Anupama M Ranawana
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397557 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anupama M Ranawana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anupama M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ranawana |
| SIGNATURE | RANAWANA A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Divinity, St Andrew’s University, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9593-2868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Place of Environmental Care for Enacting the Faith That Does Justice
Faith-based Ingos, queering development, and the (im)possibility of anti-imperialism
This short commentary piece reflects on the author’s experience of undertaking a piece of research concerning the Queering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda whilst working for a large European C...
‘Strike a Pose’
This article responds to ongoing conversations on the decolonisation of international development, with special reference to faith-based, Christian international organisations. This article argues the case for such INGOs to draw from anticolonial thought and anticolonial theological spaces in order to dismantle their foundational colonial and institutional logics. The title of the paper is taken from a sentiment articulated by the Brazilian ecofe…
Three Texts, to Restore and to Return
This essay builds on other work in political theological circles that seeks to understand what refusal means for our political and practical theologies, by exploring three pieces of writing by contemporary indigenous thinkers, working from varied spaces. Each of the three articles approaches refusal in different ways. This essay highlights: restoration, being-with or love, and hope. Each approach raises questions for theological thinking and educ…
Silence is Complicity
In this article, we argue that public theologians have a rich tradition from which to argue for the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. In particular, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s resistance to the co-opting of Christianity by the Nazi regime is frequently cited in theological circles as an exemplar. Yet, we find major public figures and theological societies, such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the United Kingdom’…
Our Work is International Relations
With this forum we aim to contribute to the debate within International Relations (IR) scholarship about the space that has opened up since the inter-paradigmatic debate 30 years ago and the challenges still experienced by those of us coming from the “margin” yet committed to the “globalization” of the discipline. That is to say, to building a pluriverse of IR. In the first contribution Anupama Ranawana begins by considering the practical difficu…
Race and climate change
Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism. Building on that existing work, contributors to this collection extend and deepen understandings of the material entanglements of race and ecology in our contemporary…
Rage against the Port City
In the years following the physical end to the civil war in Sri Lanka, the island was beset with a series of infrastructure projects. One of these was the ‘Port City’, a project funded by the Government of China. The project has raised significant environmental concerns, from the detrimental impact of rock extraction on biodiversity and marine life, to the effect on the livelihoods of the fishing community due to the depletion of fish as a result…
Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur
In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on Myanmar, Bangladesh, Ghana, and Nigeria provide anecdotal evidence with regards to this. This paper addresses what the authors …
Building movements through active refusal
Persistent becoming
Transitions in Culture and Religion I
Transitions in culture and religion II
Race and climate change
Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism. Building on that existing work, contributors to this collection extend and deepen understandings of the material entanglements of race and ecology in our contemporary…
Rage against the Port City
In the years following the physical end to the civil war in Sri Lanka, the island was beset with a series of infrastructure projects. One of these was the ‘Port City’, a project funded by the Government of China. The project has raised significant environmental concerns, from the detrimental impact of rock extraction on biodiversity and marine life, to the effect on the livelihoods of the fishing community due to the depletion of fish as a result…
Persistent becoming
Transitions in Culture and Religion I
Transitions in culture and religion II
Building movements through active refusal
Grandmother, breadwinner, caregiver, widow, entrepreneur
In both academic and practitioner work on women’s work, there is significant focus on women in the 18–55 age bracket. However, there remains a gap in the policy agenda on the impact of COVID-19 on older women in the 55+ age group, including those with disabilities. Christian Aid research and projects that have focused on Myanmar, Bangladesh, Ghana, and Nigeria provide anecdotal evidence with regards to this. This paper addresses what the authors …
Our Work is International Relations
With this forum we aim to contribute to the debate within International Relations (IR) scholarship about the space that has opened up since the inter-paradigmatic debate 30 years ago and the challenges still experienced by those of us coming from the “margin” yet committed to the “globalization” of the discipline. That is to say, to building a pluriverse of IR. In the first contribution Anupama Ranawana begins by considering the practical difficu…
Race and climate change
Global South scholars have long documented and theorised their communities’ struggles against the ecological degradation, toxic contamination, and climate change–related extreme weather events which result from the overlapping ills of colonialism, imperialism, and racial capitalism. Building on that existing work, contributors to this collection extend and deepen understandings of the material entanglements of race and ecology in our contemporary…
Rage against the Port City
In the years following the physical end to the civil war in Sri Lanka, the island was beset with a series of infrastructure projects. One of these was the ‘Port City’, a project funded by the Government of China. The project has raised significant environmental concerns, from the detrimental impact of rock extraction on biodiversity and marine life, to the effect on the livelihoods of the fishing community due to the depletion of fish as a result…
Silence is Complicity
In this article, we argue that public theologians have a rich tradition from which to argue for the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. In particular, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s resistance to the co-opting of Christianity by the Nazi regime is frequently cited in theological circles as an exemplar. Yet, we find major public figures and theological societies, such as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the United Kingdom’…
The Place of Environmental Care for Enacting the Faith That Does Justice
Faith-based Ingos, queering development, and the (im)possibility of anti-imperialism
This short commentary piece reflects on the author’s experience of undertaking a piece of research concerning the Queering the Women, Peace and Security Agenda whilst working for a large European C...
‘Strike a Pose’
This article responds to ongoing conversations on the decolonisation of international development, with special reference to faith-based, Christian international organisations. This article argues the case for such INGOs to draw from anticolonial thought and anticolonial theological spaces in order to dismantle their foundational colonial and institutional logics. The title of the paper is taken from a sentiment articulated by the Brazilian ecofe…
Three Texts, to Restore and to Return
This essay builds on other work in political theological circles that seeks to understand what refusal means for our political and practical theologies, by exploring three pieces of writing by contemporary indigenous thinkers, working from varied spaces. Each of the three articles approaches refusal in different ways. This essay highlights: restoration, being-with or love, and hope. Each approach raises questions for theological thinking and educ…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Theological Perspectives and Practices (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Colonialism (3 works)