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PROF Navtej Kaur Purewal's Outputs (50)

More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam (2025)
Thesis
Kashyap, M. More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is a qualitative study that explores borders and bordering practices which have constructed, shaped and continue to reshape the contemporary Indian state of Assam. Using mixed methods including community-based research, the thesis critica... Read More about More Than Just Lines: Bordering Citizenship in Contemporary Assam.

Disrupting the gender and development impasse in university teaching and learning spaces (2024)
Journal Article
Rivas, A. M., & Purewal, N. K. (in press). 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.

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.

Pilgrimage: Sikhism (2017)
Book Chapter
Purewal, N. (2017). Pilgrimage: Sikhism. In A.-P. Mandair (Ed.), Sikhism. Springer Nature

'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.