Rita Manchanda
Biographic Data
| ID | 755196 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rita Manchanda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rita |
| FAMILY NAME | Manchanda |
| SIGNATURE | MANCHANDA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | South Asia Forum for Human Rights, Nepal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0222-609X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Women Go to War! Upending the ‘Prevention’ Pillar of the WPS Agenda: Can a Transformative Peace and Security Be Imagined
Paradoxically, is India’s global lead in orienting the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda towards incorporating more women in UN peacekeeping further skewing the peace agenda towards militarised security rather than a transformative peace? Are India, and indeed the UN’s actions, complicit in further militarising the WPS agenda and pushing back the anti-militarist goal of ‘Prevention’ of wars? This article analyses the shifts and contestations…
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…
Accidental women human rights activists, unintentional advocacy by NGOs and a displeased government
Gendered power transformations in India's Northeast: Peace politics in Nagaland
As the middle space for 'post ceasefire-cold peace' politics expanded in Nagaland in India's Northeast, the Naga women's question has emerged as symbolic of the intense social churning in traditional hierarchies around three sites of inequality: decision-making in the public sphere, patriarchal customary laws and property rights. The article tracks the shift in Naga women's peace politics, from motherhood politics to asserting more equal modes of…
Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Radicalizing Gendered Narratives
The article examines the gender dynamics of the political contradictions in the Maoist revolution in Nepal. It probes the tension between a near critical mass of women in the Maoist movement and a male leadership ambivalent about redefining gender relations. Exploring the emancipatory potential of the participation of women in an authoritarian, militarized movement, this article comments on the transformation of cultural identities and the radica…
Militarised Hindu nationalism and the mass media: Shaping a Hindutva public discourse
(2002). Militarised Hindu nationalism and the mass media: Shaping a Hindutva public discourse. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, The BJP and Governance in India, pp. 301-320
Women, War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency
Where Are the Women in South Asian Conflicts? - Rita Manchanda Guns and Burqa - Rita Manchanda Women in the Kashmir Conflict Ambivalent Empowerment - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The Tragedy of Tamil Women in Conflict Between Two Armed Patriarchies - Paula Banerjee Women in Assam and Nagaland 'They Use Us and Others Abuse Us!' - Anis Haroon Women in the MQM Conflict Where There Are No Men - Amrita Baskota, Shobha Gautam and Rita Manchanda Women …
Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Radicalizing Gendered Narratives
The article examines the gender dynamics of the political contradictions in the Maoist revolution in Nepal. It probes the tension between a near critical mass of women in the Maoist movement and a male leadership ambivalent about redefining gender relations. Exploring the emancipatory potential of the participation of women in an authoritarian, militarized movement, this article comments on the transformation of cultural identities and the radica…
Gendered power transformations in India's Northeast: Peace politics in Nagaland
As the middle space for 'post ceasefire-cold peace' politics expanded in Nagaland in India's Northeast, the Naga women's question has emerged as symbolic of the intense social churning in traditional hierarchies around three sites of inequality: decision-making in the public sphere, patriarchal customary laws and property rights. The article tracks the shift in Naga women's peace politics, from motherhood politics to asserting more equal modes of…
Militarised Hindu nationalism and the mass media: Shaping a Hindutva public discourse
(2002). Militarised Hindu nationalism and the mass media: Shaping a Hindutva public discourse. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, The BJP and Governance in India, pp. 301-320
Militarised Hindu nationalism and the mass media: Shaping a Hindutva public discourse
(2002). Militarised Hindu nationalism and the mass media: Shaping a Hindutva public discourse. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 25, The BJP and Governance in India, pp. 301-320
Women, War and Peace in South Asia: Beyond Victimhood to Agency
Where Are the Women in South Asian Conflicts? - Rita Manchanda Guns and Burqa - Rita Manchanda Women in the Kashmir Conflict Ambivalent Empowerment - Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The Tragedy of Tamil Women in Conflict Between Two Armed Patriarchies - Paula Banerjee Women in Assam and Nagaland 'They Use Us and Others Abuse Us!' - Anis Haroon Women in the MQM Conflict Where There Are No Men - Amrita Baskota, Shobha Gautam and Rita Manchanda Women …
Maoist Insurgency in Nepal: Radicalizing Gendered Narratives
The article examines the gender dynamics of the political contradictions in the Maoist revolution in Nepal. It probes the tension between a near critical mass of women in the Maoist movement and a male leadership ambivalent about redefining gender relations. Exploring the emancipatory potential of the participation of women in an authoritarian, militarized movement, this article comments on the transformation of cultural identities and the radica…
Gendered power transformations in India's Northeast: Peace politics in Nagaland
As the middle space for 'post ceasefire-cold peace' politics expanded in Nagaland in India's Northeast, the Naga women's question has emerged as symbolic of the intense social churning in traditional hierarchies around three sites of inequality: decision-making in the public sphere, patriarchal customary laws and property rights. The article tracks the shift in Naga women's peace politics, from motherhood politics to asserting more equal modes of…
Accidental women human rights activists, unintentional advocacy by NGOs and a displeased government
Women Go to War! Upending the ‘Prevention’ Pillar of the WPS Agenda: Can a Transformative Peace and Security Be Imagined
Paradoxically, is India’s global lead in orienting the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda towards incorporating more women in UN peacekeeping further skewing the peace agenda towards militarised security rather than a transformative peace? Are India, and indeed the UN’s actions, complicit in further militarising the WPS agenda and pushing back the anti-militarist goal of ‘Prevention’ of wars? This article analyses the shifts and contestations…
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…
Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (3 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics (2 works)