Swati Parashar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Swati Parashar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Swati |
| FAMILY NAME | Parashar |
| SIGNATURE | PARASHAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Gothenburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7162-6367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 54 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 304 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Hypocrisy, passion, and resilience in the everyday of global politics; we crave a life of dignity!
Ambedkar’s Navayana Buddhism
This commentary engages Aparna Devare’s argument that B.R. Ambedkar’s Navayana Buddhism off ers a non-Western ethical vocabulary for International Relations, moving beyond his usual framing as the architect of theIndian constitution and a pioneering Dalit leader. It situates Ambedkar’s reinterpretation of Buddhism as anticipatingstructural violence theory and challenging secular, state-centric IR. The commentary extends Devare’s analysis byintrod…
Writing, to seek out life
London 2011. Palestinian scholar and poet Rafeef Ziadah recited a poem she had penned down after yet another violent encounter with the media. She was the media spokesperson for the Coalition and h
Asking fundamental questions of global politics, rehearsing “a world within a world that has disappeared as a world”
Is it just us, or does everything feel so fragile and precious, and nothing can be taken for granted today, yesterday, and for the foreseeable future? Politics has long been another arena for perpe
To whom do we write
The ‘Slow violence’ of famines
How do we account for the injured, suffering, disappearing, lifeless, decaying, mourning, and exterminated bodies of mass starvation? Is political violence only about blood and war, visible injuries and quick deaths on a temporal scale? What about the displacement, disappearances and gradual deaths that occur in geographies of mass starvation, or famines produced through wars and other kinds of deliberate actions by the powerful? This paper engag…
Journal bending”
Violences of capitalism/political economies of war
The triumph of anti-genderism
The costs of (not) building alternative visions of the world(s)
Camille Bulcke
This is the first English biography of the Belgian Jesuit, Padma Bhushan recipient and renowned scholar of Hindi, Awadhi and Sanskrit: Father Camille Bulcke (1909–1982). Father Bulcke came to India when it was still a British colony, found spiritual inspiration in the life and compositions of the great Indian poet Goswami Tulsidas, and emerged as one of the renowned exponents of the Ramkatha (The Story of Rama) and the Hindi language. This book a…
Introduction to the Presidential Special Issue
This Presidential Special Issue brings together a diverse array of scholars and perspectives to address contemporary challenges to the world—and to international studies. Drawing together contributions from the Sapphire Series and the 2023 International Studies Association Annual Meeting, contributors grapple with uncertainty, complexity, and the imperative of inclusivity in the field and beyond
The damages done by the “anti-gender movement”
Remapping the feminist global
Queer, feminist, de/postcolonial, science
Perhaps living as we are in a breathtakingly violent and violently fast-paced world, it might be helpful to think through efforts to know and comprehend this world from a queer, feminist, de/postcolonial perspective.These are projects that inspire us to take a pause to look up and around and ask: did I remember to breathe today?Did I somehow manage to live as a free subject today, and did this intersect with others being able to also breathe and …
The messiness of the global “political” and the “personal”
Feminist resistance as a bulwark for democracy
Remapping the feminist global
Memory and justice after famines
Famines in the Global South have claimed staggering numbers of lives, but are rarely the focus of scholarship on, or practices of, memorialisation and justice. The articles in this collection investigate how past famines have been dealt with – or silenced – in Cabo Verde, China, Brazil, East Timor/Timor-Leste, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Nigeria and Rwanda. This introductory essay first discusses why famines and hunger should be conceptualised as viol…
Researching armed groups with facilitating researchers
The important work of theorizing the everyday, the small
Dying for life
What do we need feminist solidarity for
On violence
A global feminist public sphere
A global feminist public sphere?Becoming more inclusive, appreciating and negotiating difference, and counteracting the coloniality of knowledgethese goals have been central for IFJP editors from the inception of the journal at the turn of the millennium.Twenty-three years on, the list of the top ten countries from which our submissions originate now includes China, India, Brazil, and Turkey; however, IFJP remains an Anglophone journal whose auth…
What wars and ‘war bodies’ know about international relations
What happens when the ‘international’ as a distinct social space is approached from the perspective of war rather than war from the perspective of the ‘international’? Tarak Barkawi's question (Millennium, 39:3, 2011, 701–706) is best answered by attempts to understand war not as part of inter/intra-state relations but as a socio-cultural, trans-historical institution that impacts on the ‘everyday’ lives of men, women and children. In this articl…
