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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Aug 29

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

Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social · Aug 27

@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

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jul 4

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

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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · May 5

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...

www.tandfonline.com

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · May 24

🎙️ 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 · May 23

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

www.cambridge.org

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 21

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 · Mar 25

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
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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 19

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 · May 19

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

How gender, labour and tech intersect in Bangalore’s startup culture - LSE Review of Books

Hemangini Gupta's Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 18

This was next to the "Village Suisse" (still called so), which presented the idea of ideal Swiss life, clearly representing an 'us' in contrast with racialised others.
More here on representations of the Swiss National Exhibition of 1896: wp.unil.ch/pressesatiri...

Le Sapajou : le Village noir et le Village suisse de l’Exposition nationale de 1896 - La presse satirique en Suisse romande

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 18

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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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 2

Grateful for the reviewers and editors and the workers who allowed me access to their enmeshed personal and working lives. I'm also indebted to @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, where I wrote much of this paper as a visiting fellow. @gvagradlibrary.bsky.social @gvagrad.bsky.social @gvagrad-gc.bsky.social

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 2

Despite such attempts at standardisation, personal bonds and trust remain central to their work. This complicates the idea that finance is standardised and homogenous, instead showing how finance professionals manage relationships, build trust and perform gendered affective labour.

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 2

There are 130 million microfinance loans in India and more than 95% of all microfinance staff are the ground workers who disburse and collect loans. These workers are required to reside away from their homes and are regularly moved to new locations to prevent forming close bonds with clients.

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · May 2

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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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · Apr 19

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · Apr 13

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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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Apr 3

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

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 · Mar 31

Deadline for abstracts for Digital Geographies is fast approaching. Lisbon will be lovely in November time!

ceg.igot.ulisboa.pt/digitalgeogr...

Digital Geographies Conference

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Mar 31

Fully funded PhD position on Marathi film Industry at University of Groningen

www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor...

Vacatures bij de RUG

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · Mar 28

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 · Mar 28

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

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Mar 28

Despite the purported novelty of these financial inclusion programmes, these are in fact situated in a longer history of similar efforts under colonial rule. Curious to hear thoughts on the intersections of racial capitalism, indigeneity and finance!

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Mar 28

a) The racial hierarchization of populations as financially (ir)rational
b) The privatization of commons, which makes access to credit not optional—but essential for survival.

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Mar 28

it is a deeply political project, shaped by a longue durée of colonial governance and neoliberal reform. Here, I explore how contemporary financial inclusion projects carry colonial continuities and reproduce racialized hierarchies, highlighting two key dynamics:

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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Mar 28

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 · Mar 27

🚨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

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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Tanushree Kaushal @tanushreekaushal.bsky.social · Mar 25

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
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