Tanushree Kaushal

Researcher and Lecturer in Feminist Political Economy of Global Finance (Dr.) - Geneva Graduate Institute and University of Bern

Tanushree Kaushal is a political economist and anthropologist whose work bridges feminist political economy, international relations, and the anthropology of finance. She recently completed her PhD at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where her dissertation Social Finance in India: Coloniality, Gender, and Labour was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Her research traces the production of financial value across the social finance chain, from international investors to women borrowers in rural India, highlighting the gendered and affective labour that underpins finance. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in West Bengal and policy institutions in New Delhi and Geneva, her work centres experiential and subaltern epistemologies as critical to theorising contemporary capitalism.
Tanushree’s recent publications include articles in Economy and Society, Globalizations, New Political Economy and Finance and Society, exploring financial inclusion, regulatory politics, and the everyday practices of intermediaries and borrowers. Her current project develops the concept of vernacular critique to examine how low-income women in India interpret and contest financial concepts such as credit, risk, and value.
She has taught graduate courses in political economy and race at the Geneva Graduate Institute and the University of Bern and worked with organisations such as the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and advised institutions on gender, governance and financial inclusion including UN Working Group on Discrimination Against Women and Girls and the World Economic Forum. Her research has been funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, NORRAG Global Education Centre.