APrf Priya Chacko
Associate Professor
School of Society and Culture
College of Education, Behavioural and Social Sciences
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Priya Chacko is an Associate Professor of International Politics at the University of Adelaide. Prior to Adelaide, she worked at universities at Victoria University of Wellington and University of the Witwatersrand and was a non-resident fellow at the Perth-US Asia Centre and a visiting fellow at the Australia-India Institute.
She is currently co-Editor-in-Chief of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies and was previously co-Editor-in Chief of Contemporary Politics. Her research focuses on how nationalism facilitates, and is used to legitimise, domestic and foreign policies; how the international (global capitalist processes, colonialism and imperialism, transnational knowledge production, geopolitics etc.) shapes domestic politics and political economy; and the structural role of ideology in capitalism. She has published widely on these topics with a focus on Indian politics and foreign policy and the Indo-Pacific region in journals like International Affairs, Political Geography, Modern Asian Studies and Journal of Contemporary Asia.
Her current projects focus on 1) the rise and impact of authoritarian populist governance in India; 2) the transnational impact of autocratisation in India through strategies of transnational repression, legitimation, cooptation and cooperation; 3) Australia’s international relations; 4) The global far-right; 5) Diaspora politics in Australia.
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| 2025 | Chacko, P., & Sreekumar, A. (2025). Cleansing India: Gandhi, Hindutva and the calypsology of sanitation reforms. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 48(1), 1-21. |
| 2025 | Chacko, P. (2025). Conspiracy theories and India’s transnational authoritarian populism: NGOs, Khalistanis and Soros. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 31 pages. |
| 2025 | Cheng, H., Chacko, P., Karib, F., Malitz, D. M., & Yang, Y. (2025). The Indo-Pacific: In what sense a region?. Dialogues in Human Geography, 9 pages. |
| 2025 | Chacko, P., & Thakur, V. (2025). Civilisation-Washing: Caste and Indian Diplomacy at the G20 Summit. The Hague Journal of Diplomacy, 20(3), 636-663. |
| 2024 | Chacko, P. (2024). The illusionist: Exposing the Modi cult. Australian Foreign Affairs. |
| 2023 | Chacko, P. (2023). Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy. JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, 59(6), 2 pages. |
| 2023 | Chacko, P. (2023). The neoliberal roots of authoritarian protectionism. International Politics, 60(2), 449-460. Scopus4 WoS4 |
| 2023 | Chacko, P. (2023). Disciplining India: paternalism, neo-liberalism and Hindutva civilizationalism. International Affairs, 99(2), 551-565. Scopus19 WoS16 |
| 2023 | Chacko, P. (2023). Racial capitalism and spheres of influence: Australian assertions of white possession in the Pacific. Political Geography, 105, 102923-1-102923-11. Scopus10 WoS8 |
| 2022 | Mayer, P., & Chacko, P. (2022). Will India Implement a Uniform Civil Code?. Australian Outlook, 23 Jun. |
| 2022 | Chacko, P. (2022). Brand new India: capitalist dreams and nationalist designs in twenty-first century India. ASIAN STUDIES REVIEW, 47(2), 2 pages. |
| 2021 | Chacko, P., & Strating, R. (2021). The Demise of “Pragmatism”? Assessing the Public Debate on Australia's Engagement with China. Australian Journal of Politics and History, 67(3-4), 18 pages. Scopus5 WoS4 |
| 2021 | Chacko, P. R. I. Y. A. (2021). A New Quest for Self-Reliance: East Asia and Indian Economic Nationalism. The Journal of Indian and Asian Studies, 02(02). |
| 2020 | Chacko, P. (2020). Gender and authoritarian populism: empowerment, protection, and the politics of resentful aspiration in India. CRITICAL ASIAN STUDIES, 52(2), 22 pages. Scopus47 WoS39 |
| 2020 | Barthwal-Datta, M., & Chacko, P. (2020). The politics of strategic narratives of regional order in the Indo-Pacific: Free, open, prosperous, inclusive?. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 74(3), 244-263. Scopus18 WoS11 |
| 2019 | Bhatnagar, S., & Chacko, P. (2019). Peacebuilding think tanks, Indian foreign policy and the Kashmir conflict. Third World Quarterly, 40(8), 1496-1515. Scopus8 WoS4 |
| 2019 | Chacko, P. (2019). Marketising Hindutva: The state, society and markets in Hindu Nationalism. Modern Asian Studies, 53(2), 377-410. Scopus84 WoS71 |
| 2018 | Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2018). A capitalising foreign policy: Regulatory geographies and transnationalised state projects. European Journal of International Relations, 24(1), 82-105. Scopus42 WoS37 |
