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Number of items: 99.
Gender Studies
  • Khan, Ruhi, Banaji, Shakuntala, Dhanda, Meena (4 November 2025) Gail and Bharat: Somnath Waghmare's tale of love, resistance, and radical imagination. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Government
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah, Anstead, Nick (2016). Youth participation in democratic life: stories of hope and disillusion. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540218
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah, Anstead, Nick (2014). The myth of youth apathy: young Europeans' critical attitudes toward democratic life. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(5), 645-664. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213515992
  • LSE
  • Mejias, Sam, Banaji, Shakuntala (2018). Using it, losing it: what has EU citizenship meant to young people in Britain?
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam (2018). Keeping freedom of movement is the top Brexit priority for young people.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam (2018). Young people are highly critical of Brexit and fear the insularity it could bring.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Georgiou, Myria (2014). The Future of the BBC: the Burning Issue of Diversity Behind & on Screen.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2013). Regulating the Media in India – an Urgent Policy Priority.
  • Media and Communications
  • Khan, Ruhi, Banaji, Shakuntala, Dhanda, Meena (4 November 2025) Gail and Bharat: Somnath Waghmare's tale of love, resistance, and radical imagination. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (30 April 2025) Biological essentialism cannot deliver safety or justice. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2025). Intertextuality as method in a time of technologised misinformation: the case of Hindutva fascism in India. Javnost - the Public, 32(1), 1 - 18. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2025.2469033 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (17 January 2025) Totalitarian tech? Billionaires, hate and the undermining of social media integrity. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Carr, Diane, Banaji, Shakuntala, Ergül, Hakan (2025). Monstrous academics. In Stang, Sarah, Meriläinen, Mikko, Blom, Joleen, Hassan, Lobna (Eds.), Monstrosity in Games and Play: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Monstrous in Contemporary Cultures (pp. 241 - 260). Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048556632-013 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2024). Resistance and the limits of media literacy in countering disinformation (in transitional media systems). In Mansell, Robin, Puppis, Manuel (Eds.), Handbook of Media and Communications Governance . Edward Elgar. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Shekhawat, Gazal (30 May 2024) On killing children. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2024). Against resilience: the (anti-)ethics of participation in an unjust and unequal public sphere. Javnost - the Public, 31(1), 141 - 157. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2024.2311012 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (13 October 2023) When research, activism and art meet: a conversation with film-maker Somnath Waghmare. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Masrani, Rahoul (2023). Bollywood’s London: the moral-political undertow of London’s Hindi cinema presence. In Wagner, Keith B., Lack, Roland-François (Eds.), Global London on Screen: Visitors, Cosmopolitans and Migratory Cinematic Visions of a Superdiverse City (pp. 107 - 123). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526157577.00014 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2 August 2023) A hierarchy of hate. Media@LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2023). Activists contra democracy: the dangers of rightwing activism and its strategic disavowal. Communication, Culture & Critique, 16(2), 116 - 118. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcad014 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2022). Postkolonyal korku ve Çeperlerdeki canavarlar. Altyazi, 218, picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2022). Why we should take a second look at the politics of creativity: the dangers of a celebratory mode. In Henriksen, Danah, Mishra, Punya (Eds.), Creative Provocations: Speculations on the Future of Creativity, Technology & Learning . Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14549-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Bhat, Ramnath (2021). Social media and hate. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003083078 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2021). Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation by Petros Iosifidis and Nicholas Nicoli. International Journal of Press/Politics, 26(3), 752 - 754. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612211020914 picture_as_pdf
