Ashok Kumar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3720682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ashok Kumar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ashok |
| FAMILY NAME | Kumar |
| SIGNATURE | KUMAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8571-2848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Impact of post-licensure radiation safety training on catheterization laboratory radiation practices among interventional cardiologists in India: A nationwide survey
Background Occupational radiation exposure remains a persistent and underestimated hazard in cardiac catheterization laboratories. This study evaluated the impact of post-licensure radiation safety training on adherence to radiation safety practices among interventional cardiologists. Methods A nationwide cross-sectional survey was conducted between May 2022 and August 2023 among 753 interventional cardiologists. Radiation safety knowledge and pr…
Prime time international news on Indian television: Frames, Valence, and Geopolitical visibility
This study examines patterns of international news coverage in prime time broadcasts across five major Indian television networks, including the public broadcasters DD News and four private channels: Times Now, India Today, Aaj Tak, and India TV. Using a constructed week sampling method over a 6-month period (September 2017-February 2018), the study analyses 2131 news items, of which 347 were international in orientation. Drawing on framing theor…
Optimum Trenching Density Estimation Concept for Horti‐Silvi‐Pastoral System in Degraded Ravine Ecosystem: A Field Application
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal‐15.3 (SDG‐15.3) has conveyed a message of emergent connotation of restoration strategy and policy for degraded land ecosystems globally, and advocated for innovative and collaborative basic and applied research programs internationally. Trenching is an economically viable and practicable option for the conservation of green‐water and sustainable yield of production systems in the degraded land ecosy…
Escaping the Capitalist Black Hole: Dethroning Mammon and liberating water
Colonial legacies and neoliberal capitalism continue to underpin and intensify global water insecurity. Drawing on five years of research from the UK-funded Water Security and Sustainable Development Hub across Colombia, Ethiopia, India and Malaysia, this Research Note identifies consistent patterns of water dispossession linked to capital accumulation. Despite divergent local contexts, our findings point to a common dynamic: a ‘Capitalist Black …
Urban Planning in Contemporary India: Myriad Approaches in Parallel Play
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Weaponising the Supply Chain: Yemen's Blockade and the Contradictions of Maritime Logistics Capital
This paper examines the 2023–2025 naval blockade imposed by Yemen in the Red Sea. It argues that the blockade's success in disrupting global trade stemmed from the potent confluence of asymmetric military tactics and the structural vulnerabilities inherent within global maritime logistics capitalism. The pursuit of efficiency through carrier consolidation, vessel gigantism, and just‐in‐time scheduling has created a brittle, hyper‐concentrated sys…
Opposition windows in Delhi’s water utility privatization: Going beyond the multiple streams framework
John Kingdon’s Multi-Stream Framework sheds light on the foundational conditions under which public policies get formulated and implemented. The coupling of the Problem, Policy, and Politics streams along with efforts by Policy Entrepreneurs opens the Opportunity Window for policy realization. Interpreting Kingdon’s MSF, a rich scholarship exists, which found evidence in support of this framework. Some instances of the opening up of multiple wind…
Law and Society-wl-2104-The Possibilities of the Caste Census
Discussion around the first nation-wide caste census in 2026 has focussed largely on its potential impact on reservation of government jobs and education. However, a caste census could have other ramifications from a constitutional perspective that have not yet been fully explored or understood—ranging from a change in the very conception of what is the meaning of the phrase “socially and educationally backward” to political representation among …
The Delhi High Court’s Lost Credibility
The Delhi High Court's recent order denying bail to Umar Khalid and others accused of offences relating to the CAA-NRC protests is another indictment of a judiciary unwilling to stand up to the political executive. It is also a sorry example to show how far the credibility of one of India's premier high courts has fallen
(Wl-2254)-A Potential Delimitation Compromise
Using the number of eligible voters as a basis for delimitation rather than population might provide a politically expedient solution to the crisis of malapportionment of seats in the Lok Sabha. However, the justification for using this method must be based on constitutional principles and values rather than pragmatic grounds
Wl-2046- An Unserious, Unimplementable, and Unconstitutional Law
The Greater Bengaluru Governance Bill, 2024 passed by the Karnataka legislative assembly ostensibly attempts to reform governance for India’s largest and fastest growing cities. However, it is a non-serious piece of legislation that is simply unworkable and potentially violates the provisions of the 74th amendment to the Constitution. It tightens the grip of the state government over the city with no consequent benefits to the citizen
