Nari Senanayake
Biographic Data
| ID | 1296762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nari Senanayake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nari |
| FAMILY NAME | Senanayake |
| SIGNATURE | SENANAYAKE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4464-3844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Towards a feminist political ecology of health
This article argues for a more rigorous engagement with intersectionality within political ecologies of health. Building on the work of feminist scholars who explore the co-production of social and ecological differences, I examine how health improvement schemes that target practices of natural resource use concentrate value (economic and ecological) and health dividends in particular bodies at the expense of others. As part of this intervention,…
We are the living dead”, or, the Precarious Stabilisation of Liminal Life in the Presence of CKDu
This article examines how everyday encounters with kidney disease treatment in Sri Lanka’s dry zone generate distinct space‐times of liminality. Building on work that explores the alternative coordinates of biopolitical intervention, I argue that health improvement schemes in the dry zone yield complex materialisations of “living death” in conditions of austerity, poverty, and aridity. Specifically, I illustrate how intervention reconfigures body…
We Spray So We Can Live
In March 2015, Sri Lanka’s then-President Maithripala Sirisena launched the Toxic Free Nation Movement as a long-term solution to a mysterious form of kidney disease (CKDu) now endemic in the island’s dry zone. As part of this strategy, in 2016 the movement worked with farmers in north-central Sri Lanka to cultivate indigenous rice varieties without agrochemicals. Yet, within a year, 80 percent of farmers who experimented with indigenous and orga…
Research As Development
Book forum on 'Research as Development
Theorising liminal states of health
This paper demonstrates how greater engagement with liminality – as a concept and lived experience – can expand scholarly conceptualisations of health/disease in contaminated spaces. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Sri Lanka's dry zone between 2013 and 2017, I focus on residents' encounters with chronic kidney disease diagnosis in a region where the causes of illness are uncertain, the consequences of disease are often deadly, and …
Geographies of uncertainty
The Podcast-as-Method
In this article, we consider the potentials and limitations of podcasts as a geographic research method by reflecting upon our own podcast project that focused on a graduate student unionization movement. We found that the podcast medium allowed us to approach this study in innovative ways. First, podcasts can communicate visceral elements of data through speakers' voices, potentially changing how an audience responds to the research. Second, an …
Searching for CKDu
Tasting toxicity
In Sri Lanka’s dry zone, a mysterious form of chronic kidney disease has inspired myriad interventions to improve rural health. Chief among these are strategies to promote more ‘healthy’ consumption practices among residents by reconfiguring the dry zone’s water supply and agricultural systems. This article examines how these ongoing schemes to improve kidney health reorder the visual, haptic, and olfactory cues that residents use to measure envi…
Health-environment futures
The relationships between human health and the environment have captivated scholarly attention across a number of disciplinary and policy domains. This article reviews emerging health-environment research, which we categorize into three themes: complexity, uncertainty, and bodies. Although there have been robust contributions to these thematic areas from geography and the social sciences, we argue that integrating them into an analytical framewor…
Geographies of uncertainty
Tasting toxicity
In Sri Lanka’s dry zone, a mysterious form of chronic kidney disease has inspired myriad interventions to improve rural health. Chief among these are strategies to promote more ‘healthy’ consumption practices among residents by reconfiguring the dry zone’s water supply and agricultural systems. This article examines how these ongoing schemes to improve kidney health reorder the visual, haptic, and olfactory cues that residents use to measure envi…
Health-environment futures
The relationships between human health and the environment have captivated scholarly attention across a number of disciplinary and policy domains. This article reviews emerging health-environment research, which we categorize into three themes: complexity, uncertainty, and bodies. Although there have been robust contributions to these thematic areas from geography and the social sciences, we argue that integrating them into an analytical framewor…
The Podcast-as-Method
In this article, we consider the potentials and limitations of podcasts as a geographic research method by reflecting upon our own podcast project that focused on a graduate student unionization movement. We found that the podcast medium allowed us to approach this study in innovative ways. First, podcasts can communicate visceral elements of data through speakers' voices, potentially changing how an audience responds to the research. Second, an …
Searching for CKDu
We Spray So We Can Live
