Kanchana Mahadevan

Kanchana Mahadevan is Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai. She teaches and writes in the areas of feminist philosophy, decolonization, critical theory and political thought. Her book Between Femininity and Feminism: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives on Care (Indian Council of Philosophical Research in collaboration with DK Printworld New Delhi) examines the relevance of Western feminist philosophy in the Indian context. She has coedited a volume of philosophical and psychological essays on the pandemic entitled The COVID Spectrum: Theoretical and Experiential Perspectives (Speaking Tiger Publications, New Delhi). She is the Editor of the University of Mumbai’s interdisciplinary humanities online research journal Sambhashan. Her recent work attempts to situate the care theoretical perspective in the Indian context, with special reference nursing policies and practices. She is also working on the significance of gender in debates on the secular and the postsecular.