For my doctoral research, I interviewed family members living with a loved one with early-onset dementia, a diagnosis that one receives under the age of 65. Jans, not his real name, was the fourth person I interviewed in April 2015. Since he lived in a remote village in the east of the Netherlands, we met at a train station to …
Tag Archives: Childhood
Re-enacting memories
One way to ‘think with dementia’ is to phenomenologically shift from ‘memory’ to ‘remembering’ and to mine ‘remembering’ for its qualities and potentialities as socio-culturally limned experience. Whereas ‘memory’ invokes static mappings of representation and world, ‘remembering’ is temporally emergent. Whereas ‘memory’ invokes individual capacities, ‘remembering’ is a situated, genre-ed activity that invites co-participation. ‘Remembering’ exudes qualities of performance, not …
Agitated children, turbulent trajectories: Towards a comparison between Europe and South America – a workshop report
This article describes the main discussions and contributions of the first workshop of the International Research Network on Disruptive Behaviours. The workshop was held at the “Centre for Research in Medicine, Science, Health, Mental Health and Society” (CERMES-3) in Paris, in January 2017. The second network workshop will be organised by the “Transdisciplinary Laboratory in Social Practices and …
Susanna Trnka’s One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health
Stanford University Press, 2017, 262 pages.
Bringing children to the field can change an anthropologist’s relationship to fieldwork immensely. For University of Auckland anthropologist, Susanna Trnka, bringing her children to the Czech Republic quickly became a confronting medical experience when her nine-year-old daughter suffered her …
Introduction: The First Thousand Days of Life
This article is part of the series: The First Thousand Days of Life
(On behalf of the First Thousand Days Research Group (University of Cape Town))
…“Good nutrition in the first 1000 days between a woman’s pregnancy and her child’s second birthday sets the foundation for all the days that follow.”
“The First 1,000 Days of being a parent are now accepted to be the most significant in a child’s development.”
Tanya Cassidy’s and Abdullahi El Tom’s “Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations”
Ethnographies of Breastfeeding: Cultural Contexts and Confrontations
Tanya Cassidy and Abdullahi El Tom (editors)
Bloomsbury, 2015, 255 pages
Ethnographies of Breastfeeding offers a timely insight into how milk feeding is confronted in multiple socio-cultural and political contexts. The edited volume comprises twelve chapters which together explore the boundaries and contentions that milk flows across. By aggregating the historical and …