Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley
Biographic Data
| ID | 85253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadeeka Arambewela-Colley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadeeka |
| FAMILY NAME | Arambewela-Colley |
| SIGNATURE | ARAMBEWELA-COLLEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8178-8180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: Brokering Crisis or Brokers in Crisis
The contemporary world is facing multiple crises, from pandemics to wars, from climate change to forced migration. Many of them are closely interlinked and bring to the fore and enforce existing inequalities. Although these crises are often global in scale, they are dealt with differently in specific, local contexts. Regardless of nature and scope of the crisis, affected people often rely on brokers to create meaning, mitigate the disruptive and …
Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia
Australia's border hardened stance has created a culture of asylum prevention, providing a rationale for the use of defence and security as the core argument to prevent asylum seeker protection. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken with Tamil asylum seekers and refugees from Sri Lanka in Australia, this Field Note showcases the percussive impacts of border policy on lived experiences. I do this by elevating the subjective lens, narrating a…
Diasporic Belonging in Religious Spaces: Insights from Within the Sri Lankan Diaspora
The changing social, cultural and physical characteristics and uses of public spaces by migrants are of longstanding interest to social scientists.Often embedded in uses of public spaces are splinters, resonances and connections to home and migration.This paper examines the religious spaces that Sri Lankan migrants engage with in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.To untangle the complexities associated with these spaces, we integrate a framework of…
Cultural brokers in mental health care in Sri Lanka's North
This article engages in an anthropological analysis of brokerage to investigate the role of community support officers (CSOs) and mental health clinicians working on implementing post conflict reconstruction and reconciliation projects in Jaffna, in the North of Sri Lanka. I propose that CSOs and mental health clinicians become cultural brokers in health care by operating beyond the universal clinical assumptions associated with mental illness an…
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: Brokering Crisis or Brokers in Crisis
The contemporary world is facing multiple crises, from pandemics to wars, from climate change to forced migration. Many of them are closely interlinked and bring to the fore and enforce existing inequalities. Although these crises are often global in scale, they are dealt with differently in specific, local contexts. Regardless of nature and scope of the crisis, affected people often rely on brokers to create meaning, mitigate the disruptive and …
Cultural brokers in mental health care in Sri Lanka's North
This article engages in an anthropological analysis of brokerage to investigate the role of community support officers (CSOs) and mental health clinicians working on implementing post conflict reconstruction and reconciliation projects in Jaffna, in the North of Sri Lanka. I propose that CSOs and mental health clinicians become cultural brokers in health care by operating beyond the universal clinical assumptions associated with mental illness an…
Cultural brokers in mental health care in Sri Lanka's North
This article engages in an anthropological analysis of brokerage to investigate the role of community support officers (CSOs) and mental health clinicians working on implementing post conflict reconstruction and reconciliation projects in Jaffna, in the North of Sri Lanka. I propose that CSOs and mental health clinicians become cultural brokers in health care by operating beyond the universal clinical assumptions associated with mental illness an…
Of Truths and Snakes: The Percussive Effects of Asylum Seeking in Australia
Australia's border hardened stance has created a culture of asylum prevention, providing a rationale for the use of defence and security as the core argument to prevent asylum seeker protection. Drawing on ethnographic research undertaken with Tamil asylum seekers and refugees from Sri Lanka in Australia, this Field Note showcases the percussive impacts of border policy on lived experiences. I do this by elevating the subjective lens, narrating a…
Diasporic Belonging in Religious Spaces: Insights from Within the Sri Lankan Diaspora
The changing social, cultural and physical characteristics and uses of public spaces by migrants are of longstanding interest to social scientists.Often embedded in uses of public spaces are splinters, resonances and connections to home and migration.This paper examines the religious spaces that Sri Lankan migrants engage with in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia.To untangle the complexities associated with these spaces, we integrate a framework of…
Conceptualizing crisis brokerage: Brokering Crisis or Brokers in Crisis
The contemporary world is facing multiple crises, from pandemics to wars, from climate change to forced migration. Many of them are closely interlinked and bring to the fore and enforce existing inequalities. Although these crises are often global in scale, they are dealt with differently in specific, local contexts. Regardless of nature and scope of the crisis, affected people often rely on brokers to create meaning, mitigate the disruptive and …
Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (2 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works)