Yaso Nadarajah
Biographic Data
| ID | 3082203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yaso Nadarajah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yaso |
| FAMILY NAME | Nadarajah |
| SIGNATURE | NADARAJAH Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2839-0621 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Encountering Folk, Knowledge, and Place
Studies of culture, history, literature, and art can provide insight into our multiple senses of place. The manner in which we speak, write, illustrate, and produce our landscapes; the politics of land use; and life on land or sea (or away from it) reflect human efforts to live locally. Similarly, studies of ecologies, landforms, weather, and other natural phenomena can teach us about how people spatialise and make homes in the world. Culture, li…
From field to theory
Drawing on the author’s experiences of running study tours to Malawi and India, this article argues that leaps can be made to decolonise development studies from the ‘ground up’ when study tours are centred on pedagogical processes of embodied insights, self-reflexivity and working with difference. Such pedagogical processes offer opportunities where students engage with questions of epistemic violence at the intersections of North/South tensions…
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies
Although the field of island studies has from the start regarded itself as a defender of islands and islander interests, it is entangled in coloniality. This editorial focuses on issues of power, knowledge, and position. Who wields power in island studies? Who knows about islands? Where is island studies located, and how does it position itself? The paper discusses problems such as tokenism and forced inclusions, denial and circumscription of exp…
Toward Decolonizing Development Education
The relevance of development studies has come under intense scrutiny with increasing calls for development education to decolonize its materials, pedagogies, and discursive practices. This article draws on a short-term study tour to India, where co-building a mud house with a tribal community and local university became a creative, intercultural site, encouraging reflexivity and learning through embodied insights. Such learnings “from” and “with”…
Future past I am a coolie-al…and I reside as an invisible island inside the ocean
The politics of Tamil working-class identity in Malaysia continue to be articulated in subaltern terms, employing term such as ‘coolie’, which is elsewhere an archaic usage from colonial days. Yet the power of the coolie narrative appears salient, and the coolie odyssey is far from over. Drawing upon the author’s longitudinal work with a Tamil squatter settlement in the heart of the city of Kuala Lumpur in the Malay Archipelago, this paper moves …
Practicing decolonial political geography
Rebuilding Communities in the Wake of Disaster
This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. It is the most extensive and intensive study of post-disaster community rebuilding yet reported in the literature on the subject. The authors draw on this research to develop a three-phase strategy for moving from quick and effective relief to long-term social recovery…
Islands of indigeneity
Islands are often associated with distinct cultures. Although the island polities that formed during the withdrawal of empire frequently brought together various ethnicities, Indigenous governance and claims to cultural distinction have often remained an ideal for such islands and archipelagos. This paper examines the complex causality behind associations between indigeneity and islandness, discussing how island spatiality fosters: (1) cultural d…
Lessons for long-term social recovery following the 2004 tsunami
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 galvanized world attention like no other natural disaster before. Unprecedented amounts of aid were given and a record number of international aid agencies were involved in relief and recovery operations. Major reviews of the response to the disaster have suggested that the immediate relief effort was better than expected. However, weaknesses in the longer term recovery work were identified within months of the di…
Building Local Responses to Disaster
While there has been much discussion in international disaster management literature in recent years of the need to give affected communities much more ‘ownership’ of recovery and rehabilitation pro-jects and programs, there is little real understanding of what this might mean in practice. There are many calls for post-disaster recovery programs to reduce vulnerability to future risks, or to ‘build back better’. Drawing from an intense study of s…
Rebuilding community in the wake of disaster
Journal Article Rebuilding community in the wake of disaster: lessons from the recovery from the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka and India Get access Martin Mulligan, Martin Mulligan * Martin Mulligan is the Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne where his research focuses on the sustainability of local communities in the face of global changes and challenges. *Address for correspondence: Martin Mulligan, Globalism Re…
Practicing decolonial political geography
Rebuilding community in the wake of disaster
Journal Article Rebuilding community in the wake of disaster: lessons from the recovery from the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka and India Get access Martin Mulligan, Martin Mulligan * Martin Mulligan is the Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne where his research focuses on the sustainability of local communities in the face of global changes and challenges. *Address for correspondence: Martin Mulligan, Globalism Re…
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies
Although the field of island studies has from the start regarded itself as a defender of islands and islander interests, it is entangled in coloniality. This editorial focuses on issues of power, knowledge, and position. Who wields power in island studies? Who knows about islands? Where is island studies located, and how does it position itself? The paper discusses problems such as tokenism and forced inclusions, denial and circumscription of exp…
Islands of indigeneity
Islands are often associated with distinct cultures. Although the island polities that formed during the withdrawal of empire frequently brought together various ethnicities, Indigenous governance and claims to cultural distinction have often remained an ideal for such islands and archipelagos. This paper examines the complex causality behind associations between indigeneity and islandness, discussing how island spatiality fosters: (1) cultural d…
