Sanjeev Arora
Biographic Data
| ID | 180233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sanjeev Arora |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sanjeev |
| FAMILY NAME | Arora |
| SIGNATURE | ARORA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8836-6821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 125 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Modern worldmaking and the 21st century colonial genocide in Gaza
Commonplace analyses of responsibility for Israel’s genocide against Gaza come in concentric circles. In the innermost circle, responsibility is attributed to Israel’s ruling politicians. The circle is widened to include the Israeli military, its settler-colonial political culture, the US’s massive military aid, and (most broadly) Western imperialism and racial capitalism. Extending the latter analyses, we situate this genocide in the globally he…
Decolonising innovation in sustainability transitions for pluriversal justice and wellbeing
Describes epistemological and ontological foundations of colonial-modern patterns of innovation that are dominant today; • Proposes decolonial transformations of modernity’s ‘one-world’ innovation processes; • Articulates pluriversal justice with decolonisation of modern innovation processes. Sustainability scholars address social-ecological injustices associated with innovation processes, through concepts such as ‘just transitions’ and ‘energy j…
Agricultural innovations for sustainability? Diverse pathways and plural perspectives on rice seeds in Odisha, India
We focus on alternative innovation pathways for addressing agricultural sustainability challenges in Odisha, India. The first pathway that we term as industrial, is focused on breeding new seed varieties in modern laboratories and test fields, ostensibly for climate resilience. It is driven by public scientific institutions and private corporations. The second pathway that we call agroecological, is grounded in saving and sharing of diverse local…
Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya's agricultural policy and smallholders
To address intensifying social and environmental challenges, development policy must learn from inclusions and exclusions of past discourses. We analyse Kenya's post‐colonial agricultural policy discourse. Our analysis reveals a near‐exclusive focus on the promotion of agricultural modernisation based on industrial farm inputs, a bureaucratic state and/or ‘the liberalised market’. It was with this thrust to modernise that smallholders (and other …
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions
Through European colonialisms spanning five centuries, coloniality – as intersectional stratification and violence directed against ‘other worlds’ – has been central to the making of modern societies worldwide. However, these colonial modernities are very rarely addressed within studies on sustainability transitions. This dearth of attention means that transitions scholars risk failing to challenge the reproduction of colonially accumulated power…
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India
Confronting social exclusion is considered critical for grappling with poverty, livelihoods, inequality and participation in rural India. Studies highlight how exclusion is produced through hierarchical relations of caste, gender, class, religion, disability and ethnicity, while documenting people's agency to confront exclusions. However, the making of such agency through people's relations with ecologies and technologies is currently neglected. …
Impact of Technology Driven Mental Health Task-shifting for Accredited Social Health Activists (Ashas): Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial of Two Methods of Training
“Peace engineering in practice: A case study at the University of New Mexico”
This article presents an overview of Peace Engineering activities at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Engineering (SOE) and Health Sciences Center (HSC). In 2018, UNM's SOE hosted the joint summit of the World Engineering Education Forum and Global Engineering Deans Council. The theme, “Peace Engineering,” focused on science and engineering-based solutions to the world's grand challenges. Outcomes of this first global conference on Pe…
Smart as (un)democratic? The making of a smart city imaginary in Kolkata, India
‘Smart’ imaginaries have been enthusiastically embraced by urban planners and policymakers around the world. Indians are no exception. Between 2015–2018, following national government guidelines to use participatory and inclusive processes, many cities developed proposals for a smart city challenge. Successful proposals received financial and technical support from the national government. We examine the making of the smart city proposal submitte…
Relational approaches to poverty in rural India: Social, ecological and technical dynamics
Poverty is now widely recognised as multidimensional, with indicators including healthcare, housing and sanitation. Yet, relational approaches that foreground political-cultural processes remain marginalised in policy discourses. Focusing on India, we review a wide range of relational approaches to rural poverty. Beginning with early approaches that focus on structural reproduction of class, caste and to a lesser extent gender inequality, we exam…
How Policy Marginalizes Diversity: Politics of Knowledge in India’s Biodiesel Promotion
India’s 2009 policy on biodiesel remains controversial to date. It excludes voices of marginalized people such as landless workers and knowledges associated with diverse feedstock cultivation practices. It considers the ‘upscaling’ of biodiesel production to be straightforward, based on easy transferability between diverse socio-material contexts. The policy’s marginalization of the immense diversity of India’s lands, peoples, perspectives, and p…
