Dr Ankita Pandey

dr ankita pandey
Departmental Lecturer
ankita.pandey@area.ox.ac.uk

Dr. Ankita Pandey's research focusses on citizenship in practice, civil society-based activism, social movements, and legal mobilisation. In addition to her core training in political science, she draws from the disciplines of history and anthropology to explore the deepening of democracy in India since the 1960s. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford where she was a Commonwealth Scholar. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the practices of civil rights groups in India as a distinct form of collective action.

 

 

Twitter: @ankitapandey110

Research Interests

 

  • Social movement politics
  • legal mobilisation
  • civil rights activism
  • citizenship as a practice
  • democratization of legal aid in India
Publications

Journal Articles

2023

  • “Defending Digital Liberties: Changing Contours of an Old New Activism”, Economic and Political Weekly, https://www.epw.in/engage/article/defending-digital-liberties-changing-c... 2022
  • “Defending the People” Seminar, Vol 756, August 2022, pp.52-57. https://www.india-seminar.com/2022/756/756-09%20ANKITA%20PANDEY.htm2021
  • “Movement Allies: Towards an Analytical Re-classification of Civil Rights Groups in India,” Oxford Development Studies, vol 50, Issue 2, pp.114-125. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2021.1982885 2021
  • “Left turn to Legalism: Fact-Finding Inquiries as Political Critique in 1970s India”, Volume 42, Issue 3, Third World Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2020.1851595. 2013
  • “Samkaaleen Bhaarat Mein Naagrikta ka Maanchitra” [Hindi] Mapping Citizenship in Contemporary India, Pratimaan, vol. 1, issue 1, Jan-June, pp.285-302. 2008 “Foregrounding Duties: Gandhi’s Notion of the Self and Citizen,” Gandhi Marg, vol. 30, no. 3, Oct-Dec, pp.371-89.

 

Book Chapters

2023

  • “The Quest for Civil Liberties in India,” The Cambridge Companion to Indian Politics and Society. (Forthcoming, accepted for publication after peer review)

2020

  • 2020 Co-authored, “Parwaaz: Reflections of Independent Gender-based Activism in Campus,” in JNU Stories: The First Fifty Years, ed. by Neeladri Bhattacharya, Kunal Chakrabarti, S. Gunasekaran, Janaki Nair, Joy L. K. Pachuau, New Delhi, Aleph Book Company, 2020. pp.316-326.

 

Other Publications