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The role of smartphones in restricting and facilitating freedoms for young women in India
Communications technology is used to maintain gendered moral surveillance over women, but the technology also provides emancipatory potential.
Echoes of future past: The continued hyper-securitisation of Islam and Muslims
What is the current place of Islam in the imaginary of Australia and other nations given that it continues to be securitised more than 20 years after 9/11?
Securitisation of Muslims in India is as old as modernisation and nation-statisation
To see securitisation as an outcome of 9/11 and the so-called war on terror is simplistic.
INTRODUCTION: The politics of social policy in Asia
Asia’s social welfare systems remain underdeveloped and skewed in favour of particular groups, despite rising inequality, ageing populations, labour precarity and rural-urban migration.
Health and democracy in India: Do voters care about health?
New research shows that health looms larger as a concern for Indian voters than previously assumed.