Feminist international relations and women militants
This paper presents women's militant activities outside the binary framework of ‘victimhood’ and ‘agency’ and invokes postmodern feminist international relations analyses to engage with women's material and ideological contribution to militant activities and political violence. Women who support and indulge in both discriminate and indiscriminate violence against institutions of the state and unarmed civilians not only redefine notions of nationa…
Research Brokers, Researcher Identities and Affective Performances
This paper reflects upon the role of brokers in facilitating research in conflict zones, which the researcher identifies as ‘native’ areas of research in the Global South. Researchers from the Global South, based in academic and research institutions in Western locations and having received funding from foreign agencies, conduct field research in conflict geographies which they maybe native to, or may have inhabited for long periods of time. Brok…
Gender Matters in Global Politics
Shepherd, Laura J. (ed.) Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations London: Routledge, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-415-45388-2, 416 pp. Terrell Carver's concluding
Feminism and Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism and feminism as critical discourses have enriched the understanding and explanatory potential of international relations. One could argue that in the last two decades these two theo
Gender, Jihad , and Jingoism 1
The Kashmir case is a conundrum in the study of women's roles in religio-political militancy. While traditional social structure and gendered hierarchies have been retained, public spaces have also been available to women to don more political and militant roles. This article looks at the multiple roles of women in the militancy in Kashmir and the discourses around them. Women's participation in the militancy has not found any mention in the nati…
Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa
The debate triggered by recent publications and research justifying colonialism demands an intellectual engagement with the histories of colonialism, and their impact on postcolonial trajectories of development, peace and conflict. The argument that colonialism inspired development in societies that embraced its modernity project, enlightened governance and efficient administration – which in turn inspired national consciousness embedded in anti-…
Discursive (in)securities and postcolonial anxiety
This article queries the intimate relationship between militarism and the state, which is seen as the by-product of ‘postcolonial anxiety’ (Krishna, 1999) related to the survival of the nation-state in the Third World. This anxiety enables militarism at various levels of governance and state interventions in the everyday lives of the citizenry. The article engages with the historical trajectory of the Indian state to argue that its ‘postcolonial …
Colonial legacies, armed revolts and state violence
This article examines the connected histories of armed tribal and peasant revolts in colonial and postcolonial India with reference to the ongoing Maoist conflict in rural and tribal areas of central and eastern India. The article makes two interrelated arguments about the violent continuities that endure from colonial to postcolonial contexts: (1) the nation-state system, in its efforts to establish control and influence, creates a hierarchy of …
Challenging Institutional Racism in International Relations and Our Profession
Attempts to create a more inclusive discipline and profession have been commended by many and derided by some. While these attempts have pushed for change, particularly with regards to more equal representation of gender and race among faculty, policies aimed at creating a more inclusive environment are often tokenistic, administrative and bureaucratic, and fail to address structural and institutional practices and norms. Moreover, the administra…
Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties
This article seeks to move beyond the Euro/North-centrism recurrent in methodological discussions on what we may learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. Such debates often centre on uncertainty and involuntary immobility – aspects which are hardly new for many researchers. In this article, we argue that the pandemic offers an opportunity to rethink research relations between what we term ‘contracting researchers’ in the Global North and ‘facilitating r…
Feminist (In)securities and Camp Politics
Forum: The State of Feminist Security Studies: Continuing the Conversation. This forum comprises seven pieces conceived in response to the recent Politics & Gender Critical Perspectives section that featured contributions from Carol Cohn, Valerie Hudson, Jennifer Lobasz, Laura Sjoberg, Ann Tickner, Annick Wibben, and Lauren Wilcox (P&G 2011, Vol. 7, Issue 4). Throughout, we refer to this collection as "the CP section
The ‘state’ of postcolonial development
This paper aims to investigate the impact of China’s aid, trade and investments on the development trajectories in postcolonial Africa, focussed on Rwanda. The analytical framework of this study is informed by Helen Milner’s observation that ‘International political economy is a growth industry’. Furthermore, the study deploys dependency theory and world systems theory to examine how the global economic configuration operates though the hierarchy…
(En)Gendering the Maoist Insurgency in India