Centella asiatica improves memory and executive function in middle-aged rats by controlling oxidative stress and cholinergic transmission
When Monopsony Power Wanes: Part One: Material Conditions
In this Part 1, Material Conditions, I look at the changing material conditions of capital in the most labour-intensive manufacturing sectors in world production. I argue that these changes are leading to a waning in monopsony power. The paper introduces a universal logic that governs competition and reshapes the chain around the question of monopsony in the global supply chain. Put simply, deregulation produces high degrees of monopsony power, i…
When Monopsony Power Wanes: Part Two: Subjective Agency
In this Part 2, Subjective Agency, I delve into the evolving power and agency of workers as structural conditions undergo transformation. Part 1 described how the law of competition propels firms towards centralisation, gradually diminishing the monopsony power wielded by global buyers in labour-intensive sectors. While manufacturers gain more power and significance, capable of undermining workers’ power, they also become susceptible to disruptio…
Quantitative ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used by native people of selected areas of Chhota Bhangal, Himachal Pradesh
Background: Ethnobotanical information about medicinal plants and their indigenous uses plays a major role in the conservation of biodiversity and cultural traditions. The native people of Chhota Bhangal hold the traditional knowledge and practices of using diverse medicinal plants for treating various diseases. But this traditional knowledge base is fading gradually. Keeping this in mind, the present study aimed to document the ethnobotanical da…
Why a feminist ethics of care and socio-ecological justice lens matter for global, interdisciplinary research on water security
In this conceptual analysis, we set out some of the negotiations and tensions that emerge when we try to build a shared understanding of water (in)security through the dual lenses of a feminist ethics of care and socio-ecological justice. We further reflect on how these theoretical lenses shape our work in practice—how do we actualise them in an international, interdisciplinary partnership? We actively seek to engage all our colleagues in how we …
A cross-sectional study of knowledge, taboos, and attitudes towards menstruation
Age, residential area, and educational levels do not seem to significantly impact participants' awareness and knowledge. This study highlights the influence of personal equations and education on attitudes and beliefs surrounding menstruation. The significant association between personal relationships and education underscores the importance of a supportive family. The persistence of menstrual taboos among undergraduates suggests that there is st…
Nursing personnel management during Covid-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system faced unprecedented challenges with increased number of patients and limited resources. Managing nursing resource was a major challenge for hospital administration. They had to be on the frontline, but their safety was of paramount importance. Aim: This study aims to analyze the measures taken for the management and effective engagement of nursing personnel for deployment in the COVID ar…
Publication ethics: Patient consent for publishing case reports of adverse drug reactions is important yet absent from several recent manuscripts
A study on the evaluation of tooth brushing skills and its relation with the age and gender of children
The present study was undertaken for studying tooth brushing skills and its relation with the age and gender of children. A total of 100 school going children were assessed during the study period. A questionnaire was framed and was given to all the participants. The questionnaire included detailed knowledge about their brushing habits. Type of brushing habit was assessed among all the children. Also assessment was done in relation to age and gen…
Evaluation of clinical spectrum and risk factors in young stroke patients at a tertiary level hospital, Patna, Bihar
Background: Stroke is the most frequent neurological disorder that results in long-term disability and has significant emotional and socioeconomic effects for patients, their families, and health-care providers. The strongest link between patient and the risk of stroke is age. The age-specific incidence of stroke rises steadily as people get older. Aim: To evaluate clinical spectrum and risk factors in young stroke patients and to study epidemiol…
Cardiovascular disease risk assessment in a rural population (>40 years)
Context: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the most common cause of death worldwide, although low- and middle-income countries are affected disproportionately. By 2020, it is estimated that there will be around 25 million deaths from Cardiovascular diseases globally,and out of that 19 million would be from middle- and low-income countries. Aims: The aim of this study was to estimate the 10-year risk of cardiovascular events among adults aged ≥40…
