Deciphering Working Girl: Identity, Post-Feminism, and Power Dressing
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Conceptualizing practices of care in women’s lives. A domestic work case study in Ethiopia and Tanzania
Drawing from the lived experiences of female domestic workers in Ethiopia and Tanzania, this article illustrates different ways in which domestic work can be practiced and defined in both countries. It analyses women’s narratives in the present and pas…
“People are going mad”. A disjunctive comparison of rituals of grocery shopping at the beginning of Covid-19 (March-June 2020)
At the very beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the act of loading shopping carts more than usual materialized as a sensible choice for most shoppers. Yet, stockpiling was constructed in parallel to the social pathologizing of so-called panic buying. P…
Shaping blood. System of kinship between horses in the Palio di Ronciglione
Racehorses are the result of a thousand-year-old human domestication through breeding. These practices of selective reproduction are based on the creation and manipulation of non-human kinship, which is inscribed in the genetic history of thoroughbred …
Beteiligt euch! Kulturanthropologische Perspektiven auf einen Imperativ der Gegenwart
Die Aufforderung sich zu beteiligen sowie die Forderung beteiligt zu werden ist mittlerweile in vielen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen allgegenwärtig und zu einem Imperativ der Gegenwart geworden. Menschen fordern, dass ihre Sichtweise, ihre Expertise in …
Vom Leidensträger zum Leistungsträger
In dieser ethnografischen Studie wurde mithilfe von teilnehmender Beobachtung, Durchführung und systematischer Analyse von Interviews sowie Rückgriff auf sozialwissenschaftliche Literatur die Frage beantwortet, welche Lerneffekte eine Beteiligung von M…
Wissen, Teilnahme und Herz
In diesem Artikel werden die Praktiken des feministischen Kollektivs Minervas in Montevideo, Uruguay, vorgestellt und untersucht, wie Beteiligung aus ihrer Sicht gelebt und gestaltet und Wissen jenseits von cartesianischer Logik hergestellt wird. Meine…
Partizipation erlernen?
Digitale Informationstechnologien werden seit Beginn der 2000er-Jahre hinsichtlich neuer Partizipations- und Demokratisierungsmöglichkeiten diskutiert. In der aktuellen Bildungspolitik werden nunmehr Kompetenzen und Fähigkeiten bestimmt, die als Voraus…
Forschung auf Augenhöhe?
Die Beteiligung von Patient:innen an medizinischer Forschung stellt einen neuen Trend der Citizen Science, der Forschungsbeteiligung von Lai:innen, dar und wird bspw. als Patient Science oder ‚Patientenbeteiligung‘ bezeichnet. Vor allem im Bereich chr…
An Ethical Question: Acknowledging Contentious Ethics in Medical Anthropology and Allied Fields
Editorial to the April issue of 2023.
Experimental Engagements with Ethnography, Moral Agency and Care
This Special Section explores questions of method and positionality attached to moral agency in mental healthcare, which give rise to novel methodological and theoretical approaches to everyday life in the clinical and non-clinical spaces where such ‘c…
Fleshy Entanglements in Development Aspirations: Birth Position as a Site of Contestation in Bangladesh
Encouraging women to adopt a position of their choice during birth has long been among the calls of scholars and activists challenging medicalised models of childbirth rooted in patriarchy to allow women to own their birthing experiences rather than ac…
Nested Ethics: The Management of Young People’s Goals in Alternative UK Mental Health Services
Youth mental health interventions in the UK increasingly use goal-setting procedures to shape services and measure outcomes in ways that are intended to be meaningful to service users. This research article questions this premise, departing with the et…
Irritating Bowels: Attention and Everyday Management of Gut Trouble in Denmark
Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) constitutes an irritating and embarrassing problem for an estimated 11–16% of the Danish population. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, this article explores how young and middle-aged people diagnosed with IBS att…
Affinity through Vulnerability: The Politics of Positionality in Child Welfare
Child welfare is a challenging space for professionals, parents, and most of all children. The labour of care within this space is an intersection of personal histories and ongoing narratives that synthesise self, family, medicine, and the state. I exp…
"Swallow Them All, and It’s Just Like Smack": Comorbidity, Polypharmacy, and Imagining Moral Agency alongside Methadone and Antipsychotics
This research article investigates moral agency in the spaces between the methadone clinic and the inpatient psychiatric ward by exploring the ways dually-diagnosed service users move though ever-more labyrinthine networks of care. I ask: how are patie…
The Stories We Tell or Omit: How Ethnographic (In)Attention can Obscure Structural Racism in the Anthropology of Mental Healthcare
Anthropologists studying mental healthcare tend to do so through observational and analytic attention to how individuals experience specific clinical and cultural contexts. While narrating lived experience may serve to humanise conditions like mental i…
“I’m Trapped Here”: Ethnography, Structural Violence, and Moral Injury
In scenes of deep poverty and precarity, intimate relationships are shaped by the moral aftermath of a life of surviving scarcity. These moral histories are riddled with interpersonal harm, experiences of harming others and being seriously harmed onese…
Deserving Asylum and Becoming ‘Good’ Refugees in Madrid
Subject to constant and pervasive suspicion, asylum seekers in the global north often must expend great energy to assert their moral agency and be perceived as ‘good’ refugees who are not only worthy of being granted asylum but also capable of becoming…
Turning Cancer into Medicine: Storying Healing through Imagery
This Photo Essay explores my experience with cancer and healing using Indigenous traditional medicines. I use Photo First Voice, a form of auto-ethnography, to story my ‘living’ experience with cancer, which includes getting in touch with and honouring…
The Anthropologist as Audience: Engaged Listening among Khmer Rouge Survivors and Ukrainian War Refugees
Although the Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the deaths of roughly 2.2 million Cambodians—and the persecution and abuse of millions more—only a handful of survivors have been able to testify at the tribunal established to prosecute former leader…
Child Studies Multiple
This text is an exploration of collaborative thinking and writing through theories, methods, and experiences on the topic of the child, children, and childhood. It is a collaborative written text (with 32 authors) that sprang out of the experimental wo…
River Swimming Through Uncertainty: Pandemic Immersions in a Therapeutic Chalkscape
In this Field Note, I share my experiences of an immersive period of ethnography undertaken with river swimmers in and along the River Beane and River Lea in the county town of Hertford, South-East England, from July 2020 until January 2021. As well as…