K Srinivasan
Biographic Data
| ID | 164149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Srinivasan |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Srinivasan |
| SIGNATURE | SRINIVASAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4751-1601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 415 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Health as a Multispecies Phenomenon
This article develops a critical review of how geography and cognate social sciences have engaged with health as a ‘multispecies’ or ‘more-than-human’ phenomenon in the context of nonhuman animals. We find that these literatures have employed some key ontological and epistemological innovations to address the human-centredness of dominant health approaches, including those, such as Planetary Health, that strive to integrate human, animal, and eco…
Veterinization at the Dog-Human-Health Interface Reconfiguring Interspecies Relations in India and the UK
Veterinization, catalyzed by worries about rabies in colonial Britain, has reconfigured dog-human relations beyond spaces of ill(health). Tracking human-dog relations across India and the UK, in this article, we argue that veterinization's reach is enabled by its "species reductionism," and that the ramifications for human and animal health as well as wellbeing have not been entirely positive. Our analysis points to the need for circumspection ab…
Animal geographies at the limits
This piece introduces a special issue tackling the theme of ‘animal geographies at the limits’. An opening section argues that work on ‘animal geography’ in its older zoogeographical guise, but with suggestions of a growing interest in human-animal relations, has long been a feature of the Scottish Geographical Journal. It continues by outlining the background to the current special issue, explaining what the guest editors understand by the ‘limi…
Conservation beyond biopolitics
This paper examines the possibilities for nature in contemporary times through a ground‐up investigation of nature practices in Chennai, India. It navigates dissonant strands of scholarship on the promise of urban regions as sites of exemplary social natures with an analytical framework that examines how autonomous nonhuman life in Chennai is variously enabled and inhibited. By studying a breadth of natures and nature practices within this urban …
Impact of Urbanization on Groundwater Quality of Water Bodies in Cities
Preserving cultural heritage requires a profound grasp of authenticity and integrity embedded within architectural design, material choices, and contextual significance.The preservation, accurate representation, and storytelling of a cultural property's original form, historical context, and intrinsic worth all fall under the umbrella of authenticity in heritage management.However, the diverse interpretations of this concept pose a significant ch…
Nature without Conservation
The predominant approach of protecting or restoring floral and faunal life after harming, displacing, or destroying them in service of human interests does not hold much promise for nature on Earth in the age of the Anthropocene. Such approaches fail to address the ethical and political-economic cores of what tend to be presented as techno-scientific or ecological problems. If the planet is to remain home to life beyond the human, mainstream huma…
Theme issue introduction
Animals are instrumentalised as symbols, objects, and commodities in the construction of diverse subaltern and elite human identities and identity politics in India, through their imposed identification with various human groups, with enduring implications for animal and human (in)justice and wellbeing. Species, as itself as an axis of social difference, and therefore of identity, however, has hitherto rarely been considered as a core facet of id…
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India
This paper investigates social science literatures and public discourse on animal-based food systems in India to examine how social, ecological, and animal justice concerns are addressed (or not). The Indian livestock sector is estimated to be the largest in the world, with significant implications for local and planetary natures and the individual animals that compose the sector. The intensification of livestock production in India has unfolded …
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice
This commentary responds to Bram Büscher's critique of the more-than-human turn. As a more-than-human geographer, I find myself in agreement in with the broad tenor of the concerns about ontological idealism and relationality expressed in Bram's paper, and welcome its recognition of the emancipatory aims of more-than-human scholarship. However, I show that more-than-human literatures are far more diverse than Bram's characterisation of the field …
Re-animalising wellbeing
This article addresses contemporary socio-ecological crises by proposing a shift from the logics of protection-sacrifice that characterise developmentality, and by developing the idea of 're-animalisation' as a pathway to multispecies justice. The pursuit of 'development' has been a key hallmark of the modern idea of progress. Long-standing critiques of the socio-ecological and other adverse impacts of development have not made much headway in ef…
