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Shirin M Rai published an article - Political Performance: A Framework for Analysing Democratic Politics - that develops a framework to examine the co-constitutive nature of performance and politics and to suggest that such a framework is critical to promoting an interdisciplinary approach to understanding our complex political world. She also published an article on the aesthetics of politics - Political Aesthetics of the Nation - examining the murals, portraits and statues in the Indian parliament -
Shirin M Rai and Janelle Reinelt edited The Grammar of Politics and Performance (2015), Routledge, Intervention Series, which builds on the work of GCRP and Theatre Studies and develops an interdisciplinary approach to the study of politics and political institutions.
Shirin M Rai and Rachel E Johnson edited Democracy in Practice:Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament
Carole Spary and Shirin M. Rai co-edited a Special Issue of the journal Democratization on one of the themes of GCRP - Disruptive Democracy - Analysing Legislative Protest. It can be accessed here
GCRP Advisory Board Member Emma Crewe speaks on MPs in the House of Commons
A Bibliographical Guide: Gendered Cermony & Ritual in Parliament Compiled by Rachel E. Johnson |
Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament Edited by Shirin M. Rai Series: Library of Legislative Studies
ISBN: 041555098X |
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Pedestrian crossings: contemporary judicial spectacle Leslie J. Morgan Imagining pasts and futures: the Indian Parliament Murals and South Africa’s Keiskamma Tapestry Rachel Johnson & Shirin M. Rai Beyond the politics of representation: the political economy of indigenous art in postcolonial India Rashmi Varma |
'Prime Minister's questions as political ritual'
British Politics |
'Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament' Special Issue The Journal of Legislative Studies |
'Performing Ethno - Linguistic Representation: a Study of Indian Parliamentary Ceremony and Ritual' Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 16:3 (2010), 311-336 |
GCRP 2008 Annual Conference programme
GCRP Workshop November 2010 Programme GCRP Workshop July 2009 Programme GCRP Workshop June 2008 Programme GCRP Workshop February 2008 Programme GCRP Annual Reports |