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About Nitasha Kaul

Dr Nitasha Kaul, Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster, is an economist, and writer. She is the author of the book Imagining Economics Otherwise: encounters with identity/difference (Routledge, 2007).

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Articles by Nitasha Kaul

Wednesday 4th May

Nitasha Kaul

The decades up to 2050 witnessed intensified struggles over Food-Oil-Climate-Identity (FOCI). As these issues became more vexed, they were impacted by recurring natural disasters and a technological coding of the earth and humanity, with corresponding changes in subjectivity and consciousness of space and self. As a result, states explored radical options that finally enabled a free movement of people across the globe. This transformative shift changed the nature of society and politics in a much more democratic direction.

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Wednesday 23rd March

How many zeroes are there in a trillion? On Economics, Neoliberalism and Economic Justice

The idea of economics as a science, not a branch of moral and political philosophy, is ideological. It is a position that is designed to obscure questions of justice, humanity and history
Tuesday 31st August

Kashmir: a place of blood and memory

In attempting to suffocate a separate Kashmiri identity, India reveals the cracks in its own idea of nationhood, argues Nitasha Kaul.
Thursday 4th March

India's big guns bazaar

Security is too important a question to be left to the defence sector alone.
Monday 20th April

The economics of turning people into things

Economics does violence when it forgets that social science must also be moral science
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