Navtej Purewal
Biographic Data
| ID | 641015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Navtej Purewal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Navtej |
| FAMILY NAME | Purewal |
| SIGNATURE | PUREWAL N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Development Studies at SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
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 …
The Sound of Memory: Interview with Singer, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra
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 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 …
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…
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…
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…
The Sound of Memory: Interview with Singer, Mohinder Kaur Bhamra
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…
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 …
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (3 works) · Political economy (3 works)