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Explore monographs, peer-reviewed articles, spotlight notes, podcasts, policy briefs, and op-eds emerging from the Political Futures research programs.

Publication • 2026

Thinking Beyond A Polarised World

Amitav Acharya

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

Extremist Timelines

Nicholas Chan

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

Time And The Multiplex Order

Peter Marcus Kristensen, Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

Critical Multiplexity In International Relations

Sasikumar Sundaram, Inderjeet Parmar

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

Global Governance Of AI Infrastructures

JP Singh, Manpriya Dua, Amarda Shehu

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

Remaking The International Space Order

Dimitrios Stroikos

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

An IPE Perspective

Lukas Linsi, Naná de Graaff

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

Asserting Southern Agency

Indrajit Roy

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2026

Introduction to Special Collection

Indrajit Roy, Nora Fisher-Onar

Oxford Academic

Talk • 2025

Global Leadership And Scholarship From The Global South

Indrajit Roy

UK Forum on a Multipolar World

Podcast • 2021

The Emergence Of Southern Multilateralisms

Indrajit Roy

Wolfson College

Article • 2020

The Global South, Ukraine And The Liberal International Order

Indrajit Roy

Global Policy

Article • 2022

Liberalism From Below

Indrajit Roy

Global Policy

Article • 2022

Complementary Competition vis-a-vis The Liberal International Order

Indrajit Roy

University of California Press

Publication • 2024

Rising Power, Limited Influence: The Politics Of Chinese Investments In Europe And The Liberal International Order

Indrajit Roy, Jappe Eckhardt, Dimitrios Stroikos, Simona Davidescu

Oxford University Press

Podcast • 2021

What The Farmers’ Protests Tells Us About Capitalism And Democracy

Indrajit Roy

The York Politics Society

Publication • 2026

Global Development Politics

Indrajit Roy, Samuel Hickey

Publication • 2020

A Post-coronial World

Indrajit Roy

Global Policy

Publication • 2026

Connected Politics Of Global Development

Indrajit Roy

White Rose

Publication • 2021

Why The Subaltern Chose, Not Hindutva, But Trinamool, In Bengal

Indrajit Roy

The Indian Express

Publication • 2022

In Uttar Pradesh, Does Caste Politics Trump Human Development

Indrajit Roy

Hindustan Times

Publication • 2024

UP Vote For ‘Deemokrasi’

