Esca van Blarikom
Esca van Blarikom is a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College London, working on project comparing welfare systems and their impact on wellbeing. She holds an MSc in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam and a Ph.D. from Queen Mary University of London. Her research focuses on the organization, logics and lived experience of biomedical care services and the welfare state. Previously, she was a postdoctoral fellow working on the project ‘The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid-19,' a multidisciplinary project with a focus on crafting conversations between social anthropology and biopolitics.
2 articles contributed
1. Biopolitical Fieldwork By the end of 2023, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 public health emergency to be over. With this announcement came the realisation that, despite an abundance of publications, online debates, and solitary reflection, it remained difficult to know how to think about what we had lived through – or even […]
Since 2020, the category of “essential work,” and the exploitative conditions it legitimized during the COVID-19 pandemic, has sparked waves of labor protest across the globe. Feminist scholars saw the global emergence of the category of “essential work” as holding emancipatory potential, as it publicly affirmed the value of reproductive labor (Stevano and and Jamieson […]
