Monika Barthwal-Datta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1472136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monika Barthwal-Datta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monika |
| FAMILY NAME | Barthwal-Datta |
| SIGNATURE | BARTHWAL-DATTA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7950-9480 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Narrating order as resistance
This article investigates how India resisted pressure from the European Union to condemn Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and align its overall response towards Russia with that of the EU. It argues that India responded through the strategic deployment of its order narrative that reproduces key self-identity representations, including India as a ‘leader of the Global South’, a ‘de-risker of the global economy’ and a ‘stabilising force’ in global…
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy
In The Self, and Other Stories: Being , Knowing, Writing , Laura Shepherd illuminates the embodied and entangled nature of knowing the self, and the self as a ‘knowing subject’ in the neoliberal, violent, and exclusionary academy. Here, I explore some of the ways in which such embodiment and entanglements of the self in the academy are made (in)visible in and through the stories and storytelling in Laura’s book. I focus particularly on Laura’s re…
Pedagogy as care
In this article, we elaborate pedagogies of care, contemplating what it means to teach with and about care in the world politics classroom, situated within the neoliberal, colonial, heteropatriarchal, white western academy. Further, we actively reflect on what it means to work caringly and carefully in practice, exploring pedagogy as care. What are the dilemmas that arise for scholars and teachers, differently positioned in the academy, who seek …
Populism and foreign policy
In this article, we investigate how India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya is implicated in the (re)production of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) populist project. We enhance an innovative contextual intersectional framework, drawing on Ernesto Laclau's conceptualization of populism as a political logic and build on Shweta Singh and Élise Féron's understanding of this populist logic as discursively co-constituted and based on varying inte…
Theorizing Strategic Narrative Disruption
At times of global crises, political elites may attempt to (re)position states they represent as having particular roles at the global level. How might their efforts be disrupted? The idea of “disruption”, and how it relates to contestation, remains under-explored in the strategic narratives literature. In this article, I develop a preliminary theorization of strategic narrative “disruption,” through an empirically rich investigation of the count…
The politics of strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific
This paper investigates India and Australia’s respective strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific. Despite apparently significant convergences in their terminology around the desire for a ‘stable’, ‘prosperous’, ‘open’, ‘free’ and ‘inclusive’ Indo-Pacific, the regional order narratives of India and Australia each promote a distinct conception of regional order, reflecting different sets of political, geopolitical, economic and i…
Constructing India as a Similar Enough Other
This article investigates how senior Bush administration officials publicly legitimized the administration's proposal for a United States-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in 2005–2006, in their efforts to get the proposal approved by Congress. Adopting a critical constructivist approach, I argue that the Bush administration's proposed nuclear deal with India, a nonparty to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), clashed with, and des…
Reconceptualizing regional security in South Asia
South Asia has garnered much attention in international security scholarship and policymaking, not least due to the number of protracted armed conflicts in the region. Yet, the dominant discourse on regional security in South Asia fails to adequately capture the insecurities that undermine the everyday lives and livelihoods of a majority of South Asians. The article first interrogates this prevalent discourse to reveal the inadequacies of traditi…
Strategic narratives and non-state actors
In Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order, Miskimmon, O’Loughlin, and Roselle (2013) argue that political actors use narratives – about themselves, the international orde
Securitising Threats without the State
This article provides a critique of the securitisation framework around its ability to provide a comprehensive security analysis when applied in a developing socio-political context. It argues that the framework's conditionalities around who can securitise and how, and its assumptions around the nature of the state restrict its ability to consider the role of non-state actors in raising existential threats to societal security. Through a case stu…
Securitising Threats without the State
This article provides a critique of the securitisation framework around its ability to provide a comprehensive security analysis when applied in a developing socio-political context. It argues that the framework's conditionalities around who can securitise and how, and its assumptions around the nature of the state restrict its ability to consider the role of non-state actors in raising existential threats to societal security. Through a case stu…
The politics of strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific
This paper investigates India and Australia’s respective strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific. Despite apparently significant convergences in their terminology around the desire for a ‘stable’, ‘prosperous’, ‘open’, ‘free’ and ‘inclusive’ Indo-Pacific, the regional order narratives of India and Australia each promote a distinct conception of regional order, reflecting different sets of political, geopolitical, economic and i…
Strategic narratives and non-state actors
In Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order, Miskimmon, O’Loughlin, and Roselle (2013) argue that political actors use narratives – about themselves, the international orde
Reconceptualizing regional security in South Asia
