Priti Ramamurthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692469 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priti Ramamurthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priti |
| FAMILY NAME | Ramamurthy |
| SIGNATURE | RAMAMURTHY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 211 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Gender of Value: Punctuated Violence and the Labor of Care
546 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Priti Ramamurthy and Vinay Gidwani The Gender of Value: Punctuated Violence and the Labor of Care Usha is the eldest daughter of a high-caste, Rajput family from a small village in eastern Uttar Pradesh in north India.1 She married into a family that owns three bighas (approximately 1.8 acres) of land. But no one in her marital family has tilled it for the last three generations . U…
Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism
Priti Ramamurthy, Attiya Ahmad, Judith Gardiner, Bibiana Obler, Lisa Rofel, Megan Sweeney, Ashwini Tambe, Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Feminism and Capitalism (2021), pp. 479-491
Translocal Householding
The urban experience remains inextricably entangled with the rural for millions of poor migrants to cities in the global South who labor in informal economies. Translocal households, households that share the labor and costs of social reproduction spatially across the city and the country, are an important site of entanglement, empirically and imaginatively. The dynamics of translocal householding in the oral histories of two migrants to Delhi re…
Rethinking Decolonial and Postcolonial Knowledges beyond Regions to Imagine Transnational Solidarity
Since the early twentieth century, various strands of “anticolonial” scholarship have been and are concerned with how colonial encounters and practices constitute differences. In recent years, this scholarship maps the uneven implications of “coloniality” for subjects and bodies marked as different, for example, “feminine,” “raced,” “queer,” or trans. Along with feminism, anticolonial scholarship's analytical goals—to link the body with body poli…
AlterNotes on the Politics of Women's Studies Graduate Certificates
298 Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Priti Ramamurthy AlterNotes on the Politics of Women’s Studies Graduate Certificates Jennifer Nash’s “Feminist Credentials: Notes on the Politics of Women ’s Studies Graduate Certificates,” published in this same issue of Feminist Studies, provokes a crucial, if difficult, conversation about graduate certificates in women’s studies.1 Nash asks us to question the value of graduate ce…
Agrarian questions of labor in urban India: Middle Migrants, Translocal Householding and the Intersectional Politics of Social Reproduction
Our paper re-considers the agrarian question in urban India by focusing on the social reproduction of labor in informal economy households. Based on life histories of working-class women of rural origin, we explore lived forms of differentiation within the informal economy, the social division of labor as mediated by intersecting lines of difference, and possibilities of disorienting normative hierarchies through acts of 'cultural production'. Ou…
Technic
Rearticulating Caste: The Global Cottonseed Commodity Chain and the Paradox of Smallholder Capitalism in South India
Cottonseed is an aspirational crop for smallholders newly incorporated in the global cottonseed commodity chain as own-account cultivators in South India. The labor to produce cottonseeds, which are hybrids, in the field is excessive. Multinational and Indian corporations depend on hybridization to protect their intellectual property rights in branded seeds. As wage rates rise and seed prices do not, the outsourcing of cottonseed production to sm…
Why Are Men Doing Floral Sex Work? Gender, Cultural Reproduction, and the Feminization of Agriculture
Hybrid cottonseed production is a major site for the feminization of agriculture in India. A central argument of this article is that the feminization of agriculture is an index of the changing relationship between labor and capital. By gendering agricultural work and analyzing the feminization of the conditions of this work, I widen the framework for theorizing feminization. Based on ethnographic research, I demonstrate how feminization is relat…
Hegemonic Developments: The New Indian Middle Class, Gendered Subalterns, and Diasporic Returnees in theEvent of Neoliberalism
The "new middle class" as a political construct is valuable for feminist theorizations of international political economy, particularly those concerned with development. The rise of the new middle class is usually juxtaposed with neoliberalism, so we offer a new theorization of neoliberalism-as-event and analyze an array of new-middle-class signs and subjects in India. Questioning the repetition of the figure of the new Indian woman in resolving …
The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
The Modern Girl around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings
Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case stu…
Why Is Buying a "Madras" Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis
Material Consumers, Fabricating Subjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research
Indexing alternatives: Feminist development studies and global political economy
