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Remedying depletion through social reproduction – a critical engagement with the UN’s Business and Human Rights framework (2020)
Journal Article
Goldblatt, B., & Rai, S. M. (2020). Remedying depletion through social reproduction – a critical engagement with the UN’s Business and Human Rights framework. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(2), 185-202. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15816888996412

The growing recognition of unpaid work in international law and the Sustainable Development Goals acknowledges that gendered labour supports the global economy. This work can have harmful impacts, leading to ‘depletion through social reproduction’ ()... Read More about Remedying depletion through social reproduction – a critical engagement with the UN’s Business and Human Rights framework.

Law, Harm and Depletion through Social Reproduction (2020)
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(2020). Law, Harm and Depletion through Social Reproduction. Bristol

Introduction to the themed section: Law, harm and depletion through social reproduction (2020)
Journal Article
Rai, S. M., & Goldblatt, B. (2020). Introduction to the themed section: Law, harm and depletion through social reproduction. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(2), 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15855860254106

In this article, we outline an interdisciplinary exploration into the invisibilisation of social reproduction, most of which still continues to be done by women. In this introduction and themed section, we argue that the neglect of social reproductio... Read More about Introduction to the themed section: Law, harm and depletion through social reproduction.

Depletion, intersectionality and the limits of social policy: child carers in Mexico City (2020)
Journal Article
Grugel, J., Macias, S., & Rai, S. M. (2020). Depletion, intersectionality and the limits of social policy: child carers in Mexico City. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3(2), 221-236. https://doi.org/10.1332/251510820X15858427067832

This article makes a dual contribution. First, it adds an intersectional perspective to studies of depletion through social reproduction, examining the depletion experienced by children and adolescents caring for their younger siblings in Mexico City... Read More about Depletion, intersectionality and the limits of social policy: child carers in Mexico City.

From Depletion to Regeneration: Addressing Structural and Physical Violence in Post-Conflict Economies (2019)
Journal Article
Rai, S. M., True, J., & Tanyag, M. (2019). From Depletion to Regeneration: Addressing Structural and Physical Violence in Post-Conflict Economies. Social Politics, 26(4), 561-585. https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxz034

Drawing on depletion through social reproduction and political economy of violence against women (PEVAW) approaches, we show how the context of violence intensifies the depletion of women’s lives as they labor to meet their household needs; and how t... Read More about From Depletion to Regeneration: Addressing Structural and Physical Violence in Post-Conflict Economies.

Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence (2019)
Journal Article
Elias, J., & Rai, S. M. (2019). Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence. Review of International Studies, 45(2), 201-220. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210518000323

It goes without saying that feminist International Political Economy (IPE) is concerned in one way or another with the everyday – conceptualised as both a site of political struggle and a site within which social relations are (re)produced and govern... Read More about Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence.

Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament (2019)
Book
Rai, S. M., & Spary, C. (2019). Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489053.001.0001

Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, Performing Representation is the first comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian Parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of w... Read More about Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament.

SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth – A gendered analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Rai, S. M., Brown, B., & Ruwanpura, K. N. (2019). SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth – A gendered analysis. World Development, 113, 368-380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.09.006

SDG 8 calls for promoting ‘sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all’. Even as it highlights the importance of labour rights for all, it also makes visible some significant tensions.... Read More about SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth – A gendered analysis.

Recognising the full costs of care? The Gendered Politics of Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action (2018)
Journal Article
Goldblatt, B., & Rai, S. M. (2018). Recognising the full costs of care? The Gendered Politics of Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action. Social and Legal Studies, 27(6), 671-694. https://doi.org/10.1177/0964663917739455

This article concerns recognition and compensation of the intimate, gendered work of caring by family members for workers who became ill with lung diseases as a result of poor labour conditions in the mines in South Africa. It focuses on a recent dec... Read More about Recognising the full costs of care? The Gendered Politics of Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action.

The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity (2018)
Journal Article
Rai, S. M. (2018). The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity. Social Politics, 45(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxx023

This essay asks four questions about the good life. First, what place has recognition of exclusion in the politics of redistribution? Second, can we imagine a public good life without also paying attention to the private and how does the private leac... Read More about The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity.