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Kanchana Mahadevan
Kanchana Mahadevan is Professor and Head at the Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai. She teaches and researches in feminist philosophy, continental thought, critical theory and political philosophy. She also works in the interdisciplinary areas of aesthetics and film. Her book Between Femininity and Feminism: Colonial and Postcolonial Perspectives on Care examines the relevance of Western feminist philosophy in the Indian context, while bringing Western feminism into dialogue with its Indian counterpart. Her publications on Ambedkar explore his rearticulation of democracy from the Indian perspective. In her recently published research papers on care ethics, she has engaged with its critical potential in relation to health work and the cosmopolitan character of care. She is specifically interested in exploring the comparative and decolonizing dimensions of philosophy. She is currently working on a monograph on the relationship between the secular and the post-secular in the context of gender.
