Tina Sikka
Biographic Data
| ID | 779579 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Sikka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sikka |
| SIGNATURE | SIKKA T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4728-2896 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exploring Anti-carceral Pathways to Address Gender-based Violence in Universities
This article is an overview of a Legislative Theatre (LT) workshop that was organised by the authors at Newcastle University in June of 2024. The workshop was aimed at both rethinking and reimagining the university’s broadly defined approach to and policies around complaint handling with a specific focus on instances and reports of gender-based violence (GBV). All of the authors are committed to enacting anti-carceral feminist futures aimed at ch…
Policy innovation in gender-based violence in higher education
In May 2024, the authors organized a Legislative Theatre workshop to rethink and generate policy reforms that incorporated the principles of abolitionist feminism into university GBV complaints policies. Informed by our PI’s work on A pleasure and radical care-centered ethic of embodied and relational Otherness: Version 2.0, this article summarizes, analyses and reflects on our work during and since that workshop, with an eye to providing an expe…
Identifying the barriers to inclusion in field-based environmental sciences research
Fieldwork is an important component of data collection in environmental sciences and other related disciplines. Sensitive to the ways in which field based environmental sciences (FBES) research is often unsafe and lacks inclusivity, we explore findings from a mixed methods study that identified barriers to inclusion and overlooked risks to safety for FBES researchers. We found that gender and gender identity presented a direct risk for discrimina…
Epistemic injustice, university bordering regimes and international postgraduate researchers
This paper outlines the findings of a series of interviews with international PhD students in the social sciences at Newcastle University. It aims to: 1) understand how the university, as a bordering institution, has shaped the experience of international postgraduates; and 2) interrogate how these students are experiencing the process of articulating and undertaking their research under layers of restriction vis-à-vis Covid-19 as well as growing…
Sexual Futures and Creative Practice
Fatness and Its Intersections
Sexual Ethics and Lived Experience
Disrupted Knowledge
Conducting more inclusive solar geoengineering research
Solar geoengineering, or deliberate climate modification, has been receiving increased attention in recent years. Given the far-reaching consequences of any potential solar geoengineering deployments, it is prudent to identify inherent biases, blind spots, and other potential issues at all stages of the research process. Here we articulate a feminist science-based framework to concretely describe how solar geoengineering researchers can be more i…
Covid-19 and Race
In this article, I use media analysis and materialist theory to examine two overlooked factors that have emerged out of the startling statistics around race and Covid-19. These are 1. John Henryism and 2. racial weathering. I argue that missing from media coverage are the manifold confounding and unexplored ways in which race and racism are enacted by Covid wherein the disease itself is understood as existing within a network of interacting human…
Sex, Consent and Justice
Designs a new feminist framework to move the conversation around sex, consent and justice forward Engages with a range of traditional and social media outputs including The Atlantic , The Guardian , The Conversation and Aeon , Twitter hashtags including #MeToo, #TimesUp and Twitter users like @rosemcgowan, @ljeomaOluo and @TaranaBurke Analyses case studies of Avital Ronell, Aziz Ansari, Jian Ghomeshi, Harvey Weinstein and Louis CK Unpacks two deb…
Sex, Consent and Justice
The Neoliberalization of Sleep
This article explores the implications of sleep apps which are sociologically significant in that they represent an attempt to colonize, exploit, and make profitable one of the last vestiges of the human lifeworld through discourses of self-subjectification, authenticity, and self-improvement. I assess the websites of two sleep tracking apps (Pillow and Sleep Score) using critical discourse analysis (CDA), new materialism, and autoethnography. I …
Personalised nutrition
This article articulates a robust study of potentially harmful trend toward personalized nutrition through an examination of contemporary conversations and theories surrounding genetic science, race, identity, health, and food. It makes that case that genetic ancestry kits, and the nutritional recommendations that stem from them, represent a misunderstanding of current genetic science and the capabilities of genetic technologies. I argue that the…
The “Embodied Multi-Material Layering” of In Vitro Meat
In this article, I offer what I term a ‘embodied multi-material layering’ approach to study the phenomenon of laboratory or in vitro meat using insights from Don Ihde’s postphenomenological approach and Andrew Feenberg’s theory of critical constructivism. This approach offers a reflective, analytic, and normative model of technological analysis and critique that is indispensable to the study of the cutting edge technologies that combine bioinform…
Feminist Materialism and Covid-19
