Tanushree Kaushal
Biographic Data
| ID | 380379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tanushree Kaushal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tanushree |
| FAMILY NAME | Kaushal |
| SIGNATURE | KAUSHAL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6846-6953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Moneylending or financial service: The politics of regulating microfinance in India
The Andhra Crisis of 2010 is well known as a critical juncture for microfinance as borrowers were coerced and reportedly committed suicide due to repayment pressures. This presented a regulatory challenge to the Indian state: was microfinance ‘moneylending’ or ‘financial services’ and how was it to be regulated? Scholarship on state capitalism highlights new responsibilities taken on by states by participating in financial markets. In contrast, p…
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. This has invited large financial institutions as investors who extend loans to unbanked populations in ever-growing numbers. Political economy scholarship explains this in ‘economic’ terms of profit accumulation or in Marxist conceptions of capitalist ov…
The women's inclusion agenda: Gender and everyday practices across registers of finance
Financial institutions spanning Global North and South are increasingly adopting an agenda of 'women's financial inclusion'. The women's inclusion agenda in finance reflects dynamics of deep marketization that prescribe common economic policy solutions, transcending formerly significant distinctions of geography and social context. In this case, the closing of gender gaps is the universally proscribed policy. Yet this agenda elicits vastly differ…
Between data, faith and activism: Ambivalent Professional Performances Generating Social Finance
Social finance is a relatively new but prominent category of finance which promises social goods alongside profits. It draws upon large amounts of quantified data on social relations and realities, in order to create risk assessments and future profit projections. Scholarship in economic sociology and critical finance studies captures the quantification of social phenomena and practices of data coloniality in socially oriented finance. This can e…
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 circulation of homogenous market devices in the production of depersonalized credit relations. However, such a narrative ends up obscuring the everyday practices and personalized labour that produce finance. My ethnographic research with microfinance br…
Moneylending or financial service: The politics of regulating microfinance in India
The Andhra Crisis of 2010 is well known as a critical juncture for microfinance as borrowers were coerced and reportedly committed suicide due to repayment pressures. This presented a regulatory challenge to the Indian state: was microfinance ‘moneylending’ or ‘financial services’ and how was it to be regulated? Scholarship on state capitalism highlights new responsibilities taken on by states by participating in financial markets. In contrast, p…
The women's inclusion agenda: Gender and everyday practices across registers of finance
Financial institutions spanning Global North and South are increasingly adopting an agenda of 'women's financial inclusion'. The women's inclusion agenda in finance reflects dynamics of deep marketization that prescribe common economic policy solutions, transcending formerly significant distinctions of geography and social context. In this case, the closing of gender gaps is the universally proscribed policy. Yet this agenda elicits vastly differ…
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 circulation of homogenous market devices in the production of depersonalized credit relations. However, such a narrative ends up obscuring the everyday practices and personalized labour that produce finance. My ethnographic research with microfinance br…
Moneylending or financial service: The politics of regulating microfinance in India
The Andhra Crisis of 2010 is well known as a critical juncture for microfinance as borrowers were coerced and reportedly committed suicide due to repayment pressures. This presented a regulatory challenge to the Indian state: was microfinance ‘moneylending’ or ‘financial services’ and how was it to be regulated? Scholarship on state capitalism highlights new responsibilities taken on by states by participating in financial markets. In contrast, p…
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. This has invited large financial institutions as investors who extend loans to unbanked populations in ever-growing numbers. Political economy scholarship explains this in ‘economic’ terms of profit accumulation or in Marxist conceptions of capitalist ov…
The women's inclusion agenda: Gender and everyday practices across registers of finance
Financial institutions spanning Global North and South are increasingly adopting an agenda of 'women's financial inclusion'. The women's inclusion agenda in finance reflects dynamics of deep marketization that prescribe common economic policy solutions, transcending formerly significant distinctions of geography and social context. In this case, the closing of gender gaps is the universally proscribed policy. Yet this agenda elicits vastly differ…
Between data, faith and activism: Ambivalent Professional Performances Generating Social Finance
Social finance is a relatively new but prominent category of finance which promises social goods alongside profits. It draws upon large amounts of quantified data on social relations and realities, in order to create risk assessments and future profit projections. Scholarship in economic sociology and critical finance studies captures the quantification of social phenomena and practices of data coloniality in socially oriented finance. This can e…
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 circulation of homogenous market devices in the production of depersonalized credit relations. However, such a narrative ends up obscuring the everyday practices and personalized labour that produce finance. My ethnographic research with microfinance br…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (5 works) · Finance (4 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Financial services (2 works) · Financial system (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works)