All Outputs (10)

Depletion: the human costs of caring (2024)
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Rai, S. M. (2024). Depletion: the human costs of caring. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197535547.001.0001

When thinking about the work of caring for others we often neglect the human cost born by those performing this care. Feminists have long talked about the ways in which unpaid work, particularly performed in the home, is habitually undervalued by soc... Read More about Depletion: the human costs of caring.

Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai (2021)
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Rai, S. M., & Prakash, A. (Eds.). (2021). Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai. Sage. https://doi.org/10.4135/9789354792120

This book traces the Indian Left’s engagement with the international communist debates of the 1960s and 1970s, shedding new light on the fault lines within the Left as well as on its international solidarities. Lajpat Rai argued for rethinking establ... Read More about Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai.

The Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics (2021)
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Rai, S. M., Gluhovic, M., Jestrovic, S., & Saward, M. (Eds.). (2021). The Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance is a unique collection of articles introducing cutting-edge research and scholarship on politics and performance, which contributes to exciting interdisciplinary work and to shaping a subfield. Organize... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics.

Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament (2019)
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Rai, S. M., & Spary, C. (2019). Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199489053.001.0001

Breaking new ground in scholarship on gender and politics, Performing Representation is the first comprehensive analysis of women in the Indian Parliament. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of w... Read More about Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament.

Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and ritual in parliaments (2014)
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Rai, S. M., & Johnson, R. E. (Eds.). (2014). Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and ritual in parliaments. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137361912

This collection makes a compelling case for the importance of studying ceremony and ritual in deepening our understanding of modern democratic parliaments. It reveals through rich case studies that modes of behaviour, the negotiation of political and... Read More about Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and ritual in parliaments.

The Grammar of Performance and Politics (2014)
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Rai, S. M., & Reinelt, J. (Eds.). (2014). The Grammar of Performance and Politics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315879871

This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines, these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systemati... Read More about The Grammar of Performance and Politics.

New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy (2014)
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Rai, S. M., & Waylen, G. (Eds.). (2014). New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315884745

This volume brings together the work of outstanding feminist scholars who reflect on the achievements of feminist political economy and the challenges it faces in the 21st century. The volume develops further some key areas of research in feminist po... Read More about New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy.

Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2011)
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Rai, S. M. (Ed.). (2011). Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315868400

Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament breaks new ground in the study of legislatures. It combines mainstream historical and social science approaches with cultural theory to consider how parliamentary ritual is constructed through ceremony, space and soc... Read More about Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament.

Gender Politics of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair (2008)
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Rai, S. M. (2008). Gender Politics of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair. Zed Books/Zubaan. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350223158

In The Gender Politics of Development Shirin Rai provides a comprehensive assessment of how gender politics has emerged and developed in post-colonial states. In chapters on key issues of nationalism and nation-building, the third wave of democratiza... Read More about Gender Politics of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair.

Gender and Political Economy of Development: From Nationalism to Globalisation (2002)
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Rai, S. M. (2002). Gender and Political Economy of Development: From Nationalism to Globalisation. Polity Press