Tanushree Kaushal

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

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

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...

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....

🎙️ 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.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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.

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 ...

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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Michael Hudson & Yanis Varoufakis in conversation with Ann Pettifor YouTube video by Institute of David Graeber

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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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.

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!

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.

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:

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—

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

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)

📝 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...

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