Faculty & Staff

Feminist Disability Studies

Gender, Labour and Migration

Mental Health

Select publications:

1. Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2018). 'Making sense of legality: Everyday resistance and survival tactics among undocumented women domestic workers in the labour market of U.A.E.' in Workers Movements and Strikes in the 21 st century, Edited by Madhumita Dutta, Jörg Nowak, Peter Birke, Rowman & Littlefield.

2. Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2018). 'Gender, Mental Illness and the Everyday: Understanding the Interface of Psychiatry with the Lives of Women Diagnosed as Mentally Ill' in Re-Imagining Sociology in India : Feminist Perspectives, Edited by Gita Chadha and N.T Joseph, Routledge, New Delhi

3. Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2018). 'Mobility, Accessibility, and Inclusion: Spatial politics of gendered migrant domestic labour' in Migration, Gender and Care Economy, Edited by Irudaya Rajan and Neetha N Pillai, Routledge, New Delhi

4. Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2016). Experience as' expert'knowledge: A Critical Understanding of Survivor Research in Mental Health. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 23(3), 203-205.

5.Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2016). 'Disability, exclusions, and the maintenance of corporealnorms' in Caffe Dissensus, August, 2016

6. Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2014). 'Negotiating the Intimate Space: Home and the sense of belonging among migrant women domestic workers' in eSocial Sciences (E Book), June, 2014

7.Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2012) The ‘Diagnosed’ Body: Embodied Experiences of Mental Illness in In Indian Anthropologists vol. 42, n0.1 jan-june 2012 pp 39-54

8.Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi and Annelies Moors (2012) Moving between Kerala and Dubai: Women domestic workers, state actors, and the misrecognition of problems’ in Illegal but Licit Transnational flows and Permissive Polities: Ethnographies of Human Mobilities in Asia (Eds. Barak Kalir and Malini Sur), Amsterdam University Press: Amsterdam, 2012

9. Pattadath, Bindhulakshmi (2010) Gender Mobility and State Response: India Domestic workers in the UAE’, in Governance and Labour Migration: India Migration Report 2010 (Ed. S. Irudayarajan), Routledge, New Delhi

Collaborative research project on Status Report on Girl Child in India sponsored by Save the Children, Bal Raksha Bharat, September 2013- June 2014

Research project on 'Aging Body, Gender, Caregiving Patterns and policies sponsored by TISS Research council, November 2013 to August 2015

In MA programme:

1.  Women, History, and Society: feminist theories and perspectives

2.  Feminist perspectives on Gender and Health.

3. Feminist research methodology/Practices

In MPhil Programme:

1. Theorizing feminism

2. Feminist perspectives on Discipline, Methodology, Methods, and Tools

3. Disability, Body, and Intersectionalities

4. Perspectives on Labour, Migration, and Globalization

Email: bindhulakshmi[at]tiss[dot]edu