Securitizing Women: Gender, Precaution, and Risk in Indian Finance

Kar, Sohini

doi:10.1086/693537

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“…Besides, this spatial arrangement in slums also has an important role in contextualizing the relationship with various financial choices (Kar, 2018; Harker et al , 2019). The social relationship which emerges with kin and neighbour and the inability to run out from debt obligations in densely packed spaces in slums defines their borrowing behaviour (Kar, 2018). They most probably follow the financial choices as opted by their neighbours.…”

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Formal vs informal demand for credit by women in urban India: a comparative study in slums of Delhi and Mumbai

Malik

Maheshwari

Singh

2020

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Purpose Over the period, the role of finance has emerged significant in the socio-economic development of the women. There are two major types of finances, i.e. formal and informal ones. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to investigate first the determinants of the demand for credit and then the demand for these credit sources by women especially in urban slums. Design/methodology/approach In this study, a primary survey was conducted with the help of a structured questionnaire in slums of two major urban cities in India, i.e. Delhi and Mumbai. In total, 450 individuals were interviewed in each city. Findings This paper presents a range of significant socio-economic factors affecting the demand for credit and source of credit by women borrower in Delhi and Mumbai. Despite, the greater emphasis by the government to increase the formal credit utilization, the informal credit is still preferred. Practical implications The outcomes of the study are expectedly useful to various policymakers and banks in encouraging women to opt more for the formal credit. The government can follow the research outcomes to scale up the programmes and schemes targeted for women empowerment in urban slums. Originality/value The study is unique of its kind in doing a comparative analysis in slums of two differently located urban cities with large slum population.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Formal vs informal demand for credit by women in urban India: a comparative study in slums of Delhi and Mumbai

Malik

Maheshwari

Singh

2020

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“…In contrast to the development discourses of women’s empowerment that ‘enshrine the individual as the key agent of his or her own betterment’ (Kar, 2018, p. 307), Shahina’s narrative emphasizing family support and acceptance reiterate that one’s family’s approval is crucial to women’s economic success.…”

Section: Between Development and Traditionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Pursuing entrepreneurial activities in public spaces is impossible without the support of the immediate family members. Despite NGO-led activism for decades, markets remain to be associated with men and masculinity (Kar, 2018). However, NGO activism and encouragement is crucially important to encourage women to challenge the association of men with markets.…”

Section: Between Development and Traditionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women-Led Businesses: An Ethnographic Study of Gendered Entrepreneurship in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

Dinar

2020

Journal of South Asian Development

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As a result of the growing global economy and a development model with entrepreneurialism at its heart, women in remote and high-mountain societies in Gilgit-Baltistan, the northernmost part of Pakistan, have begun to venture outside the traditional and gendered economies by embarking on new forms of income-generating activities. This ethnographic study of women entrepreneurs in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, provides a critical analysis of the promotion of women’s entrepreneurship as a key strategy by development organizations to address gender inequities. The ethnographic accounts of women’s diverse experiences as entrepreneurs featured in this article demonstrate that the neoliberal development model and the global capitalist market serve as an opportunity for women in these high-mountain communities that allows them to push against socio-cultural pressures. Within these environments, women strive to become economic actors and make space for themselves in conventionally male-dominated economic trades such as business and entrepreneurship. In contrast to the NGOs’ narratives that glorify women as entrepreneurs in uncontentious ways, my ethnographic research views women as complex subjectivities whose lived experiences are embedded within socio-economic, religious and political dimensions of notions of legitimacy that dictate women’s participation in public spaces. The ethnographic accounts in this article illustrate how women navigate, negotiate, contest and reproduce the patriarchal sovereignties and development regimes.

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“…The aim, instead, is to make perceptible the ways that financial practices forge dense connections-lateralizations-that both disclose the objects of the world and provide accounts of their dynamics. As Kar (2018: 302) points out, lateral reasoning is effective for identifying relationships among space, security, and finance that may not always intersect, but where "it is impossible to speak of one without the other." In this study, and to anticipate, as global financial networks crafted a political and conceptual vocabulary-the nexus-that could shift state-oriented, industrial development to financialized approaches to sustainability they rejected the idea of immutable nature in favor of an approach to the Earth system as complex and adaptive.…”

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From state to system: Financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus

Schmidt

Matthews

2018

Geoforum

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Securitizing Women: Gender, Precaution, and Risk in Indian Finance

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Formal vs informal demand for credit by women in urban India: a comparative study in slums of Delhi and Mumbai

Formal vs informal demand for credit by women in urban India: a comparative study in slums of Delhi and Mumbai

Women-Led Businesses: An Ethnographic Study of Gendered Entrepreneurship in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan

From state to system: Financialization and the water-energy-food-climate nexus

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