Racial Health Equity and the Question of Black (Non?) Being: Exploring the Uses of Afropessimism in Approaches to Anti-Racist Health Promotion. [PDF]
Br J SociolABSTRACT Afropessimism is a critical framework that is often used to analyse anti‐Black violence and its deep entrenchment within systems and structures that perpetuate Black subjugation. By conceptualising Black life as ‘non‐life’, afropessimism examines how anti‐Black violence shapes health disparities, influencing who is deemed worthy of care and ...
Spratt T.
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The social life of creative methods: Filmmaking, fabulation and recovery. [PDF]
Br J SociolAbstract In this article we consider the theoretical and methodological implications of Deleuzian fabulation for research on recovery from drugs and alcohol as an alternative way of making and doing methods in sociology. The article draws on data produced as part of an ongoing interdisciplinary research collaboration, begun in 2019, with the visual ...
Vitellone N +2 more
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Euthanasia as a safeguard for living: Anticipation and incurable cancer in a Colombian context. [PDF]
Med Anthropol QAbstract This article builds on years of ethnographic conversations I sustained with my father, 89, who lives in Colombia. Soon after getting diagnosed with an incurable Multiple Myeloma—a cancer known for unleashing prolonged and painful agonies—he withdrew from oncology treatments and secured access to euthanasia (assisted‐dying) on his own ...
Sanz C.
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Transforming medical anthropology: Community, praxis, and the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collaboratory. [PDF]
Med Anthropol QAbstract Despite the transformative contributions of Black feminist thought, medical anthropology often fails to recognize or center the works of Black feminist thinkers. We argue that Black feminist theory is critical for a study and praxis of new approaches to healing, health, medicine, illness, disability, and care.
Oni-Orisan A, Aboii SM, Edu UF.
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The Past Isn’t What It Used To Be
Tidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2020 Critical feminist theorists have pointed out how the idea of the singular, revolutionary Act tends to reinforce masculinist and colonialist imaginaries. In this essay, I argue for the need to elaborate other ways of revolting.
Fanny Wendt Höjer
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«The Karma of Chicken Curry». Tibetan Masala films and youth narratives of exile [PDF]
, 2018 This essay offers a preliminary study of the cultural translation practices by young Tibetan exilic filmmakers in India, whose films, rather than rejecting the masala formula offered by Bollywood, have tentatively adapted it to the expectations of a ...
Matta, Mara
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Stolen life’s poetic revolt [PDF]
, 2019 Joining the discussion of revolution and resistance in world politics, this article puts forward the idea of poetic revolt as a necessary companion to these terms, one which centres attention on the ongoing reverberations of transatlantic slavery – what ...
Odysseos, Louiza
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The '419 Scam': An Unacceptable 'Power of the False'? [PDF]
, 2014 One of the more virulent manifestations of a burgeoning virtual world is the very physical waste that underwrites its proliferation. Illegal e-waste dumping in Western Africa not only wreaks havoc on the ecosystems of its destination countries, but also ...
Scannell, John
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Design Stories in the Global South: Fabulation as a Means to Decolonize Design History
DiseñaThis article aims to discuss, through the critical fabulation of Saidiya Hartman, the use of fabulation in the field of design history as a decolonizing methodological tool, as it challenges and problematizes notions of truth and neutrality in research ...
Clara Meliande
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Translation and Bilingualism in Monica Ali’s and Jhumpa Lahiri’s Marginalized Identities [PDF]
, 2012 This investigation seeks to demonstrate how Ali and Lahiri represent two different migrant experiences, Muslim and Indian, each of which functioning within a multicultural Anglo-American context.
Rizzo, Alessandra
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