Community hygiene norm violators are consistently stigmatized: Evidence from four global sites and implications for sanitation interventions

Brewis, Alexandra; Wutich, Amber; Bray, Margaret V. du; Maupin, Jonathan; Schuster, Roseanne C.; Gervais, Matthew M.

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.10.020

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“…In our own anthropological work, we have identified that people across culturally diverse sites make similarly consistent cognitive connections between disgust reactions and stigmatising the person associated with what disgusts 10. This means such efforts as disgust-triggering should be expected to shift a reaction towards to a disgusting object (faeces) onto ‘disgusting people’.…”

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Why we should never do it: stigma as a behaviour change tool in global health

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2019

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2019

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“…Relevant to understanding household water insecurity is that the cultural expectations around water can be highly gendered. For example, women are more often expected to be the household water managers (Graham, Hirai, & Kim, 2016), and women's hygiene and dress standards can require more water than those for men (Brewis, Wutich, et al, 2019; Caruso, Sevilimedu, Fung, Patkar, & Baker, 2015; Geere & Cortobius, 2017).…”

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Localizing resource insecurities: A biocultural perspective on water and wellbeing

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A biocultural approach provides an emerging framework for clarifying the mechanisms that connect water security to human health and wellbeing. Five basic tenets of the biocultural approach are outlined: The focus on the local, the centrality of culture, the notion of embodied disadvantage, a concern with proximate mechanisms as a means to test theorized pathways, and recognition of intersecting and potentially amplified (syndemic) risks. From a review of both new and dispersed biocultural literature on household water, four key themes emerge: (a) individual vulnerabilities to the biological effects of water insecurity are shaped by cultural practices; (b) water insecurity is a powerful biocultural stressor on mental health; (c) water insecurity mediates between low power and worse health within communities, and through multiple mechanisms; (d) the household is a nexus for food–water interactions, each likely worsening each other and health through syndemic relationships. This sets an agenda for a biocultural approach to the household as a localizing nexus for manifesting the very human costs to mental and physical health of managing under conditions of extreme household resource insecurity. This article is categorized under: Engineering of Water > Planning Water Human Water > Water Governance Human Water > Water as Imagined and Represented

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“…Free and safe participation: Stakeholders' engagement has been recognized as positive for the acceptance of solutions [130] and for promoting hygiene [56]. From the individual rights perspective, however, various inacceptable measures of pressure have also been reported, e.g., in CLTS approaches [131,132]. Inclusiveness: Social and cultural norms may legitimize systematic exclusion of vulnerable groups from decision-making (e.g., failures of the authorities to address risks faced by women when accessing sanitation facilities outside their home [133]).…”

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The Enabling Environment for Participation in Water and Sanitation: A Conceptual Framework

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Participatory approaches are an important component of institutional frameworks for the governance of water resources and services. Studies on public participation in water management provide evidence for the outcomes of public participation and insights into the types of methods and the contexts under which participation can be meaningful. However, participatory processes are complex, and there is no single method by which to interpret, approach and implement them. This paper explores elements from the theory and practice of participation, applied to the management of water resources and water and sanitation services. Based on an in-depth literature review, we analyze the forms of participation in water and sanitation, their outcomes, as well as the contextual factors and procedural elements of participatory processes that affect their success. Contextual factors are those that are largely outside of the control of agencies or participants (e.g., demographics, history, and culture) or those that can only be influenced by management and institutional decisions in the mid- and long-term (e.g., the legal and institutional framework); while procedural elements are those over which agencies and participants have considerable control when designing and executing participatory efforts (e.g., representativeness and inclusivity, access to information, and opportunity to influence). We propose a framework that interrelates and integrates both contextual factors and procedural elements of participation. It, includes three additional aspects that are influenced by, and in turn influence, the context and the process: existing capacities for implementation of meaningful participatory processes, the resources that are allocated to them, and attitudes towards participatory processes. The framework helps conceptualize what we call the enabling environment for active, free, and meaningful participation in the delivery of water and sanitation services. By breaking down the complexities of participation, the framework supports practitioners and decision-makers to better design and implement participatory processes in water resources and water and sanitation services.

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Community hygiene norm violators are consistently stigmatized: Evidence from four global sites and implications for sanitation interventions

Cited by 28 publications

References 52 publications

Why we should never do it: stigma as a behaviour change tool in global health

Why we should never do it: stigma as a behaviour change tool in global health

Localizing resource insecurities: A biocultural perspective on water and wellbeing

The Enabling Environment for Participation in Water and Sanitation: A Conceptual Framework

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