Dr Sreenanti Banerjee
BA, MA, MPhil, PhD
Expertise
I am a political theorist and a historian of governance practices with a specialisation in Modern South Asia, legal history and histories of gender. I am currently writing a book on global histories of welfare feminist activism.
Current positions
Senior Research Associate
Department of History (Historical Studies)
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Research interests
Global social and political thought; Gender, law and justice; Feminism, culture and rights; Postcolonial and Subaltern Studies; Modern Indian historiography; Michel Foucault; Reproductive Justice and Ethnonationalist Politics.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism in Britain, 1940-2000
Principal Investigator
Role
Researcher
Managing organisational unit
Department of History (Historical Studies)Dates
01/09/2023 to 31/08/2028
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2025Welfare Reform and Postcolonial Feminism
International SAGE Encyclopedia on Politics and Gender
The Governmentality of Population Debates in Postcolonial India
Compassion, Female Victimhood and Abortion Legalization in Postcolonial India
South Asian Review
Politics of Secularisation, Religious Conversion, and “Saving” the (Hindu) Daughter under Hindutva
ReOrient