Ashok Kumbamu
Biographic Data
| ID | 187025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashok Kumbamu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashok |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumbamu |
| SIGNATURE | KUMBAMU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mayo Clinic in Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2538-2618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ideas behind bars
The article examines how Indian universities face the dual pressure of neoliberal policies and Brahminical Hindutva, a form of religious nationalism grounded in caste-supremacist political ideologies. The article connects caste oppression, neoliberal capitalism, and state repression, illustrating how carcerality extends beyond prisons to social, political, and epistemic exclusion. It unpacks some of the systemic manifestations of the carceral sta…
A virtual reality intervention to increase interracial empathy and upstander behaviors in nursing leaders
Equity in healthcare and workforce
To evaluate the impact of the Mayo Clinic Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower (RISE) for Equity national conference on participant healthcare professionals’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and anti-racism. and Study Setting: Primary data were collected from conference participants (N = 430) who represented 37 states and were primarily employed as healthcare professionals. Quantitative …
The Problem and Power of Professionalism
“Finding My Piece in That Puzzle”
PURPOSE: Health systems science (HSS) curricula equip future physicians to improve patient, population, and health systems outcomes (i.e., to become "systems citizens"), but the degree to which medical students internalize this conception of the physician role remains unclear. This study aimed to explore how students envision their future professional identity in relation to the system and identify experiences relevant to this aspect of identity …
The philanthropic-corporate-state complex
From the ‘Green Revolution’ to the ‘Gene Revolution’, the ultimate aim of promoting new technologies on a colossal scale is to make agricultural inputs and outputs essential commodities, create the market-dependent agri-food system, and bring all farming operations into the capitalist fold. There is a plethora of literature on the capitalist strategies of the diffusion of new agricultural technologies, but little emphasis is placed on the motives…
Evaluation of Community Programs for Early Childhood Development
Building sustainable social and solidarity economies
This article critically examines and analyzes place-based as well as network-based strategies of alternative development organizations that claim to be building sustainable social and solidarity economies (SSE) in the political context of neoliberal globalization. While the Indian state and market forces are actively promoting the neoliberal agri-food system, alternative development organizations are working with farmers to build the SSE based on…
Altered genes, twisted truth. How the venture to genetically engineer our food has subverted science, corrupted government, and systematically deceived the public
Altered genes, twisted truth is an unflinching attempt to expose the state of affairs of the business of science, in which Steven M. Druker deconstructs the metanarrative of scientific objectivity
Was a decision made? An assessment of patient–clinician discordance in medical oncology encounters
Patients and clinicians do not always agree on whether a cancer care decision was made. As such, measures that ask patients and/or clinicians to evaluate a decision-making process or outcome may be methodologically insufficient when they do not explicitly orient respondents towards the thing they are being asked to assess
Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle
[This book of essays, written in honour of James Petras, address some of the most critical issues of our time: those of imperialism, crisis and class struggle. These issues allow the authors to identify both the ‘the enduring verities and contemporary face of capitalism’ and Petras’ contributions., This book of essays, written in honour of James Petras, address some of the most critical issues of our time: those of imperialism, crisis and class s…
The global knowledge encounter
Beyond Agricultural Deskilling and the Spread of Genetically Modified Cotton in Warangal
"Ecological Modernization and the "Gene Revolution
In recent years ecological modernization has emerged as one of the dominant perspectives in the field of environmental social sciences.1 A central premise of Ecological Modernization Perspective2
"Ecological Modernization and the "Gene Revolution
In recent years ecological modernization has emerged as one of the dominant perspectives in the field of environmental social sciences.1 A central premise of Ecological Modernization Perspective2
The philanthropic-corporate-state complex
From the ‘Green Revolution’ to the ‘Gene Revolution’, the ultimate aim of promoting new technologies on a colossal scale is to make agricultural inputs and outputs essential commodities, create the market-dependent agri-food system, and bring all farming operations into the capitalist fold. There is a plethora of literature on the capitalist strategies of the diffusion of new agricultural technologies, but little emphasis is placed on the motives…
