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Anuk

@anukriti.bsky.social
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Decolonial, Anti-caste, feminist and Postmodern scholar. I work on analysing policies with an intersectional caste-gender-race-colonial lens. I also strongly advocate for epistemic justice in knowledge production and fair academic practices.

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Lily O’Farrell @lilyofarrell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Cartoon about the male friendship recession and ‘Mankeeping’ 🧵
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Anuk @anukriti.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Pleased to share our article on "Organised dispossession and development as disaster: Analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking". This article will likely be of interest to social policy, gender & development, intersectional and anti-caste scholars www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Organised dispossession and development as disaster: analysing caste and gender in disaster policymaking
Disasters are often constructed as unique and extraordinary events. Such accounts ignore the social histories and inequalities that render specific communities/regions prone to disaster. In this pa...
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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Just learned about this recent case where a transgender person in Karnataka, India successfully challenged the Registrar to accommodate name and gender changes (not possible by prior law). Progress that I couldn't have imagined decades ago. clpr.org.in/litigation/m...
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Ms. X v. State of Karnataka - Centre for Law & Policy Research
CLPR, through this case, is challenging the legal provisions preventing voluntary name and gender corrections for transgender individuals in birth certificates, arguing constitutional and human rights...
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AV; Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis have a right to Joy @apveng.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Look at how Ms. Tara K explains the need for affirmative action. This tackles gender but as she says, it applies to people marginalised by caste, religion, ethnicity, and other social indicators too (such as race for the West). Ask when you come across “neutral" policies: who does it benefit?
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Anuk @anukriti.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Call for book chapters (Decolonial and intersectional research) - publisher Palgrave Macmillan. Please contact Anukriti.dixit@unibe.ch if you’re interested in contributing. Preference to scholars located in the global South(s)
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