Amita Bhakta
Biographic Data
| ID | 1795201 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amita Bhakta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amita |
| FAMILY NAME | Bhakta |
| SIGNATURE | BHAKTA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1369-1600 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Clean cooking for every ‘body’: Including people with disabilities in modern energy cooking services in the global south
Clean cooking solutions, with greater access to cleaner and safer cooking fuels than traditional energy sources, are key to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all. However, the needs of the 1 billion people living with disabilities globally who face disproportionate levels of poverty, poor access to nutrition, and challenges with buying and preparing food, have been neglected from discussions aroun…
A less muddy glee? Perspectives from a disabled researcher in the era of virtual global south fieldwork
Challenges to the changing spaces of geography fieldwork have been pronounced during the COVID‐19 pandemic, through one of the most significant shifts since Bracken and Mawdsley wrote ‘Muddy glee’ in 2004, from ‘doing’ to ‘imagining’ fieldwork. Drawing on personal involvement in conducting virtual qualitative fieldwork during the pandemic on the experiences of older people with incontinence and their caregivers in Ethiopia and Malawi as a researc…
Which door should I go through?” (In)visible intersections of race and disability in the academy
Institutional inclusivity and diversity have been an increasing focus of debate within the academy. For the discipline of geography and universities more broadly to become fully inclusive, greater attention is warranted within these debates on the intersection of race and disability. An existing lack of discussion on relations between race and disability in the academy draws attention to the invisibility of disabled academics of black and minorit…
Unveiling hidden knowledge: Discovering the hygiene needs of perimenopausal women
The provision of adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to ensure good health and wellbeing for all is incorporated into the Sustainable Development Goals, with the aim to ‘leave no-one behind’. The WASH needs of perimenopausal (PM) women are largely absent from academic literature.\nThese personal needs are hidden knowledge. However, this article demonstrates the use of participative methodologies to ‘unveil’ these. A UK-based ph…
Making space for disability in eco-homes and eco-communities
There is continued failure to build homes for diverse and disabled occupancy. We use three eco-communities inEngland to explore how their eco-houses and wider community spaces accommodate the complex disability of hypotonic cerebral palsy. Using site visits, video footage, spatial mapping, field diary observations, surveys and interviews, this paper argues that little attention has been paid to making eco-communities and eco-houses accessible. Th…
Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses
Undergraduate fieldcourses to destinations in the global South have received much critical scholarly and pedagogic attention. This article reflects on a third‐year Geography fieldcourse to K enya, which aimed to collaborate with local partners in providing an immersive and co‐constitutive learning environment that transcended the politics of knowledge production defining the global South as a distanciated object of study. We shape our reflections…
Which door should I go through?” (In)visible intersections of race and disability in the academy
Institutional inclusivity and diversity have been an increasing focus of debate within the academy. For the discipline of geography and universities more broadly to become fully inclusive, greater attention is warranted within these debates on the intersection of race and disability. An existing lack of discussion on relations between race and disability in the academy draws attention to the invisibility of disabled academics of black and minorit…
A less muddy glee? Perspectives from a disabled researcher in the era of virtual global south fieldwork
Challenges to the changing spaces of geography fieldwork have been pronounced during the COVID‐19 pandemic, through one of the most significant shifts since Bracken and Mawdsley wrote ‘Muddy glee’ in 2004, from ‘doing’ to ‘imagining’ fieldwork. Drawing on personal involvement in conducting virtual qualitative fieldwork during the pandemic on the experiences of older people with incontinence and their caregivers in Ethiopia and Malawi as a researc…
Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses
Undergraduate fieldcourses to destinations in the global South have received much critical scholarly and pedagogic attention. This article reflects on a third‐year Geography fieldcourse to K enya, which aimed to collaborate with local partners in providing an immersive and co‐constitutive learning environment that transcended the politics of knowledge production defining the global South as a distanciated object of study. We shape our reflections…
Clean cooking for every ‘body’: Including people with disabilities in modern energy cooking services in the global south
Clean cooking solutions, with greater access to cleaner and safer cooking fuels than traditional energy sources, are key to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all. However, the needs of the 1 billion people living with disabilities globally who face disproportionate levels of poverty, poor access to nutrition, and challenges with buying and preparing food, have been neglected from discussions aroun…
Negotiating the responsibilities of collaborative undergraduate fieldcourses
Undergraduate fieldcourses to destinations in the global South have received much critical scholarly and pedagogic attention. This article reflects on a third‐year Geography fieldcourse to K enya, which aimed to collaborate with local partners in providing an immersive and co‐constitutive learning environment that transcended the politics of knowledge production defining the global South as a distanciated object of study. We shape our reflections…
Making space for disability in eco-homes and eco-communities
There is continued failure to build homes for diverse and disabled occupancy. We use three eco-communities inEngland to explore how their eco-houses and wider community spaces accommodate the complex disability of hypotonic cerebral palsy. Using site visits, video footage, spatial mapping, field diary observations, surveys and interviews, this paper argues that little attention has been paid to making eco-communities and eco-houses accessible. Th…
Unveiling hidden knowledge: Discovering the hygiene needs of perimenopausal women
The provision of adequate water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services to ensure good health and wellbeing for all is incorporated into the Sustainable Development Goals, with the aim to ‘leave no-one behind’. The WASH needs of perimenopausal (PM) women are largely absent from academic literature.\nThese personal needs are hidden knowledge. However, this article demonstrates the use of participative methodologies to ‘unveil’ these. A UK-based ph…
Which door should I go through?” (In)visible intersections of race and disability in the academy
Institutional inclusivity and diversity have been an increasing focus of debate within the academy. For the discipline of geography and universities more broadly to become fully inclusive, greater attention is warranted within these debates on the intersection of race and disability. An existing lack of discussion on relations between race and disability in the academy draws attention to the invisibility of disabled academics of black and minorit…
A less muddy glee? Perspectives from a disabled researcher in the era of virtual global south fieldwork
Challenges to the changing spaces of geography fieldwork have been pronounced during the COVID‐19 pandemic, through one of the most significant shifts since Bracken and Mawdsley wrote ‘Muddy glee’ in 2004, from ‘doing’ to ‘imagining’ fieldwork. Drawing on personal involvement in conducting virtual qualitative fieldwork during the pandemic on the experiences of older people with incontinence and their caregivers in Ethiopia and Malawi as a researc…
Clean cooking for every ‘body’: Including people with disabilities in modern energy cooking services in the global south
Clean cooking solutions, with greater access to cleaner and safer cooking fuels than traditional energy sources, are key to ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy services for all. However, the needs of the 1 billion people living with disabilities globally who face disproportionate levels of poverty, poor access to nutrition, and challenges with buying and preparing food, have been neglected from discussions aroun…
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Geography (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (2 works) · Space (punctuation) (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works)