Embodied Protests

Emotions and Women's Health in Bolivia

AvMaria Tapias

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Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia''s hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. She approaches the narratives of distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of Tapias''s definitive analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces.

Evocative and compassionate, Embodied Protests gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-15
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9780252097157
Förlag:University of Illinois Press

Utforska kategorier

Samhälle och kultur inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Maria Tapias is an associate professor of anthropology and an associate dean at Grinnell College.

Recensioner i media

"Based on finely detailed ethnography, lovingly treated by an author who knows how to write."--Daniel M. Goldstein, author of Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City"An engagingly written, and often moving, depiction of the lives of working class women in Bolivia and their stories of suffering and success navigating the social and political economic obstacles of everyday life in the twenty-first century. Throughout, the finely detailed analysis illuminates the cultural parameters of emotion and illness and the local politics of neoliberalism and we gain an appreciation for individuals' efforts to protest the distress in their lives and enhance the well-being of themselves and others. A clear contribution to the field."--Krista E. Van Vleet, author of Performing Kinship Narrative, Gender, and the Intimacies of Power in the Andes

Innehållsförteckning

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Embodied Protests, Emotions, and Failing Socialities1. Neoliberalism on the Ground: Political, Economic, and Social Landscapes2. Physicality's Sociality and Sociality's Physicality: Fluid Boundaries of the Body3. The Intergenerational Embodiment of Social Suffering4. Anxious Ambitions and the Financing of Tranquility5. Moving Sentiments: Emotions and MigrationConclusionNotesGlossaryReferencesIndex