| 2018 | Chacko, P. (2018). The Right Turn in India: Authoritarianism, Populism and Neoliberalisation. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 48(4), 41-65. Scopus190 WoS152 |
| 2018 | Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2018). Asia's Conservative Moment: Understanding the Rise of the Right. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 48(4), 529-540. Scopus60 WoS40 |
| 2018 | Chacko, P., & Willis, D. (2018). Pivoting to Indo-Pacific? The Limits of Indian and Indonesian Integration. East Asia, 35(2), 133-148. Scopus5 WoS5 |
| 2018 | Chacko, P., & Davis, A. (2018). Resignifying ‘responsibility’: India, exceptionalism and nuclear non-proliferation. Asian Journal of Political Science, 26(3), 352-370. Scopus11 WoS9 |
| 2018 | Chacko, P. (2018). Foreign policy, ideas and state-building: India and the politics of international intervention. Journal of International Relations and Development, 21(2), 346-371. Scopus6 WoS6 |
| 2017 | Chacko, P., & Davis, A. (2017). The natural/neglected relationship: liberalism, identity and India-Australia relations. Pacific Review, 30(1), 26-50. Scopus12 WoS14 |
| 2017 | Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2017). Trump, the authoritarian populist revolt and the future of the rules-based order in Asia. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71(2), 121-127. Scopus37 WoS34 |
| 2017 | Chacko, P. (2017). Women’s economic empowerment in the Indian Ocean region through gender equality in work: building a common agenda. Journal of the Indian Ocean Region, 13(1), 111-118. Scopus7 WoS3 |
| 2017 | Chacko, P. S. E., Seifi, A., & Diller, K. R. (2017). A human thermoregulation simulator for calibrating water-perfused cooling pad systems for therapeutic hypothermia. Journal of Medical Devices Transactions of the ASME, 11(3). |
| 2016 | Chacko, P., Drew, G., & Brookes, J. (2016). Could bio-toilets solve India's sanitation problems and save the Yamuna River?. The Conversation, 2016(Nov. 10). |
| 2015 | Chacko, P. (2015). Territorial Sovereignty in India and its Discontents. Economic and Political Weekly, 50(7). |
| 2015 | Chacko, P., & Davis, A. (2015). Myanmar and India: regimes of citizenship and the limits of geo-economic engagement. European Journal of East Asian Studies, 14(1), 124-143. Scopus7 |
| 2015 | Chacko, P. (2015). The new geo-economics of a "rising" India: state transformation and the recasting of foreign policy. Journal of Contemporary Asia, 45(2), 326-344. Scopus14 WoS9 |
| 2014 | Chacko, P., & Mayer, P. (2014). The Modi lahar (wave) in the 2014 Indian national election: a critical realignment?. Australian Journal of Political Science, 49(3), 518-528. Scopus12 WoS10 |
| 2014 | Chacko, P. (2014). Variegated neoliberalisation in India and Africa: towards a new research agenda. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, 52(4), 563-569. Scopus1 |
| 2014 | Chacko, P. (2014). A new "special relationship"?: Power transitions, ontological security, and India-US relations. International Studies Perspectives, 15(3), 329-346. Scopus31 WoS38 |
| 2014 | Chacko, P. (2014). Remapping India: new states and their political origins. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, 90(3), 731-732. |
| 2014 | Chacko, P. (2014). The rise of the Indo-Pacific: understanding ideational change and continuity in India's foreign policy. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 68(4), 433-452. Scopus34 WoS32 |
| 2014 | Chacko, P. (2014). India in Africa: changing geographies of power. COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 52(4), 563-569. |
| 2014 | Chacko, P. (2014). State-business relations and economic development in Africa and India. COMMONWEALTH & COMPARATIVE POLITICS, 52(4), 563-569. |
| 2012 | Chacko, P. (2012). Amitav Acharya, Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2010, pp. 189, ISBN 978 9 8142 7915 4. Australian Journal of International Affairs, 66(2), 277-278. |
| 2011 | Chacko, P. (2011). The search for a scientific temper: nuclear technology and the ambivalence of India's postcolonial modernity. Review of International Studies, 37(1), 185-208. Scopus12 WoS13 |
| 2011 | Chacko, P. (2011). War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic History of Nehru Years. INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 48(2), 305-307. WoS1 |
| 2001 | Chacko, P. (2001). Culture and Politics in an Age Of Global Media: the impact of satellite television and the internet in India. Flinders Journal of History and Politics, 22, 110-123. |
| Year | Citation |