  • Enchikova, Ekaterina, Neves, Tiago, Beilmann, Mai, Banaji, Shakuntala, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, D Ferreira, Pedro (2021). Active citizenship: participatory patterns of European youth. Journal of Social Science Education, 20(1), 4-29. https://doi.org/10.4119/jsse-3146 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Moreno Almeida, Cristina (2020). Politicizing participatory culture at the margins: the significance of class, gender and online media for the practices of youth networks in the MENA region. Global Media and Communication, https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766520982029 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Bhat, Ramnath (30 September 2020) How anti-Muslim disinformation campaigns in India have surged during COVID-19. LSE COVID-19 Blog. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2020). Conclusion: rhetorics and realities of active young citizens across the European union. In Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam (Eds.), Youth Active Citizenship in Europe: Ethnographies of Participation (pp. 221 - 246). Springer International (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35794-8_8 picture_as_pdf
  • Mejias, Sam, Banaji, Shakuntala (2020). Preaching to the choir: patterns of non/diversity in youth citizenship movements. In Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam (Eds.), Youth Active Citizenship in Europe: Ethnographies of Participation (pp. 121 - 157). Springer International (Firm). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35794-8_5 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam (2020). Youth active citizenship in Europe: ethnographies of participation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35794-8
  • Moreno-Almeida, Cristina, Banaji, Shakuntala (2019). Digital use and mistrust in the aftermath of the Arab Spring: beyond narratives of liberation and disillusionment. Media, Culture & Society, 41(8), 1125-1141. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443718823143 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Bhat, Ramnath, Agarwal, Anushi, Passanha, Nihal, Sadhana Pravin, Mukti (2019). WhatsApp vigilantes: an exploration of citizen reception and circulation of WhatsApp misinformation linked to mob violence in India. Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam, de la Pava Vélez, Benjamín (2018). The significance of ethnography in youth participation research: active citizenship in the UK after the Brexit vote. Socialni Studia, 15(2), 97 - 115. https://doi.org/10.5817/SOC2018-2-97 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2018). Vigilante publics: orientalism, modernity and Hindutva fascism in India. Javnost - the Public, 333-350. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2018.1463349
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Livingstone, Sonia, Nandi, Anulekha, Stoilova, Mariya (2018). Instrumentalising the digital: findings from a rapid evidence review of development interventions to support adolescents’ engagement with ICTs in low and middle income countries. Development in Practice, 28(3), 432-443. https://doi.org/10.1080/09614524.2018.1438366
  • Mejias, Sam, Banaji, Shakuntala (2018). Backed into a corner: challenging media and policy representations of youth citizenship in the UK. Information, Communication and Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2018.1450436 description
  • Dahl, Viktor, Amnå, Erik, Banaji, Shakuntala, Landberg, Monique, Serek, Jan, Ribeiro, Norberto, Beilmann, Mai, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, Zani, Bruna (2017). Apathy or alienation? Political passivity among youths across eight European Union countries. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15(3), 284-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2017.1404985
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam, Kouts, Ragne, Piedade, Filipe, Pavlopoulos, Vassilis, Tzankova, Iana, Mackova, Alena, Amnå, Erik (2017). Citizenship’s tangled web: associations, gaps and tensions in formulations of European youth active citizenship across disciplines. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15(3), 250-269. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2017.1367278
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Mejias, Sam (2017). Story of a vote unforetold: young people, youth activism and the UK general election.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2017). India: digitising an unequal world.
  • Livingstone, Sonia, Nandi, Anulekha, Banaji, Shakuntala, Stoilova, Mariya (2017). Young adolescents and digital media: uses, risks and opportunities in low- and middle-income countries: a rapid evidence review. Gage.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2016). Children and media in India: narratives of class, agency and social change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315681191
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2016). Global research on children’s online experiences: addressing diversities and inequalities. (Global Kids Online). London School of Economics and Political Science.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2016). Bollywood's periphery: child stars and representations of childhood in Hindi films. In O'Connor, Jane, Mercer, John (Eds.), Childhood and Celebrity . Routledge.
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah, Anstead, Nick (2016). Youth participation in democratic life: stories of hope and disillusion. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137540218
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2015). Behind the high-tech fetish: children, work and media use across classes in India. International Communication Gazette, 77(6), 519-532.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Ledwell, Christian (2015). The internet, inclusion and democracy: Shakuntala Banaji on the media under Modi (Part 2).
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Ledwell, Christian (2015). Human rights, self-censorship and regulation: Shakuntala Banaji on the media under Modi (Part 1).