This article takes up and make the case for the study of Covid-19 through the lens of feminist new materialism and asks how this approach might draw out perspectives and insights overlooked by other frameworks. I begin with a brief introduction to Covid-19 followed by an analysis of the virus through the lens of feminist new materialism by drawing on the work of Karan Barad (2003), Rosi Braidoitti (2011), and Jane Bennett (2004). I contend that t…
Activism and Neoliberalism
The paper provides a comparative, critical discourse-driven analysis of activism for and against climate engineering. Arguments in support of this approach to climate remediation are quintessentially neoliberal and can be found in discourses that fetishize entrepreneurialism, support a market driven ideology, and amplify creative destruction. They stand in contrast with the ways in which geoengineering is framed by activists and their organizatio…
The self-love revolution
Barriers to Access
In this article, I argue that a holistic strategy is needed to ascertain how implicit bias, on the part of health-care providers, and structural impediments work together to produce significant barriers to access to medical assistance in dying for marginalized groups-particularly those experiencing intersecting or interlocking forms of identity-based oppressions. In doing so, I also make the case that this kind of primary, patient-centered, and i…
The contradictions of a superfood consumerism in a postfeminist, neoliberal world
This article examines the rise in the consumption of superfoods as a normative food trend among affluent groups in the global North that has embedded itself in Western food culture. It is argued that superfoods are a marker of idealized identity that is mobilized using neoliberal, postfeminist, and food justice discourses. The article examines the visual and textual framings of these products as they are implicitly and explicitly taken up on soci…
The Foodways of the Intellectual Dark Web
This article provides a critique and explanation of dietary practices that are part of a mediatized subcultural political movement associated with the right of the political spectrum in the United States. This movement has brought together political ideologues, academics, public intellectuals, and young, largely white, men for whom particular foodways play a part in the reclamation of a perceived lost sense of dignity, status, and power. I argue …
Technology, Gender, and Climate Change
In this article, I examine the subject of justice as it relates to gender and climate change by focusing on two specific strategies, namely, the geoengineering strategy of ocean fertilization, and renewable energy as a means of mitigation (where mitigation is understood as the adoption of technologies and practices that aim to slow the rise of greenhouse gas emissions). My overarching argument is that iron fertilization geoengineering is not cons…
The Ethics of Evangelism
Mediated Society
the authors provide a comprehensive account of media, which they take up, in a variety of ways, as an issue of sociological importance. In particular, Mediated Society aims to examine the categories of "democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity" (p. ix) with respect to how media, in its diverse manifestations, impacts, shapes, and sometimes even determines our experiences of these phenomena
A critical discourse analysis of geoengineering advocacy
In this paper, I examine the discursive field of geoengineering by unpacking how particular members, associates and academics allied with private institutes frame, treat and discursively construct a justification of geoengineering technologies. I begin with a brief introduction to geoengineering, followed by a discussion of relevant international agreements and an overview of critical discourse analysis. I outline several discursive strategies em…
A critical discourse analysis of geoengineering advocacy
In this paper, I examine the discursive field of geoengineering by unpacking how particular members, associates and academics allied with private institutes frame, treat and discursively construct a justification of geoengineering technologies. I begin with a brief introduction to geoengineering, followed by a discussion of relevant international agreements and an overview of critical discourse analysis. I outline several discursive strategies em…
Feminist Materialism and Covid-19
This article takes up and make the case for the study of Covid-19 through the lens of feminist new materialism and asks how this approach might draw out perspectives and insights overlooked by other frameworks. I begin with a brief introduction to Covid-19 followed by an analysis of the virus through the lens of feminist new materialism by drawing on the work of Karan Barad (2003), Rosi Braidoitti (2011), and Jane Bennett (2004). I contend that t…
Ballistic missile defense and articulation theory
In this paper, I use articulation theory to examine the political discourse which surrounds the Bush Administrations proposed ballistic missile defense shield. I argue that there are three central articulations used by the Bush Administration to garner public support for the ballistic missile defense shield. They are: 1) the articulation of missile defense with national security; 2) the unity formed out of terrorism and the threat of a missile at…
Sexual Futures and Creative Practice
A critical theory of technology applied to the public discussion of geoengineering
Fatness and Its Intersections
Personalised nutrition
This article articulates a robust study of potentially harmful trend toward personalized nutrition through an examination of contemporary conversations and theories surrounding genetic science, race, identity, health, and food. It makes that case that genetic ancestry kits, and the nutritional recommendations that stem from them, represent a misunderstanding of current genetic science and the capabilities of genetic technologies. I argue that the…