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Revisiting social natures
Remaking more‐than‐human society
This paper examines the socio‐legal and everyday moral geographies of human cohabitation with free‐living dogs in India to think through what is implicated in living with nonhuman difference on a planet where the social and the natural are inextricably entangled. It investigates the contours of canine cosmopolitanism in Chennai city and theorises street dogs as unintentional natures to problematise dominant ideas about valued and pestilent nonhum…
Biopower
This entry discusses biopower with specific reference to the Foucauldian tradition that has inspired its popularization and wide usage as an analytical device. An overview of Foucault's initial theorization of biopower is followed by an account of the main ideas – population, governmentality, the intertwining of welfare and violence, and subjectification – encapsulated by this concept of “the power over life” and which have proven to be of much s…
Conservation and Invasive Alien Species
This chapter examines the abuse towards animals involved in the conservationist management of invasive alien species (IAS). It explores how the conservationist space of care becomes infused with discourses and practices that harm the very object of conservationist care—nonhuman nature. After outlining the prevalence and problematic nature of dominant approaches to IAS, the chapter draws on a Foucauldian analytical framework and literatures on the…
Species abundance and temporal variation of arbovirus vectors in Brownsville, Texas
The recent outbreaks of the dengue fever and West Nile viruses and the looming threats of the Zika and chikungunya viruses highlight the importance of establishing effective, proactive arboviral surveillance in communities at high risk of transmission, such as those on the Texas–Mexico border. Currently, there are no approved human vaccines available for these mosquito-borne diseases, so entomological control and case management are the only know…
Promising anticancer activities of Justicia simplex D. Don . in cellular and animal models
In search of common ground
Conservation biopolitics and the sustainability episteme
This paper develops the idea of the sustainability episteme for the critical analysis of contemporary wildlife conservation. It takes forward recent work in conservation and more-than-human geographies that questions the biopolitical emphasis in conservation on protecting collectivities such as species. Drawing on empirical research on turtle conservation in India and on Foucault's writings, it inspects how these animals and their wellbeing come …
In vitro mechanistic and in vivo anti-tumor studies of Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) DC against breast cancer
Political ecology, development, and human exceptionalism
Towards a political animal geography
Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) DC arrests cell cycle and induces apoptosis via caspase-3/7 activation in breast cancer cells
Caring for the Collective
This paper explores turtle conservation in Odisha, India, to map the complicated ways in which animal well-being is pursued in the contemporary world. Using insights from Foucault's work on biopolitics, it offers an account of conservation as population politics, questioning the entanglement of harm and care that infuses this space of more-than-human social change. In doing this, the paper elaborates the concept of agential subjectification in or…
The biopolitics of animal being and welfare
The UK is widely regarded as a nation committed to animal welfare. On the other hand, the precarious lives of India's stray dogs have attracted a considerable amount of international animal activist attention, and raised questions about the nation's indifference to these animals. Furthermore, animal welfare practice and policy in India are significantly shaped by British law and practice, which is often considered superior. While these contrastin…
Caring for the Collective
This paper explores turtle conservation in Odisha, India, to map the complicated ways in which animal well-being is pursued in the contemporary world. Using insights from Foucault's work on biopolitics, it offers an account of conservation as population politics, questioning the entanglement of harm and care that infuses this space of more-than-human social change. In doing this, the paper elaborates the concept of agential subjectification in or…
Justice Through a Multispecies Lens
Towards a political animal geography
Remaking more‐than‐human society
This paper examines the socio‐legal and everyday moral geographies of human cohabitation with free‐living dogs in India to think through what is implicated in living with nonhuman difference on a planet where the social and the natural are inextricably entangled. It investigates the contours of canine cosmopolitanism in Chennai city and theorises street dogs as unintentional natures to problematise dominant ideas about valued and pestilent nonhum…