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2015). Have you seen The Hobbit films? Fill out this questionnaire.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2015). Five issues raised by BBC ‘India’s Daughter’ documentary.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2014). Bollywood horror as an uncanny public sphere: genre theories, postcolonial concepts, and the insightful audience. Communication, Culture & Critique, 7(4), 453-471. https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12060
  • Cammaerts, Bart, Bruter, Michael, Banaji, Shakuntala, Harrison, Sarah, Anstead, Nick (2014). The myth of youth apathy: young Europeans' critical attitudes toward democratic life. American Behavioral Scientist, 58(5), 645-664. https://doi.org/10.1177/0002764213515992
  • Daftari, Neeti, Banaji, Shakuntala (2014). Child rights in the Indian media: barriers and enablers.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Cammaerts, Bart (2014). Citizens of nowhere land: youth and news consumption in Europe. Journalism Studies, 16(1), 115-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2014.890340
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2014). Learning from Gujarat.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2013). Slippery subjects: gender, meaning and the Bollywood audience. In Carter, Cynthia, Steiner, Linda, McLaughlin, Lisa (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Media and Gender (pp. 493-502). Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Cranmer, Sue, Perrotta, Carlo (2013). What’s stopping us? Barriers to creativity and innovation in schooling across Europe. In Thomas, Kerry, Chan, Janet (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Creativity (pp. 450-463). Edward Elgar.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Buckingham, David (2013). The civic web: young people, the Internet and civic participation. MIT Press.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2013). Why freedom of speech is only one of India’s worries.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2013). Hindi film audiences outside South Asia. In Gokulsing, K., Dissanayake, Wimal (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Indian Cinemas (pp. 391-401). Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Buckingham, David (2013). Creating the civic web: exploring the perspectives of web producers in Europe and Turkey. In Olsson, Tobias (Ed.), Producing the Internet: Critical Perspectives of Social Media (pp. 221-238). Nordicom.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2013). Everyday racism and "my tram experience": emotion, civic performance and learning on YouTube. Comunicar, 20(40), 69-78. https://doi.org/10.3916/C40-2013-02-07
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2012). Remembering Yash Chopra’s complex and critical films. picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2012). A tale of three worlds: young people, media and class in India. In Henseler, Christine (Ed.), Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion (pp. 33-50). Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2012). Leisure, learning and exclusion: children’s media encounters in India. picture_as_pdf
  • Hirzalla, Fadi, Banaji, Shakuntala (2012). Young people’s online civic participation. In Yan, Zheng (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Cyber Behavior (pp. 996-1009). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0315-8.ch082
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2012). "Bollywood" adolescents: young viewers discuss childhood, class and Hindi films. In Benwell, Bethan, Procter, James, Robinson, Gemma (Eds.), Postcolonial Audiences: Readers, Viewers and Reception (pp. 57-72). Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2012). Children’s media encounters in contemporary India: exclusion, leisure and learning. In Hoechsmann, M., Poyntz, S. (Eds.), Media Literacy: a Critical Introduction . Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Selwyn, N., Banaji, Shakuntala, Hadjithoma-Garstka, C., Clark, W. (2011). Providing a platform for parents? Exploring the nature of parental engagement with school learning platforms. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 27(4), 314-323. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2729.2011.00428.x
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2011). Mapping the rhetorics of creativity. In Sefton-Green, Julian, Thomson, Pat, Jones, Ken, Bresler, Liora (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Creative Learning . Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2011). Framing young citizens: explicit invitation and implicit exclusion on European youth civic websites. Language and Intercultural Communication, 11(2), 126-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/14708477.2011.556738
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2011). Disempowering by assumption: digital natives and EU civic web project. In Thomas, Michael (Ed.), Deconstructing Digital Natives: Young People, Technology, and the New Literacies (pp. 49-66). Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2010). Same riot/demo, different views (guest blog).
