Navtej K Purewal
Biographic Data
| ID | 349307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Navtej K Purewal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Navtej K |
| FAMILY NAME | Purewal |
| SIGNATURE | PUREWAL N K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2025-1136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Smart economics’ as gendered racial capitalism: A critique of corporate capitalism’s co-option of gender equity frameworks
This article highlights how ‘smart economics’ as a paradigm for gender equity reflects a continuum of the gendered and racialised history of capitalism’s appropriations of equity and social justice. By focusing on the example of one corporation, Unilever, and its co-option of social justice and equity discourse, the article aims to put into perspective the limits and ideological meanings of gender equity as ‘smart economics’ when understood as be…
Assembling UK-India relations through the cultural and creative industries
Culture and the creative economy reflect inherently ideological interpretations and meanings when embedded within policy agendas. We situate culture and the creative economy within contemporary UK–India relations by specifically charting the rise of the CCIs as a policy agenda. Utilising the notion of assembling futures (Harrison 2015. “Beyond ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ heritage: Toward an ontological politics of heritage in the age of the Anthropo…
Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces
Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on gender have not sufficiently responded to the imperatives of race and intersectionality most recently intensified by COVID-19 and the decolonising of the curriculum and Black Lives Matter movements
Coloniality and Feminist Collusion: Breaking Free, Thinking Anew
Feminist studies remains mired in coloniality. While the formal transfer from European empires to independent nation states appeared to mark a transition away from direct domination, rule and subjugation, continuities exist in the contemporary that have been strikingly reproduced through feminist alliances and loyalties with the new/old world order in line with the directives of capitalism, neoliberalism and nationalism. By positing that feminist…
Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions
Gendering (in)security: Interrogating Security Logics Within States of Exception
This collection contributes to debates, which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. However, rather than focusing on the terms of the debate, it foregrounds the empirical reality of the breakdown of these traditional divisions, paying particular attention to the ?state of exception? and similar frameworks. In doing so, contributors to this collection trouble the ubiquitous conce…
Gender, Violence and the Neoliberal State in India
Developing a gendered understanding of the neoliberal state has been, not surprisingly, a preoccupation for much recent feminist praxis in the Global North and particularly in the Global South. Sustained activism and scholarship has addressed a wide variety of questions including the increased reproductive and productive labour demanded of women; the gendered effects of the privatisation of and dispossession from land, natural resources and publi…
Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India
This article explores sex selective abortion (SSA) as a form of structural violence within the broader notion of women's 'protection' in contemporary India. While SSA tends to be framed more generally within ethical and choice-based frameworks around abortion access and reproductive 'rights', and specifically in India around preference for sons as a discriminatory, cultural, technological misogyny, this article argues that sex selective abortion …
South Asian women elders and everyday lives of ‘care in the community’ in Britain: The neoliberal turn in social care and the myth of the family
This article focuses upon the myth of the South Asian family as a self-fulfilling unit in which a construction of ‘looking after their own’ in the diaspora is perpetuated which intrinsically assumes how care and caring are organised at home. The Care in the Community agenda in Britain, which comes out of the contemporary neoliberal paradigm of austerity in which social welfare services have been dramatically cut and reformulated, utilises this im…
Gendercide’, abortion policy, and the disciplining of prenatal sex-selection in neoliberal Europe
This article examines the contours of how sex-selective abortion (SSA) and 'gendercide' have been problematically combined within contemporary debates on abortion in Europe. Analysing the development of policies on the topic, we identify three 'turns' which have become integral to the biopolitics of SSA in Europe: the biomedical turn, the 'gendercide' turn, and the Asian demographic turn. Recent attempts to discipline SSA in the UK and Sweden are…
Area Studies and Anthropology in the Age of Acceleration
(2017). Area Studies and Anthropology in the Age of Acceleration. South Asian Review: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 33-42
The bio-politics of population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India
China and India, two countries with skewed sex ratios in favor of males, have introduced a wide range of policies over the past few decades to prevent couples from deselecting daughters, including criminalizing sex-selective abortion through legal jurisdiction. This article aims to analyze how such policies are situated within the bio-politics of population control and how some of the outcomes reflect each government's inadequacy in addressing th…
Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Beijing Platform for Action