Building sustainable social and solidarity economies
This article critically examines and analyzes place-based as well as network-based strategies of alternative development organizations that claim to be building sustainable social and solidarity economies (SSE) in the political context of neoliberal globalization. While the Indian state and market forces are actively promoting the neoliberal agri-food system, alternative development organizations are working with farmers to build the SSE based on…
Ideas behind bars
The article examines how Indian universities face the dual pressure of neoliberal policies and Brahminical Hindutva, a form of religious nationalism grounded in caste-supremacist political ideologies. The article connects caste oppression, neoliberal capitalism, and state repression, illustrating how carcerality extends beyond prisons to social, political, and epistemic exclusion. It unpacks some of the systemic manifestations of the carceral sta…
Beyond Agricultural Deskilling and the Spread of Genetically Modified Cotton in Warangal
"Ecological Modernization and the "Gene Revolution
In recent years ecological modernization has emerged as one of the dominant perspectives in the field of environmental social sciences.1 A central premise of Ecological Modernization Perspective2
Beyond Agricultural Deskilling and the Spread of Genetically Modified Cotton in Warangal
The global knowledge encounter
Imperialism, Crisis and Class Struggle
[This book of essays, written in honour of James Petras, address some of the most critical issues of our time: those of imperialism, crisis and class struggle. These issues allow the authors to identify both the ‘the enduring verities and contemporary face of capitalism’ and Petras’ contributions., This book of essays, written in honour of James Petras, address some of the most critical issues of our time: those of imperialism, crisis and class s…
Was a decision made? An assessment of patient–clinician discordance in medical oncology encounters
Patients and clinicians do not always agree on whether a cancer care decision was made. As such, measures that ask patients and/or clinicians to evaluate a decision-making process or outcome may be methodologically insufficient when they do not explicitly orient respondents towards the thing they are being asked to assess
Altered genes, twisted truth. How the venture to genetically engineer our food has subverted science, corrupted government, and systematically deceived the public
Altered genes, twisted truth is an unflinching attempt to expose the state of affairs of the business of science, in which Steven M. Druker deconstructs the metanarrative of scientific objectivity
Evaluation of Community Programs for Early Childhood Development
Building sustainable social and solidarity economies
This article critically examines and analyzes place-based as well as network-based strategies of alternative development organizations that claim to be building sustainable social and solidarity economies (SSE) in the political context of neoliberal globalization. While the Indian state and market forces are actively promoting the neoliberal agri-food system, alternative development organizations are working with farmers to build the SSE based on…
The philanthropic-corporate-state complex
From the ‘Green Revolution’ to the ‘Gene Revolution’, the ultimate aim of promoting new technologies on a colossal scale is to make agricultural inputs and outputs essential commodities, create the market-dependent agri-food system, and bring all farming operations into the capitalist fold. There is a plethora of literature on the capitalist strategies of the diffusion of new agricultural technologies, but little emphasis is placed on the motives…
“Finding My Piece in That Puzzle”
PURPOSE: Health systems science (HSS) curricula equip future physicians to improve patient, population, and health systems outcomes (i.e., to become "systems citizens"), but the degree to which medical students internalize this conception of the physician role remains unclear. This study aimed to explore how students envision their future professional identity in relation to the system and identify experiences relevant to this aspect of identity …
The Problem and Power of Professionalism
Equity in healthcare and workforce
To evaluate the impact of the Mayo Clinic Reflect, Inspire, Strengthen and Empower (RISE) for Equity national conference on participant healthcare professionals’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSA) related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and anti-racism. and Study Setting: Primary data were collected from conference participants (N = 430) who represented 37 states and were primarily employed as healthcare professionals. Quantitative …
A virtual reality intervention to increase interracial empathy and upstander behaviors in nursing leaders
Ideas behind bars
The article examines how Indian universities face the dual pressure of neoliberal policies and Brahminical Hindutva, a form of religious nationalism grounded in caste-supremacist political ideologies. The article connects caste oppression, neoliberal capitalism, and state repression, illustrating how carcerality extends beyond prisons to social, political, and epistemic exclusion. It unpacks some of the systemic manifestations of the carceral sta…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works)