Academic Publications

 (with de Souza, S.) Deploying Cultural, Social and Emotional Capital. Economic & Political Weekly, 56(31), p.53. 

 2020 'Extending Feminist Pedagogy in Conferences: Inspiration from Theatre of the Oppressed' in Gender and Education Special Issue: Thoughtful Gatherings 32:1  101 - 114 edited by Emily F. Henderson and James Burford

Book

Gender, Class and Reflexive Modernity in India, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013

The book discusses how upwardly mobile women employed in India's IT industry negotiate the consequences of late-modernity by drawing on seemingly divergent discourses of respectable modernity and individual choice/responsibility. 

See reviews of the book.

On Child Abuse

Ghosh, S. and Belliappa, J.L.  'A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in India' A Contrario: International Criminal Law, 2015

with Ghosh, S. 'Addressing Child Sexual Abuse in India through Legislation,Sexuality Education and Teacher Training' A38-Journal of International Law Volume 4(1): 134-144 , 2015

On Harassment and Violence

‘‘She Was Very Outgoing’: Responses to Sexual Harassment in theIndian Information Technology Industry’, Work, Gender and Societies (Travail, Genre et Sociétés), 2013

‘Competing Public Discourses on Gender, Modernity & Assaults on Women in India’ in Askanius, T., Reclaiming the Public Sphere, 2014

On Work and Identity

'Anglo-Indian Women in Teaching: The Interplay of Gender, Profession, Community Identities and Religiosity' in Andrews, R. and Raj, M.S. (2021) Anglo-Indian Identity: Past and Present, in India and the Diaspora

'The Menstrual Leave Debate: An Opportunity to Address Inclusivity More Broadly in Indian Organisations' in Indian Journal of Industrial Relations 2018

‘Mobilizing Collective Networks to Enable Individual Success:  Middle Class Indian Women Employed in the Global Market’ in Afshar, H. and Maynard, M. (eds.), Women’s Identity Across Diversities, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 

‘Our Palms Are Not Meant Only for Henna: Representations of Professional Women in Contemporary Bollywood Films’in International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations Volume, 6 (5), 2007

This paper was awarded the runner-up prize for the International Award for Excellence.

On  Research Methodology

Foreword to Lambert, M. (ed.) Practical Research Methods in Education: An Early Researcher's Critical Guide, Routledge, 2019

de Souza, S. and Belliappa, J.L. ‘The Ethics of Protecting Narrators: Understanding the Positions and Self-Representational Desires of Anglo-Indian School Teachers’ in Srigley, K. Zembrycki, S. and Iacovetta, F. (eds) Beyond Women’s Words: Feminisms and the Practice of Oral History in the Twenty-First Century. Routledge,2018

Miscellaneous

'The Great Indian Kitchen: A Subtle Reminder of the Shadow Pandemic' Economic and Political Weekly

'Gender, Community Identity and Norms Regarding Women’s Sartorial Choices: Responding to Designer Sabyasachi’s Remarks on the Sari from an Anglo-Indian Perspective’The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies, 2018

with Byrnes, A and Abhinav, P. (2014) ‘City Spinning: ‘The Consequences of a PSS Project Involving Children from Urban Poor Communities in India’ in Vezzoli, C. et al (eds.), Product-Service System Design for Sustainability, pp 321-333

Research Report

with Sanchia de Souza Gender and Agency in Career Narratives of Female School Teachers in Bangalore, 2013

with Varughese et al, Food Security in Poorest Districts of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, Development Alternatives, 1996

Selected Conference Papers

 Pedagogy in the Gender Studies Classroom Annual Conference of the Contemporary Education Society of India Bangalore Dec.  2015

Defining the Middle Class in India:  Moving Beyond Income Categories and Towards a Gender Sensitive Analysis (Paper Delivered at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore International Conference on Public Policy 2012) file uploaded below.·     

Interviewing Anglo-Indian Women in the School Teaching Profession: Ethical and Political Questions (with Sanchia de Souza) in Oral History Association of India Inaugural  Conference 2013