This article examines how girls' education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the ‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial processes during this time, particular shifts are traced which show how girls' education has been a symbolic part of the geopolitical canvas in Pakistan and Afghanistan alongside the ‘war on terror’ and universalisation of education. The …
Between returns and respectability: Parental attitudes towards girls’ education in rural Punjab, Pakistan
This article focuses upon perceptions of girls? education in the family context within which decisions around children?s education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls? education are shaped by an objective logic framed by the notion of returns, relating to potential benefits of daughters? education, and respectability, relating to girls? modesty and threats that education may present…
Disciplining the sex ratio: Exploring the governmentality of female foeticide in India
The ‘girl child’ has attracted a considerable amount of attention in India as an object of policy addressing gender discrimination. This article examines the field of campaigns seeking to address female foeticide and positions the public discourse on the ‘girl child’ and sex selective abortion in India within a broad cultural backdrop of son preference. The article argues that anti-female foeticide campaigns exist within a disciplinary domain of …
Diasporic Shrines
The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab
This article will examine the resurgence since 2008 of the public imagery in Punjab of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who symbolises a Sikh separatist movement against the Indian state which took shape in the 1980s. The rebellion, characterised in the mainstream urban-based Indian media as an extremist Khalistan movement, had its strongest years of support in the rural areas of Punjab from 1984 until the early 1990s. However, over 25 years later…
The Sound of Memory: Interview with Singer, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra
Sikh/Muslim BHAI-BHAI? Towards a social history of the rabābī tradition of shabad kīrtan
This article situates the rabābī tradition of kīrtan within the backdrop of politicized religious boundaries, which find it increasingly difficult to locate the Muslim presence within Sikh history and sacred music. The musical recitation of Sikh sacred hymns through shabad kīrtan has its origins in the appointment by Gurū Nanak of his companion Bhai Mardana in the fifteenth century. This story of origins, while being an integral part of how shaba…
Women's ‘popular’ practices as critique: Vernacular religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab
The Indo-Pak border: Displacements, aggressions and transgressions
This article focuses upon the border between India and Pakistan as a site for political and cultural negotiation. By reflecting upon contemporary engagements within wider border studies, the article interrogates the Indo-Pak border and its contextual location in terms of the manner in which India and Pakistan have evoked the border in order to transmit bounded national identities. However, it is argued that, alongside the aggressive stances by bo…
The bio-politics of population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India
China and India, two countries with skewed sex ratios in favor of males, have introduced a wide range of policies over the past few decades to prevent couples from deselecting daughters, including criminalizing sex-selective abortion through legal jurisdiction. This article aims to analyze how such policies are situated within the bio-politics of population control and how some of the outcomes reflect each government's inadequacy in addressing th…
The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab
This article will examine the resurgence since 2008 of the public imagery in Punjab of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who symbolises a Sikh separatist movement against the Indian state which took shape in the 1980s. The rebellion, characterised in the mainstream urban-based Indian media as an extremist Khalistan movement, had its strongest years of support in the rural areas of Punjab from 1984 until the early 1990s. However, over 25 years later…
Coloniality and Feminist Collusion: Breaking Free, Thinking Anew
Feminist studies remains mired in coloniality. While the formal transfer from European empires to independent nation states appeared to mark a transition away from direct domination, rule and subjugation, continuities exist in the contemporary that have been strikingly reproduced through feminist alliances and loyalties with the new/old world order in line with the directives of capitalism, neoliberalism and nationalism. By positing that feminist…
The Indo-Pak border: Displacements, aggressions and transgressions
This article focuses upon the border between India and Pakistan as a site for political and cultural negotiation. By reflecting upon contemporary engagements within wider border studies, the article interrogates the Indo-Pak border and its contextual location in terms of the manner in which India and Pakistan have evoked the border in order to transmit bounded national identities. However, it is argued that, alongside the aggressive stances by bo…
Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India
This article explores sex selective abortion (SSA) as a form of structural violence within the broader notion of women's 'protection' in contemporary India. While SSA tends to be framed more generally within ethical and choice-based frameworks around abortion access and reproductive 'rights', and specifically in India around preference for sons as a discriminatory, cultural, technological misogyny, this article argues that sex selective abortion …
Women's ‘popular’ practices as critique: Vernacular religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab
