Sweta Rajan-Rankin
Biographic Data
| ID | 274687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sweta Rajan-Rankin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sweta |
| FAMILY NAME | Rajan-Rankin |
| SIGNATURE | RAJAN-RANKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1722-4655 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Care-ful work: How peer review builds community and helps scholarship thrive
Bias cut: Recognising the contribution of scholars from the Global South
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter
Material Intimacies and Black Hair Practice: Touch, Texture, Resistance
This article explores the socio-materiality of Black hair care practice as an affective surface through which we can understand Black women’s experiences of intimacy and belonging. Texture of hair has often been overlooked in the examination of racialized presentation, even as shade or skin colour has been over-determined. By paying attention to the centrality of touch in negotiating grooming practices in Black hair care, a multi-layered apprecia…
Race, embodiment and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color
This theoretical essay examines the intersections between race, ethnicity and old age from an inter-disciplinary lens. Drawing on cultural gerontology (especially embodied aging studies) and post-colonial perspectives on aging, it explores how an emphasis on the body and embodiment can serve as a conceptual lens for understanding racialized aging bodies. A tentative framework for analysis is proposed. The concept of exile explores how bodies of c…
Invisible Bodies and Disembodied Voices? Identity Work, the Body and Embodiment in Transnational Service Work
This article explores the linkages between identity work, the body and embodiment in transnational call centres. Identity work, defined as the masking of national identity to imply proximity to the western client, provides an opportunity for the analyst to examine workplace embodiment in a global context. Qualitative data from an ethnographic study of two global outsourcing firms in India (2010–2012) explicated these processes. Narrative accounts…
Paternalism and the paradox of work-life balance: Discourse and Practice
Drawing on Lewis et al’s (2007) critical treatment of ‘work-life balance’ (WLB) as a western, neo-liberal discourse with problematic assumptions of gender and culture neutrality; this study examines the ways in which WLB discourse(s) are translated and adopted within transnational call centres in India. Discursive understandings suggest that work-life balance negotiations are filtered through two dominant discourses: neo-liberalism/individualism …
Anti-racist social work in a ‘post-race society’? Interrogating the amorphous ‘other’
Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/white, us/other and slave/master can be useful political tools to understand institutional racism, current contexts of multiculturalism raise questions about the continued relevance of race as a category for analysis. ‘Newer’ forms of racialised identities are emerging that need to be incorporated into a broader conceptualisation of non-colour-based r…
Self-Identity, Embodiment and the Development of Emotional Resilience
Recent social work reforms in the UK have highlighted the need for social work practitioners to be empathetic, reflexive and resilient. Current literature defines resilience as the individual's adaptive response to adversity, stress-resistant personality traits and the ability to ‘bounce back’, yet the processes by which resilience is developed remain underexplored. The stressors associated with training to be a social worker particularly necessi…
Race, embodiment and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color
This theoretical essay examines the intersections between race, ethnicity and old age from an inter-disciplinary lens. Drawing on cultural gerontology (especially embodied aging studies) and post-colonial perspectives on aging, it explores how an emphasis on the body and embodiment can serve as a conceptual lens for understanding racialized aging bodies. A tentative framework for analysis is proposed. The concept of exile explores how bodies of c…
Invisible Bodies and Disembodied Voices? Identity Work, the Body and Embodiment in Transnational Service Work
This article explores the linkages between identity work, the body and embodiment in transnational call centres. Identity work, defined as the masking of national identity to imply proximity to the western client, provides an opportunity for the analyst to examine workplace embodiment in a global context. Qualitative data from an ethnographic study of two global outsourcing firms in India (2010–2012) explicated these processes. Narrative accounts…
Self-Identity, Embodiment and the Development of Emotional Resilience
Recent social work reforms in the UK have highlighted the need for social work practitioners to be empathetic, reflexive and resilient. Current literature defines resilience as the individual's adaptive response to adversity, stress-resistant personality traits and the ability to ‘bounce back’, yet the processes by which resilience is developed remain underexplored. The stressors associated with training to be a social worker particularly necessi…
