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I am an Independent researcher, having worked in the areas of feminist research and philosophy, gender and development, women’s collectivization and pastoralism. I have worked closely with feminist methodologies within communities in different settings and hold interest in feminist pedagogies, feminist processes, and writing through affect, narratives on body and queer-ness. I hold significant experience in managing and working qualitatively in various research projects.
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Home-based workers do not constitute a homogenous group and are involved in a wide array of work. The article talks on the unclear definition of home-based work which is hazy – particularly when quizzed about whether it is different from domestic work or unpaid care work. The paper concludes by stating that an important section of informal workers...
ABSTRACT: The ‘empowered’ woman has captured the imagination of the development state, in astonishing ways, that brings under its purview a rather exploitative understanding of ‘power’, a sense of ‘agentic power’ that is aimed to be brought, for her to be ‘rescued’ from her powerlessness. Based on the belief that she is always already “excluded” an...
Rural women and leadership have become as if, synonymous to each other, especially in contexts where women empowerment and agency is fostered as goals towards achieving economic and social prosperity. Women in collectivized units are mobilized not just as saviors of economic life of rural women but also trained as leaders who can build the capacity...
This paper is a writing of a work on critically understanding women empowerment amidst the prevalence of MDG's and SDG's. It points to the gaps in the implementation and thinking of empowerment goals in lives of rural women and proposes for a rethinking in our methodologies of working with women, to strive for gender equality at a 'sustainable' lev...
This paper will attempt to understand the experience of the home-based woman workers based on the empirical research work done by ISST in Delhi. It will do so in understanding ‘home’ as their work-space as well as a gendered space. Basically trying to build on the home-work continuum and what other factors affects this home and workspace boundary-...
A Multitude of Challenges Facing Women Home-Based Workers in Delhi : Apart from low and irregular wages, there is also the issue of lack of recognition of their the job as ‘work’. Two empirical studies conducted by the Institute of Social Studies Trust across five locations in Delhi to understand the work-related challenges of home-based workers be...
Home is the place of work for the home-based workers. Therefore the major work related
concerns of the home-based workers are always centred around their home and habitat, including access to basic services, public infrastructure and most importantly the provisions of child-care facility at the community level. The present study attempts to unravel...
