Neoliberal co-option or radical resurgence? Young gender justice workers in Delhi

Has a new generation of activists and development professionals de-radicalised or revitalised the Indian Women’s Movement?

Funded by a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship from the University of Melbourne

  • Between inclusivity and feminist purism

    Published in Women’s Studies International Forum (2018), this article demonstrates that young gender justice workers in Delhi practice diverse politics and feminisms that challenge generational arguments of lost radicalism and linear conceptions of feminist history.

  • Outsourcing patriarchy to and within India

    Published in Antipode (2020), this article explores how young caste-class privileged gender justice workers in Delhi navigate several relations of power—with Euro-American feminisms, and with less privileged feminisms and recipients of development work within India.

  • Of mindsets and men

    Published in Men & Masculinities (2020), this article argues that initiatives to engage men and boys that focus on “mind sets” and individuals as the locus of change risk framing men as equal victims of patriarchy.

  • The changed and the unchanged

    Published in Gender, Place & Culture (2020), this article argues that peer education models of ‘gender sensitization training’ are a form of ‘information-centred development’ and create binaries between those who have knowledge about gender and those who do not.

  • Podcast

    In this podcast, Amy Piedalue and I talk to Professor Srila Roy from the University of the Witwatersrand about new Indian feminisms and India’s #MeToo movement.

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