The contradictions of a superfood consumerism in a postfeminist, neoliberal world
This article examines the rise in the consumption of superfoods as a normative food trend among affluent groups in the global North that has embedded itself in Western food culture. It is argued that superfoods are a marker of idealized identity that is mobilized using neoliberal, postfeminist, and food justice discourses. The article examines the visual and textual framings of these products as they are implicitly and explicitly taken up on soci…
Technology, Gender, and Climate Change
In this article, I examine the subject of justice as it relates to gender and climate change by focusing on two specific strategies, namely, the geoengineering strategy of ocean fertilization, and renewable energy as a means of mitigation (where mitigation is understood as the adoption of technologies and practices that aim to slow the rise of greenhouse gas emissions). My overarching argument is that iron fertilization geoengineering is not cons…
Karl-Otto Apel and the Study of Communication
In this article the author reads the German philosopher Karl-Otto Apel as a communication theorist. After a brief biographical introduction, the author examines five fields of significance pertinent to Apel’s thought and to the study of communication: First is Apel’s work on the so-called understanding and explanation controversy, or Erklaeren-verstehen (E-V) in German; second is Apel’s theory of discourse ethics; third, there are a series of ess…
Pragmatics, poststructuralism, and hermeneutics
The new imperialism
In this paper, I examine how Articulation Theory and Critical Discourse Analysis can be used to examine the Bush administration's ‘Freedom Doctrine’ as it appears in official speeches, press releases, and interviews. I also look at possible alternatives to the dominant militaristic interpretation of international events and foreign policy, and recommend other areas of research and study related to the Bush doctrine and the discursive practices th…
Ballistic missile defense and articulation theory
In this paper, I use articulation theory to examine the political discourse which surrounds the Bush Administrations proposed ballistic missile defense shield. I argue that there are three central articulations used by the Bush Administration to garner public support for the ballistic missile defense shield. They are: 1) the articulation of missile defense with national security; 2) the unity formed out of terrorism and the threat of a missile at…
Pragmatics, poststructuralism, and hermeneutics
The Ethics of Evangelism
Mediated Society
the authors provide a comprehensive account of media, which they take up, in a variety of ways, as an issue of sociological importance. In particular, Mediated Society aims to examine the categories of "democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity" (p. ix) with respect to how media, in its diverse manifestations, impacts, shapes, and sometimes even determines our experiences of these phenomena
A critical discourse analysis of geoengineering advocacy
In this paper, I examine the discursive field of geoengineering by unpacking how particular members, associates and academics allied with private institutes frame, treat and discursively construct a justification of geoengineering technologies. I begin with a brief introduction to geoengineering, followed by a discussion of relevant international agreements and an overview of critical discourse analysis. I outline several discursive strategies em…
Karl-Otto Apel and the Study of Communication
In this article the author reads the German philosopher Karl-Otto Apel as a communication theorist. After a brief biographical introduction, the author examines five fields of significance pertinent to Apel’s thought and to the study of communication: First is Apel’s work on the so-called understanding and explanation controversy, or Erklaeren-verstehen (E-V) in German; second is Apel’s theory of discourse ethics; third, there are a series of ess…
A critical theory of technology applied to the public discussion of geoengineering
Technology, Gender, and Climate Change
In this article, I examine the subject of justice as it relates to gender and climate change by focusing on two specific strategies, namely, the geoengineering strategy of ocean fertilization, and renewable energy as a means of mitigation (where mitigation is understood as the adoption of technologies and practices that aim to slow the rise of greenhouse gas emissions). My overarching argument is that iron fertilization geoengineering is not cons…
Barriers to Access
In this article, I argue that a holistic strategy is needed to ascertain how implicit bias, on the part of health-care providers, and structural impediments work together to produce significant barriers to access to medical assistance in dying for marginalized groups-particularly those experiencing intersecting or interlocking forms of identity-based oppressions. In doing so, I also make the case that this kind of primary, patient-centered, and i…
The contradictions of a superfood consumerism in a postfeminist, neoliberal world
This article examines the rise in the consumption of superfoods as a normative food trend among affluent groups in the global North that has embedded itself in Western food culture. It is argued that superfoods are a marker of idealized identity that is mobilized using neoliberal, postfeminist, and food justice discourses. The article examines the visual and textual framings of these products as they are implicitly and explicitly taken up on soci…
