SPENT, EARNED: Economic Abuse in India (Film Screening and Panel)
Schedule
Tue Mar 10 2026 at 05:15 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC+00:00Location
Room R301 (Main Building), SOAS University of London | London, EN
About this Event
Panel Speakers: Dr Anandi Rao (SOAS), Dr Punita Chowbey (Sheffield Hallam) and Prof Sundari Anitha (University of Sheffield)
SPENT: Fighting Economic Abuse in India and EARNED: Negotiating Economic Freedom in India are part of a trilogy: SPENT, EARNED, SAVED.
SPENT and EARNED are based on accounts from ten women, following interviews with 50 women and group discussions with an additional 25 women representing diverse class, religious, and caste backgrounds. Further, women represented a diversity of occupational categories, including professional roles, manual work, daily wage work, and homemaking. SPENT explores women’s experience of economic abuse and their fight against it. The film aims to bring out these women's resilience and agency in the face of economic abuse. SPENT has been named a semi-finalist at the Women, Life, Freedom Film festival 2024; an official selection at the Kerala Short Film Festival, 2024. EARNED explores the role of the invisible burden of unpaid care work, male control over women’s work life and deeply normalised social norms and systemic challenges in limiting women’s ability to participate in the labour market. The film’s protagonists—a government sanitation worker, a private mall security guard, a domestic worker, a self-employed rickshaw driver, an entrepreneur, and a homemaker and artist, although from diverse backgrounds, embody similar strategies to fulfil their aspirations for economic autonomy. The films explore themes of domestic violence - viewer discretion is advised.
Where is it happening?
Room R301 (Main Building), SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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