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Tanushree Kaushal

@tanushreekaushal.bsky.social
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Lecturer University of Bern and @gvagrad.bsky.social tanushreekaushal.com Political economy, India, gender, ethnography, finance, labour, racial capitalism, economic sociology of finance

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Loved doing this interview about my research on the financialisation of small loans with Lisa Prügl!
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 04/07/2025
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 on.ft.com/3TrfEpn
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 05/05/2025
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....
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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...
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🎙️ 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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Nick Bernards @nickbernards.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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...
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The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Deadline approaching for the LaborTech Annual Awards including the social justice awards, see below for more info or reach me to ask!
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Wrote a book review for @hgupta.bsky.social’s fantastic new book Experimental Times, on Bangalore’s gendered startup capitalism economy!
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
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...
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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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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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.
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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 ...
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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...
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Michael Hudson & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Ann Pettifor
YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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
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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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Paul Langley @paullangley.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Deadline for abstracts for Digital Geographies is fast approaching. Lisbon will be lovely in November time! ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeogr...
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Digital Geographies Conference
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Fully funded PhD position on Marathi film Industry at University of Groningen www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...
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Vacatures bij de RUG
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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.
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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—
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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
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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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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
📝 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
Online Writing Retreat for Early Career Scholars. Thursday, 27 March 2025. 10:30-13:30 CET, Zoom event. Description: the EISA Early Career Development group is organising an Online Writing Retreat for Early Career Scholars aimed at sharing writing strategies and fostering a friendly environment for writing. At the beginning of the event Dr. Joana Ricarte, Dr. Samarjit Ghosh and Dr. Natalie Welfens will share writing strategies for creating a text (research paper, PhD thesis or book chapter, etc.). The event will continue with a 2-hour writing-retreat. Speakers: Joana Ricarte (University of Coimbra), Samarjit Ghosh (Özyeğin University), Natalie Wilfens (University of Duisburg-Essen)
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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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Leigh Claire La Berge @lclaberge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is the spirit in which I coined a few years ago the term, decommodified labor. Of interest? www.academia.edu/36822760/Dec...
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Decommodified Labor: Conceptualizing Work After the Wage
A way to think labor after finanancialization, decommodifed labor refers to an emptying out of the same wage relation that nonetheless continues to structure our existence. In this paper, I put forth ...
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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....
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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...
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Timely CfP on shiftint political actors/ roles/ authority
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Prof Julia Steinberger 🌹🌱🌍 #ClimateAction #Fightfascism @jksteinberger.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
🚨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...
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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
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