Indrajit Roy

Times of India

Publication • 2019

India’s Kashmir Conundrum Is Far From Resolved

Indrajit Roy

Independent

Publication • 2024

Behind Kejriwal’s Gambit

Indrajit Roy

Times of India

Publication • 2025

The Battle For The Capital

Indrajit Roy

Times of India

Publication • 2025

Why Power Makes Aam Aadmi Khas

Indrajit Roy

Times of India

Publication • 2015

Why Development In Bihar Is About Social Justice

Indrajit Roy

The Wire

Publication • 2024

Bihar Voters In Search For Samman And Hissedari

Indrajit Roy

Times of India

Publication • 2025

Bihar: The Migrant Vote

Indrajit Roy

Times of India

Publication • 2022

Our Unrepresentative Representative Democracy

The Hindu Centre

Publication • 2014

The Past Is Not All That Dead

Press Reader

Publication • 2016

The Gathering Storm

Indrajit Roy

The Conversation

Publication • 2016

Modi And Trump: Birds Of The Same Feather

Indrajit Roy

The Conversation

Op-Ed • 2020

India: The Rise Of Fascism Among Democracy’s Midst

Indrajit Roy

9dashline

Podcast • 2019

Episode 6: What Young Indians Want

The Conversation

Podcast • 2019

Episode 5: Economic Growth, Inequality And Jobs

The Conversation

Podcast • 2019

Episode 4: Women, Gender And Love

The Conversation

Podcast • 2019

Episode 3: Kashmir

The Conversation

Podcast • 2019

Episode 2: The Politics Of Hindu Nationalism

The Conversation

Podcast • 2019

Introduction: Whats At Stake In The Indian Elections

Indrajit Roy

The Conversation

Book • 2023

Passionate Politics: Democracy, Development And India’s 2019 General Elections

Indrajit Roy

Manchester University Press

Article • 2005

Good Governance And The Dilemma Of Development: What Lies Beneath

Indrajit Roy

Oxford Academic

Article • 2008

Civil Society And Governance: (Re-)conceptualizing The Interface

Indrajit Roy

ScienceDirect

Article • 2016

Development Discourse And Popular Articulations In Urban Gujarat

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Article • 2025

Class In Indian Politics

Indrajit Roy

Indian Politics & Policy

Article • 2024

Democratic Defense

Indrajit Roy

Phenomenal World

Publication • 2019

A Comparative Analysis Of Local Governments In India

Indrajit Roy

Sage Journals

Publication • 2023

How Welfare Wins

Indrajit Roy

Oxford Academic

Publication • 2024

Social Protection In Emerging Asia

Indrajit Roy

Indian Politics & Policy

Publication • 2015

When Modi Mocks NREGA

Indrajit Roy

Scroll.in

Journal Article • 2016

Paradox Of General Welfare

Indrajit Roy

Springer Nature Link

Journal Article • 2014

Reserve Labour, Unreserved Politics

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Working Paper • 2015

Class Politics And Social Protection

Indrajit Roy

ESID

Talk • 2022

Politics, Dignity And Empowerment

Indrajit Roy

Global Affairs, King's College London

Talk • 2018

Dignifying Development

Indrajit Roy

Global Development Institute

Talk • 2022

The Dignity Report 2022

IDinsight

Op-Ed • 2020

Dignifying Development

Indrajit Roy

The Wire

Op-Ed • 2024

Subaltern Dignity

Indrajit Roy

Outlook

Op-Ed • 2025

Battling For Dignity, Development And Democracy

Indrajit Roy, Vignesh Karthik K.R.

The Wire

Journal Article • 2021

Dignified Development

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Journal Article • 2019

Disjunctions Of Democracy And Liberalism

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Journal Article • 2013

Development As Dignity

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2022

The Politics Of The Poor In A Democracy

Uday Chandra

Outlook

Publication • 2020

Democracy From Below

Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

Frontline

Publication • 2021

What Does Living In A Democracy Mean For The Poor Of India

Suryakant Waghmore

Scroll.in

Publication • 2021

Timely and Timeless

Harsh Mander

The Wire

Book • 2019

Politics Of The Poor: Negotiating Democracy In Contemporary India

Indrajit Roy

Cambridge University Press

Book • 2019

Global Poverty

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Journal Article • 2026

Penury Amid Plenty In Western Orissa

Academia

Journal Article • 2026

New Lists For Old: (Re-)constructing The Poor In The BPL Census

Economic & Political Weekly

Publication • 2026

Ground Reality Check For Multidimensional Poverty Index

University of Oxford

Publication • 2022

Hollowing Out The World’s Largest Democracy

Indrajit Roy

Sage Journals

Publication • 2020

Fascist Undertones Of Indian Democracy

The Conversation

Book • 2023

India’s Fascist Democracy

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2023

Political Parties In India

Indrajit Roy, Maya Tudor

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2020

India’s COVID Challenge

Shankkar Aiyar, Rana Ayyub, Jay Panda, Indrajit Roy

BBC

Publication • 2024

Citizenship and Inequality

Indrajit Roy

Springer Nature

Publication • 2016

Emancipation As Social Equality: Subaltern Politics In Contemporary India

Indrajit Roy

Berghahn Journals

Publication • 2015

Utopia In Crisis? Subaltern Imaginations In Contemporary Bihar

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Journal Article • 2013

Contesting Consensus, Disputing Inequality: Agonistic Subjectivities In Rural Bihar

Indrajit Roy

OpenEdition Journals

Journal Article • 2026

Negotiating Power: Disputes Over Electrification In Rural India

Indrajit Roy

Cambridge Core

Journal Article • 2023

Beyond Clients And Citizens: Making Claims In Rural India

Indrajit Roy

ScienceDirect

Journal Article • 2016

Equality Against Hierarchy: Imagining Modernity In Contemporary India

Indrajit Roy

Sage Journals

Publication • 2018

Safeguarding Migrant Rights

KumKum Dasgupta

Hindustan Times

Publication • 2017

What Drives Internal Migration In India?

