Books and Long Essays

Books

  • Mohanty, R. Democratizing Development: Struggles for Rights and Social Justice in India. Sage Publication: New Delhi. 2018.
  • Mohanty, R. (with Thompson, L., and Coelho, VS) (eds). “States of Mobilization? A Comparison of Modes of Interaction between States and Social Actors in India, Brazil and South Africa”. Monograph, African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Western Cape: South Africa.2010.
  • Mohanty, R. (with Tandon, R.) (eds). Participatory Citizenship: Identity, Exclusion, Inclusion. Sage Publications: New Delhi. 2006.
  •  Mohanty R. (with Tandon, R.) (eds). Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India. Sage Publications: New Delhi. 2003.
  • Mohanty, R. (with Tandon, R.) Civil Society and Governance. Samskriti: New Delhi. 2002.    

Peer Reviewed Articles

  • “The Social Contract, the State and Adivasi Protests against Large-scale Mining in India”, in Fiona Anciano and Joanna Wheeler(eds), Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States. Routledge: London. 2021.
  • (with Dwivedi, A.) “Culture and Sanitation in Small Towns: An Ethnographic Study of Angul and Dhenkanal, Odisha”. Special Article, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol LIV, No41, 2019.
  • “Mobilizing for Democracy: Civil Society Mediation and Access to Policy in India”, in Laurence Piper and Bettina von Liere (eds), Mediating States and Citizens: Representing the Marginalized in the Global South. Palgrave Macmillan: London.
  • “Infinite Agenda of Social Justice: Dalit Mobilization in Institutions of Local Governance in Gujarat, India”, in Vera S Coelho and Bettina Von Liere (eds), Mobilizing for Democracy. Zed books: London. 2011.
  • “Contesting Development, Reinventing Democracy: Grassroots Social Movements in India”, in Lisa Thompson and Christ Tapscott (eds), Citizenship and Social Movements: Perspectives from the Global South, London: Zed Books.2010.
  • (with Tandon, R.) “Participation”, in Helmut K.Anheirer and Stefan Toepler (eds), International Encyclopedia of Civil Society. Springer: New York, 2009.
  • “Gendered Subjects, the State and Participatory Spaces: The Politics of Domesticating Participation”, in Andrea Cornwall and Vera S Coelho (eds), Spaces for Change? The Politics of Participation in New Democratic Arenas. London: Zed Books
  • “Citizen Participation in Development: Issues of Identity, Inclusion and Voice”, in Ranjita Mohanty and Rajesh Tandon (eds), Participatory Citizenship: Identity, Exclusion, Inclusion.Sage Publications: New Delhi. 2006.
  • “Institutional Dynamics and Participatory Spaces: The Making and Unmaking of Participation in Local Forest Management in India”. IDS Bulletin, Special Issue on New Democratic Spaces, Vol. 35, No.2. Institute of Development Studies: Brighton,UK.  April 2004.
  •  “Save the Chilika Movement: Interrogating the State and the Market”, in Rajesh Tandon and Ranjita Mohanty (eds), Does Civil Society Matter? Governance in Contemporary India. Sage Publications: New Delhi. 2003.
  •  “Civil Society and NGOs”. The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol.63, No.2-3. 2002.

Chapter in Edited Books 

  • “Gendered Subjects, the State and Participatory Spaces: The Politics of Domesticating Participation”, in Andrea Cornwall (ed), Participation Reader. Zed Books: London. 2011.
  • “Caste, Class and Ecology Movements”, in Ishwar Modi et al (eds), Themes in Social Stratification: Essays in Honour of Prof. K.L. Sharma. Rawat Publications: Jaipur. 2009.
  •  “Rights, Citizenship and State Accountability:  Contentious Claims of Industry over Trbal Land”, in Rajesh Tandon and Mohini Kak(eds), Citizen Participation and Democratic Governance. Concept publishers: New Delhi.2007.
  • “Village Level Institutions as Forum for Community Participation: Experiences from Doon Valley Integrated Watershed Management Project”, in B.P. Pandey et al (eds), Watershed Management in Himalaya: Concepts and Strategy. Gyanodaya Prakashan: Nainita.2002.

 Working Papers

  •  (with Thompson, L., and Coelho, VS)) “Mobilizing the State? Social Mobilization and State Interaction in India, Brazil and South Africa”. IDS working paper, Volume 359. Institute of Development Studies: Brighton,UK.2011.
  •  “Gendered Subjects, Gendered Citizens: Women, Citizenship Rights and the State in the South”. Working Paper, African Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Western Cape, South Africa. 2012.