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Article

Varghese, Daigy and Ranganathan, Shubha (2022) From texts to contexts: the relevance of digital ethnography in a Foucauldian discourse analysis of online gender talk in Kerala. Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society. ISSN 1477-996X

Varghese, D. and Ranganathan, S. (2021) Juxtaposing The Great Indian Kitchen and the Kudumbashree: Women, Work and Agency in Kerala. Indian Journal of Human Development, 15 (2). pp. 353-362. ISSN 09737030

James, Nisha and Ranganathan, Shubha (2021) Of Vulnerability and Agency: Perspectives from Survivors of Sex Trafficking in India. Indian Journal of Human Development, 15 (1). pp. 117-127. ISSN 0973-7030

Anjali, K.K. and Ranganathan, Shubha (2020) Locked in: What the COVID-19 pandemic spells for victims of domestic violence. Economic and Political Weekly, 55 (32-33). ISSN 00129976

Sinha, N and Ranganathan, Shubha (2020) Living with voices: a thematic analysis of individuals’ experiences of voice-hearing in India. Psychosis. ISSN 1752-2439 (In Press)

Ranganathan, Shubha (2020) "Slow research” in the time of Covid-19. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 05 (03). pp. 212-214. ISSN 09748466

Kottai, Sudarshan R. and Ranganathan, Shubha (2020) Task-shifting in Community Mental Health in Kerala: Tensions and Ruptures. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. ISSN 0145-9740 (In Press)

Kottai, Sudarshan R. and Ranganathan, Shubha (2019) Fractured narratives of psy disciplines and the LGBTQIA+ rights movement in India: A critical examination. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 4 (2). pp. 100-110. ISSN 09748466

James, N and Ranganathan, Shubha (2016) From Victimhood to Survivor-Hood: Reflections on Women’s Agency in Popular Films on Sex Trafficking in India. Psychological Studies, 61 (1). pp. 76-82. ISSN 0033-2968

Ranganathan, Shubha (2015) Rethinking ‘Efficacy’: Ritual Healing and Trance in the Mahanubhav Shrines in India. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 39 (3). pp. 361-379. ISSN 0165-005X

Ranganathan, Shubha (2015) A space to “eat, trance, and sleep”: the healing power of Mahanubhav temples in Maharashtra (India). Mental Health, Religion and Culture, 18 (3). pp. 185-195. ISSN 1367-4676

Ranganathan, Shubha (2014) Healing Temples, the Anti-Superstition Discourse and Global Mental Health: Some Questions from Mahanubhav Temples in India. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies. pp. 1-13. ISSN 0085-6401 (In Press)

Ranganathan, Shubha (2014) Quacks, Healers and Rationalists. Anthropology Now, 6 (2). pp. 111-117.

Ranganathan, Shubha (2014) The rationalist movement against quack healing: critical questions. economic & Political Weekly. pp. 13-15.

Ranganathan, Shubha (2013) “This Temple is Our Natal Home!”: Women’s Experiences of Marriage and Possession in Maharashtra. Psychological Studies, 58 (4). pp. 437-445. ISSN 0033-2968

Book Section

Ranganathan, Shubha (2018) Indigenous Healing Practices in India: Shamanism, Spirit Possession, and Healing Shrines. In: Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being. Springer., New Delhi, pp. 109-122.

Kottai, Sudarshan R. and Ranganathan, Shubha (2017) Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in IndiaEcksStefan. In: Psychology and Developing Societies. Sage, pp. 301-305.

Ranganathan, Shubha (2017) God's Hospitals with No Superstition! On the Place of Heating Shrines in Contemporary India. In: Medical Anthropology: Tradition and Change. Concept Publishing Company Private Limited, pp. 69-82. ISBN 9789351252528

Ranganathan, Shubha (2014) Narrative approaches to illness and suffering: An ethnographic study of spirit possession in Maharashtra. In: Qualitative Research on Illness, Wellbeing and Self-Growth. Taylor & Francis, India, pp. 102-123. ISBN 9781138020375

Book

H K, Repudi and Ranganathan, Shubha and Chatterjee, D and et al, . (2014) Academic difficulties among tribal children in remote areas of Guntur district. Bloomsbury Press, New Delhi, India.

Thesis

Varghese, Daigy and Ranganathan, Shubha (2018) GENDER TALK IN SOCIAL MEDIA AMONG PEOPLE IN KERALA. Masters thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

Sinha, Nidhi and Ranganathan, Shubha (2018) LISTENING TO THE VOICES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF THE EXPERIENCES OF HEARING VOICES IN INDIVIDUALS WITH AUDITORY HALLUCINATIONS. PhD thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

K K, Anjali and Ranganathan, Shubha (2017) Making sense of domestic violence: Narratives of women victims in Kerala. Masters thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad.

Repudi, H K and Ranganathan, Shubha (2014) Evolving Curriculum, Elusive Quality: A Study of Secondary Education in Select Public Schools in Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh (India). Masters thesis, Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad.

Other

Ranganathan, Shubha (2022) An Ethnography of Severe Intellectual Disability: Becoming Dirty Little Freaks. Wiley.

Ranganathan, Shubha (2022) Worlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities. Wiley.

Kottai, S.R. and Ranganathan, Shubha (2022) A Mental Health Epidemic?: Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey. Economic and Political Weekly.