KumKum Dasgupta

Hindustan Times

Publication • 2019

Voting Rights For Migrants

Indrajit Roy

Hindustan Times

Podcast • 2026

Portable Citizenship

Indrajit Roy

BBC Free Thinking

Talk • 2017

Migration Matters

Tanweer Fazal, Ratnakar Tripathy, Amrita Datta

Asian Development Research Institute

Talk • 2014

Short-term Migration And Rural Employment

Clement Imbert, Mrityunjay Mohanty, SM Raju, Indrajit Roy, Alakh Narayan Sharma

Asian Development Research Institute

Talk • 2019

The Migrant And The State

Indrajit Roy

TISS Patna

Working Paper • 2016

Labour Migration From (And In) Bihar: Continuities And Change

Indrajit Roy

International Growth Centre

Policy Brief • 2016

Enhancing Mobility: Political And Social Rights For Circular Labour Migrants

Indrajit Roy

International Growth Centre

Photo Essay • 2021

Mobility And Citizenship In A Rising Power

Zaheeb Ajmal, Atul Anand, Omkar Gupta, Rakesh Gupta, Ankur Jaiswal, Indrajit Roy, K. Ravi Raman

Engage

Journal Article • 2019

Stolen Citizenship, Stolen Freedoms

Anirban Bhattacharya, Rashmi Guha Ray, Priyanka Jain, Usman Jawed Siddiqui, Harsh Mander, K. Ravi Raman, Indrajit Roy

OpenEdition Journals

Book • 2024

Indians on the Move

Zaheeb Ajmal, Ankur Jaiswal, Indrajit Roy

Yoda Press

Online Conference • 2022

Panel Discussion

Sarath Davala, Dmitry Kochenov, Jessica Omkuti, Indrajit Roy

Teamwork Arts

Publication • 2024

Autocratisation And Social Innovation

Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho, Leonardo Fontes, Beatriz Sanchez

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2024

Debating Citizenship And Seeking Solidarity

Qudsiya Contractor

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2024

Reimagining Caring Spaces For Democratic Resistance And Resilience

Özlem Aslan, Pınar Dokumacı

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2024

Re-Inventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Backsliding

Sagnik Dutta, Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Colloquium • 2022

Colloquium 6

Arzoo Oslanloo, Indrajit Roy, Ajay Gudavarthy, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, Bin Xu

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Colloquium • 2023

Colloquium 5

Sagnik Dutta, Raphael Susewind, Qudsiya Contractor, Ghazala Wahab, Indrajit Roy

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Colloquium • 2022

Colloquium 4

Fiona Anciano, Ankita Pandey, AbdouMaliq Simone, Gautam Bhan, Indrajit Roy, Sagnik Dutta

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Colloquium • 2022

Colloquium 3

Melissa Williams, Indrajit Roy, Ankita Pandey, Tatiana Vargas-Maia, Amogh Dhar Sharma, Sagnik Dutta

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Colloquium • 2022

Colloquium 2

Sagnik Dutta, Melissa Williams, Duduzile Ndlovu, Meena Kandaswamy, Anielle Franco, Ece Temelkuran

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Colloquium • 2022

Colloquium 1

Melissa Williams, Indrajit Roy, Sagnik Dutta, Özlem Aslan, Samir Gandesha, Ankita Pandey, Subir Sinha

