School holidays: examining childhood, gender norms, and kinship in children's shorter-term residential mobility in urban Zambia

Hunleth, Jean; Jacob, Rebekah R.; Cole, Steven M.; Bond, Virginia; James, Aimee S.

doi:10.1080/14733285.2014.893280

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“…Mutale Chileshe, the first author, was a Zambian anthropologist, trained in South Africa, who carried out research in rural Zambian households and also in the hospital in Ndola where Makunka was admitted [ 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 ]. Jean Hunleth and Emma Bunkley, both Americans, have also carried out multiple household- and hospital-based studies in Zambia and elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa (see, for example, [ 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ]). Jean is also an investigator on a number of NCI-funded efforts to reduce rural cancer disparities in her U.S. NCI-designated cancer center’s catchment area.…”

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The Rural Household Production of Health Approach: Applying Lessons from Zambia to Rural Cancer Disparities in the U.S.

Chileshe

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Hunleth

2022

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The recent focus on rural–urban cancer disparities in the United States (U.S.) requires a comprehensive understanding of the processes and relations that influence cancer care seeking and decision making. This is of particular importance for Black, Latino, and Native populations living in rural areas in the U.S., who remain marginalized in health care spaces. In this article, we describe the household production of health approach (HHPH) as a contextually-sensitive approach to examining health care seeking and treatment decisions and actions. The HHPH approach is based on several decades of research and grounded in anthropological theory on the household, gender, and therapy management. This approach directs analytical attention to how time, money, and social resources are secured and allocated within the household, sometimes in highly unequal ways that reflect and refract broader social structures. To demonstrate the benefits of such an approach to the study of cancer in rural populations in the U.S., we take lessons from our extensive HHPH research in Zambia. Using a case study of a rural household, in which household members had to seek care in a distant urban hospital, we map out what we call a rural HHPH approach to bring into focus the relations, negotiations, and interactions that are central to individual and familial health care seeking behaviors and clinical treatment particular to rural regions. Our aim is to show how such an approach might offer alternative interpretations of existing rural cancer research in the U.S. and also present new avenues for questions and for developing interventions that are more sensitive to people’s realities.

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The Rural Household Production of Health Approach: Applying Lessons from Zambia to Rural Cancer Disparities in the U.S.

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2022

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“…Scholars in sub‐Saharan Africa have used fantasy as an entry point into understanding the experience of large‐scale global processes, such as colonialism and neoliberal capitalism (White ; Comaroff and Comaroff ; Weiss ) and, more recently, epidemiological shifts and the rise of global health projects that permeate daily life (Livingston ; Brada , ). In my previous work, I have described the dominance of global imaginations of health and well‐being in George—from the imagery promulgated by a World Health Organization– promoted, donor‐backed, and nationally supported TB control regime (Hunleth ) and the rollout of no‐cost antiretrovirals for HIV (Hunleth ) to the anticipatory programming aimed at children affected by HIV (Hunleth ) and at universal primary school education (Hunleth et al ). While other researchers have examined the fantastical in sub‐Saharan Africa as populated by witches, vampires, and zombies, I turned in my previous writing to something far scarier, at least to the children I knew: the orphan.…”

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Zambian Children’s Imaginal Caring: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic

Hunleth

2019

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Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Lusaka, Zambia, this article puts forth the concept of imaginal caring to examine a form of caring that is fantastical, exaggerated, and counterfactual. To develop this concept, I take the vantage point of young children (ages eight through twelve) who lived in households with persons who were suffering from tuberculosis and HIV. The children were involved in providing day‐to‐day care in many ways. They were also constrained in their efforts to give and show care because of their social positions, their access to resources, and their small human bodies. Through a series of examples, I demonstrate the ways in which children created and played with often visual images of giving care to family members in the past, present, and future. I show that fantastical imaginations and images of children's involvement in caring not only expressed that they cared for others but also served as ways for them to provide or perform care. There were high social and personal stakes for children in not being able to care for others, and children's efforts to care imaginally responded to such stakes, envisioning futures different from those scripted for them by global health discourses and the conditions of marginalization and exclusion into which they were born.

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“…I administered this 200 household survey to help me better understand what was unique to the 25 households and what was more widely shared by other households in George. More details on sampling strategy, variables, and analysis can be found in Hunleth et al (2015). 33.…”

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Children as Caregivers

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2019

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For my parents, Frank and Mary Ann vii 157 Notes 161 References 173 Index 183 Contents ix Children as Caregivers is based on research I carried out in Lusaka during a time that spanned nearly ten years (2005, 2006, 2007 to 2008, and 2014). However, the ideas for the research took root much earlier when I was a Peace Corps volunteer in Eastern Province and then Central Province, Zambia (1999Zambia ( -2002. As a water sanitation volunteer in the village of Kapichila, near Lundazi, I was able to witness many things children accomplished for their families, and also the unacknowledged work that children put into global health projects. I thank Maxwell Banda and Anya Gondwe for opening their home to me and for putting their grandchildren in charge of introducing me to village life. Tikali, Regina, Suzgo, and Mattress taught me many lessons about children's creativity and the diversity of childhood experiences. I continue to carry these lessons throughout my career.I have incurred many debts since starting the project that led to this book. I am beyond grateful for my longtime mentor, Karen Tranberg Hansen, whose deep knowledge of Africanist scholarship and her decades of research in Lusaka provided the foundation for my own work. Helen Schwartzman introduced me to the anthropology of childhood and pushed me to think creatively and critically about research with children. I thank both Karen and Helen for their unwavering support and the countless hours they have spent mentoring me through the years. I have benefited from the mentorship of so many other people, particularly

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School holidays: examining childhood, gender norms, and kinship in children's shorter-term residential mobility in urban Zambia

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

The Rural Household Production of Health Approach: Applying Lessons from Zambia to Rural Cancer Disparities in the U.S.

The Rural Household Production of Health Approach: Applying Lessons from Zambia to Rural Cancer Disparities in the U.S.

Zambian Children’s Imaginal Caring: On Fantasy, Play, and Anticipation in an Epidemic

Children as Caregivers

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