Dr Khushboo Srivastava | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Khushboo Srivastava

Assistant Professor, Hyderabad Campus, School of Public Policy and Governance

Qualification

B.A.(Hons) Political Science (Lady Shri Ram College for Women,University of Delhi),

M.A. Political Science (Centre for Political Studies,JNU,New Delhi),

M.Phil Political Science (Centre for Political Studies,JNU,New Delhi),

PhD (Centre for Political Studies,JNU,New Delhi)

Contact

khushboo.srivastava[at]tiss[dot]edu

Khushboo Srivastava

Assistant Professor

School of Public Policy and Governance

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad Off-Campus

1-117, Turkayamjal, Sagar Highway Road

Ranga Reddy Dist. Hyderabad-501510

Email: khushboo.srivastava@tiss.edu; krsrivastava29@gmail.com

Mobile: + 91 7355570417

Dr. Khushboo Srivastava is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. She received her Ph.D. and M. Phil. from Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Using the theoretial framework of the Sexual Contract, she has explored the ideas of agency and empowerment in context of feminized forms of labor. For her doctoral work "Reproduction, Body and Agency: A Study of Surrogacy in India", she brought conceptual frameworks drawn from the feminist critiques of the Social Contract theory to understand surrogacy as a form of feminized labour and its changing legal contexts.

Before joining TISS, she was working as Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay on a project, "Citizenship Futures - The Politics of Hope." The project was a collaboration between Indian Council of Social Science Research, University of York, United Kingdom and CESDIP, Paris that tried to explore avenues and significance of hope in the political imaginations of socially excluded people. She has also worked as a Guest faculty at School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Department of Civics and Politics, Mumbai University. Apart from these she also holds experience of teaching at Banasthali University in Rajasthan.

Khushboo has worked intensively on the ground with sex workers, surrogate women, domestic workers, and marginal groups living in slum of Mumbai. Through her ethnographic research, she has been able to delve on issues of waged employment in precarious forms of labor, domination, objectification, conflict, experiences of struggle, resilience to forces of market and state and subsequent quest for agency and personhood.

Khushboo's research interests include Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Assisted Repoductive Technology, Interface between Feminized Labor and Market, Domination and Agency, Issues of Access to Justice, Public Policy and Governance.

"Empowerment and subjugation: Re-conceiving-commercial surrogacy as work-labor in India", Asian Journal of Women's Studies, November 2021
(Co-Authored with Yardımcı, Gimel & Borday)“Inciting Hopes for the Future: Civic Activism in London, Mumbai, and Paris Amid the Covid‑19 Crisis”, Metropolitics, June 2021.
Everyday Activism amid the Pandemic: Civic Associations as Avenues of Hope for the Marginalized. Antipode. September 2020
Decoding Surrogacy: Mothering in Context of Money and Market. Women’s Link. Volume 27, No. 1. January-March 2020.
Assertion of Citizenship through the Vocabulary of Rights: Who Votes and Why, International Journal of Multidisciplinary. August 2018, Volume-3 | Issue-08
Plight and Pysche of Women in 19th century India: A Reading of Tarabai Shinde’s “Stree Purush Tulna” translated by Rosalind O’Hanlon. Review of Research Journal. Volume 7, Issue 11, August 2018.
Re-Thinking Vagrant Work as Work: Constructions, Debates and Dimensions around Sex Work. International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews, Volume 5, Issue 4, Oct– Dec. 2018

Post Doctoral Research Associate: Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, ‘ICSSR Funded EQUIP Project: City of Hope’ https://www.york.ac.uk/politics/research/current-projects/citizenship-futures/
Project Research Scientist: ‘ONGC sponsored Consultancy Project for Evaluation of project awarded to Rashtrotthana Parishat’ undertaken in Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay
Program Associate: Study of Admininistrative Reforms and Police Reforms in India, FRNV, E.Sreedharan, New Delhi

Understanding Politics
Policy Institutions in Practice
Public Policy and Local Governance
Civil Society, New Social Movements and Public Policy
Comparative Public Policy
Everyday Ethics and Constitutional Value (CBCS at Mumbai Campus)