Dr Proma Raychaudhury has completed her PhD at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University under the EU Marie Curie ETN Global India Fellowship. Her thesis is titled, ‘Gender and Political Parties: Pathways to Women’s Political Participation’. Prior to her joining the PhD, she completed her MA and MPhil from the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi, India. Her research interests involve gender and politics, feminist Institutionalism, populism, and right-wing politics. She has published peer-reviewed papers and public articles in several fora.
Gender and Politics
Populism
Monographs
1) ‘Institutional Belonging: Women and Party Politics in West Bengal, India’; Oxford University Press series on Feminist Institutionalism (under review; 2023).
Articles
1) ’Working at becoming a communist”: Institutional Belonging and Political Self-making of Women in the Communist Party of India (Marxist)’; (61:1) in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (2023);
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14662043.2023.2169364
2) ’The Political Asceticism of Mamata Banerjee: Female Populist Leadership in Contemporary India’ (Politics & Gender (Cambridge University Press); Volume 18 – Issue 4, 2021).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1743923X21000209
3) ’Comprehending the Pracharika: A Study of the Social Subjectivities of the Women of the Rashtrasevika Samiti’ published in Social Scientist; Vol. 45, Nos. 7-8, July-August 2017, pp. 43-53.
Policy Reports
1) ’Running for Local Elections in Ireland: Toolkit for Candidates of a Migrant Background’ (2022) authored with Dr Valesca Lima and Teresa Buczkowska (Immigrant Council of Ireland), funded by the Irish Research Council under the New Foundations Project.
Book Reviews
1) Book Review of Aneela Zeb Babar, We are All Revolutionaries Here: Militarism, Political Islam and Gender in Pakistan. New Delhi: Sage and Yoda Press, 2017, 196 pp., 695, ISBN: 9789386062482 (Hardcover), September 10, 2018; Social Change; 48 (3) 1-3.
Op-eds and Public Pieces
1) Blog titled, ‘Resilience Through Vulnerability: Narendra Modi’s Populist Leadership in India’; forthcoming (2023) in The Loop (European Consortium for Political Research) forthcoming in https://theloop.ecpr.eu/
2) News Opinion titled, ‘How Mamata won woman vote’ (2021), published in The Indian Express https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/west-bengal-assembly-elections-mamata-banerjee-tmc-women-candidates-7305104/
3) News Opinion titled, ‘From ‘Didi’ To ‘Banglar Nijer Meye’: The Rebranding of Mamata Banerjee’ (2021), published in BehanBox. https://behanbox.com/2021/04/13/from-didi-to-banglar-nijer-meye-the-rebranding-of-mamata-banerjee/
4) News Opinion titled, ‘Why Baishakhi Banerjee and Sujata Mondal Khan are ‘unruly women’ of Bengal’s party politics’ (2021), published in Newslaundry: https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/03/20/why-baishakhi-banerjee-and-sujata-mondal-khan-are-unruly-women-of-bengals-party-politics
5) Blog titled, ‘The Political Party as a Family: Gendered Insights from West Bengal’ published at Doing Sociology (2020). https://doingsociology2020.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-political-party-as-family-gendered.html
6) Blog titled ‘Welfarist Dilemma? The Politics of Gender in West Bengal’s Cash Transfer Schemes’ published at LSE Engenderings (London School of Economics and Political Science) (2020). https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/gender/2020/02/13/welfarist-dilemma-the-politics-of-gender-in-west-bengals-cash-transfer-schemes/
Populism, Gender and Politics