Political ecology, development, and human exceptionalism
Revisiting social natures
Conservation biopolitics and the sustainability episteme
This paper develops the idea of the sustainability episteme for the critical analysis of contemporary wildlife conservation. It takes forward recent work in conservation and more-than-human geographies that questions the biopolitical emphasis in conservation on protecting collectivities such as species. Drawing on empirical research on turtle conservation in India and on Foucault's writings, it inspects how these animals and their wellbeing come …
Re-animalising wellbeing
This article addresses contemporary socio-ecological crises by proposing a shift from the logics of protection-sacrifice that characterise developmentality, and by developing the idea of 're-animalisation' as a pathway to multispecies justice. The pursuit of 'development' has been a key hallmark of the modern idea of progress. Long-standing critiques of the socio-ecological and other adverse impacts of development have not made much headway in ef…
Theme issue introduction
Animals are instrumentalised as symbols, objects, and commodities in the construction of diverse subaltern and elite human identities and identity politics in India, through their imposed identification with various human groups, with enduring implications for animal and human (in)justice and wellbeing. Species, as itself as an axis of social difference, and therefore of identity, however, has hitherto rarely been considered as a core facet of id…
South Asian Urban Climates
This Interventions essay presents 14 stories of, and positions on, urban climates in South Asia. The authors analyze the terms 'mahaul,' 'mausam,' and 'aab-o-hawa' as critical concepts to conceptualize climate in its political, social, historical, atmospheric, ecological, material, sensory, and embodied registers. The stories connect concerns about broader structural conditions ('mahaul'); local and lived experiences in different temporal registe…
The Social Science Imagination in India
The social sciences have played a significant role in challenging and \npoliticising various forms of exploitation. However, Indian social \nscience discourse has largely ignored the exploitation that is inherent \nin most human–non-human relationships and, at times, even actively \ndelegitimised any efforts to question the same. This paper tries to \nunderstand why the ethical aspects of human–non-human (specifically, \nanimal) interactions have…
Debating animal agriculture in contemporary India
This paper investigates social science literatures and public discourse on animal-based food systems in India to examine how social, ecological, and animal justice concerns are addressed (or not). The Indian livestock sector is estimated to be the largest in the world, with significant implications for local and planetary natures and the individual animals that compose the sector. The intensification of livestock production in India has unfolded …
In search of common ground
Crafting scholarly alliances for multispecies justice
This commentary responds to Bram Büscher's critique of the more-than-human turn. As a more-than-human geographer, I find myself in agreement in with the broad tenor of the concerns about ontological idealism and relationality expressed in Bram's paper, and welcome its recognition of the emancipatory aims of more-than-human scholarship. However, I show that more-than-human literatures are far more diverse than Bram's characterisation of the field …
Some problems in determining the number of acceptors needed in a family planning programme to achieve a specified reduction in the birth rate
The paper attempts to revive professional interest in a problem originally considered by Lee and Isbister and which has assumed added importance recently because of the increasing number of national family planning programmes that are being instituted, which require the determination of the number of acceptors needed in a family planning programme in order to achieve a specified reduction in the birth rate. The publication of subsequent papers on…
Some problems in determining the number of acceptors needed in a family planning programme to achieve a specified reduction in the birth rate
The paper attempts to revive professional interest in a problem originally considered by Lee and Isbister and which has assumed added importance recently because of the increasing number of national family planning programmes that are being instituted, which require the determination of the number of acceptors needed in a family planning programme in order to achieve a specified reduction in the birth rate. The publication of subsequent papers on…
The Age of Vidyaranya
Regulating Reproduction in India's Population
The Lubbers II cabinet and the quest for perfection, 1986–1989
The Netherlands is no longer a colonial power but it plays a significant rôle in European and international affairs. Ruud Lubbers, leader of the Christian Democrats, was prime minister of the Netherlands from 1982 to 1994, at the head of a series of coalition governments. His second term of office, from 1986 to 1989, was characterized by a search for perfection at home and abroad which created occasional conflicts between a high moral tone in int…