An unusual nasopharyngeal foreign body with unusual presentation
Upper aerodigestive tract may harbour foreign bodies such as sponges, grains, toy parts, stones, paper, insects, cotton,glass ball etc. These objects may go undetected for days or even weeks. A metallic foreign body after being inhaled and ultimately being lodged in the nasopharynx is a rare entity. We report a case of an unusual nasopharyngeal foreign body (glass ball) presenting with symptoms of nasal regurgitation and change in voice in a 2-ye…
Event-Specific Transmission Forecasting of Sars-CoV-2 in a Mixed-Mode Ventilated Office Room Using an ANN
The emerging novel variants and re-merging old variants of SARS-CoV-2 make it critical to study the transmission probability in mixed-mode ventilated office environments. Artificial neural network (ANN) and curve fitting (CF) models were created to forecast the R-Event. The R-Event is defined as the anticipated number of new infections that develop in particular events occurring over the course of time in any defined space. In the spring and summ…
Indoor air quality improvement in Covid-19 pandemic: Review
Interwoven threads: Building a labour countermovement in Bangalore's export-oriented garment industry
This paper approaches globalisation as a contradictory and dialectical phenomenon, one in which the tools of exploitation are being subverted into instruments of labour resistance. Through a study of the Garment and Textile Workers' Union (GATWU) the paper observes how feminised workplaces are bringing to the fore issues of gender oppression, flexible conditions are expanding union organisational capacity and the universality of capital has led t…
Introduction: Enclosures and discontents
Book synopsis: The contributions in this volume all revisit and reformulate Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation from diverse empirical contexts in the present global age. The chapters present research drawn from Gaza, Syria, Greece, the Philippines, DR Congo, and the Yucatan; global locations that have in common the ongoing, varied, and often repetitive occurrence of dispossession forced by violent conflict, crisis and austerity politics, an…
An Introduction to the Special Issue on Identity Politics
This special issue responds to ongoing debates around what has been termed ‘identity politics’. We aim to intervene in what are make-or-break questions for the Left today. Specifically, we wish to provoke further interrogative but comradely conversation that works towards breaking-down the wedge between vulgar economism and vulgar culturalism. Critically, we maintain that just as all identity categories are spatially and temporally contingent – s…
A dynamic model of global value network governance
This paper presents a novel understanding of the changing governance structures in global supply chains. Motivated by the global garment sector, we develop a geographical political economy dynamic model that reflects the interaction between bargaining power and distribution of value among buyer and producer firms. We find that the interplay between these two forces, in combination with the spatial specificities of global production and consolidat…
Oligopolistic suppliers, symbiotic value chains and workers' bargaining power: Labour contestation in South China at an ascendant global footwear firm
In this article, I analyse changes in the power relationship between lead firms, manufacturers and workers by examining a strike that took place in South China in 2014 among workers at the Taiwanese footwear giant, Yue Yuen. In the process, I demonstrate that there is a link between increased labour costs, capital consolidation and greater value capture at the bottom of the global supply chain. I argue that footwear value chains are seeing a fall…
Some Problems in the Co-ordination of Planning: Managing Interdependencies in the Planning of Delhi, India
Inter-organisational co-ordination is significant for the effective delivery of the planning function because successful preparation and implementation of planning policies and controls depend on a number of other organisations. This paper presents an analytical framework containing mechanisms and dimensions of co-ordination among the various interest groups, which are then applied to the planning practice pursued by the first development authori…
Opposition windows in Delhi’s water utility privatization: Going beyond the multiple streams framework
John Kingdon’s Multi-Stream Framework sheds light on the foundational conditions under which public policies get formulated and implemented. The coupling of the Problem, Policy, and Politics streams along with efforts by Policy Entrepreneurs opens the Opportunity Window for policy realization. Interpreting Kingdon’s MSF, a rich scholarship exists, which found evidence in support of this framework. Some instances of the opening up of multiple wind…
When Monopsony Power Wanes: Part One: Material Conditions
In this Part 1, Material Conditions, I look at the changing material conditions of capital in the most labour-intensive manufacturing sectors in world production. I argue that these changes are leading to a waning in monopsony power. The paper introduces a universal logic that governs competition and reshapes the chain around the question of monopsony in the global supply chain. Put simply, deregulation produces high degrees of monopsony power, i…
