Profile
Tanushree is a researcher and currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Bern and the Geneva Graduate Institute, working in international and feminist political economy, sociology of finance and postcolonial studies of capitalism. She works with multiple research methods including ethnography, photo elicitation, interviews and analysis of financial datasets. She completed her PhD (summa cum laude) from the Geneva Graduate Institute where I have been affiliated with the Gender Centre and the Centre for Finance and Development. Previously, she was a visiting research fellow at the University of Edinburgh and at the Centre de Sciences Humaines in New Delhi.
Her PhD research looked at the relations between labour and finance, including the hierarchies of gendered and racialised labour that enable the production of financial value. I She has published extensively including on themes ranging from politics of Indian microfinance, imperial residues of contemporary developmental finance, everyday practices of financial inclusion and social finance investors' navigation between data, faith and activism. She is currently preparing a book on women's vernacular critiques of financial concepts and the gendered labour of producing financial value.
Publications
- Kaushal, Tanushree. 2023. Book Review. The Women Who Made Modern Economics, LSE Review of Books.
- Kaushal, Tanushree. 2022. The Aestheticisation of Governance in India: The Appeal of Urban Aesthetics in Microfinance. International Development Policy | Revue internationale de politique de développement. 14(1).
- 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.
- Kaushal, Tanushree. "Gendered labour produces finance: Navigating profits and care as intermediaries of finance." Economy & Society (2025).
- Kaushal, Tanushree. "Imperial durabilities of debt: Indigeneity, racial capitalism and the 'tribal' figure in finance." Globalizations (2025).
- Kaushal, Tanushree. "Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India." New Political Economy (2025): 1-17.
- Kaushal, Tanushree, and Signe Predmore. "The women’s inclusion agenda: Gender and everyday practices across registers of finance." Finance and Society (2025): 1-22.