REIN Reading Circle

REIN Reading Circle

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REIN Reading Circle episodes

  • Session 9: Better Economics for Climate II

    Session 9 of REIN Reading Circle.

    The readings we will be discussing:

    A. IMPACT OF EXTREME CLIMATE EVENTS ON GENDER INEQUALITY

    1. Ahmed, K.J., Haq, S.M.A. & Bartiaux, F. The nexus between extreme weather events, sexual violence, and early marriage: a study of vulnerable populations in Bangladesh. Popul Environ 40, 303–324 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11111-019-0312-3

      2. B. GENDERED ASPECT OF CLIMATE CHANGE INDUCED MIGRATION

      2. Patel. Amrita and Giri Jasmine (2019). Climate Change, Migration and Women: Analysing Construction Workers in Odisha. Sage journals. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0049085718821756

      C. WHY GENDER MATTERS IN ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE?

      3. IISD-Blog article: https://www.iisd.org/articles/gender-climate-change

      4. CARE International (2020). Evicted by Climate Change-Confronting the Gendered Impacts of Climate-Induced Displacement. (Chapters 2, 4 and 5) https://careclimatechange.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/CARE-Climate-Migration-Report-v0.4.pdf

      1 hr 27 min
    2. Session 8: Better Economics for Climate I

      Session 8 of REIN Reading Circle.

      The readings we will be discussing:

      1. Ch 2- Hot Money: How Free Market Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet from the book -This changes everything: capitalism vs. the Climate by Naomi Klein.
      2. Ch 7- Economic Institutions and the Natural environment from the book Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment by Partha Dasgupta.
      3. Ch 4- Policy instruments for emission reduction from the book Climate Economics: Economic Analysis of Climate, Climate Change and Climate Policy by Richard SJ Tol.
        4. 1 hr 27 min
      4. Session 7: Capitalism II

        Session 7 of REIN Reading Circle.

        The readings we will be discussing:

        1. Legal Institutionalism: Capitalism and the Constitutive Role of Law by Simon Deakin et. al.
        2. The Code of Capital by Katharina Pistor - Chapter 9 - "Capital Rules by Law"
        3. (Optional) Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay - Chapter 5: Capital: A Self-Governing City
          4. 1 hr 35 min
        4. Session 6: Capitalism I

          Session 6 of REIN Reading Circle.

          The readings we will be discussing:

          1. [The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein](https://naomiklein.org/the-shock-doctrine/#:~:text=Naomi Klein’s third book, The Shock Doctrine is,shock perpetrated on people, on countries, on economies.) - Introduction and Chapter 2.
          2. Present Crises of Capitalism and Its Reforms by Pulin B. Nayak.
            3. 1 hr 14 min
          3. Session 5: Feminist Economics II

            Session 5 of REIN Reading Circle.

            The readings we will be discussing:

            1. Globalization, labour standards, and women's rights: dilemmas of collective (in)action in an interdependent world – Naila Kabeer
            2. Invisible Women: Exposing data bias in a world designed for men by Caroline Criado-Perez - Preface as well as  Chapter 5: The Henry Higgins effect
            3. An interesting episode: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/invisible-women/


              4. 1 hr 17 min
            4. Session 4: Feminist Economics I

              Session 4 of REIN Reading Circle. 

              The readings we will be discussing:

              1. Gender in Economics: The Indian Experience by U. Kalpagam - It is a broad overview of how social sciences intersect with economics in feminist concerns in the Indian subcontinent.
              2. “Bargaining and Gender Relations: Within and Beyond the Household" by Bina Agrawal.
              3. Optional but only a few pages- Interview of Silvia Federici by Mathew Carlin about reproductive labour, non-waged labour in Marxism. 
                4. 1 hr 29 min
              4. Session 3: Economics Philosophy and Methodology III

                Session 3 of REIN Reading Circle. 

                The premise of any economic model is grounded on the categories that frame its inquiry. This week's readings seek to trouble the ways in which economics as a discipline imagines reality, and the categories it uses to translate lived experience into analyzable data. This set should provoke economics to confront the distance that there might be in the way they conceptualise and taxonomize reality, and the way in which its subjects, that is ordinary people imagine their own world. An entry into the discourses and power structures that have historically informed the way economics approaches its object of inquiry will hopefully be questioned through a close reading of these materials

                The readings we will be discussing: 

                • Preface and Ch. 6, Thompson, E. P. (2002). The Making of the English Working Class. United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited
                • Introduction, Mitchell, T. (2002). Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity. United States: University of California Press
                • Preface, Graeber, D. (2018). Bullshit Jobs: A Theory. United Kingdom: Penguin Books Limited
                • (Optional reading): Introduction, Anand, N. (2017). Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai. United Kingdom: Duke University Press.



                  • 1 hr 30 min

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