Mandakini is a researcher and educator with over 25 years of research and teaching experience. For the last 10 years she has been with PRIA working in areas of Women & Gender Studies, Citizenship, Governance, Social Development, and Adult Education and Lifelong Learning. She was the Programme Coordinator of Citizenship Development Research Centre (CDRC) at PRIA. Before joining PRIA, she taught at SNDT Women’s University in Mumbai and was a Reader at the University’s Research Centre for Women’s Studies.

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  States of Mobilisation? A comparison of modes of interaction betwee...

  Mohanty, R, Coelho, VSP, Thompson, L, Pant, M, Shankland, A, Favareto, A, Tapscott, C & L , Piper

  African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy: Cape Town
  Democracy is considered the common ‘currency’ of state and civil society interaction in middle-economic-power states ...
  Democracy is considered the common ‘currency’ of state and civil society interaction in middle-economic-power states such as India, Brazil and South Africa. In fact the IBSA (India, Brazil, South Africa) link, as it is understood in international relations, is premised upon certain political and economic similarities between these three states in the South, not least their democratic political foundations.1 In this paper we are looking at the IBSA states from a citizen-centric point of view, embarking upon a comparative analysis of how states deal with citizens’ demands from within...
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  The Quest for Inclusion: Nomadic Communities and Citizenship Questi...

  Pant, M

  In N Kabeer (ed.) Inclusive Citizenship: Meanings and Expressions. London: Zed.
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordere...
  Due to copyright restrictions, we can only share the first three pages of this chapter online. The book can be ordered from Zed Books at www.zedbooks.co.uk/citizenship or purchased at the IDS bookstore.
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  Nomads: The Marginalised Citizens. A Participatory Research on Mean...

  Pant, M

  PRIA Study Report, No. 1, March
  The paper explores the issue of citizenship identities from the vantage point of nomads. It generally examines the no...
  The paper explores the issue of citizenship identities from the vantage point of nomads. It generally examines the nomads quest for an inclusive citizenship in the context of their social exclusion. In particular, it deliberates on their expressions of demands to bring to the fore their interests, concerns and priorities in the implementation and formulation of affirmative government policies.
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  The Process of Empowerment

  Pant, M

  Synthesis Paper Series No. 1
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