scholarly journals Pollution, Health, and Disaster

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-65
Author(s):  
Alexa S. Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Pollution Levels ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Disaster Anthropology

The materiality of pollution is increasingly embodied in humans, animals, and the living environment. Ethnographic research, especially from within the fields broadly construed as medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, disaster anthropology, and science and technology studies are all positioned to make important contributions to understanding present lived experiences in disastrous environmental contexts. This article examines points of articulation within recent research in these areas, which have much in common but are not always in conversation with one another. Research and writing collaborations, as well as shared knowledge bases between ethnographic researchers who center different aspects of the spectrum of toxics- based environmental health, are needed to better account for and address the material and lived realities of increasing pollution levels in the time of a warming climate.

scholarly journals “You Think You’re the Only One”: Comparing Descriptions and Lived Experiences of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome

1969 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 507-522
Author(s):  
Kaitlyn Vleming
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Biomedical Literature ◽  
Technology Studies ◽  
Biomedical Diagnosis ◽  
Ovarian Syndrome

This article examines the biomedical diagnosis of polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) from the perspectives of medical anthropology and science and technology studies (STS), addressing two main questions: what does a historical, medical anthropology and STS perspective reveal about how PCOS is described and understood in contemporary North America, and what are the lived experiences of people with this diagnosis? Common descriptions of PCOS are based in normative gendered assumptions. Drawing on interviews with people diagnosed with PCOS and on analysis of historical and contemporary biomedical literature discussing PCOS, I argue that the lived experiences of people with PCOS vary significantly from mainstream (biomedical and popular) descriptions of the diagnosis.

scholarly journals Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Bal Chandra Luitel ◽  
Niroj Dahal
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Climate Change Education ◽  
Narrative Representations ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Social Theories

Autoethnography covers a wide range of narrative representations, thereby bridging the gap of the boundaries by expressing autoethnographers’ painful and gainful lived experiences. These representations arise from local stories, vignettes, dialogues, and role plays by unfolding action, reaction, and interaction in the form of self-narration. Likewise, the autoethnographic texts must exhibit the autoethnographers’ critical reflections on the overall process of the inquiry. These exhibitions shall alert the autoethnographers’ research ethics, reflexivity, alternative modes of representation, inquiry, and storytelling. The original articles in this issue that rises from the domain of critical social theories within the various ranges of theoretical perspectives include journeying through informing, reforming, and transforming teacher education; critical ethnographic research tradition; a critical and political reading of the excerpts of myths; climate change education and its interface with indigenous knowledge and general traits of the participants as transformed teachers.

Exploring My Images of Mathematics and Its Influence on Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 23-48
Author(s):  
Basanta Raj Lamichhane
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Quality Standards ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Transformative Learning Theory ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Negative Images ◽  
Teaching Learning

The major aim of this paper is to explore my images of mathematics and its influences on my teaching-learning strategies. I have employed an auto/ethnographic research design to excavate my lived experiences largely informed by interpretive and critical paradigms. To generate field texts dialectical and historical-hermeneutic approaches have been used. The Habermas’ knowledge constitutive interest and Mezorows’ transformative learning theory were used as theoretical referents. The writing as a process of inquiry has been used to create layered texts through thick descriptions of the contexts, critical self-reflexivity, transparent and believable writing aiming to ensure the quality standards of the research. The research illuminates that most of the negative images of mathematics have been emerged by the conventional transmissionist ‘one-size-fits-all’ pedagogical approach. Likewise, it has indicated that to transform mathematics education practices towards more empowering, authentic, and inclusive ones, it must be necessary to shift in paradigms of teaching and practitioners’ convictions, beliefs, values, and perspectives as well.

Medical Technology and Technique

Anthropology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameena Mulla
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Social History ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Visual Technology ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

The rich array of anthropological research on medical technology has primarily been carried out by anthropologists with specialization in medical anthropology, and science and technology studies. This research benefits from its conversations with the history of medicine. Among journals that have frequently published in this area are: Anthropology and Medicine; Culture, Health and Psychiatry; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences; Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Medicine Anthropology Theory; Social History of Medicine; Social Studies of Science; and Sociology of Health and Illness. In this bibliography, material is organized thematically into eleven substantive sections to include work that exemplifies both long-standing topics as well as emerging frontiers of research. The first section introduces readers to the framework of biopolitics that often contextualizes scholarship on technology. Next, the reader is introduced to theorizing technology in relation to technique. This is followed by the issue of discipline in relation to medicine. The next two sections describe sensory practices encompassing the audio and the haptic. The article then turns to the conditions under which technologies are produced and used, treating the question of politics before discussing systems of subjugation. After this, the next section highlights technologies of rendering, broken down into visual technology, writing, and enumeration. The final three sections cover reproductive health, pharmaceuticals, and subjectivities. These topics represent dense nodes of anthropological scholarship that have informed the broader approach of anthropological research on technology and technique.

