Core Research Theme
Reinventing Citizenship
Few ideas have been subjected to as much contestation as citizenship. Rapid transformations across our world compel us to examine its changing meanings and manifestations. How might we reinvent citizenship in our rapidly changing world?
Research Portfolio
Associated Projects
Citizenship and Inequality
Subaltern Citizenship
Migrants and Citizens
Citizenship And Its Discontents
Citizenship has long been valued as a normative public good. But recent years have seen the concept and its practice plunge into crisis. Citizenship and its discontents collectively examines the crisis experienced by citizens and citizenship and the possible ways in which these crises can be addressed.
Reclaiming Citizenship For Democratic Renewal
Reclaiming citizenship for democratic renewal collaboratively explores the real and practical ways in which individuals, organisations and collectives of people have resisted the challenge to democracy and built solidarities to overcome the divisions sowed by authoritarian rulers.
Ethnocratic Citizenship
India’s controversial amendments to its citizenship laws occasioned a collaboration between academics, activists, film-makers, poets and public intellectuals to explore the contentions around political belonging in the country and its neighbourhood. Supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Reimagining citizenship blends social science analysis with insights from arts and humanities research that have […]
Sociology of Citizenship
Political theorists, sociologists and anthropologists are increasingly open to the idea that citizenship goes beyond the legal status conferred by states upon individuals in a national political community. Sociology of citizenship focuses on the concrete, empirical ways in which people make meaning of citizenship and the manner in which they forge and imagine membership in […]
Scholarship
Publications & Outputs
Hollowing Out The World’s Largest Democracy
Sage Journals
Fascist Undertones Of Indian Democracy
The Conversation
India’s Fascist Democracy
Taylor & Francis
Political Parties In India
Taylor & Francis
Citizenship and Inequality
Springer Nature
Utopia In Crisis? Subaltern Imaginations In Contemporary Bihar
Taylor & Francis
Contesting Consensus, Disputing Inequality: Agonistic Subjectivities In Rural Bihar
OpenEdition Journals