Why a feminist ethics of care and socio-ecological justice lens matter for global, interdisciplinary research on water security
In this conceptual analysis, we set out some of the negotiations and tensions that emerge when we try to build a shared understanding of water (in)security through the dual lenses of a feminist ethics of care and socio-ecological justice. We further reflect on how these theoretical lenses shape our work in practice—how do we actualise them in an international, interdisciplinary partnership? We actively seek to engage all our colleagues in how we …
Hindi-English "mixing" in scientific discourse
Hindi-English "mixing" in scientific discourse
Some Problems in the Co-ordination of Planning: Managing Interdependencies in the Planning of Delhi, India
Inter-organisational co-ordination is significant for the effective delivery of the planning function because successful preparation and implementation of planning policies and controls depend on a number of other organisations. This paper presents an analytical framework containing mechanisms and dimensions of co-ordination among the various interest groups, which are then applied to the planning practice pursued by the first development authori…
Heart Rate Response of Adult Male and Female Runners During 3000 Meter Running
The study was conducted on 50 adult male and 50 adult female students of different courses studying at Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, New Delhi. The age of the subjects ranged between 18-24 years. Physical work capacity (PWC120) and VO2max of the subjects were predicted from minute heart rate measured at two sub maximal work loads of 50 and 100W intensities on bicycle ergometer. The minute heart rate responses …
Evaluation of anti-diarrhoeal activity in seed extracts of Mangifera indica
Population, Environment and Development in India
Relationship between Man and Environment continues since the early existence of man on the Earth. Mankind’s relationship with the environment has passed through several stages, commencing with primitive time in which human beings lived in a stage of symbiosis with nature, followed by a period of growing mastery over nature, up to the industrial age and culminating into material-intensive growth patterns of the contemporary era. In India, populati…
Effect of a Conditioning Program on Subcutaneous Fat and LBM% in Males Aged 18-24 Years
This study examined the effect of a three-month conditioning program-consisting of exercises targeted to improve flexibility, strength, and cardiorespiratory endurance, on Subcutaneous Fat and Lean Body Mass percent (LBM %) in fifty (N=50) physically active males aged 18-24 years. Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis was used for total body composition assessment and subcutaneous fat distribution was measured with the help of skinfold thickness from …
Physical, Chemical and Bacteriological Study of Water from Rivers of Uttarakhand
This study carried out in the month of April-June (2009) for which five rivers were chosen i.e. Alaknanda (A), Bhagirathi (B), Ganga (G), Mandakini (M) and Yamuna (Y). Water samples were collected from nine monitoring stations viz. Devprayag (2), Gangotri (1), Haridwar (2), Rudraprayag (2), Dakpathar (1) and Yamunotri (1). The samples were analyzed for physical, chemical and microbiological parameters. The sample temperatures ranged from 7.8 - 28…
Kinematic Analysis of Arm Movements in 3000m Running: Before and After a Conditioning Programme
The present study was conducted on 50 adult males aged between 18-24 years to see the effect of a 90 days conditioning programme on their shoulder swing time during different laps of 3000 meter running and on performance time of 3000m run. A video film in the sagittal plane of right side of the body of the subject while performing 3000m run distance was recorded with a sophisticated video movie camera (in built time device) operating at 60 frames…
SP1-91 Non-invasive assessment of hepatic injury in chronic liver diseases: Implementation in clinical practice. A comparative study in Manipal teaching hospital of Western Nepal
Background Chronic hepatitis B and C together with alcoholic (ALD) and non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases (NAFLD) represent the major forms of progressive liver disease. Objective To assess the extent of liver injury by estimation of biochemical parameters and its significance in clinical practice. Materials and Methods It was a retrospective study carried out from the data maintained in the Department of Biochemistry of the Manipal Teaching Hosp…
State and socio-demographic group variation in out-of-pocket expenditure, borrowings and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) programme use for birth deliveries in India
Our study highlights the ongoing high OOPE and impoverishing impact of institutional care for deliveries in India. Supporting families in financial planning for maternity care, additional investment in the JSY programme and strengthening state level planning are required to increase the proportion of institutional deliveries
Securing the security
Additional informationNotes on contributorsAshok Kumar is a PhD candidate in the School of Geography and the Environment at Oxford University, UK
Interwoven threads: Building a labour countermovement in Bangalore's export-oriented garment industry
