E L Backe
Biographic Data
| ID | 43772 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E L Backe |
| GIVEN NAMES | E L |
| FAMILY NAME | Backe |
| SIGNATURE | BACKE E L |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3012-9043 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mental health interventions in public health emergencies
The COVID-19 pandemic showed the significant impact of epidemics on mental health and illustrated gaps in public health and epidemic response systems’ ability to respond to mental health and psychosocial needs. This study sought to identify the most and least helpful mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) strategies and elements for intervention in epidemics. An online survey with open ended questions was circulated via professional netwo…
Care conversations
Q Manivannan (they/them/theirs), Dipali Anumol (she/her
Policy Statement
The Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group affirms that the state of mental health in Academic Anthropology needs serious attention and transformation. We respond to structural inequities in academia that exacerbate mental distress among graduate students and other anthropologists who experience oppression, by putting forward a policy statement with recommendations to create more equitable learning and working environments
Thinking Too Much”
Drinking Too Much, Fighting Too Much”
The intersecting issues of intimate partner violence (IPV) and alcohol abuse in South Africa are often characterized as "disasters." Ethnographic research among women in Soweto demonstrates the different manifestations of IPV, perceptions of abuse, and coping mechanisms to manage harmful domestic relationships. Findings suggest a consistent relationship between excessive drinking patterns and IPV-most significantly, physical and emotional abuse-w…
Capacitating care
In ethnographic analyses of gender‐based violence (GBV), anthropologists working on the front‐lines of advocacy and service delivery have increasingly adopted dual roles as activists and researchers. While these positionings have allowed for alternative fields of vision in the ethnographic process, less attention has been dedicated to what these roles do ethnographically, and the kinds of skills and core competencies advocacy roles teach us as fe…
Jailcare
Reviewed by: Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars by Carolyn Sufrin Emma Louise Backe Carolyn Sufrin, Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. 328 pp. Carolyn Sufrin concludes Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars with a poem from one of the key figures in her ethnography—Kima, a young woman continuously cycling between San Francisco jail, the city's…
A Crisis of Care
This article explores the politics and contingencies of care provided to survivors of sexual assault on a rape crisis hotline in the U.S.'s mid-Atlantic region. The support provided to survivors on the hotline represents a crisis of care, one fomented by the victim services sector's failure to address the limitations of a crisis-oriented paradigm or survivors' chronic trauma. The tension between the survivor-centered model of the hotline and the …
A Resistance-Friendly Guide to Washington, DC
Engagements with Ethnographic Care
The Aesthetics of Deformity and the Construction of the “Freak”
With the inception of the “freak show” in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, deformity, physical abnormality and unusual facial features were sensationalized into entertainment spectacle, covertly managed, constructed and displayed for the macabre amusement of sideshow visitors and audience members. Due to the historical manipulation and fabrication of freaks’ bodies by sideshow and Odditorium managers to heighten or diminish their “freaki…
Care conversations
Q Manivannan (they/them/theirs), Dipali Anumol (she/her
A Crisis of Care
This article explores the politics and contingencies of care provided to survivors of sexual assault on a rape crisis hotline in the U.S.'s mid-Atlantic region. The support provided to survivors on the hotline represents a crisis of care, one fomented by the victim services sector's failure to address the limitations of a crisis-oriented paradigm or survivors' chronic trauma. The tension between the survivor-centered model of the hotline and the …
Policy Statement
The Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group affirms that the state of mental health in Academic Anthropology needs serious attention and transformation. We respond to structural inequities in academia that exacerbate mental distress among graduate students and other anthropologists who experience oppression, by putting forward a policy statement with recommendations to create more equitable learning and working environments
Drinking Too Much, Fighting Too Much”
The intersecting issues of intimate partner violence (IPV) and alcohol abuse in South Africa are often characterized as "disasters." Ethnographic research among women in Soweto demonstrates the different manifestations of IPV, perceptions of abuse, and coping mechanisms to manage harmful domestic relationships. Findings suggest a consistent relationship between excessive drinking patterns and IPV-most significantly, physical and emotional abuse-w…
The Aesthetics of Deformity and the Construction of the “Freak”
With the inception of the “freak show” in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries, deformity, physical abnormality and unusual facial features were sensationalized into entertainment spectacle, covertly managed, constructed and displayed for the macabre amusement of sideshow visitors and audience members. Due to the historical manipulation and fabrication of freaks’ bodies by sideshow and Odditorium managers to heighten or diminish their “freaki…
A Resistance-Friendly Guide to Washington, DC
Engagements with Ethnographic Care
Jailcare
Reviewed by: Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars by Carolyn Sufrin Emma Louise Backe Carolyn Sufrin, Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. 328 pp. Carolyn Sufrin concludes Jailcare: Finding the Safety Net for Women Behind Bars with a poem from one of the key figures in her ethnography—Kima, a young woman continuously cycling between San Francisco jail, the city's…
A Crisis of Care
This article explores the politics and contingencies of care provided to survivors of sexual assault on a rape crisis hotline in the U.S.'s mid-Atlantic region. The support provided to survivors on the hotline represents a crisis of care, one fomented by the victim services sector's failure to address the limitations of a crisis-oriented paradigm or survivors' chronic trauma. The tension between the survivor-centered model of the hotline and the …
Capacitating care
In ethnographic analyses of gender‐based violence (GBV), anthropologists working on the front‐lines of advocacy and service delivery have increasingly adopted dual roles as activists and researchers. While these positionings have allowed for alternative fields of vision in the ethnographic process, less attention has been dedicated to what these roles do ethnographically, and the kinds of skills and core competencies advocacy roles teach us as fe…
Thinking Too Much”
Drinking Too Much, Fighting Too Much”
The intersecting issues of intimate partner violence (IPV) and alcohol abuse in South Africa are often characterized as "disasters." Ethnographic research among women in Soweto demonstrates the different manifestations of IPV, perceptions of abuse, and coping mechanisms to manage harmful domestic relationships. Findings suggest a consistent relationship between excessive drinking patterns and IPV-most significantly, physical and emotional abuse-w…
Policy Statement
The Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group affirms that the state of mental health in Academic Anthropology needs serious attention and transformation. We respond to structural inequities in academia that exacerbate mental distress among graduate students and other anthropologists who experience oppression, by putting forward a policy statement with recommendations to create more equitable learning and working environments
Care conversations
Q Manivannan (they/them/theirs), Dipali Anumol (she/her
Mental health interventions in public health emergencies
The COVID-19 pandemic showed the significant impact of epidemics on mental health and illustrated gaps in public health and epidemic response systems’ ability to respond to mental health and psychosocial needs. This study sought to identify the most and least helpful mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) strategies and elements for intervention in epidemics. An online survey with open ended questions was circulated via professional netwo…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychiatry (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (3 works)