{"id":13707,"global_id":"www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents?id=13707","global_id_lineage":["www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents?id=13707","staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk?id=1334"],"author":"1","status":"publish","date":"2025-04-30 17:23:12","date_utc":"2025-04-30 16:23:12","modified":"2025-05-13 17:40:54","modified_utc":"2025-05-13 16:40:54","url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/event\/staigs-annual-lecture-13-may-2025-dr-asiya-islam-working-women-gender-work-and-the-politics-of-refusal\/","rest_url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/13707","title":"STAIGS ANNUAL LECTURE. 13 May 2025. DR. ASIYA ISLAM. \u2018Working women\u2019: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal","description":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1335 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk\/files\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-30-at-12.28.06-300x239.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"179\">\u2018Working women\u2019: Gender, work, and the politics of refusal<\/h1>\n<p>Popular discussions about the four-day working week, quiet quitting, and the great resignation following the Covid19 pandemic indicate dissatisfaction with and changing attitudes towards contemporary waged work. And yet, waged work remains central to the construction of the aspirational, entrepreneurial, hyper-industrious woman essential for development in the Global South. In this lecture, I will draw upon longitudinal ethnographic research with young women in Delhi, India to explore situated vocabularies of work as a window into changing understandings of work amidst a push towards increasing women\u2019s workforce participation. The distinction between different forms of work shows change in and reproduction of gender, class, and caste relations, and is important for refusal of certain kinds of work. To chart a path towards understanding everyday lives that are constituted through but also entail rejection of work, I will put feminist scholarship that explores globalisation and gendered subjectivities into conversation with feminist engagements with antiwork politics.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>13 MAY 2025<br \/>\n16:00 &#8211; 18:00<br \/>\nJohn Henderson Lecture Room, Castlecliffe<\/p>\n<p>14 MAY 2015<br \/>\nMasterclass<br \/>\n11:00-13:00<br \/>\nSchool V,<br \/>\nSt Salvator\u2019s Quad.<\/p>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">If you want to come the master class on the 14th of may, these are the <span><b>readings that Asiya will discuss with you.<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span><b>Islam&nbsp;A. (2025) A woman\u2019s job. In: <i>A Woman\u2019s Job: Making Middle Lives in New India<\/i>. South Asia in the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, pp.1-29.<\/b><\/span><\/li>\n<li>\n<div><b>Islam, A. (2022). Ethnographic (dis) locations: An approach for studying marginalisation in the context of socio-economic change. Ethnography, 25(1), 38-57. <a id=\"OWA636c59b4-1a29-cf38-7a21-c8d5c6a81112\" class=\"x_OWAAutoLink\" title=\"Original URL: https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14661381211058356. Click or tap if you trust this link.\" href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1177%2F14661381211058356&amp;data=05%7C02%7Capgg1%40st-andrews.ac.uk%7C292e28d819d84876979808dd8d4177f1%7Cf85626cb0da849d3aa5864ef678ef01a%7C0%7C0%7C638822034535423961%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=Uj%2Faq7utiuhzb%2BQhBSrwTnZYDZkRpzoRVTH5tkfhVns%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14661381211058356<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr. Asiya Islam<br \/>\nShe is an Assistant Professor in Gender, Development and Globalisation at the Department of Gender Studies at the LSE. She completed her PhD in Sociology at the University of Cambridge, MSc in Gender, Media and Culture at the London School of Economics, and BA(Hons) Communicative English at Aligarh Muslim University.&nbsp;&nbsp;She is interested in the relationship between gender and work, in other words, in understanding how gender and work mutually shape each other. She interrogates the definition, classification, and value of work. Her research includes under and un-paid forms of work, such as domestic work, care work, as well as the work of preparing for work. She adopts an intersectional approach to gender and have particularly been attentive to the intersections between gender, class, and caste in her research.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"staigs-annual-lecture-13-may-2025-dr-asiya-islam-working-women-gender-work-and-the-politics-of-refusal","image":{"url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-30-at-14.38.23-e1746020343101-nF9AP9.png","id":13708,"extension":"png","width":500,"height":355,"filesize":120342,"sizes":{"medium":{"width":300,"height":213,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":72766,"url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-30-at-14.38.23-e1746020343101-nF9AP9-300x213.png"},"thumbnail":{"width":150,"height":150,"mime-type":"image\/png","filesize":36976,"url":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/philevents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Screenshot-2025-04-30-at-14.38.23-e1746020343101-nF9AP9-150x150.png"}}},"all_day":false,"start_date":"2025-05-13 08:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"13","hour":"08","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2025-05-13 17:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"13","hour":"17","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2025-05-13 07:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"13","hour":"07","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2025-05-13 16:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2025","month":"05","day":"13","hour":"16","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"Europe\/London","timezone_abbr":"BST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_code":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"https:\/\/staigs.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk\/event\/staigs-annual-lecture-13-may-2025-dr-asiya-islam-working-women-gender-work-and-the-politics-of-refusal\/","show_map":false,"show_map_link":false,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":true,"categories":[],"tags":[],"venue":[],"organizer":[],"custom_fields":[],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"STAIGS ANNUAL LECTURE. 13 May 2025. 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