The Foodways of the Intellectual Dark Web
This article provides a critique and explanation of dietary practices that are part of a mediatized subcultural political movement associated with the right of the political spectrum in the United States. This movement has brought together political ideologues, academics, public intellectuals, and young, largely white, men for whom particular foodways play a part in the reclamation of a perceived lost sense of dignity, status, and power. I argue …
The “Embodied Multi-Material Layering” of In Vitro Meat
In this article, I offer what I term a ‘embodied multi-material layering’ approach to study the phenomenon of laboratory or in vitro meat using insights from Don Ihde’s postphenomenological approach and Andrew Feenberg’s theory of critical constructivism. This approach offers a reflective, analytic, and normative model of technological analysis and critique that is indispensable to the study of the cutting edge technologies that combine bioinform…
Feminist Materialism and Covid-19
This article takes up and make the case for the study of Covid-19 through the lens of feminist new materialism and asks how this approach might draw out perspectives and insights overlooked by other frameworks. I begin with a brief introduction to Covid-19 followed by an analysis of the virus through the lens of feminist new materialism by drawing on the work of Karan Barad (2003), Rosi Braidoitti (2011), and Jane Bennett (2004). I contend that t…
Activism and Neoliberalism
The paper provides a comparative, critical discourse-driven analysis of activism for and against climate engineering. Arguments in support of this approach to climate remediation are quintessentially neoliberal and can be found in discourses that fetishize entrepreneurialism, support a market driven ideology, and amplify creative destruction. They stand in contrast with the ways in which geoengineering is framed by activists and their organizatio…
The self-love revolution
Sex, Consent and Justice
Designs a new feminist framework to move the conversation around sex, consent and justice forward Engages with a range of traditional and social media outputs including The Atlantic , The Guardian , The Conversation and Aeon , Twitter hashtags including #MeToo, #TimesUp and Twitter users like @rosemcgowan, @ljeomaOluo and @TaranaBurke Analyses case studies of Avital Ronell, Aziz Ansari, Jian Ghomeshi, Harvey Weinstein and Louis CK Unpacks two deb…
Sex, Consent and Justice
The Neoliberalization of Sleep
This article explores the implications of sleep apps which are sociologically significant in that they represent an attempt to colonize, exploit, and make profitable one of the last vestiges of the human lifeworld through discourses of self-subjectification, authenticity, and self-improvement. I assess the websites of two sleep tracking apps (Pillow and Sleep Score) using critical discourse analysis (CDA), new materialism, and autoethnography. I …
Personalised nutrition
This article articulates a robust study of potentially harmful trend toward personalized nutrition through an examination of contemporary conversations and theories surrounding genetic science, race, identity, health, and food. It makes that case that genetic ancestry kits, and the nutritional recommendations that stem from them, represent a misunderstanding of current genetic science and the capabilities of genetic technologies. I argue that the…
Covid-19 and Race
In this article, I use media analysis and materialist theory to examine two overlooked factors that have emerged out of the startling statistics around race and Covid-19. These are 1. John Henryism and 2. racial weathering. I argue that missing from media coverage are the manifold confounding and unexplored ways in which race and racism are enacted by Covid wherein the disease itself is understood as existing within a network of interacting human…
Disrupted Knowledge
Conducting more inclusive solar geoengineering research
Solar geoengineering, or deliberate climate modification, has been receiving increased attention in recent years. Given the far-reaching consequences of any potential solar geoengineering deployments, it is prudent to identify inherent biases, blind spots, and other potential issues at all stages of the research process. Here we articulate a feminist science-based framework to concretely describe how solar geoengineering researchers can be more i…
Identifying the barriers to inclusion in field-based environmental sciences research
Fieldwork is an important component of data collection in environmental sciences and other related disciplines. Sensitive to the ways in which field based environmental sciences (FBES) research is often unsafe and lacks inclusivity, we explore findings from a mixed methods study that identified barriers to inclusion and overlooked risks to safety for FBES researchers. We found that gender and gender identity presented a direct risk for discrimina…
Epistemic injustice, university bordering regimes and international postgraduate researchers
This paper outlines the findings of a series of interviews with international PhD students in the social sciences at Newcastle University. It aims to: 1) understand how the university, as a bordering institution, has shaped the experience of international postgraduates; and 2) interrogate how these students are experiencing the process of articulating and undertaking their research under layers of restriction vis-à-vis Covid-19 as well as growing…
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