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This research examines the development of girls’ political subjectivity and explores current opportunities and barriers to their recognition as rights-bearing subjects. It aims to theorize the radical promise of human rights in the everyday of girls’ lives and consider the complexity of ’girl’ as a subject of feminist inquiry. Guided by adolescent girls’ voices, stories, and experiences, this project investigates how girls’ define, negotiate and articulate rights. It asks: when do girls’ experience themselves as rights-bearing subjects and when are they denied such recognition? Moreover, how do girls’ perspectives and experiences challenge, bring meaning to, and (re)define current rights-based discourses and approaches to children’s rights?

Conflict and Democracy: Gendered Identities and Political Engagement in Kashmir

My doctoral studies investigates how political actors in Jammu & Kashmir negotiate democratisation and ending violence in the context of the Indo-Pakistani peace process. In particular, the research focuses on the role of women in these parties and how regional and gendered identities are conceptualised in the democratic process.