Book chapters
Pattadath, B., Ranganathan, S. and Hussain, M.W.A. (2024). Aging, caregiving, and disability futurities: Challenging policy frameworks. In S. Irudaya Rajan (Ed.). Handbook of aging, health, and public policy: Perspectives from Asia. Springer: Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_171-1
Ranganathan, S. (2024). Contextualizing interdisciplinarity: the possibilities and challenges of liberal arts spaces in India. In Babu P. Remesh and Ratheesh Kumar (Eds.). Practicing Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations, Routledge India. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003329428
Kottai, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2021). When ‘care’ leads to ‘chronicity’: exploring the changing contours of care of homeless people living on the streets in India. In L. Montesi and M. Calestani (Eds.). Managing Chronicity in Unequal States: Ethnographic perspectives on caring. UCL Press.
Ranganathan, S. (2018). Indigenous healing practices in India: Shamanism, spirit possession, and healing shrines. In G. Misra (Ed.). Psychosocial interventions for health and wellbeing. New Delhi: Springer.
Ranganathan, S. (2017). Re-thinking the 'medical' through ‘indigenous healing’: Reflections from Mahanubhav healing practices in Maharashtra, India. In G. Attewell & R.D. Roy (Eds.). Locating the medical: Explorations in South Asian history. Oxford University Press: New Delhi.
Ranganathan, S. (2017). "God's hospitals" with "No Superstition!" On the place of healing shrines in contemporary India. In B.V. Sharma (Ed.). Medical anthropology: Tradition and change. New Delhi: Concept.
Ranganathan, S. (2015). Narrative approaches to illness and suffering: An ethnographic study of spirit possession in Maharashtra. In Kumar Ravi Priya and Ajit K. Dalal (Eds.). Qualitative research on illness, well-being and self-growth: Contemporary Indian perspectives. New Delhi: Routledge.
Repudi, H.K & Ranganathan, S. (2014). Academic difficulties among tribal children in remote areas of Guntur district. In D. Chatterjee, S.P. Pati, P.N. Rajeev, & M. Dhal (Eds.). Let's Learn. New Delhi: Bloomsbury.
National refereed journals
Satyanarayana, M. and Ranganathan, S. (2024). Treating chronic pain as invisible disability. Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 59 (22), 19-21. https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/22/commentary/treating-chronic-pain-invisible-disability.html
Ranganathan, S. & Chetan, S.V. (2023). Rethinking Advocacy through Disability-themed Children’s ‘Fiction’, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 58 (14), 63-64. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/14/postscript/rethinking-advocacy-through-disability-themed.html
Mahalakshmi, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2023). Coming to terms with ‘slow living’ in crip time: Graphic novels on chronic illness. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, [S.l.]. VIII (4 (NS)), 338. Retrieved from https://ijme.in/articles/coming-to-terms-with-slow-living-in-crip-time-graphic-novels-on-chronic-illness/
Divya, M & Ranganathan, S. (2022). “PCOS is like having a disease”: The everyday stress of living with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). Indian Journal of Community Medicine 47(4), 622-623. DOI: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_1374_21
Abraham, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2022). Voicing the Unspeakable: Exploring Non-normative Narratives About Motherhood. Indian Journal of Human Development, 1–4.
Kottai, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2022). Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey: A Mental Health Epidemic? Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 57 (3), 19-24.
Varghese, D. & Ranganathan, S. (2021). Juxtaposing The Great Indian Kitchen and the Kudumbashree: Women, Work and Agency in Kerala. Indian Journal of Human Development, 15(2), 353-362.
James, N. & Ranganathan, S. (2021). Of vulnerability and agency: Perspectives from survivors of sex trafficking in India. Indian Journal of Human Development, 15(1), 117-127.
Anjali, K.K. & Ranganathan, S. (2020). Locked in: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Spells for Victims of Domestic Violence. Economic & Political Weekly Engage, 55 (32-33).
Ranganathan, S. (2020). “Slow research” in the time of Covid-19. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. Retrieved from https://ijme.in/articles/slow-research-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
Kottai, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2019). Fractured narratives of psy disciplines and the LGBTQIA+ rights movement in India: A critical examination. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.
Kottai, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2018). Reimagining Schizophrenia: New Voices from the Margins [Book review]. Economic & Political Weekly, LIII (4), 31-34.
Ranganathan, S. (2014). The rationalist movement against quack healing: Critical questions. Economic & Political Weekly, XVIX (1), 13-15.
R. Shubha, Tanmay Bhattacharya, D. Parthasarathy, & Meenakshi Gupta (2008). Spirit possession in a healing centre: View from within. Psychological Studies, 53 (3 & 4), 219-225.
Ranganathan, S. & Bhattacharya, T. (2007). Culture-bound syndromes: A problematic category. Psychological Studies, 52, (2), 153-157.
R. Shubha (2007). End-of-life care in the Indian context: The need for cultural sensitivity. Indian Journal of Palliative Care, 13 (2), 59-64.
International refereed journals
Gairola, V. and Ranganathan, S. (2024). Linking Body, Memory, and Divine Embodiment: Two Cases of Ritual Healers from the Garhwal Himalaya. Journal of Dharma Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-024-00194-9
Ranganathan, S., Mishra, J., Chetan, S.V. and Pattadath, B. (Accepted). Making things work, practically: Care relations in parent-led autism advocacy in urban India. Feminist Anthropology.