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Online Conference • 2021

Reimagining Citizenship In South Asia Online Conference: Afghanistan

Reimagining Citizenship

Online Conference • 2021

Reimagining Citizenship In South Asia Online Conference: Borders

Reimagining Citizenship

Online Conference • 2021

Reimagining Citizenship In South Asia Online Conference: Territory

Reimagining Citizenship

Online Conference • 2021

Reimagining Citizenship In South Asia Online Conference: Belonging

Reimagining Citizenship

Online Conference • 2021

Reimagining Citizenship In South Asia Online Conference: Domination

Indrajit Roy, Buddhadeb Halder, Filippo Boni, Rudabeh Shahid

Reimagining Citizenship

Online Conference • 2021

Reimagining Citizenship Online Conference Keynote: End Of The Postcolonial State

Faisal Devji

Reimagining Citizenship

Talk • 2021

Citizenship In The World’s Largest Ethnocracy

Indrajit Roy

RADIO SOFIA

Film Festival • 2021

Day 3 – Reimagining Citizenship

Karwan e Mohabbat

Film Festival • 2021

Day 2 – Reimagining Citizenship | Session 2

Karwan e Mohabbat

Film Festival • 2026

Day 2 – Reimagining Citizenship | Session 1

Karwan e Mohabbat

Film Festival • 2021

Day 1 – Reimagining Citizenship

Karwan e Mohabbat

Spotlight Note • 2021

Federalizing Citizenship: The Kerala State Government’s Protests Against the CAA

K. Ravi Raman

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Humanizing Citizenship: Constitutional Principles and the Protests Against the CAA

Suryakant Waghmore

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Feminizing Citizenship: Why Muslim Women Protest Against the CAA

Qudsiya Contractor

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Doubtful Citizenship: Data and Division in India’s New Citizenship Laws

Buddhadeb Halder

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Precarious Citizenship: Internal Migrants and India’s Amended Citizenship Laws

Priyanka Jain, Nivedita Jairam

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Acceptable Citizenship: Indigenous Communities and India’s New Citizenship Laws

KumKum Dasgupta

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Subordinated Citizenship: Muslims in the Hindu Rashtra

Shaikh Mujibur Rehman

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Contested Citizenship: Struggles Over Belonging

Harsh Mander

Cambridge University Press

Spotlight Note • 2021

Reimagining Citizenship in India Today

Indrajit Roy

Cambridge University Press

Journal Article • 2024

India: Making And Resisting An Ethnocracy

Indrajit Roy

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2026

Citizenship As It Is And As It Ought To Be

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2026

Moving Beyond Movements

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2026

Between Nation-state And Ummah’s Appeal

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2026

Afropolitanism

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2026

Questioning Traditional Citizenship

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2026

We Are Sierra Leoneans, Not Slaves

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2026

Plurinational Citizenship In The Making

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2026

A Sociology Of Citizenship

Indrajit Roy

University of Oxford

Publication • 2024

Is It Political To Hope?

Indrajit Roy

University of York

Publication • 2024

The Politics Of Poetics

Indrajit Roy

Scroll.in

Publication • 2024

How Protests Ignited Hope

Indrajit Roy

The Wire

Publication • 2021

How Farmers’ Movement Embody A Politics Of Hope

Indrajit Roy

Indian Express

Publication • 2024

Global Democracy: A Crisis Of Hope?

Indrajit Roy

Deccan Herald

Publication • 2024

Democratic Defense

Indrajit Roy

Phenomena World

Publication • 2024

Hope In Indian Politics

Indrajit Roy

Advanced Study Institute of Asia

Publication • 2024

Hope Isn’t Delusional, Its Audacious

Debdutta Chakraborty

The Print

Publication • 2024

The Democratic Value Of Dissent

Nandini Bhatia

The Hindu

Publication • 2024

Why Indian Democracy Is Thriving

Chintan Girish Modi

Business Standard

Publication • 2024

Manifesto Of The Indian Citizen

Ranjona Banerjee

Deccan Chronicle

Publication • 2024

Why Is Archiving Crucial in a Democracy?

