Being Pākehā & Researching the Experiences of Māori Women and Weight Loss Surgery: On Ethics & Ethnography

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Clare Joensen
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
The State ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Subjective Space

This paper proposes that the positionality of Pākehā researchers wishing to learn from Māori, can be reimagined as an atmospheric inter-subjective space within which conversations can happen across difference and between commonalities. I outline my own reckoning as a Pākehā attempting to enter this field as a part of my MA research on Māori women’s experiences of weight loss surgery. I argue that a form of differential distancing, while holding onto an ethic of care, enables a form of academic inquiry that is less stymied by the politics of permission. This paper also proposes that ethical representation can be bolstered by staying close to the logics for living of our participants and conceptualising their narratives through ‘embodied becoming’. I argue that this multi-faceted approach enables ethnography which retrieves nuance and releases participants, to a degree, from discourses that primarily frame individuals as victims of the state.

scholarly journals Living with Bodily Changes after Weight Loss Surgery - Women’s Experiences of Food and "Dumping"

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Synne Groven ◽  
Gunn Engelsrud ◽  
Målfrid Råheim
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
Lived Body ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Anatomy And Physiology ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Gastric Bypass Procedure ◽  
Women's Lives

In this article we explore women’s experiences of “dumping” following weight loss surgery. The empirical material is based on individual interviews with 22 Norwegian women. To further analyze their experiences, we build primarily on the phenomenologist Drew Leder`s notion of the “inner body.” Additionally, Simone de Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty’s perspectives of the lived body occupy a prime framework for shedding light on different dimensions of bodily changes. The following three core themes were identified: Experiences of illness in conjunction with eating; Learning to relate to changes in the inner body and; Feelings of losing and regaining control. In different, though interconnected ways, these themes encompass an ongoing challenge in the women’s lives after the surgery: namely their efforts to establish new eating habits while at the same time working hard to relate to their changed and changing inner body, and especially to the phenomenon of “dumping”. The results points to a dilemma: namely that the gastric bypass procedure is an operation that irreversibly alters the anatomy and physiology of a healthy stomach, whereas the individual’s eating habits cannot be situated in or reduced to a particular organ, but are endemic to the lived body and its history. This insight might be of importance in the understanding of the complexity of the changes and challenges the women go through after weight loss surgery.

Women's Experiences of the State Health Services in Khayelitsha

Agenda ◽  
1992 ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Di Cooper ◽  
Peliwe Mnguni ◽  
Karen Harrison
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
The State ◽  
State Health ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

Women’s experiences of body image and weight loss after childbirth

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 860-865 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Anne Fern ◽  
Emily Buckley ◽  
Sarah Grogan
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Body Image ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences

Citizenship as Interpellation: Refugee Women and the State

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 293-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Bassel
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Refugee Women ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Somali Refugee ◽  
The Public Sphere

AbstractThis article examines the ideological function of ‘models’ of citizenship in shaping the contours of public debate and the ability of refugee women to make claims in the public sphere. Key elements of Louis Althusser's concept of interpellation are explored: ideology works by interpellating (‘hailing’) individuals, providing them with a social and juridical identity that constitutes them as subjects. The article argues that ‘models’ of citizenship serve as vehicles for processes of interpellation that restrict claim-making, through the imposition of a dominant hierarchy of identities and needs. These processes become visible through analysis of Somali refugee women's experiences in republican France.

The state of vitamin D treatment in bariatric surgery candidates: a prospective chart review of patients seeking weight loss surgery

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. S173-S175
Author(s):  
Leigh Peterson ◽  
Lawrence Cheskin ◽  
Michael Schweitzer ◽  
Thomas Magnuson ◽  
Kimberley Steele
Keyword(s):  
Bariatric Surgery ◽  
Vitamin D ◽  
Weight Loss ◽  
Chart Review ◽  
Weight Loss Surgery ◽  
The State

scholarly journals Why Criminalise Coercive Control? The Complicity of the Criminal Law in Punishing Women Through Furthering the Power of the State

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Walklate ◽  
Kate Fitz-Gibbon
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
The State ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Coercive Control ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Law

Moves to criminalise coercive and controlling behaviours are hotly debated. In jurisdictions where the legal response to domestic violence has incorporated coercive control, the efficacy of such interventions has yet to be established. Within this debate, limited attention has been paid to the extent to which such moves challenge or endorse legal understandings of the ‘responsible subject’ (Lacey 2016). This article will consider the failure of both the law in theory and the law in practice to address this feature in the debates surrounding coercive control. We suggest that this failure may result in the reassertion of traditional conceptions of responsibility. Or, as Naffine (1990) might say, a reconsideration of the unintended impacts of the prevailing influence of the rational, entrepreneurial, heterosexual, white man of law. Consequently, any law intended to offer an avenue for understanding women’s experiences of coercive control can reassert women as victims to be blamed for those same experiences and sustain the power of the patriarchal state in responding to such violence.

Older women and leisure.

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
Sarah Standridge
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
General Population ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Older Adult ◽  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The World

Abstract This chapter aims to bring attention to some of the constraints older women face in their leisure and tourism pursuits. Being female and an older adult makes the leisure experiences of older women complex; fighting against not only patriarchal views of the world, but also the ageist stereotypes that say this is who older women are and how they should act. The chapter explains how several sexist and ageist discourses contribute to older women's understandings of what activities are appropriate and accessible to them. Using a lens of intersectionality allows for the complexity of older women's leisure and tourism experiences to be more thoroughly explained by accounting for multiple social identities. The homogenizing and oppressive nature of patriarchal views, like body image, ethic of care, and ageism, are suppressive of the possible identities and full range of leisure opportunities available to older women. As the general population continues to age, a better understanding of the complexities of older women's experiences becomes imperative. This chapter also provides ideas for how the leisure and tourism communities can begin to correct the missteps currently happening in our fields.

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