Browsing by Author "Jayan P"

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    Center for Culture-Centered Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE): organizing to transform the social determinants of health
    (Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the National Communication Association, 2025-04-04) Dutta M; Pokaia V; Metuamate S; Mandal I; Baskey P; Mandi R; Elers P; Rahman M; Jayan P; Pattanaik S
    This essay outlines the organizing work of the Center for Culture-Centred Approach to Research and Evaluation (CARE) in mobilizing for social justice. Conceptualizing health in relationship to justice, the academic-activist-community partnerships built by CARE explore the organizing processes through which communities at the margins own voice infrastructures in seeking structural transformation.
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    Culture-Centered Processes of Community Organizing in COVID-19 Response: Notes from Kerala and Aotearoa New Zealand
    (Frontiers Media S.A., 2020-07-29) Dutta MJ; Elers C; Jayan P; Basnyat I
    The culture-centered approach (CCA) foregrounds the organizing role of communities at the "margins of the margins"of the globe as the spaces for identifying the structural challenges to health and well-being and for co-creating community-anchored solutions to these challenges. Pandemics such as COVID-19 render visible the deep-rooted inequalities across and within societies, seeded and catalyzed by over three decades of variegated neoliberal reforms. The trajectories of COVID-19 outbreaks as well as the effects of COVID-19-related policies render visible the inequalities that are written into the neoliberal organizing of political economy. Community participation is scripted into the neoliberal framework as an instrument for depoliticizing community and utilizing it as a channel for disseminating top-down individual behavior change messages. Drawing on the examples of community organizing in Kerala where the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has actively co-created an infrastructure for socialist organizing, and Iwi-led Maori checkpoints in Aotearoa New Zealand, we delineate the features of transformative community organizing. Community organizing in the CCA is political, foregrounding community sovereignty as the basis for resisting neoliberal health structures. Community struggles for communication equality thus point to alternative forms of organizing health and well-being that challenge and seek to dismantle neoliberal governmentality.
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    ‘I am not complete without my family’: a culture-centred exploration of meanings of health and well-being among migrant Indian nurses in Aotearoa New Zealand
    (Taylor and Francis Group on behalf of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA), 2025-02-17) Jayan P; Dutta MJ; Thaker J
    In Aotearoa New Zealand, the voices of migrant nurses are often overlooked and marginalised despite being visible in the economy. This manuscript uses a culture-centred approach to centre the voices of migrant Indian nurses on understanding their meanings of health and well-being. Contrary to the Western models, which position health as individual accountability, the thirty in-depth conversations with migrant Indian nurses point towards the importance of collective in maintaining health and well-being. The dialogues with participants revealed three main themes: the family and community as interwoven to health and well-being, migration and the hidden health cost of family disconnection, and the significance of culturally appropriate food in maintaining health. This study contributes to health communication theory and practice by providing insights into the health and well-being meanings of migrant nurses, centring their voices as replacements to neoliberal, dominant paradigms of health.
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    Preventing Violence in the Disability Margins: A Culture-Centered Study in Aotearoa
    (y Oxford University Press on behalf of International Communication Association, 2025-07-13) Dutta MJ; Elers P; Zorn A; Brey S; Metuamate S; Pokaia V; Jayan P; Rahman M; Hashim S; Liu J; Nematollahi N; Sharif ASBM; Teikmata-Tito C; Whittfield F; Holdaway S; Jackson D; Kerr B; Raharuhi I
    Disabled people are overrepresented as victims of sexual violence and family violence, but are often excluded from research and the development of communication campaigns, laws, and interventions. Grounded in the culture-centered approach, we undertook 77 qualitative interviews with predominantly Māori (Indigenous) and low-income disabled individuals to identify primary prevention needs for reducing family and sexual violence. Participants articulated disability as being structural, intersectional, and layered with erasure, contributing to conditions that perpetuate violence. Erasure and the resulting loss of agency were pervasive across diverse disabilities and participant groups, with Māori bearing a disproportionate burden. Emergent in the participants’ narratives were strategies around addressing communication inequalities and grounding prevention resources within local community contexts, set against structural determinants of violence perpetuated by the settler colonial State. This study challenges the hegemonic approach to addressing sexual violence and family violence, revealing a relationship between communicative and material forms of violence.