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Drawing Perspectives Together: What Happens When Researchers Draw With Children?
What happens when researchers draw with children?
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Drawing Journals
Book Review: Drawing as Ethnographic Practice Drawn to See: Drawing as an Ethnographic Method. By Andrew Causey. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.Making Comics. By Lynda Barry. Montreal: Drawn and Quarterly, 2019. “Drawing is undergoing a revival in anthropology. A…
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Adults Don’t Know Everything
Adults don’t know everything. This is a story of what we learned from talking to kids about asthma.
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Not Breathing Easy: A Graphic Narrative
Tasha’s infant daughter Kayleigh was diagnosed with asthma at the E.R., and Tasha was sent home with a nebuliser “breathing machine” and albuterol. Tasha has continued administering albuterol to Kayleigh ever since, including every morning before Kayleigh gets up for school.
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Inequitable mobilities: intersections of diversity with urban infrastructure influence mobility, health and wellbeing
“The institutionalised privileging of Western paradigms in decision-making and the enduring nature of infrastructure converge to perpetuate an ‘infrastructural violence’ (Rodgers and O’Neill 2012) upon Aotearoa’s Māori peoples, inflicting harms that include inequitable mobility, greater exposure to risky or mobility-constrained…
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Where have all the Children Gone? Against Children’s Invisibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic
“The problem here is that Abby’s, Chiko’s and Teuila’s experiences with TB and RF programming have been invisible to the adults who design and fund the health programmes that shaped their lives. And we see this troubling trend in public health and policy approaches to COVID-19.”
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Towards a Child-Centred Public Health: Lessons from Rheumatic Fever Prevention in Aotearoa New Zealand
“Neglecting children’s perspectives has important consequences, not only for children’s wellbeing and experience, but for an intervention’s success. I argue that good child health policy should be predicated on regard for children as whole people: as social actors and participants in public life, whose experiences, understandings, interpretations and practices matter and can mediate the effectiveness of policy interventions.”
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Not Breathing Easy: “Disarticulated Homework” in Asthma Management
What happens to the “chronic homework” of asthma management when racism, socio-economic disadvantage, and medical systems gaps in the U.S. “disarticulate” families from professional care?
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Where have all the children gone? The silencing and un-silencing of children in America’s pandemic
As childhood medical anthropologists in America’s pandemic, we see children’s issues everywhere –school re-openings; mental health concerns; medical risks—but children themselves have been, to our ears, conspicuously silent.
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Our School
The children of Tūrama School, where I conducted by doctoral research, produced a lot of drawings during my time with them. Meanwhile, I also produced a number of drawings with them.
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