Emmanuelle Roth is a PhD candidate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is interested in biosecuritization in the aftermath of the Ebola outbreak, epistemological entanglements and the making of local futures through pandemic management. She follows efforts at viral forecasting and communicating on the risk of human-animal disease transmission. Her dissertation explores the local ecology of truth in which scientific assistants interpret and perform interspecies research on the emergence of Ebola in Guinea.
Medical Anthropology has just released a special issue, edited by Thurka Sangaramoorthy and Megan A. Carney, which offers insights into “the landscape of immigrant mental health and how the experience of multiple exclusions influences collective psychosocial well-being.”
Immigration, Mental Health and Psychosocial Well-being (open access)
Thurka Sangaramoorthy & Megan A. Carney
…Anthropological approaches to “immigrant mental health” as an object
Food Insecurity, Nutritional Inequality, and Maternal–Child Health: A Role for Biocultural Scholarship in Filling Knowledge Gaps
Barbara A. Piperata & Darna L. Dufour
…Food insecurity, a significant contributor to nutritional inequality, disproportionately affects women and children in low- and middle-income countries. The magnitude of the problem has inspired research on its impacts on health, especially on
We would like to highlight the release of two special issues this month. First, Critical Public Health’s second issue of the year is dedicated to “Public health activism in changing times: re-locating collective agency,” edited by Catherine Campbell and Flora Cornish. The papers “call for a radical expansion of the gaze of public health to take account of new, …
Of Plots and Men: The Heuristics of Conspiracy Theories
Didier Fassin
…In a time when conspiracy theories seem to be flourishing, generally receiving dismissive reactions, this article conversely tries to take them seriously and to consider what they may tell us about contemporary societies. Whereas philosophical discussions turn around the specific definition and delimitation of these theories,
Critical Public Health’s first issue of the year is a special issue titled “Beyond Biological Citizenship,” edited by Marsha Rosengarten, Todd Sekuler, Beate Binder, Agata Dziuban and Peter-Paul Bänziger. These articles “offer insight into the evolving conceptions of state–citizenship relations in the complex and entangled histories of HIV/AIDS in Europe.”
Beyond biological citizenship: HIV/AIDS, health, and activism in Europe …
Fitness Fanatics: Exercise as Answer to Pending Zombie Apocalypse in Contemporary America
Katie Rose Hejtmanek
…Physical fitness has a long history in the United States. Currently, functional fitness has emerged as a popular, novel method of exercising. Based on years of ethnographic research on a branded version of functional fitness, I argue this form of exercise is
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