Material Intimacies and Black Hair Practice: Touch, Texture, Resistance
This article explores the socio-materiality of Black hair care practice as an affective surface through which we can understand Black women’s experiences of intimacy and belonging. Texture of hair has often been overlooked in the examination of racialized presentation, even as shade or skin colour has been over-determined. By paying attention to the centrality of touch in negotiating grooming practices in Black hair care, a multi-layered apprecia…
Paternalism and the paradox of work-life balance: Discourse and Practice
Drawing on Lewis et al’s (2007) critical treatment of ‘work-life balance’ (WLB) as a western, neo-liberal discourse with problematic assumptions of gender and culture neutrality; this study examines the ways in which WLB discourse(s) are translated and adopted within transnational call centres in India. Discursive understandings suggest that work-life balance negotiations are filtered through two dominant discourses: neo-liberalism/individualism …
Anti-racist social work in a ‘post-race society’? Interrogating the amorphous ‘other’
Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/white, us/other and slave/master can be useful political tools to understand institutional racism, current contexts of multiculturalism raise questions about the continued relevance of race as a category for analysis. ‘Newer’ forms of racialised identities are emerging that need to be incorporated into a broader conceptualisation of non-colour-based r…
Self-Identity, Embodiment and the Development of Emotional Resilience
Recent social work reforms in the UK have highlighted the need for social work practitioners to be empathetic, reflexive and resilient. Current literature defines resilience as the individual's adaptive response to adversity, stress-resistant personality traits and the ability to ‘bounce back’, yet the processes by which resilience is developed remain underexplored. The stressors associated with training to be a social worker particularly necessi…
Anti-racist social work in a ‘post-race society’? Interrogating the amorphous ‘other’
Anti-racist social work is at a crossroads: while on the one hand, racial binaries such as black/white, us/other and slave/master can be useful political tools to understand institutional racism, current contexts of multiculturalism raise questions about the continued relevance of race as a category for analysis. ‘Newer’ forms of racialised identities are emerging that need to be incorporated into a broader conceptualisation of non-colour-based r…
Paternalism and the paradox of work-life balance: Discourse and Practice
Drawing on Lewis et al’s (2007) critical treatment of ‘work-life balance’ (WLB) as a western, neo-liberal discourse with problematic assumptions of gender and culture neutrality; this study examines the ways in which WLB discourse(s) are translated and adopted within transnational call centres in India. Discursive understandings suggest that work-life balance negotiations are filtered through two dominant discourses: neo-liberalism/individualism …
Invisible Bodies and Disembodied Voices? Identity Work, the Body and Embodiment in Transnational Service Work
This article explores the linkages between identity work, the body and embodiment in transnational call centres. Identity work, defined as the masking of national identity to imply proximity to the western client, provides an opportunity for the analyst to examine workplace embodiment in a global context. Qualitative data from an ethnographic study of two global outsourcing firms in India (2010–2012) explicated these processes. Narrative accounts…
Race, embodiment and later life: Re-animating aging bodies of color
This theoretical essay examines the intersections between race, ethnicity and old age from an inter-disciplinary lens. Drawing on cultural gerontology (especially embodied aging studies) and post-colonial perspectives on aging, it explores how an emphasis on the body and embodiment can serve as a conceptual lens for understanding racialized aging bodies. A tentative framework for analysis is proposed. The concept of exile explores how bodies of c…
Material Intimacies and Black Hair Practice: Touch, Texture, Resistance
This article explores the socio-materiality of Black hair care practice as an affective surface through which we can understand Black women’s experiences of intimacy and belonging. Texture of hair has often been overlooked in the examination of racialized presentation, even as shade or skin colour has been over-determined. By paying attention to the centrality of touch in negotiating grooming practices in Black hair care, a multi-layered apprecia…
Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter
Care-ful work: How peer review builds community and helps scholarship thrive
Bias cut: Recognising the contribution of scholars from the Global South
Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Embodied cognition (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Narrative (3 works)