Outputs (28)

Race, gender and class under COVID-19: narratives of care, caring and carers (2025)
Journal Article
Lingham, J. T., Rai, S., & Akhter, S. (online). Race, gender and class under COVID-19: narratives of care, caring and carers. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1332/25151088y2025d000000079

It has been well documented that the COVID-19 pandemic and policy responses in the UK had discriminatory effects on racially minoritised communities, older people and carers. While separate studies have investigated outcomes for these groups, few hav... Read More about Race, gender and class under COVID-19: narratives of care, caring and carers.

Pluralizing social reproduction approaches (2025)
Journal Article
Mezzadri, A., Rai, S., Stevano, S., Alessandrini, D., Bargawi, H., Elias, J., Hassim, S., Kesar, S., Thiyaga Lingham, J., Natile, S., N., N., Ossome, L., Raghuram, P., Tsikata, D., & Wöhl, S. (2025). Pluralizing social reproduction approaches. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27(1), 6-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616742.2024.2447594

The concept of social reproduction (SR) has gained renewed interest in the past decade. Discussed and elaborated by generations of feminists, the concept offers a rejection of productivism and the possibility of (re)telling the history of capitalism... Read More about Pluralizing social reproduction approaches.

Pluralizing the Care Economy Framework in Latin America (2024)
Journal Article
Rai, S. (2024). Pluralizing the Care Economy Framework in Latin America. Social Politics, 31(4), 747-750. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxae021

Afterword: Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction (2024)
Journal Article
Rai, S. (2025). Afterword: Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 57(2), 554-558. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13117

“Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction” contributes to the growing interdisciplinary debates on depletion. It does so through analyses of the everyday rhythms of life by investigating the relationship betw... Read More about Afterword: Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction.

Depletion: the human costs of caring (2024)
Book
Rai, S. M. (2024). Depletion: the human costs of caring. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197535547.001.0001

When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked about the ways in which unpaid work, particularly performed in the home, is habitually undervalued by soc... Read More about Depletion: the human costs of caring.

Parliament as a Workplace: Dilemmas of Vernacularisation and Professionalisation (2024)
Journal Article
Banerjee, M., & Rai, S. (2024). Parliament as a Workplace: Dilemmas of Vernacularisation and Professionalisation. Politics and Governance, 12, Article 8196. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.8196

Review of: Vernacular rights cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice. By Sumi Madhok. (2023)
Journal Article
Ziadah, R., Rai, S. M., Jamil, G., Sokhi-Bulley, B., Baxi, U., & Madhok, S. Review of: Vernacular rights cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice. By Sumi Madhok. International Affairs, 99(2), 825-835. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiad054

Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics (2022)
Journal Article
Akhter, S., Elias, J., & Rai, S. M. (2022). Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics. Social Politics, 29(4), 1121-1143. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxac035

This article presents an investigation into the racialized and gendered dynamics of the intensifying crisis in care for older people in the United Kingdom. Deploying a feminist political economy framework, we reveal how the care crisis is an intersec... Read More about Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics.

Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai (2021)
Book
Rai, S. M., & Prakash, A. (Eds.). (2021). Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9789354792120

This book traces the Indian Left’s engagement with the international communist debates of the 1960s and 1970s, shedding new light on the fault lines within the Left as well as on its international solidarities. Lajpat Rai argued for rethinking establ... Read More about Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai.

The Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics (2021)
Book
Rai, S. M., Gluhovic, M., Jestrovic, S., & Saward, M. (Eds.). (2021). The Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance is a unique collection of articles introducing cutting-edge research and scholarship on politics and performance, which contributes to exciting interdisciplinary work and to shaping a subfield. Organize... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics.