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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.

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.

Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India (2018)
Journal Article
Purewal, N. (2018). Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India. Feminist Review, 119(1), 20-38. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41305-018-0122-y

This article explores sex selective abortion (SSA) as a form of structural violence within the broader notion of women’s ‘protection’ in contemporary India. While SSA tends to be framed more generally within ethical and choice-based frameworks around... Read More about Sex Selective Abortion, Neoliberal Patriarchy and Structural Violence in India.

'Gendercide,' Abortion Policy, and the Disciplining of Prenatal Sex-selection in Neoliberal Europe (2017)
Journal Article
Purewal, N., & Eklund, L. (2017). 'Gendercide,' Abortion Policy, and the Disciplining of Prenatal Sex-selection in Neoliberal Europe. Global Public Health, 13(6), 724-741. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2017.1289230

This article examines the contours of how sex-selective abortion (SSA) and ‘gendercide’ have been problematically combined within contemporary debates on abortion in Europe. Analysing the development of policies on the topic, we identify three ‘turns... Read More about 'Gendercide,' Abortion Policy, and the Disciplining of Prenatal Sex-selection in Neoliberal Europe.

Adaptation and Incorporation in Ritual Practices at the Golden Temple, Amritsar (2016)
Journal Article
Purewal, N., & Kalra, V. S. (2016). Adaptation and Incorporation in Ritual Practices at the Golden Temple, Amritsar. Journal of ritual studies, 30(1), 75-87

The Golden Temple (Harmandir Sahib- transl. temple of Hari/God) in Amritsar occupies an iconic position in the representation of Sikhs. The complex lies in the centre of the walled city of Amritsar in northwest India, a city whose foundation is symbi... Read More about Adaptation and Incorporation in Ritual Practices at the Golden Temple, Amritsar.

Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls’ Education: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Beijing Platform for Action (2015)
Journal Article
Purewal, N. (2015). Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls’ Education: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Beijing Platform for Action. IDS Bulletin, 46(4), 47-53. https://doi.org/10.1111/1759-5436.12156

This article examines how girls’ education since 1995 has emerged as a prominent symbol within the
‘rights’ discourse coming out of the Beijing Platform for Action. By highlighting the neoliberal and neocolonial
processes during this time, particul... Read More about Interrogating the Rights Discourse on Girls’ Education: Neo-Liberalism, Neo-Colonialism, and the Beijing Platform for Action.

Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan (2014)
Journal Article
Purewal, N., & Hashmi, N. (2014). Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 36(7), 977-995. https://doi.org/10.1080/01425692.2014.883274

This article focuses upon perceptions of girls’ education in the family context within which decisions around children’s education and opportunities are made. The article presents a framework showing how parental attitudes to girls’ education are sha... Read More about Between Returns and Respectability: Parental Attitudes towards Girls' Education in Rural Pakistan.

Disciplining the Sex Ratio:Exploring the Governmentality of Female Feticide in India (2014)
Journal Article
Purewal, N. (2014). Disciplining the Sex Ratio:Exploring the Governmentality of Female Feticide in India. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power, 21(5), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289X.2013.878248

The ‘girl child’ has attracted a considerable amount of attention in India as an
object of policy addressing gender discrimination. This article examines the field of campaigns seeking to address female foeticide and positions the public discourse o... Read More about Disciplining the Sex Ratio:Exploring the Governmentality of Female Feticide in India.

Women’s ‘Popular’ Practices as Critique: Vernacular Religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab (2010)
Journal Article
Purewal, N., & Kalra, V. S. (2010). Women’s ‘Popular’ Practices as Critique: Vernacular Religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab. Women's Studies International Forum, 33(4), 383-389. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2010.02.012

This article highlights women's popular spiritual practices in Punjab and examines how spiritual rituals and events performed, largely by women are either conveniently overlooked by religious authorities or seen as contentious by more rigid perspecti... Read More about Women’s ‘Popular’ Practices as Critique: Vernacular Religion in Indian and Pakistani Punjab.

Borderland Punjab (2006)
Journal Article
Purewal, N. (2006). Borderland Punjab. Seminar (New Delhi.1959),