Research and Internship Roles in Applied Medical Anthropology

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-7
Author(s):  
Ivia Cofresi
Keyword(s):  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Applied Anthropology ◽  
State University ◽  
Laboratory Assistant ◽  
Georgia State University ◽  
Applied Medical Anthropology ◽  
Previous Training ◽  
Participation In Research

Training in applied anthropology links theory with practical application resulting in what is one of today's key metaphors—"praxis." Training also requires the utilization of other knowledge bases (i.e. medical, legal, business, education, etc.) to enable a practicing anthropologist to effectively operate within an applied setting. In my situation, both the research and internship experiences in applied medical anthropology were obtained internationally in Costa Rica. The requirement of proficiency in the country's language was not a barrier in my situation because Spanish is my primary language. Other aspects of training in applied anthropology (i.e., theoretical and practical) were both cultivated and strengthened in my undergraduate and graduate training at Georgia State University through participation in research projects. The additional knowledge base that I called upon during the research and internship periods was previous training in biology as well as three years of experience as a medical and laboratory assistant.

scholarly journals The performative effects of diagnosis

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
Sebastian Mohr
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Analytical Tool ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
War Veterans ◽  
Analytical Term ◽  
Medical Diagnoses ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Trans Studies

In this article, I suggest the performative effects of diagnosis as an analytical tool to explore the transformations in people’s intimate lives that being diagnosed brings with it. As an analytical term, I understand the performative effects of diagnosis to describe trajectories in people’s intimate lives that emerge in the interplay between a person’s intimate sense of self, that is, their gendered and sexualed self-perceptions, and the logics and norms contained in medical diagnoses. I develop this term in the context of ethnographic research on Danish war veterans’ understandings of and experiences with intimacy and extrapolate it conceptually in this article through scholarship in feminist theory, trans studies, STS, and medical anthropology and sociology. The argument that I make throughout is that the performative effects of diagnosis allows scholars to explore transformations in people’s intimate lives without a foreclosure about the normative dimensions of these transformations. In that sense, rather than only asking how biopolitical and cis- and heteronormative normalcy constitutes itself, the performative effects of diagnosis provide the opportunity to explore how these dimensions are (re)configured and (un)done in and through medicalized intimacies.

Animal Ethos

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley A. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Moral Worth ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
Species Preference ◽  
Integrate Theory ◽  
Academic Laboratory ◽  
Interspecies Encounters

What are the moral challenges and consequences of animal research in academic laboratory settings? Animal Ethos considers how the inescapable needs of lab research necessitate interspecies encounters that, in turn, engender unexpected moral responses among a range of associated personnel. Whereas much has been written about the codified, bioethical rules and regulations that inform proper lab behavior and decorum, Animal Ethos, as an in-depth, ethnographic project, probes the equally rich—yet poorly understood—realm of ordinary or everyday morality, where serendipitous, creative, and unorthodox thought and action evidence concerted efforts to transform animal laboratories into moral, scientific worlds. The work is grounded in efforts to integrate theory within medical anthropology (and, more particularly, on suffering and moral worth), animal studies, and science and technology studies (STS). Contrary to established scholarship that focuses exclusively on single professions (such as the researcher or technician), Animal Ethos tracks across the spectrum of the lab labor hierarchy by considering the experiences of researchers, animal technicians, and lab veterinarians. In turn, it offers comparative insights on animal activists. When taken together, this range of parties illuminates the moral complexities of experimental lab research. The affective qualities of interspecies intimacy, animal death, and species preference are of special analytical concern, as reflected in the themes of intimacy, sacrifice, and exceptionalism that anchor this work.

A Feminist Geopolitics of Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Jack ◽  
Seyram Avle
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Feminist Geopolitics ◽  
Dominant Narratives

This article proposes a feminist geopolitics of technology framework that analyzes the connections between global politics and techno-empires through the lens of feminist scholarship. This framework has three dimensions: (1) grounding in place, (2) attention to everyday surviving and thriving, and (3) community. We draw on two long-term, community-oriented ethnographic research engagements in Cambodia and Ghana to illustrate how this approach might be used. This framework provides a resource for scholars to make sense of the contrasts between dominant narratives and lived experiences, particularly encouraging more sensitive and generative approaches to analyzing the conditions and dimensions of a shifting geopolitics of technology. In writing stories of caring, thriving, and grounded alternatives, we hope to foster and support initiatives that encourage personal agency and living the full human experience amid inequality and structural violence.

Lagos in life: placing cities in lived experience

2021 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-412
Author(s):  
Allen Hai Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
City Life ◽  
Life Trajectories ◽  
Urban Places

AbstractRather than examining what constitutes urban life in a particular city, this paper draws attention to how cities are ‘placed’ along individuals’ life trajectories. The outcome of 15 months of ethnographic research among 102 residents of Lagos's Gowon Estate neighbourhood suggests that Lagos is better understood relationally, through subjective narratives of city life. Given its scale and position among Nigerian cities, the meanings of Lagos to different individuals must be illuminated via an examination of how they ‘place’ those urban places that are important to them – Lagos, hometowns and regional centres – both conceptually and practically within their lived experiences and current livelihoods. In short, this paper exemplifies and advocates a methodology that does not treat cities as a central analytical unit, but instead interprets the meanings of living in cities based on individual inhabitants’ narratives, networks and other aspects of their lived experiences in Lagos and elsewhere.

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