The Concern for Sociality—Practicing Equality and Hierarchy in Denmark

Bruun, Maja Højer; Jakobsen, Gry Skrædderdal; Krøijer, Stine

doi:10.3167/sa.2011.550201

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“…Still, they did not really fit the profile of proactive healthcare seekers, who are expected to take on responsibility for their own illness prevention and management. Instead, their care seeking appeared to be reactive, somewhat contrasting contemporary neo-liberal framings of the independent, productive, self-supporting individual (Bruun et al, 2016). 1 The expectations surrounding proactive care seeking and individual responsibility for preventing disease were not lost on our interlocutors.…”

Section: Disengaging With the Cancerous Bodymentioning

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Disengaging with the cancerous body

Merrild

Andersen

2019

Health (London)

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In recent years, the organisation of healthcare in many welfare states is gradually moving towards an individualised and responsibility-driven self-care and use of healthcare services. Departing in this restructuring of care, this article explores how bodies are experienced and how care is sough, by socially disadvantaged cancer patients. Based on repeated ethnographic interviews with 10 socially deprived cancer patients in Denmark, the article illustrates that socially disadvantaged cancer patients often experience their bodies and move between feeling fine and feeling sick in a disjunctive manner engulfed by the practicality of getting through the day. From a critical phenomenological perspective, we argue that this way of being in the world appears counterfactual to welfare expectations of proactive attention to the body, and contemporary moves towards increased individual responsibility for preventing serious disease and monitoring the body.

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Section: Disengaging With the Cancerous Bodymentioning

confidence: 95%

Disengaging with the cancerous body

Merrild

Andersen

2019

Health (London)

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“…Part of the background for the Nordic ambition to redistribute common goods is a sense of homogeneity in terms of the people living in the region, making everyone equally entitled to a part of the shared resources. The anthropology of Scandinavia has thus evolved around issues of sameness, equality, and egalitarianism (Gullestad 1992, Bruun et al 2011. We suggest that this may cast resource projects in the Nordic Arctic region as more harmonious than they often are.…”

Section: Nordic Colonialisms Indigeneity and Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 93%

Welfare Frontiers? Resource Practices in the Nordic Arctic Anthropocene

Hastrup

Lien

2020

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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This article outlines the thematic section’s main anthropological interventions and introduces the inherently ambiguous notion of welfare frontiers, implying allegedly benign practices of resource development. Through ethnographic analyses from Iceland, Norway, and Greenland, it shows that Nordic Arctic landscapes become resourceful through careful crafting, entangled with practices and ideals of nation-building, egalitarianism, sustainability, good governance, and a concern for liveability for legitimate citizens. Further, the authors suggest that seeing natural resource development as linked to specific welfare state projects, with attention to the sometimes colonizing aspects of such practices, specifies and captures the current era, bringing the Anthropocene back home.

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“…Flere har kritisert Gullestads argumentasjon for dette skillet, der hun ikke tar høyde for hvordan det offentlige også former det private (se f.eks. Vike, 2013;Bruun et al, 2011). Dette er også et velkjent argument innen kjønnsforskningen (se f.eks.…”

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