The January roundup from the journals. Happy Reading!
Why Kinesthesia, Tactility and Affectivity Matter: Critical and Constructive Perspectives
Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
…This article offers critical and constructive perspectives essential to understanding living bodies, and, in effect, to showing that kinesthesia, tactility and affectivity matter because they are central to animate life. Critical perspectives focus on practices that distance
The December 2018 issue of Anthropology of Work Review is a special issue titled, “An Injury to One is an Injury to All: Immigrant Workers, Structural Vulnerability, and Occupational Injury.” Here are the abstracts.
Workers’ Decompensation: Engaged Research with Injured Im/migrant Workers
Dvera I. Saxton, Angela Stuesse
[excerpt] This special issue brings together ethnographic perspectives on the intersections …
The December 2018 issue of BioSocieties is a collection on epigenetics. Here are the abstracts. Enjoy!
Situating the biosocial: Empirical engagements with environmental epigenetics from the lab to the clinic (open access)
Stephanie Lloyd, Ruth Müller
[excerpt] Few life science research fields have met with as ambivalent a response in the social sciences as environmental epigenetics, an emerging …
From the journals in December 2018, here’s some new reading for the first days of the new year. Enjoy!
Medicine Anthropology Theory (Open Access)
But are they actually healthier? Challenging the health/wellness divide through the ethnography of embodied ecological heritage (open access)
Kristina Baines
A holistic definition of ‘health’ remains difficult to operationalize, despite decades of attempts by …
Here are some highlights from last month’s journals. Enjoy!
Contractual dependencies: Disability and the bureaucracy of begging in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (open access)
Clara Devlieger
One of the most conspicuous livelihood strategies for physically disabled people in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, is a particular style of begging known locally as “doing documents.” Confronted with the …
Late but still lively: it’s October’s installation of In the Journals.
Ethics in Human Biology: A Historical Perspective on Present Challenges
Joanna Radin
The practice of human biology requires the negotiation of a range of ethical issues, including the politics of race and indigeneity, the appropriate use of research materials, and the relationship between researchers and …