Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
invites you to a lecture
Alchemy of Capital
The Creation of Financial Value from Social, Political and Moral Lives
by Tanushree Kaushal
Chair: Prathama Banerjee
Friday, 22 August 2025, 4 pm IST
Seminar Room and Zoom
Link:
https://bit.ly/3U8WWTV
Meeting ID: 87196246448
Passcode: csdsdelhi
This talk reveals how low-income women in rural India are not just subjects of financial systems but are active knowledge producers on value. Based on immersive fieldwork (2021–2024) with microfinance borrowers in West Bengal, it develops the concept of “vernacular critique” to show how women navigate, contest, and reinvent dominant financial logics from the ground up. Far from passive victims of debt, these women engage finance with both ambivalence and resistance. Bridging feminist political economy, anthropology, and critical finance studies, the talk reclaims subaltern knowledge as theory-making as it asks: what new visions of economic value emerge when we start from the margins?
Tanushree Kaushal is a political economist and anthropologist whose research explores gender, finance, and subaltern epistemologies. She completed her PhD at the Geneva Graduate Institute and publishes on financial inclusion, regulation, and everyday economies, drawing on fieldwork in India. She also advises international organisations on gender and finance.
Prathama Banerjee is Professor at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi.
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