Dipali Anumol
I build new research methods to understand how activists create sustained change against gender-based violence.
How do movements — and the people inside them — sustain the fight against gender-based violence?
Across feminist International Relations, social-movement theory, and trauma-informed method, I study the practices of care that let activists endure difficult and often dangerous work. My research is global in framework and grounded in fieldwork in India.
Explore the research →Feminist activism & care
How movements sustain themselves — and the people who lead them.
Gender, war & justice
Children born of conflict, accountability, and repair in postcolonial contexts.
Trauma-informed method
Research ethics and design equal to sensitive, high-stakes topics.
How do people keep going?
That question runs through my scholarship and my life. For my dissertation I spent time with feminist activists across India as they responded to sexual and gender-based violence — work that is urgent, exhausting, and rarely sustainable on its own terms. I study the practices of care that make sustained activism possible, and I build methods equal to the sensitivity of that work. My scholarship is global in framework, grounded in South Asian expertise, and moves between the academy, policy, and public life.
Care is not a break from the work. For many activists, care is the work.