Dr Khushboo Srivastava | Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Dr Khushboo Srivastava

Assistant Professor
Mumbai Campus,
Programme Coordinator, Centre for Electoral Management Studies, School of Development Studies

Qualification

Ph.D. (Centre for Political Studies,JNU,New Delhi)

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

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

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

Contact

khushboo.srivastava[at]tiss[dot]ac[dot]in

Khushboo Srivastava

Assistant Professor

School of Development Studies

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

V.N. Purav Marg, Deonar, Mumbai-400088.

Email: khushboo.srivastava@tiss.edu;

krsrivastava29@gmail.com

Mobile: + 91 7355570417

Dr. Khushboo Srivastava is an Assistant Professor at the School of Development Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She received her Ph.D. and M. Phil. from Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Using the theoretical 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.

She earlier worked as an Assistant Professor at School of Public Policy and Governance at TISS, Hyderabad. Before joining TISS, she was working 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 Reproductive Technology, Interface between Feminized Labor and Market, Elections and Electoral Systems, Public Policy and Governance, International Development and Global Governance

The Health Risks for Women in Surrogate Motherhood: Insights from an ethnographic study in Anand and Gurugram in Springer Handbook of Sex, Gender and Health: Perspectives from South Asia (forthcoming)
What determines the housing prices for rural-urban migrants living in the slums of Indian Cities? Evidence from NCT of Delhi (Co-authored with Pandey and Khan). Indian Journal of Human Development, Sage (forthcoming)
Implementation Status of Social Protection Laws and Legislation: Addressing Health Risks of Vulnerable Populations in South-East Asia Region WHO (forthcoming)
Leave, leisure and wellbeing: Reflecting on the lives of Kamathipura’s sex workers, Feminisms in India, Feminism in India, June, 2023.
Kamathipura’s Women Demand ‘Work Without Stigma’: Is the Apex Court’s Judgment Enough? Feminism in India, July, 2022.
Empowerment and Subjugation: Re-conceiving commercial surrogacy as work–labor in India. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Vol 27, Issue 4. 2021
Inciting Hopes for the Future: Civic Activism in London, Mumbai, and Paris Amid the Covid-19 Crisis, Metropolitics, June 2021. (Co-Authored with Yardımcı, Gimel & Borday)
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

Humanizing Death: A Public Policy Perspective on Death in the Context of a Pandemic, TISS Research Council: Ongoing
Implementation Status of Social Protection Laws and Legislation: Addressing Health Risks of Vulnerable Populations in South-East Asia Region, World Health Organization (WHO): Ongoing
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

Electoral Management Bodies & Electoral Administration: A Comparative Perspective
Legislatures, Elections & Electoral Systems
International Development and Global Governance
Ideas of India
Caring Cities
Urban Health
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