In March 2015, Sri Lanka’s then-President Maithripala Sirisena launched the Toxic Free Nation Movement as a long-term solution to a mysterious form of kidney disease (CKDu) now endemic in the island’s dry zone. As part of this strategy, in 2016 the movement worked with farmers in north-central Sri Lanka to cultivate indigenous rice varieties without agrochemicals. Yet, within a year, 80 percent of farmers who experimented with indigenous and orga…
Theorising liminal states of health
This paper demonstrates how greater engagement with liminality – as a concept and lived experience – can expand scholarly conceptualisations of health/disease in contaminated spaces. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Sri Lanka's dry zone between 2013 and 2017, I focus on residents' encounters with chronic kidney disease diagnosis in a region where the causes of illness are uncertain, the consequences of disease are often deadly, and …
We are the living dead”, or, the Precarious Stabilisation of Liminal Life in the Presence of CKDu
This article examines how everyday encounters with kidney disease treatment in Sri Lanka’s dry zone generate distinct space‐times of liminality. Building on work that explores the alternative coordinates of biopolitical intervention, I argue that health improvement schemes in the dry zone yield complex materialisations of “living death” in conditions of austerity, poverty, and aridity. Specifically, I illustrate how intervention reconfigures body…
Towards a feminist political ecology of health
This article argues for a more rigorous engagement with intersectionality within political ecologies of health. Building on the work of feminist scholars who explore the co-production of social and ecological differences, I examine how health improvement schemes that target practices of natural resource use concentrate value (economic and ecological) and health dividends in particular bodies at the expense of others. As part of this intervention,…
Health-environment futures
The relationships between human health and the environment have captivated scholarly attention across a number of disciplinary and policy domains. This article reviews emerging health-environment research, which we categorize into three themes: complexity, uncertainty, and bodies. Although there have been robust contributions to these thematic areas from geography and the social sciences, we argue that integrating them into an analytical framewor…
Searching for CKDu
Tasting toxicity
In Sri Lanka’s dry zone, a mysterious form of chronic kidney disease has inspired myriad interventions to improve rural health. Chief among these are strategies to promote more ‘healthy’ consumption practices among residents by reconfiguring the dry zone’s water supply and agricultural systems. This article examines how these ongoing schemes to improve kidney health reorder the visual, haptic, and olfactory cues that residents use to measure envi…
Geographies of uncertainty
The Podcast-as-Method
In this article, we consider the potentials and limitations of podcasts as a geographic research method by reflecting upon our own podcast project that focused on a graduate student unionization movement. We found that the podcast medium allowed us to approach this study in innovative ways. First, podcasts can communicate visceral elements of data through speakers' voices, potentially changing how an audience responds to the research. Second, an …
Theorising liminal states of health
This paper demonstrates how greater engagement with liminality – as a concept and lived experience – can expand scholarly conceptualisations of health/disease in contaminated spaces. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Sri Lanka's dry zone between 2013 and 2017, I focus on residents' encounters with chronic kidney disease diagnosis in a region where the causes of illness are uncertain, the consequences of disease are often deadly, and …
We are the living dead”, or, the Precarious Stabilisation of Liminal Life in the Presence of CKDu
This article examines how everyday encounters with kidney disease treatment in Sri Lanka’s dry zone generate distinct space‐times of liminality. Building on work that explores the alternative coordinates of biopolitical intervention, I argue that health improvement schemes in the dry zone yield complex materialisations of “living death” in conditions of austerity, poverty, and aridity. Specifically, I illustrate how intervention reconfigures body…
We Spray So We Can Live
In March 2015, Sri Lanka’s then-President Maithripala Sirisena launched the Toxic Free Nation Movement as a long-term solution to a mysterious form of kidney disease (CKDu) now endemic in the island’s dry zone. As part of this strategy, in 2016 the movement worked with farmers in north-central Sri Lanka to cultivate indigenous rice varieties without agrochemicals. Yet, within a year, 80 percent of farmers who experimented with indigenous and orga…
Research As Development
Book forum on 'Research as Development
Towards a feminist political ecology of health
This article argues for a more rigorous engagement with intersectionality within political ecologies of health. Building on the work of feminist scholars who explore the co-production of social and ecological differences, I examine how health improvement schemes that target practices of natural resource use concentrate value (economic and ecological) and health dividends in particular bodies at the expense of others. As part of this intervention,…
Sociology (9 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works)