Gender, Violence and the Neoliberal State in India
Developing a gendered understanding of the neoliberal state has been, not surprisingly, a preoccupation for much recent feminist praxis in the Global North and particularly in the Global South. Sustained activism and scholarship has addressed a wide variety of questions including the increased reproductive and productive labour demanded of women; the gendered effects of the privatisation of and dispossession from land, natural resources and publi…
Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces
Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on gender have not sufficiently responded to the imperatives of race and intersectionality most recently intensified by COVID-19 and the decolonising of the curriculum and Black Lives Matter movements
Gendering (in)security: Interrogating Security Logics Within States of Exception
This collection contributes to debates, which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. However, rather than focusing on the terms of the debate, it foregrounds the empirical reality of the breakdown of these traditional divisions, paying particular attention to the ?state of exception? and similar frameworks. In doing so, contributors to this collection trouble the ubiquitous conce…
Between returns and respectability: Parental attitudes towards girls’ education in rural Punjab, Pakistan
This article focuses upon perceptions of girls? education in the family context within which decisions around children?s education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls? education are shaped by an objective logic framed by the notion of returns, relating to potential benefits of daughters? education, and respectability, relating to girls? modesty and threats that education may present…
Sikh/Muslim BHAI-BHAI? Towards a social history of the rabābī tradition of shabad kīrtan
This article situates the rabābī tradition of kīrtan within the backdrop of politicized religious boundaries, which find it increasingly difficult to locate the Muslim presence within Sikh history and sacred music. The musical recitation of Sikh sacred hymns through shabad kīrtan has its origins in the appointment by Gurū Nanak of his companion Bhai Mardana in the fifteenth century. This story of origins, while being an integral part of how shaba…
Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Beijing Platform for Action
This article examines how girls' education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the ‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial processes during this time, particular shifts are traced which show how girls' education has been a symbolic part of the geopolitical canvas in Pakistan and Afghanistan alongside the ‘war on terror’ and universalisation of education. The …
The Indo-Pak border: Displacements, aggressions and transgressions
This article focuses upon the border between India and Pakistan as a site for political and cultural negotiation. By reflecting upon contemporary engagements within wider border studies, the article interrogates the Indo-Pak border and its contextual location in terms of the manner in which India and Pakistan have evoked the border in order to transmit bounded national identities. However, it is argued that, alongside the aggressive stances by bo…
Women's ‘popular’ practices as critique: Vernacular religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab
Sikh/Muslim BHAI-BHAI? Towards a social history of the rabābī tradition of shabad kīrtan
This article situates the rabābī tradition of kīrtan within the backdrop of politicized religious boundaries, which find it increasingly difficult to locate the Muslim presence within Sikh history and sacred music. The musical recitation of Sikh sacred hymns through shabad kīrtan has its origins in the appointment by Gurū Nanak of his companion Bhai Mardana in the fifteenth century. This story of origins, while being an integral part of how shaba…
The Sound of Memory: Interview with Singer, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra
Diasporic Shrines
The resurgence of Bhindranwale's image in contemporary Punjab
This article will examine the resurgence since 2008 of the public imagery in Punjab of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale who symbolises a Sikh separatist movement against the Indian state which took shape in the 1980s. The rebellion, characterised in the mainstream urban-based Indian media as an extremist Khalistan movement, had its strongest years of support in the rural areas of Punjab from 1984 until the early 1990s. However, over 25 years later…
Disciplining the sex ratio: Exploring the governmentality of female foeticide in India
The ‘girl child’ has attracted a considerable amount of attention in India as an object of policy addressing gender discrimination. This article examines the field of campaigns seeking to address female foeticide and positions the public discourse on the ‘girl child’ and sex selective abortion in India within a broad cultural backdrop of son preference. The article argues that anti-female foeticide campaigns exist within a disciplinary domain of …
Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls' Education: Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism, and the Post-Beijing Platform for Action
This article examines how girls' education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the ‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial processes during this time, particular shifts are traced which show how girls' education has been a symbolic part of the geopolitical canvas in Pakistan and Afghanistan alongside the ‘war on terror’ and universalisation of education. The …
Between returns and respectability: Parental attitudes towards girls’ education in rural Punjab, Pakistan
