Gender

I have been researching gender and political economy both academically and for NGOs and research institutions. I am interested in the centrality of gender and gendered processes at the intersection of finance and politics. This encapsulates the discursive construction(s) of gender and the everyday gendered ramifications and practices around financial inclusion, credit and labour. My methods are based in immersive ethnography in which I explore gendered credit relations and how these are channeled and challenged. I also closely study how this plays out in law in terms of legal definitions of gender and claims and contestations made in courts on gendered practices.

I have previously conducted ethnographic research on gendered political economy in Cameroon by studying women’s exclusions and inclusions from land and labour and how these intercept with militant violence and conflict.

I am also interested in the legal ascriptions of gender and have previously conducted research in courtrooms to study the gendered construction of the legal self and its political effects. I have further explored the challenges in codification of gender and expanding notions of ‘inclusion’ through law.

Some of my selected publications on these themes are listed here:

• Kaushal, Tanushree. 2023. Book Review. The Women Who Made Modern Economics, LSE Review of Books.
• Kaushal, Tanushree. 2020. Contextually Engendering Conflict Analysis: The Case of the Anglophone conflict in Cameroon. Working Paper 11 | 2020. Geneva: Gender Centre, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
• Kaushal, Tanushree. 2020. Genrer l'analyse des conflits dans leur contexte le cas de la 'crise anglophone' au Cameroun. Working Paper 13 | 2020. Geneva: Gender Centre, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
• Kaushal, Tanushree. 2020. La définition du genre dans le droit pénal international et le droit international relatif aux droits humains: transposition des théorisations féministes. Working Paper 12 | 2020. Geneva: Gender Centre, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
• Kaushal, Tanushree. 2019. Defining Gender for International Criminal Law and Human Rights Law: Translating Feminist Theorisations. Working Paper 10 | 2019. Geneva: Gender Centre, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.