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| 2016 | Chacko, P. (Ed.) (2016). New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences. Routledge. DOI Scopus12 |
| 2016 | Chacko, P. (Ed.) (2016). New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific Drivers, Dynamics and Consequences. Routledge. DOI Scopus12 |
| 2012 | Chacko, P. (2012). Indian foreign policy: the politics of postcolonial identity from 1947 to 2004. United Kingdom: Routledge. DOI Scopus40 |
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| 2025 | Chacko, P. (2025). Dignifying Economic Inequality: Authoritarian Populist Governance in India. In Social Acceptance of Inequality on the Logics of A More Unequal World (pp. 309-336). Oxford University Press. DOI |
| 2025 | Yilmaz, I., Chacko, P., de Groot Heupner, S., & Sreekumar, A. (2025). The Transnationalisation of Strategic Digital Information Operations. In Authoritarian Actors and Strategic Digital Information Operations (pp. 209-233). Routledge. DOI |
| 2024 | Chacko, P., & Thakur, V. (2024). Postcolonialism and foreign policy. In S. Smith, A. Hadfield, T. Dunne, & N. Kitchen (Eds.), Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases (4th Edition ed.). Oxford University Press. |
| 2021 | Chacko, P., & Jayasuriya, K. (2021). The economics–security nexus and East Asian integration. In F. Kimura, M. Pangestu, S. M. Thangavelu, & C. Findlay (Eds.), Handbook on East Asian Economic Integration (pp. 435-453). Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing. DOI |
| 2019 | Chacko, P. (2019). Indira Gandhi, the "Long 1970s", and the Cold War. In M. Bhaghavan (Ed.), India and the Cold War (pp. 178-196). Chapel Hill, NC, USA: The University of North Carolina Press. |
| 2019 | Chacko, P. (2019). Constructivism and Indian Foreign Policy. In H. V. Pant (Ed.), New Directions in Indian Foreign Policy: Theory and Praxis (pp. 48-66). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI Scopus5 |
| 2019 | Chacko, P. (2019). Emerging Regimes of Market Citizenship: The Politics of Social Policy in Contemporary India. In A. P. DCosta, & A. Chakraborty (Eds.), Changing Contexts and Shifting Roles of the Indian State: New Perspectives on Development Dynamics (pp. 39-55). SPRINGER INDIA. DOI Scopus3 WoS3 |
| 2016 | Chacko, P. (2016). The decolonial option: toward an ethic of Self-Securing. In J. Nyman, & A. Burke (Eds.), Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda (pp. 189-200). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. Scopus3 |
| 2016 | Chacko, P. (2016). India and the Indo-Pacific from Singh to Modi: geopolitical and geoeconomic entanglements. In P. Chacko (Ed.), New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific: Drivers, dynamics and consequences (pp. 43-59). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. DOI |
| 2016 | Chacko, P. (2016). Introduction: The Rise of the Indo-Pacific. In P. Chacko (Ed.), New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific; Drivers, dynamics and consequences (pp. 1-8). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. |
| 2016 | Chacko, P. (2016). Introduction: The Rise of the Indo-Pacific. In P. Chacko (Ed.), New Regional Geopolitics in the Indo-Pacific; Drivers, dynamics and consequences (pp. 1-8). London, United Kingdom: Routledge. |
| 2013 | Chacko, P. (2013). India and the Indo-Pacific in New Delhi’s BRICS calculus. In F. A. Kornegay, & N. Bohler-Muller (Eds.), Laying the BRICS of a new global order: from Yekaterinburg 2009 to Ethekwini 2013 (pp. 260-276). Africa Institute of South Africa. |
| 2013 | Chacko, P. (2013). India and the Indo-Pacific in New Delhi’s BRICS calculus. In F. A. Kornegay, & N. Bohler-Muller (Eds.), Laying the BRICS of a New Global Order: From Yekaterinburg 2009 to eThekwini 2013. Pretoria: Africa Institute of South Africa. |
| 2012 | Chacko, P. (2012). Interpreting the 'rise of India': India-US relations in an age of power transition. In A. Mattoo (Ed.), The Reluctant Superpower: understanding India and its aspirations (1 ed., pp. 234-256). Australia: Melbourne University Press. |
| 2012 | Chacko, P. (2012). IBSA in the foreign policy of a rising India. In S. Patel, & T. Uys (Eds.), Contemporary India and South Africa: Legacies, Identities, Dilemmas (pp. 274-290). India: Taylor and Francis. DOI |
| 2011 | Chacko, P. (2011). The internationalist nationalist: pursuing an ethical modernity with Jawaharlal Nehru. In R. Shilliam (Ed.), International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, colonialism and investigations of global modernity (1 ed., pp. 178-196). United Kingdom: Routledge. DOI Scopus8 |
