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Authored Books

Rai, Shirin M. and Spary, Carole (2019) Performing Representation: Women Members in the Indian Parliament. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Rai, Shirin M. (2008) Gender Politics of Development: Essays in Hope and Despair. London/New Delhi: Zed Books/Zubaan.

Rai, Shirin M. (2002) Gender and Political Economy of Development: From Nationalism to Globalisation. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Rai, Shirin M. and Prakash, Anand, eds. (2021) Indian Debates on the International Left: Selected Writings of Lajpat Rai. New Delhi: Sage. (Politics and Society in India and the Global South)

Rai, Shirin M., Gluhovic, Milija, Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael, eds. (2021) The Oxford Handbook of Performance and Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Rai, Shirin M. and Goldblatt, Beth, eds. (2020) Law, Harm and Depletion through Social Reproduction. Bristol: Bristol University Press. (European Journal of Politics and Gender. Themed Section: Vol. 3, no.2)

Rai, Shirin M. and Johnson, Rachel E., eds. (2014) Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and ritual in parliaments. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Rai, Shirin M. and Reinelt, Janelle, eds. (2014) The Grammar of Performance and Politics. London: Routledge. (Interventions)

Rai, Shirin M. and Waylen, Georgina, eds. (2014) New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy. London: Routledge.

Rai, Shirin M., ed. (2011) Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament. London: Routledge. (Library of Legislative Studies)

Rai, Shirin M. and Bedford, Kate, eds. (2010) Feminists Theorize the International Political Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Special Issue: Vol.36, no.1)

Rai, Shirin M. and Waylen, Georgina, eds. (2004) Global Governance. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis. (International Journal of Feminist Politics. Special Issue: Vol.6, no.4)

Book Chapters

Crewe, Emma and Sarra, Nicholas (2021) 'Constituency Performances: the “heart” of democratic politics.' In: Rai, Shirin M., Gluhovic, Milija, Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Handbooks)

Strauss, Julia (2021) 'Scripts, Authority, and Legitimacy.' In: Rai, Shirin M., Gluhovic, Milija, Jestrovic, Silvija and Saward, Michael, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 405-420.

Crewe, Emma (2014) 'Westminster parliamentarians: Performing Politics.' In: Rai, Shirin M. and Johnson, Rachel E., (eds.), Democracy in Practice: Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 40-59.

Crewe, Emma (2011) 'An anthropology of the House of Lords: socialisation, relationships and rituals.' In: Rai, Shirin M., (ed.), Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 30-41. (Library of Legislative Studies)

Journal Article

Akhter, Shahnaz, Elias, Juanita and Rai, Shirin M. (2022) 'Being Cared for in the Context of Crisis: Austerity, COVID-19, and Racialized Politics.' Social Politics, 29 (4). pp. 1121-1143.

Grugel, Jean, Macias, Susana and Rai, Shirin M. (2020) 'Depletion, intersectionality and the limits of social policy: child carers in Mexico City.' European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3 (2). pp. 221-236.

Rai, Shirin M. and Goldblatt, Beth (2020) 'Introduction to the themed section: Law, harm and depletion through social reproduction.' European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3 (2). pp. 171-184.

Goldblatt, Beth and Rai, Shirin M. (2020) 'Remedying depletion through social reproduction – a critical engagement with the UN’s Business and Human Rights framework.' European Journal of Politics and Gender, 3 (2). pp. 185-202.

Rai, Shirin M., True, Jacqui and Tanyag, Maria (2019) 'From Depletion to Regeneration: Addressing Structural and Physical Violence in Post-Conflict Economies.' Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 26 (4). pp. 561-585.

Elias, Juanita and Rai, Shirin M. (2019) 'Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence.' Review of International Studies, 45 (2). pp. 201-220.

Rai, Shirin M., Brown, Benjamin and Ruwanpura, Kanchana N. (2019) 'SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth – A gendered analysis.' World Development, 113. pp. 368-380.

Goldblatt, Beth and Rai, Shirin M. (2018) 'Recognising the full costs of care? The Gendered Politics of Compensation for families in South Africa’s silicosis class action.' Social and Legal Studies, 27 (6). pp. 671-694.

Rai, Shirin M. (2018) 'The Good Life and the Bad: The Dialectics of Solidarity.' Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society, 45 (2).

Book Reviews

Ziadah, Rafeef, Rai, Shirin M., Jamil, Ghazala, Sokhi-Bulley, Bal, Baxi, Upendra and Madhok, Sumi (2023) 'Review of: Vernacular rights cultures: the politics of origins, human rights and gendered struggles for justice. By Sumi Madhok.' International Affairs, 99 (2). pp. 825-835.