This article focuses upon perceptions of girls? education in the family context within which decisions around children?s education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls? education are shaped by an objective logic framed by the notion of returns, relating to potential benefits of daughters? education, and respectability, relating to girls? modesty and threats that education may present…
South Asian women elders and everyday lives of ‘care in the community’ in Britain: The neoliberal turn in social care and the myth of the family
This article focuses upon the myth of the South Asian family as a self-fulfilling unit in which a construction of ‘looking after their own’ in the diaspora is perpetuated which intrinsically assumes how care and caring are organised at home. The Care in the Community agenda in Britain, which comes out of the contemporary neoliberal paradigm of austerity in which social welfare services have been dramatically cut and reformulated, utilises this im…
Gendercide’, abortion policy, and the disciplining of prenatal sex-selection in neoliberal Europe
This article examines the contours of how sex-selective abortion (SSA) and 'gendercide' have been problematically combined within contemporary debates on abortion in Europe. Analysing the development of policies on the topic, we identify three 'turns' which have become integral to the biopolitics of SSA in Europe: the biomedical turn, the 'gendercide' turn, and the Asian demographic turn. Recent attempts to discipline SSA in the UK and Sweden are…
Area Studies and Anthropology in the Age of Acceleration
(2017). Area Studies and Anthropology in the Age of Acceleration. South Asian Review: Vol. 38, No. 3, pp. 33-42
The bio-politics of population control and sex-selective abortion in China and India
China and India, two countries with skewed sex ratios in favor of males, have introduced a wide range of policies over the past few decades to prevent couples from deselecting daughters, including criminalizing sex-selective abortion through legal jurisdiction. This article aims to analyze how such policies are situated within the bio-politics of population control and how some of the outcomes reflect each government's inadequacy in addressing th…
Gendering (in)security: Interrogating Security Logics Within States of Exception
This collection contributes to debates, which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. However, rather than focusing on the terms of the debate, it foregrounds the empirical reality of the breakdown of these traditional divisions, paying particular attention to the ?state of exception? and similar frameworks. In doing so, contributors to this collection trouble the ubiquitous conce…
Gender, Violence and the Neoliberal State in India
Developing a gendered understanding of the neoliberal state has been, not surprisingly, a preoccupation for much recent feminist praxis in the Global North and particularly in the Global South. Sustained activism and scholarship has addressed a wide variety of questions including the increased reproductive and productive labour demanded of women; the gendered effects of the privatisation of and dispossession from land, natural resources and publi…
Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India
This article explores sex selective abortion (SSA) as a form of structural violence within the broader notion of women's 'protection' in contemporary India. While SSA tends to be framed more generally within ethical and choice-based frameworks around abortion access and reproductive 'rights', and specifically in India around preference for sons as a discriminatory, cultural, technological misogyny, this article argues that sex selective abortion …
Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions
Coloniality and Feminist Collusion: Breaking Free, Thinking Anew
Feminist studies remains mired in coloniality. While the formal transfer from European empires to independent nation states appeared to mark a transition away from direct domination, rule and subjugation, continuities exist in the contemporary that have been strikingly reproduced through feminist alliances and loyalties with the new/old world order in line with the directives of capitalism, neoliberalism and nationalism. By positing that feminist…
Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces
Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on gender have not sufficiently responded to the imperatives of race and intersectionality most recently intensified by COVID-19 and the decolonising of the curriculum and Black Lives Matter movements
Smart economics’ as gendered racial capitalism: A critique of corporate capitalism’s co-option of gender equity frameworks
This article highlights how ‘smart economics’ as a paradigm for gender equity reflects a continuum of the gendered and racialised history of capitalism’s appropriations of equity and social justice. By focusing on the example of one corporation, Unilever, and its co-option of social justice and equity discourse, the article aims to put into perspective the limits and ideological meanings of gender equity as ‘smart economics’ when understood as be…
Assembling UK-India relations through the cultural and creative industries
Culture and the creative economy reflect inherently ideological interpretations and meanings when embedded within policy agendas. We situate culture and the creative economy within contemporary UK–India relations by specifically charting the rise of the CCIs as a policy agenda. Utilising the notion of assembling futures (Harrison 2015. “Beyond ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’ heritage: Toward an ontological politics of heritage in the age of the Anthropo…
Sociology (17 works) · Political science (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)