Encountering Folk, Knowledge, and Place
Studies of culture, history, literature, and art can provide insight into our multiple senses of place. The manner in which we speak, write, illustrate, and produce our landscapes; the politics of land use; and life on land or sea (or away from it) reflect human efforts to live locally. Similarly, studies of ecologies, landforms, weather, and other natural phenomena can teach us about how people spatialise and make homes in the world. Culture, li…
Lessons for long-term social recovery following the 2004 tsunami
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 galvanized world attention like no other natural disaster before. Unprecedented amounts of aid were given and a record number of international aid agencies were involved in relief and recovery operations. Major reviews of the response to the disaster have suggested that the immediate relief effort was better than expected. However, weaknesses in the longer term recovery work were identified within months of the di…
Toward Decolonizing Development Education
The relevance of development studies has come under intense scrutiny with increasing calls for development education to decolonize its materials, pedagogies, and discursive practices. This article draws on a short-term study tour to India, where co-building a mud house with a tribal community and local university became a creative, intercultural site, encouraging reflexivity and learning through embodied insights. Such learnings “from” and “with”…
Building Local Responses to Disaster
While there has been much discussion in international disaster management literature in recent years of the need to give affected communities much more ‘ownership’ of recovery and rehabilitation pro-jects and programs, there is little real understanding of what this might mean in practice. There are many calls for post-disaster recovery programs to reduce vulnerability to future risks, or to ‘build back better’. Drawing from an intense study of s…
Rebuilding community in the wake of disaster
Journal Article Rebuilding community in the wake of disaster: lessons from the recovery from the 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka and India Get access Martin Mulligan, Martin Mulligan * Martin Mulligan is the Director of the Globalism Research Centre at RMIT University in Melbourne where his research focuses on the sustainability of local communities in the face of global changes and challenges. *Address for correspondence: Martin Mulligan, Globalism Re…
Lessons for long-term social recovery following the 2004 tsunami
The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 galvanized world attention like no other natural disaster before. Unprecedented amounts of aid were given and a record number of international aid agencies were involved in relief and recovery operations. Major reviews of the response to the disaster have suggested that the immediate relief effort was better than expected. However, weaknesses in the longer term recovery work were identified within months of the di…
Rebuilding Communities in the Wake of Disaster
This book examines the sociological consequences of disaster relief and recovery, and uncovers its impact on the communities that were affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. It is the most extensive and intensive study of post-disaster community rebuilding yet reported in the literature on the subject. The authors draw on this research to develop a three-phase strategy for moving from quick and effective relief to long-term social recovery…
Islands of indigeneity
Islands are often associated with distinct cultures. Although the island polities that formed during the withdrawal of empire frequently brought together various ethnicities, Indigenous governance and claims to cultural distinction have often remained an ideal for such islands and archipelagos. This paper examines the complex causality behind associations between indigeneity and islandness, discussing how island spatiality fosters: (1) cultural d…
Future past I am a coolie-al…and I reside as an invisible island inside the ocean
The politics of Tamil working-class identity in Malaysia continue to be articulated in subaltern terms, employing term such as ‘coolie’, which is elsewhere an archaic usage from colonial days. Yet the power of the coolie narrative appears salient, and the coolie odyssey is far from over. Drawing upon the author’s longitudinal work with a Tamil squatter settlement in the heart of the city of Kuala Lumpur in the Malay Archipelago, this paper moves …
Practicing decolonial political geography
Critical reflexivity and decolonial methodology in island studies
Although the field of island studies has from the start regarded itself as a defender of islands and islander interests, it is entangled in coloniality. This editorial focuses on issues of power, knowledge, and position. Who wields power in island studies? Who knows about islands? Where is island studies located, and how does it position itself? The paper discusses problems such as tokenism and forced inclusions, denial and circumscription of exp…
Toward Decolonizing Development Education
The relevance of development studies has come under intense scrutiny with increasing calls for development education to decolonize its materials, pedagogies, and discursive practices. This article draws on a short-term study tour to India, where co-building a mud house with a tribal community and local university became a creative, intercultural site, encouraging reflexivity and learning through embodied insights. Such learnings “from” and “with”…
From field to theory
Drawing on the author’s experiences of running study tours to Malawi and India, this article argues that leaps can be made to decolonise development studies from the ‘ground up’ when study tours are centred on pedagogical processes of embodied insights, self-reflexivity and working with difference. Such pedagogical processes offer opportunities where students engage with questions of epistemic violence at the intersections of North/South tensions…
Encountering Folk, Knowledge, and Place
Studies of culture, history, literature, and art can provide insight into our multiple senses of place. The manner in which we speak, write, illustrate, and produce our landscapes; the politics of land use; and life on land or sea (or away from it) reflect human efforts to live locally. Similarly, studies of ecologies, landforms, weather, and other natural phenomena can teach us about how people spatialise and make homes in the world. Culture, li…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Disaster Response and Management (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Environmental planning (3 works)