This paper attempts a gendered analysis of the ongoing Maoist insurgency in India, particularly focused on women’s position within the movement, the continuum of gender based violence that they experience and the potential for transformative politics. The contemporary Maoist movement in India has been informed by a stated commitment to ‘progressive’ gender politics and social transformations; in that it marks a departure from the Naxalite movemen…
Memory and justice after famines
Famines in the Global South have claimed staggering numbers of lives, but are rarely the focus of scholarship on, or practices of, memorialisation and justice. The articles in this collection investigate how past famines have been dealt with – or silenced – in Cabo Verde, China, Brazil, East Timor/Timor-Leste, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Nigeria and Rwanda. This introductory essay first discusses why famines and hunger should be conceptualised as viol…
What do we need feminist solidarity for
The triumph of anti-genderism
Remapping the feminist global
Remapping the feminist global
Researching armed groups with facilitating researchers
Dying for life
Nurturing a robust dialogic and collaborative space of accountability and transformation
Gender and resistance in Kashmir
In July 2016, violence erupted in Srinagar and other towns in the Kashmir Valley across the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. This violence came in response to the killing of a popular young militant, Burhan Wani, by the Indian security forces. Tens of thousands of people entered the streets for Wani’s funeral, the processions instantly morphing into protests against India. The demonstrations were met with a heavy-handed response by Ind…
Competing masculinities, militarization and the conflict in Kashmir
On 14 June 2018, one of the most prominent journalist-activists in Indian Kashmir, Shujaat Bukhari, was murdered by unidentified gunmen. Ironically, Bukhari was a vocal critic of the excesses of th
Feminist international relations and women militants
This paper presents women's militant activities outside the binary framework of ‘victimhood’ and ‘agency’ and invokes postmodern feminist international relations analyses to engage with women's material and ideological contribution to militant activities and political violence. Women who support and indulge in both discriminate and indiscriminate violence against institutions of the state and unarmed civilians not only redefine notions of nationa…
The Sacred and the Sacrilegious
This article argues that women's engagements with any religio‐political movement, although often de‐legitimised and silenced in hegemonic discourses and usually devoid of any reformist or feminist agenda, paradoxically, not only legitimise the movement and give it a mass base but also provide women with opportunities, ‘agency’ and access to public spaces. Any discourse that inscribes ‘victimhood’ on these women and that labels them as mere agents…
Gender Matters in Global Politics
Shepherd, Laura J. (ed.) Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations London: Routledge, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-415-45388-2, 416 pp. Terrell Carver's concluding
Gender, Jihad , and Jingoism 1
The Kashmir case is a conundrum in the study of women's roles in religio-political militancy. While traditional social structure and gendered hierarchies have been retained, public spaces have also been available to women to don more political and militant roles. This article looks at the multiple roles of women in the militancy in Kashmir and the discourses around them. Women's participation in the militancy has not found any mention in the nati…
Revisiting Gendered States
Feminist (In)securities and Camp Politics
Forum: The State of Feminist Security Studies: Continuing the Conversation. This forum comprises seven pieces conceived in response to the recent Politics & Gender Critical Perspectives section that featured contributions from Carol Cohn, Valerie Hudson, Jennifer Lobasz, Laura Sjoberg, Ann Tickner, Annick Wibben, and Lauren Wilcox (P&G 2011, Vol. 7, Issue 4). Throughout, we refer to this collection as "the CP section
What wars and ‘war bodies’ know about international relations
What happens when the ‘international’ as a distinct social space is approached from the perspective of war rather than war from the perspective of the ‘international’? Tarak Barkawi's question (Millennium, 39:3, 2011, 701–706) is best answered by attempts to understand war not as part of inter/intra-state relations but as a socio-cultural, trans-historical institution that impacts on the ‘everyday’ lives of men, women and children. In this articl…
Women and Militant Wars
This book explores women’s militant activities in insurgent wars and seeks to understand what women ‘do’ in wars. In International Relations, inter-state conflict, anti-state armed insurgency and armed militancy are essentially seen as wars where collective violence (against civilians and security forces) is used to achieve political objectives. Extending the notion of war as ‘politics of injury' to the armed militancy in Indian administered Kash…
Feminism and International Relations
Feminist International Relations (IR) is a much published field these days, and it is heartening to see new research, books, and journals focusing on gender and feminism in the “international.” Wit
(En)Gendering the Maoist Insurgency in India
