Roundtable: Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated: Comparative, Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Right-Wing Women, Religious Nationalism, and Political Participation in Established Democracies

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

This interdisciplinary and comparative roundtable examines current research on right-wing women’s political participation in democracy through a focus on women and gender in Hindu nationalism in India and Rina Williams’ new book on the topic.

Section

• Politics of South Asia / Politics of South Asia

Chair

• Sikata Banerjee, University of Victoria

Participants

• Malliga Och, Denison University

• Nandini Deo, Lehigh University

• Tarini Bedi, University of Illinois Chicago

• Rina Verma Williams, University of Cincinnati