health Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/health/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:08:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://allegralaboratory.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/cropped-Icon-Allegra-Lab-Fixed-32x32.png health Archives - Allegra Lab https://allegralaboratory.net/tag/health/ 32 32 Through the looking glass: learning to do ethnography with children and their families https://allegralaboratory.net/through-the-looking-glass-learning-to-do-ethnography-with-children-and-their-families/ https://allegralaboratory.net/through-the-looking-glass-learning-to-do-ethnography-with-children-and-their-families/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:08:07 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46506 In this article, Nieves Galera reflects on the practical and emotional challenges of conducting ethnographic fieldwork with infants and their families.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/through-the-looking-glass-learning-to-do-ethnography-with-children-and-their-families/feed/ 0 The ethnographer’s body is gendered https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:52 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46367 Writing from experiences of harassment, surveillance, and sexualised misrecognition during fieldwork in a highly militarised context, Anya Evans foregrounds the ethnographer’s body as a central site of knowledge production and vulnerability.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/the-ethnographers-body-is-gendered/feed/ 0 Pregnant or fieldworker; should ‘all foreseeable risks’ be avoided in the field? https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:07:35 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46361 Emanuelle Roth critically examines how institutional risk frameworks reshape ethnographic practice through her experience of being recalled from doctoral fieldwork in Guinea after disclosing a pregnancy.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/pregnant-or-fieldworker-should-all-foreseeable-risks-be-avoided-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Fieldwork in the context of Covid-19 https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/ https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:06:54 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46377 The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally reshaped ethnographic research, forcing scholars to reconsider fieldwork methods, ethics, and institutional responsibilities.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/fieldwork-in-the-context-of-covid-19/feed/ 0 Emotions of Friendship: The Psychological Challenges of Doing Fieldwork in Xinjiang https://allegralaboratory.net/emotions-of-friendship-the-psychological-challenges-of-doing-fieldwork-in-xinjiang/ https://allegralaboratory.net/emotions-of-friendship-the-psychological-challenges-of-doing-fieldwork-in-xinjiang/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:06:24 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46369 In this article, Lisa Ernst examines the overlooked psychological toll of "friendship as method" within ethnography, specifically during high-risk fieldwork in Xinjiang, China.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/emotions-of-friendship-the-psychological-challenges-of-doing-fieldwork-in-xinjiang/feed/ 0 Elective Affinities: Fragility and Injustice in the Field https://allegralaboratory.net/elective-affinities-fragility-and-injustice-in-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/elective-affinities-fragility-and-injustice-in-the-field/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:06:12 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46458 Luisa Enria reflects on profoundly sensitive experiences of fragility, power and reflexivity in the context of her long term ethnographic fieldwork in Sierra Leone.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/elective-affinities-fragility-and-injustice-in-the-field/feed/ 0 Dis/ability to do Fieldwork https://allegralaboratory.net/dis-ability-to-do-fieldwork/ https://allegralaboratory.net/dis-ability-to-do-fieldwork/#respond Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:06:02 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=46614 In this article, Rine Vieth critiques the "Malinowskian" ideal of fieldwork, which prizes able-bodied endurance and long-term isolation as markers of professional authority.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/dis-ability-to-do-fieldwork/feed/ 0 Health justice two ways: examples from the field https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/ https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/#comments Tue, 12 May 2026 15:43:41 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=47856 Through storytelling for health, the authors provide examples of different practices designed for justice and connection, community acupuncture and ethnographically informed research.

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/health-justice-two-ways-examples-from-the-field/feed/ 1 “You have to do your business, right?”: Politics of regulating maternal health markets in Bangladesh https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/ https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/#respond Thu, 13 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=43960 Introduction Private health service delivery is becoming increasingly dominant in biomedical landscapes worldwide. In global health circles, private health services […]

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]]> https://allegralaboratory.net/you-have-to-do-your-business-right-politics-of-regulating-maternal-health-markets-in-bangladesh/feed/ 0 The sound of the absurd: Learning to listen in the Emergency Room https://allegralaboratory.net/the-sound-of-the-absurd-learning-to-listen-in-the-emergency-room/ https://allegralaboratory.net/the-sound-of-the-absurd-learning-to-listen-in-the-emergency-room/#respond Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:00:16 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net/?p=41654 It was a crowded, freezing Monday morning in late January, in the large university hospital in northern Italy where I […]

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