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Sustaining Power: Women’s struggles against contemporary backlash in South Asia

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Our work

Launched in January 2020, ‘Sustaining Power: Women’s Struggles against contemporary backlash in South Asia’ (SuPWR) is a five-year ESRC-funded research project that aims to examine when, how, and why women’s power struggles in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan succeed in retaining power and sustaining their gains against backlash.

Our Research

How do women defend their rights, and secure their gains against these regressive forces and backlash? This is the question behind SuPWR’s research on the strategies and mechanisms that women use to retain power and sustain gains in women’s rights.

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Our Approach

SuPWR applies a unique approach based on utilising a variety of research methodologies. We privilege members of women’s movements' own understandings of power and struggles.

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Our Case Studies

SuPWR's research explores 16 case studies of women’s struggles in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan that are involved in an on-going and active process of countering backlash.

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News & Opinion

When the screen becomes the ‘field’: methodological reflections in a time of Covid-19

As we write this blog post, we continue to grapple with the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, losing people in close quarters and with ‘work’ continuing as […]
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Strategies to challenge backlash against women’s rights in South Asia

Even as International Women’s day (IWD) – a global day to celebrate women’s achievements and women’s rights – is upon us in 2021, the struggle for gender parity continues across our […]
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