The Cotton Commodity Chain, Women, Work and Agency in India and Japan: The Case for Feminist Agro-Food Systems Research
Indian Women in a Changing Industrial Scenario
Rural women and irrigation: Patriarchy, class, and the modernizing state in South India
Irrigation is the major strategy used by ‘'modernizing'’ states in India and throughout the Third World to raise agricultural productivity and surpluses. This paper shows that irrigation is not gender‐neutral, focusing on how canal irrigation affects women's work and lives in Andhra Pradesh, India. First, it delineates the particular consequences for women of state‐sponsored irrigation. It then focuses on transformations in the sexual division of…
Agrarian questions of labor in urban India: Middle Migrants, Translocal Householding and the Intersectional Politics of Social Reproduction
Our paper re-considers the agrarian question in urban India by focusing on the social reproduction of labor in informal economy households. Based on life histories of working-class women of rural origin, we explore lived forms of differentiation within the informal economy, the social division of labor as mediated by intersecting lines of difference, and possibilities of disorienting normative hierarchies through acts of 'cultural production'. Ou…
Material Consumers, Fabricating Subjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research
Rethinking Decolonial and Postcolonial Knowledges beyond Regions to Imagine Transnational Solidarity
Since the early twentieth century, various strands of “anticolonial” scholarship have been and are concerned with how colonial encounters and practices constitute differences. In recent years, this scholarship maps the uneven implications of “coloniality” for subjects and bodies marked as different, for example, “feminine,” “raced,” “queer,” or trans. Along with feminism, anticolonial scholarship's analytical goals—to link the body with body poli…
Rearticulating Caste: The Global Cottonseed Commodity Chain and the Paradox of Smallholder Capitalism in South India
Cottonseed is an aspirational crop for smallholders newly incorporated in the global cottonseed commodity chain as own-account cultivators in South India. The labor to produce cottonseeds, which are hybrids, in the field is excessive. Multinational and Indian corporations depend on hybridization to protect their intellectual property rights in branded seeds. As wage rates rise and seed prices do not, the outsourcing of cottonseed production to sm…
Why Is Buying a "Madras" Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis
The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
The Cotton Commodity Chain, Women, Work and Agency in India and Japan: The Case for Feminist Agro-Food Systems Research
The Modern Girl around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings
Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case stu…
Translocal Householding
The urban experience remains inextricably entangled with the rural for millions of poor migrants to cities in the global South who labor in informal economies. Translocal households, households that share the labor and costs of social reproduction spatially across the city and the country, are an important site of entanglement, empirically and imaginatively. The dynamics of translocal householding in the oral histories of two migrants to Delhi re…
Rural women and irrigation: Patriarchy, class, and the modernizing state in South India
Irrigation is the major strategy used by ‘'modernizing'’ states in India and throughout the Third World to raise agricultural productivity and surpluses. This paper shows that irrigation is not gender‐neutral, focusing on how canal irrigation affects women's work and lives in Andhra Pradesh, India. First, it delineates the particular consequences for women of state‐sponsored irrigation. It then focuses on transformations in the sexual division of…
The Gender of Value: Punctuated Violence and the Labor of Care
546 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Priti Ramamurthy and Vinay Gidwani The Gender of Value: Punctuated Violence and the Labor of Care Usha is the eldest daughter of a high-caste, Rajput family from a small village in eastern Uttar Pradesh in north India.1 She married into a family that owns three bighas (approximately 1.8 acres) of land. But no one in her marital family has tilled it for the last three generations . U…
Technic
Rural women and irrigation: Patriarchy, class, and the modernizing state in South India
Irrigation is the major strategy used by ‘'modernizing'’ states in India and throughout the Third World to raise agricultural productivity and surpluses. This paper shows that irrigation is not gender‐neutral, focusing on how canal irrigation affects women's work and lives in Andhra Pradesh, India. First, it delineates the particular consequences for women of state‐sponsored irrigation. It then focuses on transformations in the sexual division of…
Indian Women in a Changing Industrial Scenario
Indexing alternatives: Feminist development studies and global political economy
The Cotton Commodity Chain, Women, Work and Agency in India and Japan: The Case for Feminist Agro-Food Systems Research
Material Consumers, Fabricating Subjects: Perplexity, Global Connectivity Discourses, and Transnational Feminist Research
Why Is Buying a "Madras" Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis
