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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.