Riviste Clueb (Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna)
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Il ruolo sociale della midwife nel Gambia contemporaneo: significare la cura tra approccio biomedico e sapere islamico - The Social Role of the Midwife in Contemporary Gambia: Giving Meaning to Care Between Biomedical Approach and Islamic Knowledge
No full textThis contribution discusses the role of the midwife within an urban Gambian area. Focusing on the context where Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) operate I underline different tasks that they take up especially among nulliparous women who turn to their knowledge to ask for help, suggestions and spiritual healing. Special attention will be drawn to the relationships between global health policies and other emic definitions of care incorporated in the Islamic discourse and in conversations held with my informants. I argue that for a complete understanding of these influences it is fundamental to take into consideration the historical events that today led TBAs to adopt either model depending on specific situations and needs
Il clima delle frontiere: per un’etnografia ambientale dei corpi
No full textContemporary environmental crises, the migration dynamics related to them, current forms of border management, and all the resulting body phenomena are areas that need a gaze capable of grasping their intersections and interactions. In recent years, anthropology has extensively inquired into these issues. What we need today is the development of an ethnographic practice capable of capturing the interactions between these domains. In this direction, we outline the contours of an environmental ethnography of the body at the borders. It is a perspective that, moving from a focus on the reconceptualizations offered by recent studies on these issues, is based on the idea that analyzing the environmental crisis and its bodily dimensions from the perspective of borders emerges as an effective revealer of issues that go far beyond what is at stake in the border areas themselves. This article describes this approach through a dual perspective: on the one hand, a state of the art in anthropological and social science studies about these issues; and, on the other, a programmatic reflection for an ongoing research program
Corpi in fuga tra pratiche di accoglienza, questioni di genere e percorsi di soggettivazione
No full textThe article introduces a monographic section on to the theme of the complex intertwining of wars, gender and health in the experience of asylum seekers and refugees, starting from some ideas that emerged in a dedicated thematic session carried out as part of the 4th National Congress of the Italian Society of Medical Anthropology (SIAM). In the text, after having underlined the importance of an anthropological analysis of contemporary wars, the author focuses, according to a critical and gender perspective, and starting from the discussion on the ethnographies that make up the monograph, on the problems, including those of health, of people fleeing war conflicts and violence, wounded in the body and traumatized, on which global welfare policies are exercised, with a specific focus on women
La forza degli oggetti ricomposti: Usare e riusare per una diversa estetica del quotidiano
No full textThose implemented by Elio, who lives in Paciano (Perugia), in a farmhouse immersed in thethings of his creativity, are configured as housing strategies defined and continually redefinedstarting from the use of heterogeneous tools and materials, collected from contingent circumstancesand adapted to contextual needs. Like Levi-Strauss’s bricoleur, he combines skills, expertiseand available resources (things out of everyday use, found waste collection centers andgarages of relatives and friends), configuring an instrumental universe in constantly adapting hisliving space based on extra-ordinary and always progressive aesthetics. Elio does not buy anddoes not sell, but retrieves and builds, giving new trajectories to the recomposed things and newmeaning to his practices, whether they are family, social, work, or existential
Percorsi di salute, maternità e agency fra rifugiate e richiedenti asilo somale a Napoli
No full textStarting from a research carried out amongst the female Somali asylum seekers and refugees in Naples, this article intends to reflect on the repercussions of traumatic and violent events connected with the civil war and - more recently - to Islamic terrorist groups on the life, health and motherhood paths of female migrants. Both the interviews and the life stories we have gathered have shown how such paths may be strongly affected by Somalia’s social and civil instability. In the case of Italy, we will also focus on the cure and agency trajectories allowing women to rebuild their lives, especially concerning gender and migratory networks, as well as by the opportunities and projects offered by the areas such women arrive in. Our field research has started in 2016 and is still ongoing. It envisions both participant observation and interviews. Such activities have involved the female Somali refugees and asylum seekers, as well as privileged informants, such as the social workers participating in area-based projects and female intercultural mediators