Strategies Used by Interprofessional Teams to Counter Healthcare Marginalization and Engage Complex Patients
Low-income U.S. patients with co-occurring behavioral and physical health conditions often struggle to obtain high-quality health care. The health and sociocultural resources of such "complex" patients are misaligned with expectations in most medical settings, which ask patients to mobilize forms of these assets common among healthier and wealthier populations. Thus, complex patients encounter barriers to engagement with their health behaviors an…
Material meanings: ‘Waste’ as a performative category of land in colonial India
Evaluation of American Indian Health Service Training in Pain Management and Opioid Substance Use Disorder
We examined the benefits of a collaboration between the Indian Health Service and an academic medical center to address the high rates of unintentional drug overdose in American Indians/Alaska Natives. In January 2015, the Indian Health Service became the first federal agency to mandate training in pain and opioid substance use disorder for all prescribing clinicians. More than 1300 Indian Health Service clinicians were trained in 7 possible 5-ho…
Nonhumans in the practice of development: Material agency and friction in a small-scale energy program in Indonesia
Cultures of Caste and Rural Development in the Social Network of a South Indian Village
Cultures of caste in much of rural India have become entangled with institutions of rural development. In community-driven development, emphasis on “local resource persons” and “community spokespersons” has created new opportunities for brokerage and patronage within some villages, which interact with existing forms of authority and community afforded by caste identity and intra-caste headmanship. In this article, we study how these entangled cul…
Rules and Values: A Coordinated Regulatory and Educational Approach to the Public Health Crises of Chronic Pain and Addiction
Chronic pain and opioid addiction are 2 pressing public health problems, and prescribing clinicians often lack the skills necessary to manage these conditions. Our study sought to address the benefits of a coalition of an academic medical center pain faculty and government agencies in addressing the high unintentional overdose death rates in New Mexico. New Mexico’s 2012–2013 mandated chronic pain and addiction education programs studied more tha…
Gatherings of Mobility and Immobility
In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility practices can be adequately captured by relational dialecticism espoused by leading mobilities scholars. Rather than emerging as an opposition through dialectics, the relationship between (relative) mobil…
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in Echo: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in ECHO: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers Carmela Socolovsky, BA , Christopher Masi, MD, PhD , Tamara Hamlish, PhD , Glen Aduana, MD , Sanjeev Arora, MD , George Bakris, MD , and Daniel Johnson, MD What Is the Purpose of This Study? • To assess the strengths and weaknesses of the University of Chicago ECHO hypertension curriculum by interviewing providers who participated in …
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in Echo: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers
Our results indicate that ECHO indeed reflects the key tenants of Social Cognitive Theory, Situated Learning Theory, and Community of Practice Theory. Several aspects of our ECHO curriculum can be improved by more complete application of these learning theories
Cultivating Compliance: Governance of North Indian Organic Basmati Smallholders in a Global Value Chain
Focusing on a global value chain (GVC) for organic basmati rice, we study how farmers' practices are governed through product and process standards, organic certification protocols, and contracts with buyer firms. We analyze how farmers' entry into the GVC reconfigures their agencements (defined as heterogeneous arrangements of human and nonhuman agencies which are associated with each other). These reconfigurations entail the severance of some a…
Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Primary Care Providers
BACKGROUND: The Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model was developed to improve access to care for underserved populations with complex health problems such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. With the use of video-conferencing technology, the ECHO program trains primary care providers to treat complex diseases. METHODS: We conducted a prospective cohort study comparing treatment for HCV infection at the University of New Mexi…
Implementing seismic-resistant technologies in post-earthquake Pakistan: A process analysis of owner driven reconstruction
The empty rhetoric of poverty reduction at the base of the pyramid
This article criticizes recent Bottom (or, Base) of the Pyramid (BoP) approaches for 'cancelling out politics' by obscuring unequal power relations at different societal levels and painting an optimistic picture of win-win outcomes that will make (some of) the world's biggest corporations richer while simultaneously adding a few crucial pennies to the pockets of the poor. The article is thus positioned within a growing stream of literature critic…
The empty rhetoric of poverty reduction at the base of the pyramid
This article criticizes recent Bottom (or, Base) of the Pyramid (BoP) approaches for 'cancelling out politics' by obscuring unequal power relations at different societal levels and painting an optimistic picture of win-win outcomes that will make (some of) the world's biggest corporations richer while simultaneously adding a few crucial pennies to the pockets of the poor. The article is thus positioned within a growing stream of literature critic…