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| 2023 | Chacko, P., & Paul, M. (2023). Ram Rajya 2.0: Nostalgia, cinema and Indian nationalism. Red Pepper. |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Militant Democracy in Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Matthew James Bracken Nicoll |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Militant Democracy in Australia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Matthew James Bracken Nicoll |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | ‘Kerala is different’: Tracing the global history of the region in South India | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Anand Sreekumar |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | The Impact of Sino-Indian relations on the Evolution of Tibetan nationalist movement | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Janhavi Rajiv Pande |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | The Influence of Religion on the Voting Attitudes and Behaviour of Educated Middle-Class Electors in Bangladesh | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Arefa Sultana |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | The Impact of Sino-Indian relations on the Evolution of Tibetan nationalist movement | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Janhavi Rajiv Pande |
| 2023 | Principal Supervisor | Kerala is different: Tracing the global history of the region in South India | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Anand Sreekumar |
| 2023 | Co-Supervisor | The Influence of Religion on the Voting Attitudes and Behaviour of Educated Middle-Class Electors in Bangladesh | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Arefa Sultana |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 - 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Nurturing Women’s Participation in STEM: An Analysis of Australian, Indian and Singaporean Government Policies and Programs | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Miss Kirsty Nicole Haynes |
| 2018 - 2025 | Principal Supervisor | Citizens or ‘Infiltrators’? Decolonising the Securitisation of Migration and Citizenship in India | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Maggie Paul |
| 2016 - 2019 | Principal Supervisor | A Moment of Possibility: The Rise and Fall of the New International Economic Order | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Sam Thomas Nicholls |
| 2014 - 2018 | Principal Supervisor | Foreign Policy Think Tanks: Challenging or Building Consensus on India's Pakistan Policy | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Dr Stuti Bhatnagar |
| 2014 - 2019 | Co-Supervisor | The Development of IGAD as a Distinctively African Regional Security Community for the Horn of Africa with Case Studies of South Sudan and Somalia | Master of Philosophy | Master | Part Time | Mr Stephen Gatkak Chan |
| 2012 - 2015 | Principal Supervisor | India and the 'Anglosphere': A Postcolonial Genealogy | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Alexander Edmund Davis |
| 2012 - 2016 | Principal Supervisor | Internationalisation of Chinese Capital and the Transformation of State-society Relations in Ethiopia | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Edson Ziso |
| 2012 - 2017 | Co-Supervisor | Blinded by the Rising Sun: Japanese Military Intelligence from the First Sino-Japanese War to the End of World War II | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Part Time | Mr Simon Hall |
| 2011 - 2013 | Co-Supervisor | Think Tanks, Discourse, and the Promotion of Non-Traditional Security in Asia: An Examination of Think Tank Ideational Influence on Asian Security Governance | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Ms Erin Catherine Zimmerman |
| 2011 - 2013 | Co-Supervisor | The Kurdish and Iraqi Counter-Quests for Nationhood The Transformation of Iraqi Kurdistan into Quasi-State | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Aram Rafaat |
| Date | Role | Editorial Board Name | Institution | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 - ongoing | Editor | South Asia: journal of South Asian studies | South Asian Studies Association of Australia | Australia |
| 2019 - ongoing | Board Member | Australian Journal of International Affairs | Griffith | Australia |
| 2019 - 2022 | Editor | Contemporary Politics | Routledge | United Kingdom |
| 2018 - ongoing | Associate Editor | Asian Studies Review | Deakin university | Australia |
| 2016 - ongoing | Board Member | Contemporary Politics | university of western Australia | Australia |
| 2015 - ongoing | Associate Editor | Journal of the Indian Ocean Region | - | - |
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