Researcher profile - Ranjita Mohanty

Ranjita Mohanty
Society for Participatory Research (PRIA)
42 Tughlakhabad Institutional Area
New Delhi 110062
India

email: ranjita@pria.org

Biography

Ranjita Mohanty is presently Head, Research and Academic Linkage Programme, Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), New Delhi , India . A political sociologist by background, her research and publication cover various dimensions of collective action around natural resource management, peoples’ movements as forms of resistance, mobilising participation in state created local institutional spaces, interface and engagement between civil society and the state, citizenship issues of marginalised communities, and the complexities of participation and democratization

Projects

Project - Reviving the Social Justice Committees – part of 'Deepening Democracy in States and Localities' Research Programme

Summary - This research projects seeks to examine the role of non-state actors in activating Social Justice Committees.

Project Proposal

Latest Publications

Mohanty, R. and Tandon, R. (ed.), (2006) , Participatory Citizenship: Identity, Exclusion, Inclusion, New Delhi: Sage Publications

Mohanty, R., (2006), 'Citizen Participation in Development: Issues of Identity, Inclusion and Voice', in Ranjita Mohanty and Rajesh Tandon (eds.), (2006), Participatory Citizenship: Identity , Exclusion, Inclusion, Sage Publications, New Delhi.

Forthcoming

Mohanty, R., 'Gendered Subjects, State and Participatory Spaces: The Politics of Domesticating Participation', in Andrea Cornwall and Vera Coelho (eds), Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas, Zed Books, London