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Assembling UK-India relations through the cultural and creative industries (2025)
Journal Article
Purewal, N. K., Newbigin, E., & Sagoo, T. (online). Assembling UK-India relations through the cultural and creative industries. Journal of Cultural Economy, https://doi.org/10.1080/17530350.2025.2454426

Culture and the creative economy reflect inherently ideological interpretations and meanings when embedded within policy agendas. We situate culture and the creative economy within contemporary UK–India relations by specifically charting the rise of... Read More about Assembling UK-India relations through the cultural and creative industries.

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (2024). Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces. Development in Practice, 34(7), 893-909. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2024.2332277

Gender and development (GAD) is coming under increasing scrutiny for its entanglements with hegemonic systems of governance, policy, and knowledge. This article argues that GAD programs and/or development studies programs with teaching provision on g... Read More about Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces.

Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization (2023)
Book Chapter
Purewal, N., & Eklund, L. (2023). Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization. In M. Dawson, & S. Mobayed (Eds.), Routledge International Handbook on Femicide/Feminicide. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003202332-33

This chapter outlines some of the key concerns with criminalising sex-selective abortion (SSA) in China and India, highlighting that it offers no identifiable options for sustainable, women-centred, progressive change. Instead, the criminalisation of... Read More about Population Control and Sex Selective Abortion in China and India: A Feminist Critique of Criminalization.

Flying High or Lying Low? The Moral Economy of Young Women in Higher Education in Punjab, India (2019)
Book Chapter
Purewal, N., & Gill, M. K. (2019). Flying High or Lying Low? The Moral Economy of Young Women in Higher Education in Punjab, India. In V. Sachdeva, Q. Pradhan, & A. Venugopalan (Eds.), Identities in South Asia: Conflicts and Assertions. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429031953-6

This chapter explores young women’s participation in higher education as a reflection of changes and challenges to the moral economy currently taking place in the Indian state of Punjab. With its renowned capitalist agricultural development as well a... Read More about Flying High or Lying Low? The Moral Economy of Young Women in Higher Education in Punjab, India.

Gendering (In)Security: Interrogating security logics within states of exception (2018)
Journal Article
Dingli, S., & Purewal, N. (2018). Gendering (In)Security: Interrogating security logics within states of exception. Third world thematics, 3(2), 153-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1510295

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, we foreground the empirical reality of t... Read More about Gendering (In)Security: Interrogating security logics within states of exception.