Nandini Deo
Biographic Data
| ID | 316143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nandini Deo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nandini |
| FAMILY NAME | Deo |
| SIGNATURE | DEO N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2137-9227 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How civil society in India is marginalized. Civic space as relational process
Restriction of civic space is widely understood as a condition that constrains the autonomous role of civil society organizations. However, this conceptualization is delimiting. This paper explores civic space as constituted in the dynamics between civil society organizations and state actors, contributing to an emergent shift to a more processual, relational and agential understanding of civic space, involving a redefining of civil society roles…
Faith-based organizations and religious nationalism
Faith-based organizations that are rooted in India’s diverse faiths give shape to their roles in an operational space shaped by the Hindu nationalist government. This paper, based on interviews with 34 FBOs, compares how FBOs rooted in five different faith traditions perceive that operational space, and how they relate to the state based on their perceptions of these conditions. One key finding is that there are important similarities in these FB…
Religion, nationalism, and gender
Religious mobilization often takes the form of engagement with “the woman question”: how should women as carriers of culture comport themselves? This article shows that many of the debates over the role of women and religion in South Asia are misunderstood when they are seen as instances of religious fundamentalism. Rather, the theoretical framework to make sense of public religion and gender debates should be through the lens of postcolonial nat…
Negotiating autonomy in capacity development
A central goal of capacity development is transforming participants into autonomous agents. However, there is often an inherent tension between capacity development and autonomy because capacity development programs are frequently set up to fill an externally predefined lack in capacity. In this article, we argue that this tension can be addressed when capacity development is set up to advance what we call “narrative autonomy” (Williams, 1997). N…
What is populism
Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India
Religious nationalists and women’s activists have transformed India over the past century. They debated the idea of India under colonial rule, shaped the constitutional structure of Indian democracy, and questioned the legitimacy of the postcolonial consensus, as they politicized one dimension of identity. Using a historical comparative approach, the book argues that external events, activist agency in strategizing, and the political economy of t…
Running From Elections
The first wave of feminism in India was closely connected to electoral politics, while the second wave turned away from party politics. This resulted in a growing marginalization of feminist concerns from the public agenda. There is a strong relationship between movement success and electoral engagement. This article reviews the history of feminist interventions in electoral politics and demonstrates that early victories for women depended on the…
Women’s Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua
Women, work, violence and the neo-liberal moment
From Mathura to Manorama: resisting violence against women in India, by Kalpana Kannabiran and Ritu Menon, New Delhi, Women Unlimited and ICES, 2007, vi+ 201 pp., ISBN 81-88965-35-9 Women and labour organizing in Asia: diversity, autonomy and activism, edited by Kaye Broadbent and Michele Ford, Abingdon, Routledge, 2008, xvii+174 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-41315-2 Labour, globalization and the state: workers, women and migrants confront neoliberalism, e…
Structure and Strategies
This paper explains the success of civic actors in achieving their aims by reference to their organizational structure. Based on a comparison of a religious nationalist movement and a women's movement in South Asia, I argue that organizational structure is closely linked to the success of a social movement. The lack of coordination and collaboration among women's groups in terms of mission and strategy has led to a perception of the overall movem…
Is Globalization Our Friend? Women's Allies in the Developing World
Reforms most closely tied to the globalization of economies, considered separately from domestic neoliberal policies, clearly benefit the most vulnerable women in developing countries
Running From Elections
The first wave of feminism in India was closely connected to electoral politics, while the second wave turned away from party politics. This resulted in a growing marginalization of feminist concerns from the public agenda. There is a strong relationship between movement success and electoral engagement. This article reviews the history of feminist interventions in electoral politics and demonstrates that early victories for women depended on the…
Negotiating autonomy in capacity development
A central goal of capacity development is transforming participants into autonomous agents. However, there is often an inherent tension between capacity development and autonomy because capacity development programs are frequently set up to fill an externally predefined lack in capacity. In this article, we argue that this tension can be addressed when capacity development is set up to advance what we call “narrative autonomy” (Williams, 1997). N…
Structure and Strategies
This paper explains the success of civic actors in achieving their aims by reference to their organizational structure. Based on a comparison of a religious nationalist movement and a women's movement in South Asia, I argue that organizational structure is closely linked to the success of a social movement. The lack of coordination and collaboration among women's groups in terms of mission and strategy has led to a perception of the overall movem…
Is Globalization Our Friend? Women's Allies in the Developing World
Reforms most closely tied to the globalization of economies, considered separately from domestic neoliberal policies, clearly benefit the most vulnerable women in developing countries
Structure and Strategies
This paper explains the success of civic actors in achieving their aims by reference to their organizational structure. Based on a comparison of a religious nationalist movement and a women's movement in South Asia, I argue that organizational structure is closely linked to the success of a social movement. The lack of coordination and collaboration among women's groups in terms of mission and strategy has led to a perception of the overall movem…
Women, work, violence and the neo-liberal moment
From Mathura to Manorama: resisting violence against women in India, by Kalpana Kannabiran and Ritu Menon, New Delhi, Women Unlimited and ICES, 2007, vi+ 201 pp., ISBN 81-88965-35-9 Women and labour organizing in Asia: diversity, autonomy and activism, edited by Kaye Broadbent and Michele Ford, Abingdon, Routledge, 2008, xvii+174 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-41315-2 Labour, globalization and the state: workers, women and migrants confront neoliberalism, e…
Running From Elections
The first wave of feminism in India was closely connected to electoral politics, while the second wave turned away from party politics. This resulted in a growing marginalization of feminist concerns from the public agenda. There is a strong relationship between movement success and electoral engagement. This article reviews the history of feminist interventions in electoral politics and demonstrates that early victories for women depended on the…
Women’s Activism and Feminist Agency in Mozambique and Nicaragua
Mobilizing Religion and Gender in India
Religious nationalists and women’s activists have transformed India over the past century. They debated the idea of India under colonial rule, shaped the constitutional structure of Indian democracy, and questioned the legitimacy of the postcolonial consensus, as they politicized one dimension of identity. Using a historical comparative approach, the book argues that external events, activist agency in strategizing, and the political economy of t…
What is populism
Religion, nationalism, and gender
Religious mobilization often takes the form of engagement with “the woman question”: how should women as carriers of culture comport themselves? This article shows that many of the debates over the role of women and religion in South Asia are misunderstood when they are seen as instances of religious fundamentalism. Rather, the theoretical framework to make sense of public religion and gender debates should be through the lens of postcolonial nat…
Negotiating autonomy in capacity development
A central goal of capacity development is transforming participants into autonomous agents. However, there is often an inherent tension between capacity development and autonomy because capacity development programs are frequently set up to fill an externally predefined lack in capacity. In this article, we argue that this tension can be addressed when capacity development is set up to advance what we call “narrative autonomy” (Williams, 1997). N…
How civil society in India is marginalized. Civic space as relational process
Restriction of civic space is widely understood as a condition that constrains the autonomous role of civil society organizations. However, this conceptualization is delimiting. This paper explores civic space as constituted in the dynamics between civil society organizations and state actors, contributing to an emergent shift to a more processual, relational and agential understanding of civic space, involving a redefining of civil society roles…
Faith-based organizations and religious nationalism
Faith-based organizations that are rooted in India’s diverse faiths give shape to their roles in an operational space shaped by the Hindu nationalist government. This paper, based on interviews with 34 FBOs, compares how FBOs rooted in five different faith traditions perceive that operational space, and how they relate to the state based on their perceptions of these conditions. One key finding is that there are important similarities in these FB…
Political science (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Gender Politics and Representation (3 works)