solidarite-e...
Soutien au Pr. Joseph Daher en Suisse et à l’international / Swiss and international support to Pr. Joseph Daher – Collectif pour la liberté académique, la démocratie et la solidarité
clads.ch
February 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🚨Breaking🚨
Uni of Lausanne now holds the sad title of being the first university in Switzerland to fire (sorry, "not renew the contract") of a professor, my friend and comrade Prof Joseph Daher, for his solidary with the pro-palestinian students.
Sign in solidarity here 👇
clads.ch/solidarite-e...
Uni of Lausanne now holds the sad title of being the first university in Switzerland to fire (sorry, "not renew the contract") of a professor, my friend and comrade Prof Joseph Daher, for his solidary with the pro-palestinian students.
Sign in solidarity here 👇
clads.ch/solidarite-e...