Evaluation of anti-inflammatory activity of Pongamia pinnata leaves in rats
The 11 September 2001 and after
Rise, Decline and Future of the British Commonwealth
Anti-bacterial activity of Euphorbia fusiformis—A rare medicinal herb
Effect of mangiferin on hyperglycemia and atherogenicity in streptozotocin diabetic rats
Mast cell stabilizing effects of Sphaeranthus indicus
The Social Science Imagination in India
The social sciences have played a significant role in challenging and \npoliticising various forms of exploitation. However, Indian social \nscience discourse has largely ignored the exploitation that is inherent \nin most human–non-human relationships and, at times, even actively \ndelegitimised any efforts to question the same. This paper tries to \nunderstand why the ethical aspects of human–non-human (specifically, \nanimal) interactions have…
The biopolitics of animal being and welfare
The UK is widely regarded as a nation committed to animal welfare. On the other hand, the precarious lives of India's stray dogs have attracted a considerable amount of international animal activist attention, and raised questions about the nation's indifference to these animals. Furthermore, animal welfare practice and policy in India are significantly shaped by British law and practice, which is often considered superior. While these contrastin…
Caring for the Collective
This paper explores turtle conservation in Odisha, India, to map the complicated ways in which animal well-being is pursued in the contemporary world. Using insights from Foucault's work on biopolitics, it offers an account of conservation as population politics, questioning the entanglement of harm and care that infuses this space of more-than-human social change. In doing this, the paper elaborates the concept of agential subjectification in or…
Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) DC arrests cell cycle and induces apoptosis via caspase-3/7 activation in breast cancer cells
In vitro mechanistic and in vivo anti-tumor studies of Glycosmis pentaphylla (Retz.) DC against breast cancer
Political ecology, development, and human exceptionalism
Towards a political animal geography
Biopower
This entry discusses biopower with specific reference to the Foucauldian tradition that has inspired its popularization and wide usage as an analytical device. An overview of Foucault's initial theorization of biopower is followed by an account of the main ideas – population, governmentality, the intertwining of welfare and violence, and subjectification – encapsulated by this concept of “the power over life” and which have proven to be of much s…
Conservation and Invasive Alien Species
This chapter examines the abuse towards animals involved in the conservationist management of invasive alien species (IAS). It explores how the conservationist space of care becomes infused with discourses and practices that harm the very object of conservationist care—nonhuman nature. After outlining the prevalence and problematic nature of dominant approaches to IAS, the chapter draws on a Foucauldian analytical framework and literatures on the…
Species abundance and temporal variation of arbovirus vectors in Brownsville, Texas
The recent outbreaks of the dengue fever and West Nile viruses and the looming threats of the Zika and chikungunya viruses highlight the importance of establishing effective, proactive arboviral surveillance in communities at high risk of transmission, such as those on the Texas–Mexico border. Currently, there are no approved human vaccines available for these mosquito-borne diseases, so entomological control and case management are the only know…
Promising anticancer activities of Justicia simplex D. Don . in cellular and animal models
In search of common ground
Conservation biopolitics and the sustainability episteme
This paper develops the idea of the sustainability episteme for the critical analysis of contemporary wildlife conservation. It takes forward recent work in conservation and more-than-human geographies that questions the biopolitical emphasis in conservation on protecting collectivities such as species. Drawing on empirical research on turtle conservation in India and on Foucault's writings, it inspects how these animals and their wellbeing come …
Revisiting social natures
Remaking more‐than‐human society
This paper examines the socio‐legal and everyday moral geographies of human cohabitation with free‐living dogs in India to think through what is implicated in living with nonhuman difference on a planet where the social and the natural are inextricably entangled. It investigates the contours of canine cosmopolitanism in Chennai city and theorises street dogs as unintentional natures to problematise dominant ideas about valued and pestilent nonhum…
Sociology (20 works) · Environmental ethics (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (17 works) · Biology (15 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Ecology (13 works) · Philosophy (10 works)