Satyanarayana, M. and Ranganathan, S. (2024). Reimagining Chronic Pain Management: The Case for Integrated Care in India. Journal of Integrated Care. Vol. 32 (3), pp. 313-320. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICA-03-2024-0015
Chase L, Shrestha P, Datta G, Forsythe N, Jain S, Maharjan SM, Mathias, K., Miguel-Lorenzo, X., Ranganathan, S., Shrestha, S., Sidgel, K., Subba, P., Gautam, K., Gurung, D., Ntow, M.C. (2024). Task-shifting or problem-shifting? How lay counselling is redefining mental healthcare. PLOS Mental Health, 1(1): e0000067. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000067
Chetan, S.V. & Ranganathan, S. (2024). Representation of Dyslexia in Indian Media. Media Asia, 1-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2024.2353459
Choudhary, P. & Ranganathan, S. (2024). Reimagining Disabled Futurities: Of Personhood, Communication, and Intersubjectivity. Ethos, 52 (1), 138-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12421
Gairola, V. & Ranganathan, S. (2023). Worship in Transition: An Encounter with the Rājrājeshwarī Devī of the Garhwal Himalaya. HIMALAYA 42(1): 118-140. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.6678
Gairola, V. & Ranganathan, S. (2023). The Divine as a Child and the Mother Goddess: On the History and Practice of Kunwarikā Devī Worship in the Garhwal Himalaya. HIMALAYA 42(1): 98-117. https://doi.org/10.2218/himalaya.2023.6626
Ranganathan, S. (2023). Introduction to Special Issue. Chronic illness in South Asia: rethinking discourses of risk, evidence, and control, Anthropology & Medicine, 30 (2): 81-84. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2023.2202055
Ranganathan, S. (2023). Chronic relationships and mental health care: Global pharmaceuticals in a local healing shrine in India, Anthropology & Medicine, 30(2): 135-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2023.2212212
Kottai, S.R. & Ranganathan, S. (2023) “Initially, medicines will be given, and then we need to study the case”: Medicalized perspectives about chronicity and mental health care in Kerala, Anthropology & Medicine, 30(2): 153-170. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2023.2212206
Abraham, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2023). Book review of “Being Single in India: Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility” by Sarah Lamb. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 54(1), 100-102. https://doi.org/10.3138/jcfs.2023-br01
Ranganathan, S. (2023). ‘I do not feel well here as such. But it has become my home’: Abandonment and care in healing shrines, Anthropology & Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2023.2171237
Gairola, V. & Ranganathan, S. (2023). Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Religion, 53(3), 607-609. https://doi.org/10.1080/0048721X.2023.2209461
Gairola, V. & Ranganathan, S. (2023). A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses: Tales of the Divine Feminine from India and Beyond, Asian Affairs, 54(2), 376-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2023.2198875
Varghese, D. & Ranganathan, S. (2022). Informal work from home: Understanding vulnerability and well-being among women in Kudumbashree microenterprises. Asian Women, 38 (4), 23-50. https://doi.org/10.14431/aw.2022.12.38.4.23
Ranganathan, S. and Chetan, S.V. (2022), Book Reviews Essay: Ethics, Care, and Parenting in the Context of Invisible Disabilities. Ethos, 50 (3). https://doi.org/10.1111/etho.12361
Varghese, D. and Ranganathan, S. (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, 20 (4), 516-530. https://doi.org/10.1108/JICES-01-2022-0001
Sinha, N. & Ranganathan, S. (2020) Living with voices: a thematic analysis of individuals’ experiences of voice-hearing in India, Psychosis, DOI: 10.1080/17522439.2020.1720271.
Kottai, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2020). Task-shifting in community mental health in Kerala: Tensions and ruptures. Medical Anthropology: Cross-cultural studies in health and illness, 39 (6), 538-552.
Kottai, S. & Ranganathan, S. (2017). Book review [Review of the book Eating Drugs: Psychopharmaceutical Pluralism in India, by S. Ecks]. Psychology and Developing Societies, 29(2), 301–305.
James, N. & Ranganathan, S. (2016). From victimhood to survivor-hood: Reflections on women's agency in popular films on sex trafficking in India. Psychological Studies, 61 (1), 76-82.
Ranganathan, S. (2015): A space to “eat, trance, and sleep”: the healing power of Mahanubhav temples in Maharashtra (India). Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 18 (3), 185-195.
Ranganathan, S. (2015). Rethinking ‘Efficacy’: Ritual Healing and Trance in the Mahanubhav Shrines in India. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 39 (3), 361-379.
Ranganathan, S. (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, 37 (4), 625-639.
Ranganathan, S. (2013). “This Temple is Our Natal Home!”: Women’s Experiences of Marriage and Possession in Maharashtra. Psychological Studies, 58 (4), 437-445.
R. Shubha (2007). Psychosocial issues in end-of-life care. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 45 (8).
Ghadially, R. & Ranganathan, S. (2006). Gendering computer marketing: A study of print media advertisements in India. Asian Women, 22(1), 69-96.
National newsletter/magazines
Ranganathan, S. (2014). Discrimination, mental health, and subaltern healing practices. Medico friend circle bulletin, No. 357-360, July 2013-February 2014, 73-74.
Ranganathan, S. (2015). Does Community Mental Health Really Engage the Community? Critical Perspectives from Local Healing Practices. Medico friend circle bulletin, No. 363-364, January-February 2015, 17-21.
International magazines
Kottai, S. & Ranganathan, S. (September 2017). Interrupting caregiving, inviting distress-sharing: Narratives of care from people living on the streets. Cafe Dissensus. https://cafedissensus.com/2017/09/16/interrupting-caregiving-inviting-distress-sharing-narratives-of-care-from-people-living-on-the-streets/
Ranganathan, S. (2014). Quacks, healers and rationalists. Anthropology Now, 6 (2), 111-117.
Ranganathan, S. (2012). Palliative care in India: Challenges and possibilities. Hospice Dialogue, 53, 23-25.