Mapuana De Silva
Biographic Data
| ID | 632621 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mapuana De Silva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mapuana |
| FAMILY NAME | De Silva |
| SIGNATURE | DE SILVA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamakua-Kohala Health |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6358-3907 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The adaptation and evaluation of a culturally grounded lifestyle intervention to mitigate the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) have a greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias (ADRD), and at younger ages; yet, they are nearly absent in ADRD research. • A novel culturally-grounded intervention focused on diet, exercise, and social and cognitive engagement can improve the clinical factors of ADRD and prevent or delay its onset in NHPI. • Innovative trial designs to test the feasibility and effectiveness of…
Community engagement courses and feminist participatory action research
This commentary seeks to unpack the politics of community engagement and collaboration, which is an increasingly common practice in neoliberal universities. By centring feminist participatory action research, we examine the disjunction between extractive forms of collaboration for education and feminist pedagogy's aims to work against oppressive structures. Drawing from our teaching experiences at the National University of Singapore, we discuss …
Developing culturally-responsive health promotion
Culturally-responsive health promotion initiatives are important to the creation of health equity for Indigenous and minority populations and these initiatives are complex and time-intensive to establish. The knowledge and resources of cultural experts are often pivotal in programs, yet there is minimal research on effective collaborations. The KāHOLO Project demonstrated strong success in the management of uncontrolled hypertension in the high-r…
Pragmatic Transnationalism
Scholarly work on transnational migration has attended to migrants’ notions of (un)belonging to their settled country, where experiences of discrimination motivate migrants to foster stronger connections with the natal country as a form of reactive and protective transnationalism. Less attention, however, is given to the ways in which migrants negotiate simultaneous exclusions and inclusions in relation to their natal and settled countries. I exa…
Growing from Our Roots
Alternative education spaces and pathways
The nascent scholarship on geographies of alternative education focuses on alternative education spaces, mostly located in the UK, that resist and/or negotiate neoliberal restructuring of education, some of which cater to socially marginalised groups. In contrast, through an ethnographic focus on an underground Christian international school in China, we examine an alternative education space that responds to parents' aspirations for their childr…
Daughter” as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field
Research on gendered politics of the field has delved into the practices of accompaniment and its implications on research and knowledge production, particularly through the case of researchers’ children and partners. In comparison, the tendency to seek assistance from parents is neglected within the scholarship. Drawing on the PhD fieldwork experiences of two researchers in their “native” country, specifically a Sri Lankan researcher conducting …
Kā-Holo Project
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02620709 , registration date November 23, 2015
The care pentagon
Much of the scholarship on care for older parents within transnational families concentrates on challenges migrants encounter when providing care across transnational space. This paper focuses attention on older adults as transnational care recipients, their agency, and alternative sources of care. Drawing on the experiences of 35 affluent, urban older parents residing in Sri Lanka with at least one adult child who is a skilled, permanent migrant…
Making the emotional connection
The scholarship on care for older parents within transnational families focuses mainly on the experience of unskilled migrants and is presented largely from the perspective of caregivers. Few studies consider the case of affluent, skilled migrants, and their wealthy older parents who also cross borders to visit and provide care for their migrant adult–children. Through Baldassar and Merla's concept of 'care circulation' and the lens of emotional …
Cultural Dance Program Improves Hypertension Management for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01995812
Developing a Culturally Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles guided a complex collaboration of multiple communities; although time consuming, inclusive consultations provided valuable information and relationships
Making the emotional connection
The scholarship on care for older parents within transnational families focuses mainly on the experience of unskilled migrants and is presented largely from the perspective of caregivers. Few studies consider the case of affluent, skilled migrants, and their wealthy older parents who also cross borders to visit and provide care for their migrant adult–children. Through Baldassar and Merla's concept of 'care circulation' and the lens of emotional …
The care pentagon
Much of the scholarship on care for older parents within transnational families concentrates on challenges migrants encounter when providing care across transnational space. This paper focuses attention on older adults as transnational care recipients, their agency, and alternative sources of care. Drawing on the experiences of 35 affluent, urban older parents residing in Sri Lanka with at least one adult child who is a skilled, permanent migrant…
Daughter” as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field