This paper attempts a gendered analysis of the ongoing Maoist insurgency in India, particularly focused on women’s position within the movement, the continuum of gender based violence that they experience and the potential for transformative politics. The contemporary Maoist movement in India has been informed by a stated commitment to ‘progressive’ gender politics and social transformations; in that it marks a departure from the Naxalite movemen…
Feminism and Postcolonialism
Postcolonialism and feminism as critical discourses have enriched the understanding and explanatory potential of international relations. One could argue that in the last two decades these two theo
Revisiting Gendered States
State sovereignty and autonomy in the twenty-first century are both under challenge and continually reasserted in diverse ways through gender, sexuality, and race-making. This paradox makes it pertinent to revisit the idea of states as gendered political entities. Bringing together scholars from international relations and postcolonial and development studies, this volume collectively theorizes the modern state and its intricate relationship to s…
Gender and resistance in Kashmir
In July 2016, violence erupted in Srinagar and other towns in the Kashmir Valley across the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. This violence came in response to the killing of a popular young militant, Burhan Wani, by the Indian security forces. Tens of thousands of people entered the streets for Wani’s funeral, the processions instantly morphing into protests against India. The demonstrations were met with a heavy-handed response by Ind…
Competing masculinities, militarization and the conflict in Kashmir
On 14 June 2018, one of the most prominent journalist-activists in Indian Kashmir, Shujaat Bukhari, was murdered by unidentified gunmen. Ironically, Bukhari was a vocal critic of the excesses of th
Discursive (in)securities and postcolonial anxiety
This article queries the intimate relationship between militarism and the state, which is seen as the by-product of ‘postcolonial anxiety’ (Krishna, 1999) related to the survival of the nation-state in the Third World. This anxiety enables militarism at various levels of governance and state interventions in the everyday lives of the citizenry. The article engages with the historical trajectory of the Indian state to argue that its ‘postcolonial …
Research Brokers, Researcher Identities and Affective Performances
This paper reflects upon the role of brokers in facilitating research in conflict zones, which the researcher identifies as ‘native’ areas of research in the Global South. Researchers from the Global South, based in academic and research institutions in Western locations and having received funding from foreign agencies, conduct field research in conflict geographies which they maybe native to, or may have inhabited for long periods of time. Brok…
Colonial legacies, armed revolts and state violence
This article examines the connected histories of armed tribal and peasant revolts in colonial and postcolonial India with reference to the ongoing Maoist conflict in rural and tribal areas of central and eastern India. The article makes two interrelated arguments about the violent continuities that endure from colonial to postcolonial contexts: (1) the nation-state system, in its efforts to establish control and influence, creates a hierarchy of …
The master’s ‘outlook’ shall never dismantle the master’s house
Challenging Institutional Racism in International Relations and Our Profession
Attempts to create a more inclusive discipline and profession have been commended by many and derided by some. While these attempts have pushed for change, particularly with regards to more equal representation of gender and race among faculty, policies aimed at creating a more inclusive environment are often tokenistic, administrative and bureaucratic, and fail to address structural and institutional practices and norms. Moreover, the administra…
The ‘state’ of postcolonial development
This paper aims to investigate the impact of China’s aid, trade and investments on the development trajectories in postcolonial Africa, focussed on Rwanda. The analytical framework of this study is informed by Helen Milner’s observation that ‘International political economy is a growth industry’. Furthermore, the study deploys dependency theory and world systems theory to examine how the global economic configuration operates though the hierarchy…
Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa
The debate triggered by recent publications and research justifying colonialism demands an intellectual engagement with the histories of colonialism, and their impact on postcolonial trajectories of development, peace and conflict. The argument that colonialism inspired development in societies that embraced its modernity project, enlightened governance and efficient administration – which in turn inspired national consciousness embedded in anti-…
Race and racism in narratives of insecurity
This introductory text frames the contributions of this forum, bringing together, scholars who have been working for a long time to dismantle knowledge systems that sustain whiteness, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy, in the context of recent developments. It first provides a brief overview of well-established knowledges on the various ways in which racism and racial inequalities remain deeply embedded within academia. This is followed by a snapshot …
No end to violence? Conflicts, emergencies, resistances
Rethinking masculinities, militarization, and unequal development
Woman, Life, Freedom”
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