Praxis of compliance

Feminist solidarity for women tech workers in India during Covid-19

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3666828
AutoresRianka Roy (0000-0003-0553-1938, Wake Forest University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Volumen34
Número3
Páginas373-385
Fecha de publicación2025-04-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Gender Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0958-9236 • E-ISSN: 1465-3869
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09589236.2024.2407488
OpenAlexW4402832277
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas43

Feminist activism persisted even in the isolating times of the COVID-19 pandemic. But how did the crisis shape feminist solidarity, especially for subjects facing multiple marginalities? In this article, based on in-depth interviews and participant observation, I examine how women tech workers in India – as gendered labour in the Global South – participated in various online groups to overcome their isolation. These women ostensibly acted as compliant neoliberal and heteronormative subjects, but their compliance paved the way for feminist solidarity. I theorize this paradox as the ‘praxis of compliance.’ As a theoretical framework, ‘praxis of compliance’ foregrounds the structural barriers to women workers’ participation in collective feminist activism. It also reveals some alternative strategies of building feminist solidarity within the constraints of the neoliberal economy as well as local and global crises that deepen inequality. I identify three potential areas of praxis of compliance for women tech workers in India: professional, personal and labour activism

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Political science · Praxis · Sociology · Solidarity · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · Employment and Welfare Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Internal Medicine · Virology