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2010). 'Adverts make me want to break the television': Indian children and their audiovisual media environment in three contrasting locations. In Banaji, Shakuntala (Ed.), South Asian Media Cultures: Representations, Contexts and Audiences (pp. 51-72). Anthem Press.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (Ed.) (2010). South Asian media cultures: audiences, representations, contexts. Anthem Press.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2010). Analyzing advertisements in the classroom. In Bazalgette, Cary (Ed.), Teaching Media in Primary Schools (pp. 62-72). SAGE Publications.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Perrotta, Carlo, Cranmer, Sue (2010). Creative and innovative good practices in compulsory education in Europe: collection and descriptive analysis of 10 good practices of creativity and innovation in compulsory education in the EU27. (JRC technical notes JRC 59689). Office for Official Publications of the European Communities.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Cranmer, Sue, Perrotta, Carlo (2010). Expert perspectives on creativity and innovation in European schools and teacher training: enabling factors and barriers to creativity and innovation in compulsory education in Europe, based on interviews with educational stakeholders. (JCR Technical Notes JCR 59833). European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2010). Seduced ‘outsiders’ versus sceptical ‘insiders’?: Slumdog Millionaire through its re/viewers. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, 7(1), 1-24.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Buckingham, David (2010). Young people, the Internet, and civic participation: an overview of key findings from the CivicWeb Project. International Journal of Learning and Media, 2(1), 15-24. https://doi.org/10.1162/ijlm_a_00038
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Buckingham, David (2009). The civic sell: young people, the internet, and ethical consumption. Information, Communication and Society, 12(8), 1197-1223. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180802687621
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Buckingham, David, Van Zoonen, Liesbet, Hirzalla, Fadi (2009). Synthesis of CivicWeb results and policy outcomes. Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2009). Analysing civic participation websites: part 8 ethnic and religious and nationalist identities. Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2009). Qualitative analysis of European web-based civic participation among young people. Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2009). Analysing civic participation websites: part 4 youth counselling and advice. Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2009). "Who are the girls?": reflections on ethnicity, culture, and the idea of 'girlhood' in 'Commentary and criticism'. Feminist Media Studies, 9(1), 118-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680770802619540
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2008). Creativity: exploring the rhetorics and the realities. In Willett, Rebekah, Robinson, Muriel, Marsh, Jackie (Eds.), Play, Creativity and Digital Cultures (pp. 147-165). Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2008). Production of civic websites for young people. Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2008). The trouble with civic: a snapshot of young people's civic and political engagements in twenty-first-century democracies. Journal of Youth Studies, 11(5), 543-560. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676260802283008
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2007). Fascist imaginaries and clandestine critiques: young Hindi film viewers respond to violence, xenophobia and love in cross-border romances. In Bharat, Meenakshi, Kumar, Nirmal (Eds.), Filming the Line of Control: the Indo–pak Relationship Through the Cinematic Lens . Routledge.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Burn, Andrew (2007). Creativity through a rhetorical lens: implications for schooling, literacy and media education. Literacy, 41(2), 62-70. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9345.2007.00459.x
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2007). Civic websites in the UK: a national overview. University of London. Institute of Education.
  • Buckingham, David, Willett, Rebekah, Banaji, Shakuntala, Cranmer, Susan (2007). Media Smart Be Adwise 2: an evaluation. Media Smart.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Burn, Andrew, Buckingham, David (2006). Rhetorics of creativity: a review of the literature. (Arts Council England). Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, Institute of Education, University of London.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2006). Loving with irony: young Bombay viewers discuss clothing, sex and their encounters with media. Sex Education, 6(4), 377-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681810600982044
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2006). 'Reading Bollywood': the young audience and Hindi films. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Al-Ghabban, Ammar (2006). 'Neutrality comes from inside us': British-Asian and Indian perspectives on television news after 11 September. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(6), 1005-1026. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691830600761495
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2006). Young people viewing Hindi films: ideology, pleasure and meaning. Merz: Medien + Erziehung, 3, 12-18.
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2005). Portrait of an Indian education. Changing English, 12(2), 157-166. https://doi.org/10.1080/13586840500163252
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2002). Private lives and public spaces: the precarious pleasures of gender discourse in Raja Hindustani. Women: a Cultural Review, 13(2), 179-194. https://doi.org/10.1080/09574040210148988
  • Banaji, Shakuntala (2001). Indian education in 2001: an overview. FORUM: for comprehensive education, 43(3), 151-152.
  • Middle East Centre
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Moreno Almeida, Cristina (2020). Politicizing participatory culture at the margins: the significance of class, gender and online media for the practices of youth networks in the MENA region. Global Media and Communication, https://doi.org/10.1177/1742766520982029 picture_as_pdf
  • Banaji, Shakuntala, Moreno Almeida, Cristina, Adel, Rita, Alabed, Asma, Attafi, Sara, Chahdi, Chadi, Ibrahim, Monica (2017). From passion to activism? The politics, communications, and creativity of participatory networks in the MENA region. (LSE Middle East Centre Report). Middle East Centre, The London School of Economics and Political Science.