SOAS Research Online

Book Chapters

Abraham, Rosa and Kesar, Surbhi (2023) 'Religious Identity-Based Inequality in the Labour Market: Policy Challenges in India.' In: Tadros, Mariz, Mader, Philip and Cheeseman, Kathryn, (eds.), Poverty and Prejudice: Religious Inequality and the Struggle for Sustainable Development. Bristol: Bristol University Press, pp. 144-150.

Journal Article

Mezzadri, Alessandra, Rai, Shirin, Stevano, Sara, Alessandrini, Donatella, Bargawi, Hannah, Elias, Juanita, Hassim, Shireen, Kesar, Surbhi, Thiyaga Lingham, Jayanthi, Natile, Serena, N., Neetha, Ossome, Lyn, Raghuram, Parvati, Tsikata, Dzodzi and Wöhl, Stefanie (2025) 'Pluralizing social reproduction approaches.' International Feminist Journal of Politics, 27 (1). pp. 6-33.

Kesar, Surbhi (2024) 'Subcontracting Linkages in India's Informal Economy.' Development and Change, 55 (1). pp. 38-75.

Kesar, Surbhi (2023) 'Economic transition, dualism and informality in India: Nature and patterns of household‐level transitions.' Review of Development Economics, 27 (4). pp. 2438-2469.

Kvangraven, Ingrid Harvold and Kesar, Surbhi (2023) 'Standing in the way of rigor? Economics’ meeting with the decolonization agenda.' Review of International Political Economy, 30 (5). pp. 1723-1748.

Bhattacharya, Snehashish, Kesar, Surbhi and Mehra, Sahil (2023) 'Exclusion, Surplus Population, and the Labour Question in Postcolonial Capitalism: Future Directions in Political Economy of Development.' Review of Political Economy, 35 (1). pp. 145-173.

Kesar, Surbhi, Bhattacharya, Snehashish and Banerjee, Lopamudra (2022) 'Contradictions and Crisis in the World of Work: Informality, Precarity and the Pandemic.' Development and Change, 53 (6). pp. 1254-1282.

Abraham, Rosa, Basole, Amit and Kesar, Surbhi (2022) 'Down and out? The gendered impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic on India’s labour market.' Economia Politica, 39 (1). pp. 101-128.

Kesar, Surbhi, Abraham, Rosa, Lahoti, Rahul, Basole, Amit and Nath, Paaritosh (2021) 'Pandemic, informality, and vulnerability: impact of COVID-19 on livelihoods in India.' Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 42 (1/2). pp. 145-164.

Bhattacharya, Snehashish and Kesar, Surbhi (2020) 'Precarity and Development: Production and Labor Processes in the Informal Economy in India.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 52 (3). pp. 387-408.

Kesar, Surbhi and Bhattacharya, Snehashish (2020) 'Dualism and Structural Transformation: The Informal Manufacturing Sector in India.' European Journal of Development Research, 32. pp. 560-586.

Bhattacharya, Snehashish and Kesar, Surbhi (2018) 'Possibilities of transformation: The informal sector in India.' Review of Radical Political Economics, 50 (4). pp. 727-735.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Kvangraven, Ingrid and Kesar, Surbhi (2023) Why Do Economists Have Trouble Understanding Racialized Inequalities? INET Economics Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Kesar, Surbhi and Lahoti, Rahul (2021) The Budget does not help those facing hunger, unemployment and loss of educational opportunities. Frontline [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Abraham, Rosa, Basole, Amit and Kesar, Surbhi (2021) Pandemic Effect: 9 Months On, More Younger Workers Remain Jobless. India Spend [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Kesar, Surbhi (2020) Identity in economics or identity of economics? Miami Institute for the Social Sciences Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Abraham, Rosa, Basole, Amit, Kesar, Surbhi, Lahoti, Rahul and Nath, Paaritosh (2020) Pandemic as a Lens: Identifying and Addressing Livelihood Vulnerabilities. Ideas for India [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Kesar, Surbhi, Dutt, Devika and Dasgupta, Zico (2019) Privatising a public good. Frontline [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Basole, Amit, Abraham, Rosa, Lahoti, Rahul, Kesar, Surbhi, Jha, Mrinalini, Nath, Paaritosh, Kapoor, Radhica and Mandela, S Nelson (2021) 'State of Working India 2021: One Year of Covid-19.' Karnataka: Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University.