Indrajit Roy, Prem Panicker

Bangalore International Centre

Publication • 2024

Moments of Hope

Indrajit Roy, Gemma Ware

The Conversation

Publication • 2024

The Future Of Indian Democracy

Adam Dixon, Indrajit Roy

New Enlightenment

Publication • 2024

How To Save A Democracy

Indrajit Roy, Öznur Yardimci

York Ideas

Publication • 2024

Hegemony Is Never Total

Indrajit Roy, Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay

The Federal

Publication • 2022

The Politics Of Hope

Indrajit Roy, Harsh Mander, Natasha Badhwar

Jaipur Literature Festival

Book • 2024

Book Launch

Indrajit Roy, Shashi Tharoor, Nidhi Razdan

Jaipur Literature Festival

Book • 2024

Audacious Hope: An Archive of How Democracy is Being Saved in India

Indrajit Roy

Westland Nonfiction

Publication • 2021

Arctivism During The Pandemic In India

Nida Ansari, Pooja Dhingra, Natasha Badhwar

HRD Hub

Publication • 2022

Hope And The Human Experience

Aobakwe Laone Van Vuuren, Uzma Adil, Dave Neita, Manyile Banda, Jessica Lucas Vieira Campos, Melissa Williams

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2021

Hope In Uncertain Times

Sabrina Fernandez, Abdou Malik Simone, Ghazala Wahab, Melissa Williams, Remi Adekoya

York Ideas

Publication • 2022

Weaving the Multiversum

Ana Dinerstein

University of York

Publication • 2022

Pockets of Hope

Remi Joseph-Salisbury, Laura Connelly, Alice Nah, Melissa Williams

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Hope Against Authoritarianism

Öznur Yardimci, Melissa Williams, Simon Parker, Indrajit Roy

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Hope Amid The Threat Of Statelessness

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Speaking Truth To Power

Ian Foxley, Melissa Williams, Indrajit Roy

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Hope In The Time Of Settler-colonialism

Erik Cardona-Gomez

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Hope in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Paradise

Joseph Gascoigne

University of York

Publication • 2022

Hope in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Purgatory

Joseph Gascoigne

University of York

Publication • 2022

Hope In Dante’s Divine Comedy: The Inferno

Joseph Gascoigne

University of York

Publication • 2022

The Political Construction Of Hope

Joseph Gascoigne, Melissa Williams, Indrajit Roy

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

The Right To Hope

University of York

Publication • 2022

Sharing Stories Of Hope

Saleema Nawaz

University of York

Publication • 2022

Fictional Families And Hope

Bina Shah

University of York

Publication • 2022

Imagination Dead Imagine Hope

Annie Zaidi

University of York

Publication • 2022

Provisional Hope

Kaiser Haq, Claire Chambers

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Seven Notes On Hope

Annie Zaidi

University of York

Publication • 2022

A Bundle Of Contradictory Manipulations

Annie Zaidi

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Imagining Hope

Leena Dhingra

University of York

Publication • 2022

Exhumation

Leena Dhingra, Claire Chambers

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Imagining New Wor(l)ds

Claire Chambers, Susheila Nasta

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Hope And The Imagination

Tabish Khair

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Under The Blue

Oana Aristide, Claire Chambers

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Faith-based Organizations, Health And Hope

Benjamin Walker, Mwai Makoka, Sally Smith, Harvey Kwiyani

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Faith In The Age Of The Pandemic

Tudor Silva, Vinya Ariyaratne, Sudharma Weerakkody, Suranga Dolamulla

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Podcast • 2022

Urban Hopes

Indrajit Roy

Reinventing Citizenship Amidst Democratic Decline

Publication • 2022

Feeling Like A Citizen: Hope Amid Social Exclusion In São Paulo During The Pandemic

Vera Schattan Pereira Coelho, Indrajit Roy, Felipe Szabzon

Taylor & Francis

Publication • 2021

Inciting Hopes For The Future

MetroPolitics

Publication • 2020

Everyday Activism Amid The Pandemic

Antipode Online