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Invisible institutionalisms: collective reflections on the shadows of legal globalisation
No full textTaking its cue from theoretical and ideological calls to challenge globalisation as a dynamic of homogenisation – and resistance – as led from, and directed against, the Global North, this volume asks: what can we see when we shift the lens beyond a North-South binary?
Based on empirical studies of “frontier-zones” of legal globalisation in India, Pakistan and Latin America, the book adopts an original format. Framed as a relational dialogue between newer as well as more prominent scholars within the field, from various cores through to postcolonial academic peripheries, it questions structural variables in the shadows of legal globalisation and how we as scholars build a space for critique
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“It’s Always Been Women’s Work”: Tracing Gender, Technology, and Work in India Through an Account of AI-Mediated Beauty Work
Full text linkThis dissertation examines the gender dynamics of platform work in India through a mixed-methods and interdisciplinary study of women gig workers, platform managers, and union organizers in the beauty sector of the platform economy in Mumbai. It employs a historical approach to platform work, charting the genealogy of women’s work in Mumbai (1750-present) to show how women’s productive and reproductive labor have been co-opted by capital and technology in each work era, and arguing that platformization constitutes a distinct work paradigm with gendered implications. The main empirical chapters consider the access, experience, and organization of work in beauty platforms through the experiences of women gig workers. First, I show that access to platform work is not a singular point of entry for women, but a dynamic and shifting process that resembles an algorithmic maze with no clear end point. Then, examining women’s experiences of gig work, I show how digital platforms maintain the gender, class, caste, and religious social dynamics that underlie beauty work, even as they transform the work experience by gamifying risk, feminizing work, incentivizing competition, alienating workers, and eroding community ties. This is the new structure of work, and workers are able to survive in it by creating informal tactics and strategies that rely greatly on mutual aid, word-of-mouth, storytelling, and community support. Finally, I show how the organizational hierarchy of beauty platforms is shaped by top-level beliefs about platforms bringing a paradigm shift for labor, which explains the way platforms construct and structure gig work. I also identify differences in female and male managers’ managerial styles with gig workers and analyze why female managers tend to be more punitive to female gig workers. I apply social reproduction theory to make sense of these findings as a whole and chart a path for the future
Accidental Feminism: Gender Parity and Selective Mobility among India’s Professional Elite
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Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy: A Feminist Re-Reading of Puttaswamy vs. Union of India
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Rethinking Inclusion: Ideal Minorities, Inclusion Cultures, and Identity Capitals in the Legal Profession
No full textUsing preliminary observations from three parallel projects that employ a range of methods (network and content analysis, surveys, focus groups, and interviews), this article traces the experience of navigating different kinds of identity as useful capital within the legal profession. Identity is not the first kind of non-economic capital to influence professional navigation, but it is distinct in that it is owned and deployed primarily by minority actors. Adding to scholarship that has located the extensions for identity as capital, three interrelated contributions follow from this research. First, it reveals the prevalence of a diffuse field of diversity consciousness where, regardless of outcome, there is a sense that diversity is useful capital. Second, despite being notionally useful, these multi-method sources reveal the ways in which navigating such capital is simultaneously complicated for both actors within visible (e.g. race and perceived gender) and invisible (e.g. some disability, genderfluidity, and religion) identity categories. The isomorphic diversity posturing by organizations fosters a system where being a minority is seen as an advantage, but inclusion feels like accommodation either because it demands certain portrayals of precarity or because it leaves individuals unsure of their worth beyond the expected performance of their identity. As a result, even though the new version of the ideal professional norm might valorize identity as capital, it continues to serve organizations rather than individuals. Finally, these data make the methodological case for the usefulness of the periphery as an analytical vantage point to assess systemic inequalities in legal profession research
Why is Gender a Form of Diversity? : Rising Advantages for Women in Global Indian Law Firms
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Invisible Institutionalisms: Collective Reflections on the Shadows of Legal Globalisation
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