Peer-Reviewed Publications

Plotkin, S., Krishnan, S., Hui, K. & Rao N. (2024). Collective Drawing as Liberatory Method: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Community Meaning-Making, designed with CareNotCops. Theory, Research, and Action in Urban Education, Special Issue: Black Geographies and Transdisciplinary Abolitionist Education: Lifting Up Interlocking Struggles to Create Radical Possibilities. Article

Rao, N & Power, S. (2021). “Communities Change When Individuals Change”: The Sustainability of System-Challenging Collective Action. European Journal of Social Psychology. Journal article | PDF

Rao, N. & Lingam, L. (2020). Smartphones, Youth, and Moral Panics: Exploring Print and Online Media Narratives in India. Mobile Media & Communication. Journal article | PDF

Rao, N. (2020). Effect of pre- and post-paid incentives on mail survey response. Survey Practice. Journal article

Publications Under Revision

Rao, N. (in revision) Transforming Safety as Abolitionist Ideological Work. SOULS: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society.

Other Publications

Lingam, L., Bhallamudi I., & Rao, N. (2018). Adolescent Subcultures & Smartphones: Exploring the Implications for Gender, Sexuality and Rights. Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai. Click here for PDF