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions
Through European colonialisms spanning five centuries, coloniality – as intersectional stratification and violence directed against ‘other worlds’ – has been central to the making of modern societies worldwide. However, these colonial modernities are very rarely addressed within studies on sustainability transitions. This dearth of attention means that transitions scholars risk failing to challenge the reproduction of colonially accumulated power…
Nonhumans in the practice of development: Material agency and friction in a small-scale energy program in Indonesia
Strategies Used by Interprofessional Teams to Counter Healthcare Marginalization and Engage Complex Patients
Low-income U.S. patients with co-occurring behavioral and physical health conditions often struggle to obtain high-quality health care. The health and sociocultural resources of such "complex" patients are misaligned with expectations in most medical settings, which ask patients to mobilize forms of these assets common among healthier and wealthier populations. Thus, complex patients encounter barriers to engagement with their health behaviors an…
Smart as (un)democratic? The making of a smart city imaginary in Kolkata, India
‘Smart’ imaginaries have been enthusiastically embraced by urban planners and policymakers around the world. Indians are no exception. Between 2015–2018, following national government guidelines to use participatory and inclusive processes, many cities developed proposals for a smart city challenge. Successful proposals received financial and technical support from the national government. We examine the making of the smart city proposal submitte…
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in Echo: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers
Our results indicate that ECHO indeed reflects the key tenants of Social Cognitive Theory, Situated Learning Theory, and Community of Practice Theory. Several aspects of our ECHO curriculum can be improved by more complete application of these learning theories
Cultivating Compliance: Governance of North Indian Organic Basmati Smallholders in a Global Value Chain
Focusing on a global value chain (GVC) for organic basmati rice, we study how farmers' practices are governed through product and process standards, organic certification protocols, and contracts with buyer firms. We analyze how farmers' entry into the GVC reconfigures their agencements (defined as heterogeneous arrangements of human and nonhuman agencies which are associated with each other). These reconfigurations entail the severance of some a…
Relational approaches to poverty in rural India: Social, ecological and technical dynamics
Poverty is now widely recognised as multidimensional, with indicators including healthcare, housing and sanitation. Yet, relational approaches that foreground political-cultural processes remain marginalised in policy discourses. Focusing on India, we review a wide range of relational approaches to rural poverty. Beginning with early approaches that focus on structural reproduction of class, caste and to a lesser extent gender inequality, we exam…
Gatherings of Mobility and Immobility
In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility practices can be adequately captured by relational dialecticism espoused by leading mobilities scholars. Rather than emerging as an opposition through dialectics, the relationship between (relative) mobil…
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in Echo: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in ECHO: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers Carmela Socolovsky, BA , Christopher Masi, MD, PhD , Tamara Hamlish, PhD , Glen Aduana, MD , Sanjeev Arora, MD , George Bakris, MD , and Daniel Johnson, MD What Is the Purpose of This Study? • To assess the strengths and weaknesses of the University of Chicago ECHO hypertension curriculum by interviewing providers who participated in …
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India
Confronting social exclusion is considered critical for grappling with poverty, livelihoods, inequality and participation in rural India. Studies highlight how exclusion is produced through hierarchical relations of caste, gender, class, religion, disability and ethnicity, while documenting people's agency to confront exclusions. However, the making of such agency through people's relations with ecologies and technologies is currently neglected. …
Material meanings: ‘Waste’ as a performative category of land in colonial India
Rules and Values: A Coordinated Regulatory and Educational Approach to the Public Health Crises of Chronic Pain and Addiction
Chronic pain and opioid addiction are 2 pressing public health problems, and prescribing clinicians often lack the skills necessary to manage these conditions. Our study sought to address the benefits of a coalition of an academic medical center pain faculty and government agencies in addressing the high unintentional overdose death rates in New Mexico. New Mexico’s 2012–2013 mandated chronic pain and addiction education programs studied more tha…
Impact of Technology Driven Mental Health Task-shifting for Accredited Social Health Activists (Ashas): Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial of Two Methods of Training
How Policy Marginalizes Diversity: Politics of Knowledge in India’s Biodiesel Promotion
