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    Gendering Bordered Exclusion: Gender Politics and Everyday Spatialization in Indo-Pak Border Infrastructure
    (Taylor & Francis, 2025) Das, Madhurima
    The study explores the transformation of Punjab into a borderland after India’s Partition and examines the effects of infrastructural barriers on everyday lives of villagers, particularly women. An ethnographic study was conducted on two border villages – Audar and Mulakot, and Schindler’s (2015. Architectural Exclusion: Discrimination and Segregation Through Physical Design of the Built Environment. The Yale Law Journal 124, no. 6: 1934–2024) theory of architectural exclusion was employed to analyze the findings. Our study finds that everyday spatialization reflects the patriarchal norms of the villages and the security anxieties of the state. The infrastructural edifice is planned in a manner that they create a palisade in the name of protecting women. Such a design mainstreams tight control in a layered manner, leading to concentric circles of disadvantage where the immediate dominance is wielded by the men in the family, and the second layer of direct control is exercised by the armed forces. To conclude, the creation of bounded borderland spaces with restrictive infrastructure leads to women’s absence from public spaces.
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    The Persistence of Gender-blind Phenomena in Indian Science Academia
    (Bepress, 2022) Shukla, Tanu; Das, Madhurima; Nirban, Virendra Singh
    Using the theoretical tool of gender-blind sexism, an extension of Bonilla Silva’s (2003) color-blind racism, the current study explores the key determinants which are responsible for discrimination of women in science disciplines in Indian higher education. We argue that gender-blind sexism demonstrates how gender discrimination operates as institutional tools to discriminate between men and women in science fields. Although the science stream proclaims gender neutrality/blindness, it ultimately disfavors women over men. This study with the aid of extensive in-depth face-to-face interviews, aims to recognize the pattern accountable for women’s reduced progress in the sciences. Against the backdrop of the recently framed National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, by the Government of India, this intensive qualitative study identifies certain crucial dimensions responsible for gender discrimination and diminishing participation of females in Indian academia, especially in the sciences. With several institutional policies that have been in place to mitigate challenges in overt sexist patterns in the workplace, the analysis still confirms the existence of a perceivable organizational barrier, which hinders the rise of women faculty members. We infer that gender discrimination operates through covert mechanisms of gender-blindness and such practices are normalized institutionally as a brand-new form of sexism.
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    Health equity and gendered border blindness: an exploration of healthcare services at the international border in Rajasthan
    (Elsevier, 2024-02) Shukla, Tanu; Nirban, Virendra Singh; Das, Madhurima
    Citizens' access to health care and the delivery of the healthcare services is significantly affected by the spatiality of the regions and the connectedness of the elements of the healthcare system. This network of healthcare system, region and delivery of services faces myriad challenges in the borderland geography, which is characterised by accentuated military presence, poor physical infrastructure, disinterest of habitation near the border, lack of adequate, necessary and allied services such as schools and industry, social seclusion, migration etc. All these factors amalgamate to create an effect of gender-blind phenomenon as well as border-blind phenomenon. This is particularly acute for women and children.
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    Locating Masculinities in Border Policies of Nation State
    (Taylor & Francis, 2023-03) Das, Madhurima
    As public policies are tools of nation states that greatly influence and determine lives of people, its intersection with gender is extremely relevant to comprehend unequal social relations and inclusivity. There is a huge lacuna in the domain of research required to detect and locate the presence, productivity and permeation of power, which makes a nation state essentially masculine. This paper locates masculine attributes in the functioning of nation state by juxtaposing public policies pertaining to borders with fieldwork done in Punjab borderlands and demonstrates a practical approach where mainstream policies, which are often portrayed as disembodied entities, are mapped with gender using content analysis to unravel their masculine underpinnings. With the aid of some key policy documents such as – Border Area Development Programme, Policy and Procedure for return of Ex-Militants to Jammu and Kashmir State, and The Armed Forces Special Powers Act, our analysis finds that masculinity emerges from distinct policy contexts and its positioning is varied depending on its end goals. The policies tend to read more masculine when the goal is to eliminate or reduce threats to the sovereignty of state.
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    The Persistence of Gender-blind Phenomena in Indian Science Academia
    (Bridgewater State University, 2022-05) Nirban, Virendra Singh; Shukla, Tanu; Das, Madhurima
    Using the theoretical tool of gender-blind sexism, an extension of Bonilla Silva’s (2003) color-blind racism, the current study explores the key determinants which are responsible for discrimination of women in science disciplines in Indian higher education. We argue that gender-blind sexism demonstrates how gender discrimination operates as institutional tools to discriminate between men and women in science fields. Although the science stream proclaims gender neutrality/blindness, it ultimately disfavors women over men. This study with the aid of extensive in-depth face-to-face interviews, aims to recognize the pattern accountable for women’s reduced progress in the sciences. Against the backdrop of the recently framed National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, by the Government of India, this intensive qualitative study identifies certain crucial dimensions responsible for gender discrimination and diminishing participation of females in Indian academia, especially in the sciences. With several institutional policies that have been in place to mitigate challenges in overt sexist patterns in the workplace, the analysis still confirms the existence of a perceivable organizational barrier, which hinders the rise of women faculty members. We infer that gender discrimination operates through covert mechanisms of gender-blindness and such practices are normalized institutionally as a brand-new form of sexism.