An assessment of how anarchist movements are grounded in the principles of non-capitalist structures, decentralisation, anti-patriarchy, and non-hierarchical organisation that offers a lens through which to evaluate the effectiveness and sustainability of anarchist practices.
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As feminists working at the intersection of critical political economy and international security, we’ve long been frustrated by the mainstream’s recognition that gender plays some role in the rise of extremist ideologies and violent extremist actions without a clear understanding of how and why.
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I was recently invited to contribute a paper to a special issue on the legacy of Che Guevara, published by Globalizations. As a feminist working at the intersection of international security and global political economy, I wanted to use the opportunity to seriously engage with Che’s normative [...]
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In what is an important reflection on the political stakes for wider Marxist Feminist theory, Cinzia Arruzza has counselled against the fashionable conflation of racial and patriarchy oppressions within capitalism. Asserting the intersectionality of race, gender, and class is simply not enough [...]
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My latest book Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India delves into arguments around co-option to offer a different way to think of feminism’s entanglement in power, especially in a conjuncture shaped by global neoliberalism. First, unlike arguments around co-option [...]
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The overturning of Roe vs. Wade in the USA highlights the precariousness of legal institutions and the necessity for continuous struggle to both push for and enforce social rights. It shows the limitations of legal and state apparatuses, that are themselves a reflection of existing power [...]
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It is all about the taxes these days, whether in discussions among G7 leaders about the global tax rate, in tax reforms sparking protests in Colombia, or in President Biden’s attempts to reverse Trump’s tax cuts in the United States. But when it comes to gendered inequalities, we argue, it is [...]
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It was almost inevitable that microfinance would be proposed as a solution to COVID-19 related financial problems of the poor. But COVID-19 has plunged the incomes of the poor into free-fall, and as a result, many microfinance institutions are in dire straits. As sub-prime lenders, microfinance [...]
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