The Modern Girl around the World: A Research Agenda and Preliminary Findings
Our research collaboration examines how the Modern Girl emerged as a global phenomenon in the first half of the twentieth century. By wearing provocative fashions and pursuing romantic love, Modern Girls everywhere appeared to disregard the roles of dutiful daughter, wife and mother. We develop the Modern Girl as a heuristic category that allows new insights into forces of globalisation and manifestations of gendered modernity. Through a case stu…
The Modern Girl Around the World: Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
Why Are Men Doing Floral Sex Work? Gender, Cultural Reproduction, and the Feminization of Agriculture
Hybrid cottonseed production is a major site for the feminization of agriculture in India. A central argument of this article is that the feminization of agriculture is an index of the changing relationship between labor and capital. By gendering agricultural work and analyzing the feminization of the conditions of this work, I widen the framework for theorizing feminization. Based on ethnographic research, I demonstrate how feminization is relat…
Hegemonic Developments: The New Indian Middle Class, Gendered Subalterns, and Diasporic Returnees in theEvent of Neoliberalism
The "new middle class" as a political construct is valuable for feminist theorizations of international political economy, particularly those concerned with development. The rise of the new middle class is usually juxtaposed with neoliberalism, so we offer a new theorization of neoliberalism-as-event and analyze an array of new-middle-class signs and subjects in India. Questioning the repetition of the figure of the new Indian woman in resolving …
Rearticulating Caste: The Global Cottonseed Commodity Chain and the Paradox of Smallholder Capitalism in South India
Cottonseed is an aspirational crop for smallholders newly incorporated in the global cottonseed commodity chain as own-account cultivators in South India. The labor to produce cottonseeds, which are hybrids, in the field is excessive. Multinational and Indian corporations depend on hybridization to protect their intellectual property rights in branded seeds. As wage rates rise and seed prices do not, the outsourcing of cottonseed production to sm…
Technic
AlterNotes on the Politics of Women's Studies Graduate Certificates
298 Feminist Studies 44, no. 2. © 2018 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Priti Ramamurthy AlterNotes on the Politics of Women’s Studies Graduate Certificates Jennifer Nash’s “Feminist Credentials: Notes on the Politics of Women ’s Studies Graduate Certificates,” published in this same issue of Feminist Studies, provokes a crucial, if difficult, conversation about graduate certificates in women’s studies.1 Nash asks us to question the value of graduate ce…
Agrarian questions of labor in urban India: Middle Migrants, Translocal Householding and the Intersectional Politics of Social Reproduction
Our paper re-considers the agrarian question in urban India by focusing on the social reproduction of labor in informal economy households. Based on life histories of working-class women of rural origin, we explore lived forms of differentiation within the informal economy, the social division of labor as mediated by intersecting lines of difference, and possibilities of disorienting normative hierarchies through acts of 'cultural production'. Ou…
Translocal Householding
The urban experience remains inextricably entangled with the rural for millions of poor migrants to cities in the global South who labor in informal economies. Translocal households, households that share the labor and costs of social reproduction spatially across the city and the country, are an important site of entanglement, empirically and imaginatively. The dynamics of translocal householding in the oral histories of two migrants to Delhi re…
Rethinking Decolonial and Postcolonial Knowledges beyond Regions to Imagine Transnational Solidarity
Since the early twentieth century, various strands of “anticolonial” scholarship have been and are concerned with how colonial encounters and practices constitute differences. In recent years, this scholarship maps the uneven implications of “coloniality” for subjects and bodies marked as different, for example, “feminine,” “raced,” “queer,” or trans. Along with feminism, anticolonial scholarship's analytical goals—to link the body with body poli…
The Gender of Value: Punctuated Violence and the Labor of Care
546 Feminist Studies 47, no. 3. © 2021 by Feminist Studies, Inc. Priti Ramamurthy and Vinay Gidwani The Gender of Value: Punctuated Violence and the Labor of Care Usha is the eldest daughter of a high-caste, Rajput family from a small village in eastern Uttar Pradesh in north India.1 She married into a family that owns three bighas (approximately 1.8 acres) of land. But no one in her marital family has tilled it for the last three generations . U…
Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism
Priti Ramamurthy, Attiya Ahmad, Judith Gardiner, Bibiana Obler, Lisa Rofel, Megan Sweeney, Ashwini Tambe, Special Issue on Feminism and Capitalism, Feminist Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, SPECIAL ISSUE: Feminism and Capitalism (2021), pp. 479-491
Political science (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Caste (5 works)