India’s 2009 policy on biodiesel remains controversial to date. It excludes voices of marginalized people such as landless workers and knowledges associated with diverse feedstock cultivation practices. It considers the ‘upscaling’ of biodiesel production to be straightforward, based on easy transferability between diverse socio-material contexts. The policy’s marginalization of the immense diversity of India’s lands, peoples, perspectives, and p…
Implementing seismic-resistant technologies in post-earthquake Pakistan: A process analysis of owner driven reconstruction
Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Primary Care Providers
BACKGROUND: The Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model was developed to improve access to care for underserved populations with complex health problems such as hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. With the use of video-conferencing technology, the ECHO program trains primary care providers to treat complex diseases. METHODS: We conducted a prospective cohort study comparing treatment for HCV infection at the University of New Mexi…
Implementing seismic-resistant technologies in post-earthquake Pakistan: A process analysis of owner driven reconstruction
The empty rhetoric of poverty reduction at the base of the pyramid
This article criticizes recent Bottom (or, Base) of the Pyramid (BoP) approaches for 'cancelling out politics' by obscuring unequal power relations at different societal levels and painting an optimistic picture of win-win outcomes that will make (some of) the world's biggest corporations richer while simultaneously adding a few crucial pennies to the pockets of the poor. The article is thus positioned within a growing stream of literature critic…
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in Echo: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in ECHO: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers Carmela Socolovsky, BA , Christopher Masi, MD, PhD , Tamara Hamlish, PhD , Glen Aduana, MD , Sanjeev Arora, MD , George Bakris, MD , and Daniel Johnson, MD What Is the Purpose of This Study? • To assess the strengths and weaknesses of the University of Chicago ECHO hypertension curriculum by interviewing providers who participated in …
Evaluating the Role of Key Learning Theories in Echo: A Telehealth Educational Program for Primary Care Providers
Our results indicate that ECHO indeed reflects the key tenants of Social Cognitive Theory, Situated Learning Theory, and Community of Practice Theory. Several aspects of our ECHO curriculum can be improved by more complete application of these learning theories
Cultivating Compliance: Governance of North Indian Organic Basmati Smallholders in a Global Value Chain
Focusing on a global value chain (GVC) for organic basmati rice, we study how farmers' practices are governed through product and process standards, organic certification protocols, and contracts with buyer firms. We analyze how farmers' entry into the GVC reconfigures their agencements (defined as heterogeneous arrangements of human and nonhuman agencies which are associated with each other). These reconfigurations entail the severance of some a…
Rules and Values: A Coordinated Regulatory and Educational Approach to the Public Health Crises of Chronic Pain and Addiction
Chronic pain and opioid addiction are 2 pressing public health problems, and prescribing clinicians often lack the skills necessary to manage these conditions. Our study sought to address the benefits of a coalition of an academic medical center pain faculty and government agencies in addressing the high unintentional overdose death rates in New Mexico. New Mexico’s 2012–2013 mandated chronic pain and addiction education programs studied more tha…
Gatherings of Mobility and Immobility
In retelling the history of “criminal tribe” settlements managed by the Salvation Army in Madras Presidency (colonial India) from 1911, I argue that neither the mobility–immobility relationship nor the compositional heterogeneity of (im)mobility practices can be adequately captured by relational dialecticism espoused by leading mobilities scholars. Rather than emerging as an opposition through dialectics, the relationship between (relative) mobil…
Cultures of Caste and Rural Development in the Social Network of a South Indian Village
Cultures of caste in much of rural India have become entangled with institutions of rural development. In community-driven development, emphasis on “local resource persons” and “community spokespersons” has created new opportunities for brokerage and patronage within some villages, which interact with existing forms of authority and community afforded by caste identity and intra-caste headmanship. In this article, we study how these entangled cul…
Material meanings: ‘Waste’ as a performative category of land in colonial India
Evaluation of American Indian Health Service Training in Pain Management and Opioid Substance Use Disorder
We examined the benefits of a collaboration between the Indian Health Service and an academic medical center to address the high rates of unintentional drug overdose in American Indians/Alaska Natives. In January 2015, the Indian Health Service became the first federal agency to mandate training in pain and opioid substance use disorder for all prescribing clinicians. More than 1300 Indian Health Service clinicians were trained in 7 possible 5-ho…
Nonhumans in the practice of development: Material agency and friction in a small-scale energy program in Indonesia
Relational approaches to poverty in rural India: Social, ecological and technical dynamics
Poverty is now widely recognised as multidimensional, with indicators including healthcare, housing and sanitation. Yet, relational approaches that foreground political-cultural processes remain marginalised in policy discourses. Focusing on India, we review a wide range of relational approaches to rural poverty. Beginning with early approaches that focus on structural reproduction of class, caste and to a lesser extent gender inequality, we exam…