This paper approaches globalisation as a contradictory and dialectical phenomenon, one in which the tools of exploitation are being subverted into instruments of labour resistance. Through a study of the Garment and Textile Workers' Union (GATWU) the paper observes how feminised workplaces are bringing to the fore issues of gender oppression, flexible conditions are expanding union organisational capacity and the universality of capital has led t…
Labour and resistance across global spaces: Introduction
What are the patterns of labour, organisation and resistance six years after the start of a global financial crisis that throated the basis of worldwide capital accumulation? National governments o
Global Workers’ Rights through Capitalist Institutions
In Workers, Unions, and Global Capitalism: Lessons from India , Rohini Hensman maintains that globalisation has afforded workers new opportunities for confronting capitalist exploitation. Using India as a point of departure, Hensman highlights globalisation as paradoxical, challenging anti-globalisers and the globalisation-as-imperialism thesis, to argue that capital’s toilers are now becoming its gravediggers. This analysis also explains why the…
Farmers perception and awareness of climate change: A case study from Kanchandzonga Biosphere Reserve, India
Urbanization
Urbanization is the process of migration in and around cities leading to both physical and social changes. The process of urbanization is linked to industrialization and yet scholars have conflicting views on the predominant motivators for this relocation. Since the end of World War II, cities have seen a further outward expansion, or “suburbanization.” However, these flows have also changed in recent years leading to new forms of urban change, f…
Introduction: Enclosures and discontents
Book synopsis: The contributions in this volume all revisit and reformulate Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation from diverse empirical contexts in the present global age. The chapters present research drawn from Gaza, Syria, Greece, the Philippines, DR Congo, and the Yucatan; global locations that have in common the ongoing, varied, and often repetitive occurrence of dispossession forced by violent conflict, crisis and austerity politics, an…
A new clerodane furano diterpene glycoside from Tinospora cordifolia triggers autophagy and apoptosis in HCT-116 colon cancer cells
An Introduction to the Special Issue on Identity Politics
This special issue responds to ongoing debates around what has been termed ‘identity politics’. We aim to intervene in what are make-or-break questions for the Left today. Specifically, we wish to provoke further interrogative but comradely conversation that works towards breaking-down the wedge between vulgar economism and vulgar culturalism. Critically, we maintain that just as all identity categories are spatially and temporally contingent – s…
Oligopolistic suppliers, symbiotic value chains and workers' bargaining power: Labour contestation in South China at an ascendant global footwear firm
In this article, I analyse changes in the power relationship between lead firms, manufacturers and workers by examining a strike that took place in South China in 2014 among workers at the Taiwanese footwear giant, Yue Yuen. In the process, I demonstrate that there is a link between increased labour costs, capital consolidation and greater value capture at the bottom of the global supply chain. I argue that footwear value chains are seeing a fall…
Indoor air quality improvement in Covid-19 pandemic: Review
Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age
This book explores the combination of capital's changing composition and labour's subjective agency to examine whether the waning days of the 'sweatshop' have indeed begun. Focused on the garment and footwear sectors, it introduces a universal logic that governs competition and reshapes the chain. By analysing workers' collective action at various sites of production, it observes how this internal logic plays out for labour who are testing the li…
A dynamic model of global value network governance
This paper presents a novel understanding of the changing governance structures in global supply chains. Motivated by the global garment sector, we develop a geographical political economy dynamic model that reflects the interaction between bargaining power and distribution of value among buyer and producer firms. We find that the interplay between these two forces, in combination with the spatial specificities of global production and consolidat…
Nursing personnel management during Covid-19 pandemic: An exemption trend in view of health reasons
Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare system faced unprecedented challenges with increased number of patients and limited resources. Managing nursing resource was a major challenge for hospital administration. They had to be on the frontline, but their safety was of paramount importance. Aim: This study aims to analyze the measures taken for the management and effective engagement of nursing personnel for deployment in the COVID ar…
Publication ethics: Patient consent for publishing case reports of adverse drug reactions is important yet absent from several recent manuscripts
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