Pratiche politiche neoliberiste e diseguaglianze di genere in India

Authors

  • Matilde Adduci School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/2907

Keywords:

neoliberalism, India, Odisha state, gender studies, labour

Abstract

The article focuses on the living conditions of laboring-class women in neoliberal India, with attention to different dimensions of deprivation. In so doing, the paper initially accounts for the most salient features of the transition to neoliberalism in India, as well as for the increased pressure on women’s double burden of paid and unpaid work associated with neoliberal policies. Specific attention will be paid, on the one hand, to the unfolding of renewed processes of marginalization of female labour and, on the other hand, to the increase in women’s unpaid workload caused by cuts in public expenditures and privatization policies. The implications of these processes in terms of socio-economic distress, as well as ‘time poverty’, will be illustrated though a field-based analysis of the daily living conditions of fisherwomen in Chilika Lake, situated on the coast of the Indian state of Odisha.

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Author Biography

Matilde Adduci, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London

Matilde Adduci is a Research Associate at the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She holds a PhD from the University of Rome, and did her MSc in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has been a Lecturer in Political Science at the Department of Culture, Politics and Society at the University of Turin from 2012 till 2017. Her recent publications include: La questione sociale in India. Teoria Politica, Nuova Serie, Annali V: 271-285, 2015; Neoliberalism, Mining and Labour in the Indian state of Odisha: Outlining a Political Economy Analysis. Journal of Contemporary Asia 47/4: 596-614, 2017; Neoliberal Mining Policy and Adivasi Vulnerability in Odisha. In Transforming Tribal Economy, Culture and Society, edited by Nilakantha Panigrahi. New Delhi: Concept Publishing Company, forthcoming (2018).

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2018-11-23

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Vol. 22 (2018)

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