Prof Supriya Singh

RMIT School of Business & Law

Presenting: National overview of Coercive Control

Supriya Singh is a writer and a sociologist of money. Supriya has been working in the sociology of money since the 1990s and over that time has had a powerful focus on gender, culture, identity and lived experience. Her latest book Domestic Economic Abuse: The Violence of Money (Routledge: 2021) shows how the very different stories of 12 Anglo-Celtic and Indian women in Australia speak to power, control and financial abuse. Cultural practices of money become abusive when they are used without their accompanying morality. This is true in equal measure of joint accounts in Anglo-Celtic culture, as well as dowry and remittances in the global South. The stories show the importance of naming economic abuse to prevent and address it. We need to speak of money and relationships across life stages to prevent the devastation of economic abuse. 

Supriya is an Honorary Professor at the Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT, Melbourne. Her other books are A House over the Diamond Creek: A Whimsical Journey through Gardens and Life (2021:Brolga Publishing), Money, Migration and Family: India to Australia (2016: Palgrave Macmillan), The Girls Ate Last (2013: Angsana Publications), Globalization and Money: A Global South Perspective (2013: Rowman & Littlefield), Marriage Money: The Social Shaping of Money in Marriage & Banking (1997: Allen & Unwin), The Bankers: Australia’s Leading Bankers Talk About Banking Today (1991: Allen & Unwin), On the Sulu Sea (1984: Angsana Publications) and Bank Negara Malaysia: The First 25 years, 1959-1984 (1984: Bank Negara Malaysia).

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