How Policy Marginalizes Diversity: Politics of Knowledge in India’s Biodiesel Promotion
India’s 2009 policy on biodiesel remains controversial to date. It excludes voices of marginalized people such as landless workers and knowledges associated with diverse feedstock cultivation practices. It considers the ‘upscaling’ of biodiesel production to be straightforward, based on easy transferability between diverse socio-material contexts. The policy’s marginalization of the immense diversity of India’s lands, peoples, perspectives, and p…
Strategies Used by Interprofessional Teams to Counter Healthcare Marginalization and Engage Complex Patients
Low-income U.S. patients with co-occurring behavioral and physical health conditions often struggle to obtain high-quality health care. The health and sociocultural resources of such "complex" patients are misaligned with expectations in most medical settings, which ask patients to mobilize forms of these assets common among healthier and wealthier populations. Thus, complex patients encounter barriers to engagement with their health behaviors an…
“Peace engineering in practice: A case study at the University of New Mexico”
This article presents an overview of Peace Engineering activities at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Engineering (SOE) and Health Sciences Center (HSC). In 2018, UNM's SOE hosted the joint summit of the World Engineering Education Forum and Global Engineering Deans Council. The theme, “Peace Engineering,” focused on science and engineering-based solutions to the world's grand challenges. Outcomes of this first global conference on Pe…
Smart as (un)democratic? The making of a smart city imaginary in Kolkata, India
‘Smart’ imaginaries have been enthusiastically embraced by urban planners and policymakers around the world. Indians are no exception. Between 2015–2018, following national government guidelines to use participatory and inclusive processes, many cities developed proposals for a smart city challenge. Successful proposals received financial and technical support from the national government. We examine the making of the smart city proposal submitte…
Impact of Technology Driven Mental Health Task-shifting for Accredited Social Health Activists (Ashas): Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial of Two Methods of Training
Enabling modernisation, marginalising alternatives? Kenya's agricultural policy and smallholders
To address intensifying social and environmental challenges, development policy must learn from inclusions and exclusions of past discourses. We analyse Kenya's post‐colonial agricultural policy discourse. Our analysis reveals a near‐exclusive focus on the promotion of agricultural modernisation based on industrial farm inputs, a bureaucratic state and/or ‘the liberalised market’. It was with this thrust to modernise that smallholders (and other …
Colonial modernity and sustainability transitions: A conceptualisation in six dimensions
Through European colonialisms spanning five centuries, coloniality – as intersectional stratification and violence directed against ‘other worlds’ – has been central to the making of modern societies worldwide. However, these colonial modernities are very rarely addressed within studies on sustainability transitions. This dearth of attention means that transitions scholars risk failing to challenge the reproduction of colonially accumulated power…
Everyday politics of care and exclusion: Conceptualising agency in rural south India
Confronting social exclusion is considered critical for grappling with poverty, livelihoods, inequality and participation in rural India. Studies highlight how exclusion is produced through hierarchical relations of caste, gender, class, religion, disability and ethnicity, while documenting people's agency to confront exclusions. However, the making of such agency through people's relations with ecologies and technologies is currently neglected. …
Agricultural innovations for sustainability? Diverse pathways and plural perspectives on rice seeds in Odisha, India
We focus on alternative innovation pathways for addressing agricultural sustainability challenges in Odisha, India. The first pathway that we term as industrial, is focused on breeding new seed varieties in modern laboratories and test fields, ostensibly for climate resilience. It is driven by public scientific institutions and private corporations. The second pathway that we call agroecological, is grounded in saving and sharing of diverse local…
Modern worldmaking and the 21st century colonial genocide in Gaza
Commonplace analyses of responsibility for Israel’s genocide against Gaza come in concentric circles. In the innermost circle, responsibility is attributed to Israel’s ruling politicians. The circle is widened to include the Israeli military, its settler-colonial political culture, the US’s massive military aid, and (most broadly) Western imperialism and racial capitalism. Extending the latter analyses, we situate this genocide in the globally he…
Decolonising innovation in sustainability transitions for pluriversal justice and wellbeing
Describes epistemological and ontological foundations of colonial-modern patterns of innovation that are dominant today; • Proposes decolonial transformations of modernity’s ‘one-world’ innovation processes; • Articulates pluriversal justice with decolonisation of modern innovation processes. Sustainability scholars address social-ecological injustices associated with innovation processes, through concepts such as ‘just transitions’ and ‘energy j…
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