South Asia has garnered much attention in international security scholarship and policymaking, not least due to the number of protracted armed conflicts in the region. Yet, the dominant discourse on regional security in South Asia fails to adequately capture the insecurities that undermine the everyday lives and livelihoods of a majority of South Asians. The article first interrogates this prevalent discourse to reveal the inadequacies of traditi…
Populism and foreign policy
In this article, we investigate how India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya is implicated in the (re)production of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) populist project. We enhance an innovative contextual intersectional framework, drawing on Ernesto Laclau's conceptualization of populism as a political logic and build on Shweta Singh and Élise Féron's understanding of this populist logic as discursively co-constituted and based on varying inte…
Pedagogy as care
In this article, we elaborate pedagogies of care, contemplating what it means to teach with and about care in the world politics classroom, situated within the neoliberal, colonial, heteropatriarchal, white western academy. Further, we actively reflect on what it means to work caringly and carefully in practice, exploring pedagogy as care. What are the dilemmas that arise for scholars and teachers, differently positioned in the academy, who seek …
Theorizing Strategic Narrative Disruption
At times of global crises, political elites may attempt to (re)position states they represent as having particular roles at the global level. How might their efforts be disrupted? The idea of “disruption”, and how it relates to contestation, remains under-explored in the strategic narratives literature. In this article, I develop a preliminary theorization of strategic narrative “disruption,” through an empirically rich investigation of the count…
Securitising Threats without the State
This article provides a critique of the securitisation framework around its ability to provide a comprehensive security analysis when applied in a developing socio-political context. It argues that the framework's conditionalities around who can securitise and how, and its assumptions around the nature of the state restrict its ability to consider the role of non-state actors in raising existential threats to societal security. Through a case stu…
Strategic narratives and non-state actors
In Strategic Narratives: Communication Power and the New World Order, Miskimmon, O’Loughlin, and Roselle (2013) argue that political actors use narratives – about themselves, the international orde
Reconceptualizing regional security in South Asia
South Asia has garnered much attention in international security scholarship and policymaking, not least due to the number of protracted armed conflicts in the region. Yet, the dominant discourse on regional security in South Asia fails to adequately capture the insecurities that undermine the everyday lives and livelihoods of a majority of South Asians. The article first interrogates this prevalent discourse to reveal the inadequacies of traditi…
Constructing India as a Similar Enough Other
This article investigates how senior Bush administration officials publicly legitimized the administration's proposal for a United States-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement in 2005–2006, in their efforts to get the proposal approved by Congress. Adopting a critical constructivist approach, I argue that the Bush administration's proposed nuclear deal with India, a nonparty to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), clashed with, and des…
The politics of strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific
This paper investigates India and Australia’s respective strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific. Despite apparently significant convergences in their terminology around the desire for a ‘stable’, ‘prosperous’, ‘open’, ‘free’ and ‘inclusive’ Indo-Pacific, the regional order narratives of India and Australia each promote a distinct conception of regional order, reflecting different sets of political, geopolitical, economic and i…
Theorizing Strategic Narrative Disruption
At times of global crises, political elites may attempt to (re)position states they represent as having particular roles at the global level. How might their efforts be disrupted? The idea of “disruption”, and how it relates to contestation, remains under-explored in the strategic narratives literature. In this article, I develop a preliminary theorization of strategic narrative “disruption,” through an empirically rich investigation of the count…
Pedagogy as care
In this article, we elaborate pedagogies of care, contemplating what it means to teach with and about care in the world politics classroom, situated within the neoliberal, colonial, heteropatriarchal, white western academy. Further, we actively reflect on what it means to work caringly and carefully in practice, exploring pedagogy as care. What are the dilemmas that arise for scholars and teachers, differently positioned in the academy, who seek …
Populism and foreign policy
In this article, we investigate how India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya is implicated in the (re)production of the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) populist project. We enhance an innovative contextual intersectional framework, drawing on Ernesto Laclau's conceptualization of populism as a political logic and build on Shweta Singh and Élise Féron's understanding of this populist logic as discursively co-constituted and based on varying inte…
The embodied, entangled self and complicity in the neoliberal academy
In The Self, and Other Stories: Being , Knowing, Writing , Laura Shepherd illuminates the embodied and entangled nature of knowing the self, and the self as a ‘knowing subject’ in the neoliberal, violent, and exclusionary academy. Here, I explore some of the ways in which such embodiment and entanglements of the self in the academy are made (in)visible in and through the stories and storytelling in Laura’s book. I focus particularly on Laura’s re…
Narrating order as resistance
This article investigates how India resisted pressure from the European Union to condemn Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and align its overall response towards Russia with that of the EU. It argues that India responded through the strategic deployment of its order narrative that reproduces key self-identity representations, including India as a ‘leader of the Global South’, a ‘de-risker of the global economy’ and a ‘stabilising force’ in global…
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