Shirin M. Rai Explained

Shirin M. Rai
Birth Date:1960 12, df=yes
Birth Place:New Delhi
Workplaces:University of Warwick
Alma Mater:Delhi University ; University of Cambridge
Known For:Gender and Development; Democratization; Political Ceremony and Ritual Studies

Shirin M. Rai (born 1 December 1960),[1] is an interdisciplinary scholar who works across the political science and international relations boundaries. She is known for her research on the intersections between international political economy, globalisation, post-colonial governance, institutions and processes of democratisation and gender regimes. She was a professor of politics and international studies at the University of Warwick,[2] and is the founding director of Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID).

In July 2022, she was confirmed as the distinguished research professorship in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.[3] She took up her post at SOAS in September 2022.

Biography

Shirin M. Rai was born in New Delhi, India and attended Modern School. After securing her BA at Hindu College, Delhi University and MA in the Department of Political Science, Delhi University, India, she carried out her doctoral research on Chinese liberalisation and educational reforms at Christ’s College and Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Rai joined the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick as the first woman to be appointed as a full-time lecturer, in 1989 and served there until 2022. She is now distinguished research professor in SOAS, Department of Politics and International Studies.

Rai is honorary professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, visiting professor (2021 -) at the Department of Gender Studies at LSE, and an adjunct professor at Monash University.

Research

Shirin M. Rai is an interdisciplinary scholar and has written extensively on issues of gender, governance and development, and politics and performance. She is the co/author of 5 monographs, has co/edited 15 volumes and has written numerous articles in high impact journals.

Rai has recently been working on issues of gendered care and work and the costs of this care work, which she (together with Catherine Hoskyns and Dania Thomas) theorised as ‘depletion through social reproduction’.[4]   She is a Co-Investigator for the UKRI-funded Consortium on Practices for Wellbeing and Resilience in Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Families and Communities and is using the depletion framework to study the impact of racism during COVID-19, on Care, Caring and Carers in the Midlands.[5]

Rai has also developed an interdisciplinary framework across the social sciences/humanities boundaries - politics and performance[6] - to study politics and political institutions. This emerged out of Rai’s Leverhulme Trust programme on Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament (2007–2011), of which she was director.[7] Building on this work Rai became interested in exploring the nature of performance in/as politics. Her recent books in this field include Performing Representation,[8] a commentary on women MPs in the Indian Parliament, as well as co-edited the OUP Handbook of Politics and Performance.[9]

Rai’s work within feminist political economy examines gendered regimes of work and survival under globalisation, which include privatisation of natural resources, and the changing nature of work. Her books in this field are Gender and the Political Economy of Development (2002),[10] Gender Politics of Development (2008)[11] and New Frontiers in Feminist Political Economy (ed, with Georgina Waylen).[12] She has also worked on questions of gender relations and their relationships to shifting patterns of economic and political governance – see Global Governance: Feminist Perspectives (2008).[13]

Her earlier work also focused strongly on democratisation. In 2000 she edited International Perspectives on Gender and Democratization.[14] As the acting director of the Centre for the Study of Democratisation at the University of Warwick, she (with Wyn Grant) launched a book series with Manchester University Press on Perspectives on Democratisation, which was re-launched under a new title, Perspectives on Democratic Practice, in 2007.[15]   Rai has also served on the Editorial Board of the journal Democratization.

Rai has also collaborated with the UN Women, United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Bank for consultancy work, and public speaking engagements.

Shirin M. Rai is a member of various professional societies such as the Political Studies Association, British International Studies Association and International Studies Association and has served on the Governing Council of the International Studies Association (2009–2011). She has served as co-Editor of the journal Social Politics, and is member of the editorial boards of publications such as:  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Global Ethics and Review of International Studies.

Honours

In July 2022 Rai was awarded the British International Studies Association Distinguished Contribution Award.[16]

In 2021 Rai was elected a fellow of the British Academy[17]

In 2017, the Political Studies Association named its PhD dissertation prize for international relations the Shirin M. Rai prize in recognition of her contributions to the discipline of feminist international relations and international political economy.[18]

Rai was awarded the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Eminent Scholar Award by the International Studies Association in 2015

In 2010 Rai was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[19]

Publications

A detailed list of Rai's publications can be found here. A selection of her works is listed below:

Authored books

Edited books

Articles

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Rai, Shirin . Library of Congress . 21 February 2015 . data sht. (b. 12-01-60) .
  2. Web site: Shirin M. Rai . 2022-08-07 . warwick.ac.uk . en-GB.
  3. Web site: SOAS University of London . 2022-08-07 . www.soas.ac.uk . 5 July 2022 . en.
  4. Rai . Shirin M. . Hoskyns . Catherine . Thomas . Dania . 2014-01-02 . Depletion . International Feminist Journal of Politics . 16 . 1 . 86–105 . 10.1080/14616742.2013.789641 . 214653272 . 1461-6742.
  5. Web site: CoPower . 2022-08-07 . warwick.ac.uk.
  6. Rai . Shirin M. . December 2015 . Political Performance: A Framework for Analysing Democratic Politics . Political Studies . en . 63 . 5 . 1179–1197 . 10.1111/1467-9248.12154 . 145534658 . 0032-3217.
  7. Web site: About GCRP . 2022-08-07 . warwick.ac.uk.
  8. Book: Rai, Shirin . Performing representation : women members in the Indian parliament . 2019 . Carole Spary . 978-0-19-909386-1 . First . New Delhi . 1090373358.
  9. Book: The Oxford handbook of politics and performance . 2021 . Shirin Rai, Milija Gluhovic, Silvija Jestrovic, Michael Saward . 978-0-19-086347-0 . New York, NY . 1236900207.
  10. Book: Rai, Shirin M. . Gender and the Political Economy of Development : From Nationalism to Globalization. . 2013 . Wiley . 978-0-7456-6834-5 . Hoboken . 850078998.
  11. Book: Rai, Shirin . The gender politics of development : essays in hope and despair . 2013 . 978-1-84813-680-9 . London . 990191348.
  12. Book: New frontiers in feminist political economy . 2013 . Shirin Rai, Georgina Waylen . 978-1-134-64913-6 . New York . 863157533.
  13. Book: Global governance : feminist perspectives . 2008 . Palgrave Macmillan . Shirin Rai, Georgina Waylen . 978-0-230-53704-0 . Basingstoke . 213600531.
  14. Book: International perspectives on gender and democratisation . 2000 . St. Martin's Press . Shirin Rai . 0-333-75004-7 . New York . 42960536.
  15. Web site: Perspectives on Democratic Practice . 2022-08-07 . Manchester University Press . en-US.
  16. Web site: BISA 2022 prize winners announced BISA . 2022-08-07 . www.bisa.ac.uk . 20 June 2022 . en.
  17. Web site: Professor Shirin Rai FBA . 2022-08-07 . The British Academy . en.
  18. Web site: New PSA Prizes and Awards framework The Political Studies Association (PSA) . 2022-08-07 . New PSA Prizes and Awards framework The Political Studies Association (PSA) . en.
  19. Web site: Sciences . Academy of Social . Fellows . 2022-08-07 . Academy of Social Sciences . en-GB.

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