Rudabeh Shahid
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797403 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rudabeh Shahid |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rudabeh |
| FAMILY NAME | Shahid |
| SIGNATURE | SHAHID R |
| AFFILIATIONS | New College of Florida |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bangladesh in Transition: Testing Democratization in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific
This article argues that Bangladesh’s post-crisis transition following Sheikh Hasina’s 2024 exit as prime minister marks a pivotal moment for democratization with implications for South Asia’s stability and the Indo-Pacific strategic framework. Using Stanley J. Wiechnik’s democratization framework, the study examines the phases of liberalization, transition, and consolidation in Bangladesh’s polarized and factionalized society. Drawing on news re…
Saffron Ethnocracy: Conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Myanmar’s political system during the 2010–2021 period shares much in common with the political systems of neighbouring India and nearby Sri Lanka, and so this article identifies all three as ethnocratic, arguing these polities represent a variation of ethnocracy which leans authoritarian and is specifically Islamophobic. This article builds on discourse about the nature of ethnocracy to introduce the label ‘Saffron Ethnocracy’, which is used to …
Introduction: Mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia
This special issue critically examines the interplay between the law and politics of state trans/formation, status precarity and the abuse of law. Globally, governments have exercised state power to undermine citizenship status, democratic well-being and the rule of law. This introduction makes the case for this focus and highlights the range of the special issue's intervention. Firstly, it shows how the contributions in the special issue build u…
Deprivation of Citizenship as Colonial Violence: Deracination and Dispossession in Assam
This article argues that deprivation of citizenship is an ongoing force of colonial violence. By exploring the case of citizenship stripping in India's northeastern state of Assam, the article proposes that the removal of citizenship rights is not merely an aberration of the 'normal' rules of citizenship but bound up with ongoing forms of colonial dispossession informed by racial hierarchies, the regulation of belonging and mobility. Interdiscipl…
Introduction: Mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia
This special issue critically examines the interplay between the law and politics of state trans/formation, status precarity and the abuse of law. Globally, governments have exercised state power to undermine citizenship status, democratic well-being and the rule of law. This introduction makes the case for this focus and highlights the range of the special issue's intervention. Firstly, it shows how the contributions in the special issue build u…
Deprivation of Citizenship as Colonial Violence: Deracination and Dispossession in Assam
This article argues that deprivation of citizenship is an ongoing force of colonial violence. By exploring the case of citizenship stripping in India's northeastern state of Assam, the article proposes that the removal of citizenship rights is not merely an aberration of the 'normal' rules of citizenship but bound up with ongoing forms of colonial dispossession informed by racial hierarchies, the regulation of belonging and mobility. Interdiscipl…
Saffron Ethnocracy: Conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Myanmar’s political system during the 2010–2021 period shares much in common with the political systems of neighbouring India and nearby Sri Lanka, and so this article identifies all three as ethnocratic, arguing these polities represent a variation of ethnocracy which leans authoritarian and is specifically Islamophobic. This article builds on discourse about the nature of ethnocracy to introduce the label ‘Saffron Ethnocracy’, which is used to …
Deprivation of Citizenship as Colonial Violence: Deracination and Dispossession in Assam
This article argues that deprivation of citizenship is an ongoing force of colonial violence. By exploring the case of citizenship stripping in India's northeastern state of Assam, the article proposes that the removal of citizenship rights is not merely an aberration of the 'normal' rules of citizenship but bound up with ongoing forms of colonial dispossession informed by racial hierarchies, the regulation of belonging and mobility. Interdiscipl…
Saffron Ethnocracy: Conceptualising ethnocracy in India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka
Myanmar’s political system during the 2010–2021 period shares much in common with the political systems of neighbouring India and nearby Sri Lanka, and so this article identifies all three as ethnocratic, arguing these polities represent a variation of ethnocracy which leans authoritarian and is specifically Islamophobic. This article builds on discourse about the nature of ethnocracy to introduce the label ‘Saffron Ethnocracy’, which is used to …
Introduction: Mutual attrition of citizenship, democracy and the rule of law in South and Southeast Asia
This special issue critically examines the interplay between the law and politics of state trans/formation, status precarity and the abuse of law. Globally, governments have exercised state power to undermine citizenship status, democratic well-being and the rule of law. This introduction makes the case for this focus and highlights the range of the special issue's intervention. Firstly, it shows how the contributions in the special issue build u…
Bangladesh in Transition: Testing Democratization in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific
This article argues that Bangladesh’s post-crisis transition following Sheikh Hasina’s 2024 exit as prime minister marks a pivotal moment for democratization with implications for South Asia’s stability and the Indo-Pacific strategic framework. Using Stanley J. Wiechnik’s democratization framework, the study examines the phases of liberalization, transition, and consolidation in Bangladesh’s polarized and factionalized society. Drawing on news re…
Citizenship (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Authoritarianism (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · South asia (2 works)