Loved doing this interview about my research on the financialisation of small loans with Lisa Prügl!

Geneva Graduate Institute@gvagrad.bsky.social · 12mo ago

@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

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

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

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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🎙️ 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.

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...

The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

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Deadline approaching for the LaborTech Annual Awards including the social justice awards, see below for more info or reach me to ask!

Tanushree Kaushal@tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Wrote a book review for @hgupta.bsky.social’s fantastic new book Experimental Times, on Bangalore’s gendered startup capitalism economy!

LSE Review of Books@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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...

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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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 ...

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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...

Michael Hudson & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Ann Pettifor

YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber

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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

Deadline for abstracts for Digital Geographies is fast approaching. Lisbon will be lovely in November time! ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeogr...

Fully funded PhD position on Marathi film Industry at University of Groningen www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

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.

Nick Bernards@nickbernards.bsky.social · last yr.

Textbook demonstration from the Economist of the uncomfortably thin line between liberalism and fascism…

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—

Gender Centre | Geneva Graduate Institute@gvagrad-gc.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨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

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

📝 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

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.

This is the spirit in which I coined a few years ago the term, decommodified labor. Of interest? www.academia.edu/36822760/Dec...

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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Sarah Milov@allofmilov.bsky.social · last yr.

The bad news is nobody gets to retire. The good news is there will also be no jobs.

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...

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Timely CfP on shiftint political actors/ roles/ authority

Kean Birch@keanbirch.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social #bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

🚨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...