Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology’s Storytelling

Hyde, Sandra Teresa; Willis, Laurie

doi:10.1080/01459740.2020.1739673

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“…In our usage, 'the ordinary' consists of everyday practices, affects, relations, and embodiments. We aim to show how the textures of uncertainty and ambiguity that are established during the diagnostic process become visible in the ordinary (see also Hyde and Denyer Willis 2020;Offersen et al 2018). Interlocutors' experiences are often complex and incoherent and may conflict or conjoin at various moments and articulations (Throop 2010).…”

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“…Departing from writings on 'the ordinary' by others (Das 2007, 2015b;Stewart 2007;Hyde and Denyer Willis 2020;van der Geest 2015), we add to the literature on diagnostics by exploring the temporal, existential, and affective dimensions of being that the diagnostic work of follow-up introduces to everyday life. We situate 'the ordinary' by ethnographically focussing on everyday life.…”

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‘In the Meantime’: Ordinary Life in Continuous Medical Testing for Lung Cancer

Frumer

Andersen²,

Vedsted³

et al. 2021

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Danes undergoing CT scans as part of follow-up testing for potential lung cancer, we explore how access to technologies generates diagnostic uncertainty and trends of continuous testing. Our research is set in the context of a welfare state that has cultivated forms of government whose public health branches focus on early diagnosis and cancer control. Many studies on biotechnologies emphasise subject-making and power relations. Inspired by the work of Veena Das, we adopt an approach that focuses on the entanglement of diagnostic investigations with everyday life. We argue that being followed establishes a mode of being which we call ‘in the meantime’. Life in the meantime is equally characterised by a dramatic mode of being—that is, waiting for death—and an ambiguous mode of being: feeling quite well. As with any life crisis, it involves some sense of agency. We show in this paper how life in the meantime informs an ordinary ethics that encourages three ethical concerns in everyday life: firstly, how to inhabit life in the meantime? Secondly, what good is the testing for? And finally, what is a good death?

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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‘In the Meantime’: Ordinary Life in Continuous Medical Testing for Lung Cancer

Frumer

Andersen²,

Vedsted³

et al. 2021

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“…. flexible’ (Hyde and Willis, 2020: 299), and often contested, since some acts are recognized more widely in society as caring while others are excluded from recognition or analysis (Kolla and Strike, 2020). Our reflections build on these ‘practices of care’ by highlighting how acts of care were produced by youth through the process of curating creative works about overdose and grief.…”

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heART space: Curating community grief from overdose

Selfridge

Robinson

Mitchell

2021

Global Studies of Childhood

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This article details the transformation of an empty store into a gallery honouring youth and others who have passed away from overdoses, and the creation of extensive harm reduction and grief support programming that accompanied the display of artwork. The outpouring of community interest, participation, and emotion that surfaced around heART space clearly shows how art, exhibitions and creative programming can help foster communities of care during times of crisis. Drawing from research into practices of care from harm reduction work, grief studies and participatory arts and curatorial studies, the authors explore how heART space comforted youth and others with direct experiences with overdose and disenfranchised grief while creating dialogues with visitors about the stigma of drug use and homelessness. The authors argue curating heART space produced an opportunity for community healing while nuancing and humanizing the way we see people who use drugs. As such, this youth-driven community project created a safe space to share stories, collaborate, honour trauma and transform grief into action.

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“…We insert a note here about the structure of this paper, as we write about multiple interactions that concern our positioning of vulnerability. As Hyde and Willis (2020) detail in their account of balancing precarity, care and pace in anthropology's storytelling, we foregrounded the pace of everyday, ordinary activities over time. These approaches were often paralleled in the FbF program, where families were positioned as experts on their own lives, and power relations between the FbF workers and families was reconfigured all together differently from those with outside agencies.…”

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Productive exposures: Vulnerability as a parallel practice of care in ethnographic and community spaces

Zizzo

Warin

Zivkovic

et al. 2021

Australian J of Anthropology

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Theories of vulnerability are most often seen in the anthropology of disaster studies, where socio‐economic and political inequalities produce environmental vulnerabilities, and the people situated in these locations are positioned as vulnerable and dependent 'Others'. Rather than reproduce vulnerability as a concept denoting weakness, this paper seeks to examine the generative capacities of vulnerability practised in parallel in ethnographic and community spaces. As a form of witnessing and participating in and out of differing social worlds, anthropology engages in different vulnerabilities with and between multiple actors. This paper examines how a community program working with families identified as 'disadvantaged' in South Australia strategically uses vulnerability as a productive resource and a practice of care. In theorising vulnerability through parallel practices in both ethnographic approaches and this community program, we argue that vulnerability can be leveraged away from negative welfare discourses towards alternative politics of radical care and social change.

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Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology’s Storytelling

Abstract: This article has been republished with minor changes. These changes do not impact the academic content of the article.

Cited by 9 publications

References 34 publications

‘In the Meantime’: Ordinary Life in Continuous Medical Testing for Lung Cancer

‘In the Meantime’: Ordinary Life in Continuous Medical Testing for Lung Cancer

heART space: Curating community grief from overdose

Productive exposures: Vulnerability as a parallel practice of care in ethnographic and community spaces

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