Research on gendered politics of the field has delved into the practices of accompaniment and its implications on research and knowledge production, particularly through the case of researchers’ children and partners. In comparison, the tendency to seek assistance from parents is neglected within the scholarship. Drawing on the PhD fieldwork experiences of two researchers in their “native” country, specifically a Sri Lankan researcher conducting …
Cultural Dance Program Improves Hypertension Management for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01995812
Alternative education spaces and pathways
The nascent scholarship on geographies of alternative education focuses on alternative education spaces, mostly located in the UK, that resist and/or negotiate neoliberal restructuring of education, some of which cater to socially marginalised groups. In contrast, through an ethnographic focus on an underground Christian international school in China, we examine an alternative education space that responds to parents' aspirations for their childr…
Developing a Culturally Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles guided a complex collaboration of multiple communities; although time consuming, inclusive consultations provided valuable information and relationships
Developing a Culturally Based Cardiac Rehabilitation Program
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) principles guided a complex collaboration of multiple communities; although time consuming, inclusive consultations provided valuable information and relationships
Kā-Holo Project
ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02620709 , registration date November 23, 2015
The care pentagon
Much of the scholarship on care for older parents within transnational families concentrates on challenges migrants encounter when providing care across transnational space. This paper focuses attention on older adults as transnational care recipients, their agency, and alternative sources of care. Drawing on the experiences of 35 affluent, urban older parents residing in Sri Lanka with at least one adult child who is a skilled, permanent migrant…
Making the emotional connection
The scholarship on care for older parents within transnational families focuses mainly on the experience of unskilled migrants and is presented largely from the perspective of caregivers. Few studies consider the case of affluent, skilled migrants, and their wealthy older parents who also cross borders to visit and provide care for their migrant adult–children. Through Baldassar and Merla's concept of 'care circulation' and the lens of emotional …
Cultural Dance Program Improves Hypertension Management for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT01995812
Daughter” as a positionality and the gendered politics of taking parents into the field
Research on gendered politics of the field has delved into the practices of accompaniment and its implications on research and knowledge production, particularly through the case of researchers’ children and partners. In comparison, the tendency to seek assistance from parents is neglected within the scholarship. Drawing on the PhD fieldwork experiences of two researchers in their “native” country, specifically a Sri Lankan researcher conducting …
Growing from Our Roots
Alternative education spaces and pathways
The nascent scholarship on geographies of alternative education focuses on alternative education spaces, mostly located in the UK, that resist and/or negotiate neoliberal restructuring of education, some of which cater to socially marginalised groups. In contrast, through an ethnographic focus on an underground Christian international school in China, we examine an alternative education space that responds to parents' aspirations for their childr…
Developing culturally-responsive health promotion
Culturally-responsive health promotion initiatives are important to the creation of health equity for Indigenous and minority populations and these initiatives are complex and time-intensive to establish. The knowledge and resources of cultural experts are often pivotal in programs, yet there is minimal research on effective collaborations. The KāHOLO Project demonstrated strong success in the management of uncontrolled hypertension in the high-r…
Pragmatic Transnationalism
Scholarly work on transnational migration has attended to migrants’ notions of (un)belonging to their settled country, where experiences of discrimination motivate migrants to foster stronger connections with the natal country as a form of reactive and protective transnationalism. Less attention, however, is given to the ways in which migrants negotiate simultaneous exclusions and inclusions in relation to their natal and settled countries. I exa…
The adaptation and evaluation of a culturally grounded lifestyle intervention to mitigate the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) have a greater risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementias (ADRD), and at younger ages; yet, they are nearly absent in ADRD research. • A novel culturally-grounded intervention focused on diet, exercise, and social and cognitive engagement can improve the clinical factors of ADRD and prevent or delay its onset in NHPI. • Innovative trial designs to test the feasibility and effectiveness of…
Community engagement courses and feminist participatory action research
This commentary seeks to unpack the politics of community engagement and collaboration, which is an increasingly common practice in neoliberal universities. By centring feminist participatory action research, we examine the disjunction between extractive forms of collaboration for education and feminist pedagogy's aims to work against oppressive structures. Drawing from our teaching experiences at the National University of Singapore, we discuss …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gerontology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Participatory action research (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Scholarship (4 works)