Dalia Iskander
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340949 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dalia Iskander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dalia |
| FAMILY NAME | Iskander |
| SIGNATURE | ISKANDER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1885-6467 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Depleted by Debt: “Green” Microfinance, Over‐Indebtedness , and Social Reproduction in Climate‐Vulnerable Cambodia
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in the context of daily, ongoing, and often slow‐onset climate disasters. Microfinance products and services are claimed to enhance coping and adaptative capacity by facilitating both risk recovery and reduction. Challenging the status quo, this paper brings together orig…
Coming to life’ through crafting miniature dioramas of home
In 1823, Daguerre and Bouton brought their invention to the UK – the diorama. Huge, back-lit canvases appeared to come ‘alive’ and offer audiences ‘through-views’ of the world. Here, I present ethnographic data on how contemporary dioramas at the other end of the scale – the miniature – are made, and how this affords makers ‘through-views’ of life. I describe how three UK-based practitioners create scaled-down three-dimensional dioramas of home. …
Sick of debt: How over-indebtedness is hampering health in rural Cambodia
This paper evidences how many rural poor Cambodians are sick of debt. Based on original, mixed-method data (2020-2022), exploring credit provisioning in this context, the aim of this paper is to illuminate some of the conditions leading to rural Cambodians taking on debt to bolster their health, and the effects this is having on borrowers' physical, psychological, emotional and social health. Specifically, we show how the health of our participan…
Wakeful Geographies, Wakeful Bodies: Day and Nighttime Rhythms of Indebted Life and Capitalist Enclosure in Cambodia
For a discipline so oriented around the study of wakeful geographies, the lack of direct conceptual engagement with the notion of wakefulness-a cognitive state in which the mind is conscious of, and responsive to, the external world-is all-the-more remarkable. In this article we advance geography by probing and revealing the links that exist between wakefulness and indebted life under capitalism. We show how villagers in rural Cambodia experience…
Power of Parasites: Malaria As conscious Strategy
The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy
Practices of Progress
Practices of Professionalisation
Practices of Oppression
Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: Interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment
BACKGROUND: This study evaluates changes in sales of non-alcoholic beverages in Jamie's Italian, a national chain of commercial restaurants in the UK, following the introduction of a £0.10 per-beverage levy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and supporting activity including beverage menu redesign, new products and establishment of a children's health fund from levy proceeds. METHODS: We used an interrupted time series design to quantify changes…
Taking rumours seriously: Why organ thieves matter to malaria control
This article documents what happened when a group of researchers tried to gain consent to carry out a survey for a malaria‐related research project in the Sabah region of Malaysia at the end of 2015. Within weeks, rumours had begun to spread on social media that the team were fake and using the guise of a research project to steal organs. The refusal to participate is often considered only relevant to researchers in so far as it has implications …
Depleted by Debt: “Green” Microfinance, Over‐Indebtedness , and Social Reproduction in Climate‐Vulnerable Cambodia
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in the context of daily, ongoing, and often slow‐onset climate disasters. Microfinance products and services are claimed to enhance coping and adaptative capacity by facilitating both risk recovery and reduction. Challenging the status quo, this paper brings together orig…
Wakeful Geographies, Wakeful Bodies: Day and Nighttime Rhythms of Indebted Life and Capitalist Enclosure in Cambodia
For a discipline so oriented around the study of wakeful geographies, the lack of direct conceptual engagement with the notion of wakefulness-a cognitive state in which the mind is conscious of, and responsive to, the external world-is all-the-more remarkable. In this article we advance geography by probing and revealing the links that exist between wakefulness and indebted life under capitalism. We show how villagers in rural Cambodia experience…
Sick of debt: How over-indebtedness is hampering health in rural Cambodia
This paper evidences how many rural poor Cambodians are sick of debt. Based on original, mixed-method data (2020-2022), exploring credit provisioning in this context, the aim of this paper is to illuminate some of the conditions leading to rural Cambodians taking on debt to bolster their health, and the effects this is having on borrowers' physical, psychological, emotional and social health. Specifically, we show how the health of our participan…
Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: Interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment
BACKGROUND: This study evaluates changes in sales of non-alcoholic beverages in Jamie's Italian, a national chain of commercial restaurants in the UK, following the introduction of a £0.10 per-beverage levy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and supporting activity including beverage menu redesign, new products and establishment of a children's health fund from levy proceeds. METHODS: We used an interrupted time series design to quantify changes…
Change in non-alcoholic beverage sales following a 10-pence levy on sugar-sweetened beverages within a national chain of restaurants in the UK: Interrupted time series analysis of a natural experiment
BACKGROUND: This study evaluates changes in sales of non-alcoholic beverages in Jamie's Italian, a national chain of commercial restaurants in the UK, following the introduction of a £0.10 per-beverage levy on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) and supporting activity including beverage menu redesign, new products and establishment of a children's health fund from levy proceeds. METHODS: We used an interrupted time series design to quantify changes…
Taking rumours seriously: Why organ thieves matter to malaria control
This article documents what happened when a group of researchers tried to gain consent to carry out a survey for a malaria‐related research project in the Sabah region of Malaysia at the end of 2015. Within weeks, rumours had begun to spread on social media that the team were fake and using the guise of a research project to steal organs. The refusal to participate is often considered only relevant to researchers in so far as it has implications …
The Power of Parasites: Malaria as (un)conscious strategy
Practices of Progress
Practices of Professionalisation
Practices of Oppression
Power of Parasites: Malaria As conscious Strategy
Wakeful Geographies, Wakeful Bodies: Day and Nighttime Rhythms of Indebted Life and Capitalist Enclosure in Cambodia
For a discipline so oriented around the study of wakeful geographies, the lack of direct conceptual engagement with the notion of wakefulness-a cognitive state in which the mind is conscious of, and responsive to, the external world-is all-the-more remarkable. In this article we advance geography by probing and revealing the links that exist between wakefulness and indebted life under capitalism. We show how villagers in rural Cambodia experience…
Depleted by Debt: “Green” Microfinance, Over‐Indebtedness , and Social Reproduction in Climate‐Vulnerable Cambodia
The operations of microfinance are exalted in mainstream development thinking as a key means of supporting smallholder farmers facing growing crises of agricultural productivity in the context of daily, ongoing, and often slow‐onset climate disasters. Microfinance products and services are claimed to enhance coping and adaptative capacity by facilitating both risk recovery and reduction. Challenging the status quo, this paper brings together orig…
Coming to life’ through crafting miniature dioramas of home
In 1823, Daguerre and Bouton brought their invention to the UK – the diorama. Huge, back-lit canvases appeared to come ‘alive’ and offer audiences ‘through-views’ of the world. Here, I present ethnographic data on how contemporary dioramas at the other end of the scale – the miniature – are made, and how this affords makers ‘through-views’ of life. I describe how three UK-based practitioners create scaled-down three-dimensional dioramas of home. …
Sick of debt: How over-indebtedness is hampering health in rural Cambodia
This paper evidences how many rural poor Cambodians are sick of debt. Based on original, mixed-method data (2020-2022), exploring credit provisioning in this context, the aim of this paper is to illuminate some of the conditions leading to rural Cambodians taking on debt to bolster their health, and the effects this is having on borrowers' physical, psychological, emotional and social health. Specifically, we show how the health of our participan…
Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Malaria (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Public relations (3 works)