Ruchi Agarwal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3828410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruchi Agarwal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruchi |
| FAMILY NAME | Agarwal |
| SIGNATURE | AGARWAL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz, CA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5572-5485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pop Culture and Spiritual Hybridity
The contemporary spiritual landscape of Thailand exhibits a trend of hybrid religiosity, wherein traditional beliefs coexist with new spiritual symbols derived from folklore, media, and material culture. This study investigates the emergence of Khru Kai Kaeo as a modern spiritual figure and contrasts it with the grotesque gargoyles of European Gothic architecture to evaluate how these symbols serve as cultural “shock absorbers” during periods of …
Leveraging digital technologies to enable women’s co-operatives
Ganesa and His Cult in Contemporary Thailand
Ganesa has long been familiar to the people of Thailand but increasingly evident \nare the Ganesa cults flourishing in Bangkok. In the process, the deity appears to be \nacquiring new roles and functions. Ganesa now serves in a number of capacities \nfor some; he is a “fxer,” a deity of last resort that can help devotees to overcome \nobstacles in their lives. Not surprisingly, the growing popularity of the deity is \nreflected in a rapidly expan…
Feeling jumpy
Sexuality education and HIV/AIDS education are arenas of strong feelings. Emotions make sexuality and health lessons peculiar, ‘thrown together’ lessons, and emotions stick to ‘childhood innocence’, ‘growing up too fast’ and even ‘jump’ in response to visuals, say a used condom on an elementary school playground or a pregnant sophomore in a classroom seat. Our analysis foregrounds the teachers’ emotional circuitry around HIV/AIDS lessons, and des…
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again
The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements and explore the ways in which they enacted social justice curricula. The authors highlight the stories of three beginning teachers, honoring the plurality of their conceptions of social justice teaching and the resiliency they exhibited in translating social justice i…
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again
The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements and explore the ways in which they enacted social justice curricula. The authors highlight the stories of three beginning teachers, honoring the plurality of their conceptions of social justice teaching and the resiliency they exhibited in translating social justice i…
Ganesa and His Cult in Contemporary Thailand
Ganesa has long been familiar to the people of Thailand but increasingly evident \nare the Ganesa cults flourishing in Bangkok. In the process, the deity appears to be \nacquiring new roles and functions. Ganesa now serves in a number of capacities \nfor some; he is a “fxer,” a deity of last resort that can help devotees to overcome \nobstacles in their lives. Not surprisingly, the growing popularity of the deity is \nreflected in a rapidly expan…
Feeling jumpy
Sexuality education and HIV/AIDS education are arenas of strong feelings. Emotions make sexuality and health lessons peculiar, ‘thrown together’ lessons, and emotions stick to ‘childhood innocence’, ‘growing up too fast’ and even ‘jump’ in response to visuals, say a used condom on an elementary school playground or a pregnant sophomore in a classroom seat. Our analysis foregrounds the teachers’ emotional circuitry around HIV/AIDS lessons, and des…
Feeling jumpy
Sexuality education and HIV/AIDS education are arenas of strong feelings. Emotions make sexuality and health lessons peculiar, ‘thrown together’ lessons, and emotions stick to ‘childhood innocence’, ‘growing up too fast’ and even ‘jump’ in response to visuals, say a used condom on an elementary school playground or a pregnant sophomore in a classroom seat. Our analysis foregrounds the teachers’ emotional circuitry around HIV/AIDS lessons, and des…
From Ideal to Practice and Back Again
The five authors of this article designed a multicase study to follow recent graduates of an elementary preservice teacher education program into their beginning teaching placements and explore the ways in which they enacted social justice curricula. The authors highlight the stories of three beginning teachers, honoring the plurality of their conceptions of social justice teaching and the resiliency they exhibited in translating social justice i…
Ganesa and His Cult in Contemporary Thailand
Ganesa has long been familiar to the people of Thailand but increasingly evident \nare the Ganesa cults flourishing in Bangkok. In the process, the deity appears to be \nacquiring new roles and functions. Ganesa now serves in a number of capacities \nfor some; he is a “fxer,” a deity of last resort that can help devotees to overcome \nobstacles in their lives. Not surprisingly, the growing popularity of the deity is \nreflected in a rapidly expan…
Leveraging digital technologies to enable women’s co-operatives
Pop Culture and Spiritual Hybridity
The contemporary spiritual landscape of Thailand exhibits a trend of hybrid religiosity, wherein traditional beliefs coexist with new spiritual symbols derived from folklore, media, and material culture. This study investigates the emergence of Khru Kai Kaeo as a modern spiritual figure and contrasts it with the grotesque gargoyles of European Gothic architecture to evaluate how these symbols serve as cultural “shock absorbers” during periods of …
Psychology (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Pedagogy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work)