Anupama Roy
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View article: Universal Suffrage, Inequalities, Welfare, and the ‘Gendered Voter’ in India: 1917 to the Present
Universal Suffrage, Inequalities, Welfare, and the ‘Gendered Voter’ in India: 1917 to the Present Open
Universal franchise is integral to citizenship’s promise of equality. Since they introduced the principle of collective bargaining, historically, political rights were handed down ‘cautiously,’ denying political personhood to large section…
View article: Constitutional moments and resurgent citizenship
Constitutional moments and resurgent citizenship Open
Citizenship can be seen as successive moments of heightened consciousness about belonging. Contests over citizenship in the contemporary world may be construed in terms of a constitutional moment which has transformed the Constitution into…
View article: Abuse, violence and abandonment in transnational marriages: issues for policy and practice in the UK
Abuse, violence and abandonment in transnational marriages: issues for policy and practice in the UK Open
Abandonment of wives in their home countries by their husbands who are UK residents has become a growing phenomenon that practitioners may encounter in their work. This article explores the nature and consequences of transnational marriage…
View article: Polyrhythms of Citizenship
Polyrhythms of Citizenship Open
This talk was presented as a keynote address at the Gendered Citizenship: Manifestations and Performance Conference, January 6, 2015, at the University of Warwick. In this forty-two minute audio-essay, Roy theorizes what she calls polyrhyt…