Lucy Lowe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 118624 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lucy Lowe |
| NOMBRES | Lucy |
| APELLIDO | Lowe |
| FIRMA | LOWE L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1552-8441 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
How can we talk about our struggles?” reflections on researcher wellbeing and recommendations for psychosocial support for researchers in conflict-affected areas
First, echoing calls for a feminist ethics of care, the article recognises emotional responses as an inherent part of ethical research practice. Second, it articulates the benefits of local wellbeing champions. Third, it highlights that researcher wellbeing support should be a multifaceted and ongoing process rather than a one size fits all once-off event. Fourth, it calls for structural change to recognise emotional challenges as part of researc…
Rethinking (local) integration
Amidst the ever-expanding debates in various academic and policy fields around migrant and refugee integration and local integration, we bring these two concepts in conversation with one another. Until very recently, theories of integration have had a state-centric focus in the Global North. This article expands and complicates this literature to focus on displaced Somalis within Somalia and its borderlands living in the cities of Kismayo and Gar…
Concerning 'Neglect
Neglect' is a lucrative concept attracting billions of US dollars in research and development funding and transforming what is prioritised in global health. Stemming from a wider project aiming to improve healthcare at the intersection of gender and protracted displacement amongst Somali and Congolese internally displaced people and refugees, this article unpacks conceptualisations of 'neglect' in relation to mental health. Drawing on interviews …
Perpetually in Transit
Refusing cesarean sections to protect fertile futures
While cesarean sections are increasingly used worldwide, Somali refugee women in Kenya are rejecting the operation in attempts to protect their future reproductive capacities. In a context of displacement and insecurity, women's reproductive bodies can be crucial to their security and strategies for onward migration. Somali women's resistance to C-sections mirrors prevalent practices of female circumcision, since they are both perceived by physic…
Social Justice as Epidemic Control
In this article, we draw on two cases-one of the reproductive justice movements in the wake of the Latin American Zika epidemic, and one of an environmental justice movements spurred by an epidemic of chronic kidney disease among sugarcane workers-to argue for social justice as an "elastic" technology of epidemic control. In its compressed form, social justice simply refers to the fair distribution of medical goods. In its expanded form, it empha…
Circumcising Circumcision
Female circumcision among Somalis is a deeply personal and subjective practice, framed within traditional norms and cultural practices, but negotiated within contemporary realities to produce a set of processes and practices that are nuanced, differentiated, and undergoing change. Based on ethnographic research among Somali women in Johannesburg and Nairobi, we argue that the context of forced migration provides women with opportunities to renego…
Maternity & Migration Among Somalis in Nairobi, Kenya
M y fieldwork took place in the Somali-dominated neighbourhood Eastleigh, an area of Nairobi commonly referred to as 'Little Mogadishu'. The Kenyan refugee encampment policy means that the residents of Eastleigh live in a legally ambiguous context, facing frequent police harassment, including regular raids on streets and in homes. Very few people considered Kenya a permanent settlement, rather they saw it as a transit point while they tried to mi…
Refusing cesarean sections to protect fertile futures
While cesarean sections are increasingly used worldwide, Somali refugee women in Kenya are rejecting the operation in attempts to protect their future reproductive capacities. In a context of displacement and insecurity, women's reproductive bodies can be crucial to their security and strategies for onward migration. Somali women's resistance to C-sections mirrors prevalent practices of female circumcision, since they are both perceived by physic…
Circumcising Circumcision
Female circumcision among Somalis is a deeply personal and subjective practice, framed within traditional norms and cultural practices, but negotiated within contemporary realities to produce a set of processes and practices that are nuanced, differentiated, and undergoing change. Based on ethnographic research among Somali women in Johannesburg and Nairobi, we argue that the context of forced migration provides women with opportunities to renego…
Social Justice as Epidemic Control
In this article, we draw on two cases-one of the reproductive justice movements in the wake of the Latin American Zika epidemic, and one of an environmental justice movements spurred by an epidemic of chronic kidney disease among sugarcane workers-to argue for social justice as an "elastic" technology of epidemic control. In its compressed form, social justice simply refers to the fair distribution of medical goods. In its expanded form, it empha…
Rethinking (local) integration
Amidst the ever-expanding debates in various academic and policy fields around migrant and refugee integration and local integration, we bring these two concepts in conversation with one another. Until very recently, theories of integration have had a state-centric focus in the Global North. This article expands and complicates this literature to focus on displaced Somalis within Somalia and its borderlands living in the cities of Kismayo and Gar…
Maternity & Migration Among Somalis in Nairobi, Kenya
M y fieldwork took place in the Somali-dominated neighbourhood Eastleigh, an area of Nairobi commonly referred to as 'Little Mogadishu'. The Kenyan refugee encampment policy means that the residents of Eastleigh live in a legally ambiguous context, facing frequent police harassment, including regular raids on streets and in homes. Very few people considered Kenya a permanent settlement, rather they saw it as a transit point while they tried to mi…
Circumcising Circumcision
Female circumcision among Somalis is a deeply personal and subjective practice, framed within traditional norms and cultural practices, but negotiated within contemporary realities to produce a set of processes and practices that are nuanced, differentiated, and undergoing change. Based on ethnographic research among Somali women in Johannesburg and Nairobi, we argue that the context of forced migration provides women with opportunities to renego…
Social Justice as Epidemic Control
In this article, we draw on two cases-one of the reproductive justice movements in the wake of the Latin American Zika epidemic, and one of an environmental justice movements spurred by an epidemic of chronic kidney disease among sugarcane workers-to argue for social justice as an "elastic" technology of epidemic control. In its compressed form, social justice simply refers to the fair distribution of medical goods. In its expanded form, it empha…
Perpetually in Transit
Refusing cesarean sections to protect fertile futures
While cesarean sections are increasingly used worldwide, Somali refugee women in Kenya are rejecting the operation in attempts to protect their future reproductive capacities. In a context of displacement and insecurity, women's reproductive bodies can be crucial to their security and strategies for onward migration. Somali women's resistance to C-sections mirrors prevalent practices of female circumcision, since they are both perceived by physic…
Rethinking (local) integration
Amidst the ever-expanding debates in various academic and policy fields around migrant and refugee integration and local integration, we bring these two concepts in conversation with one another. Until very recently, theories of integration have had a state-centric focus in the Global North. This article expands and complicates this literature to focus on displaced Somalis within Somalia and its borderlands living in the cities of Kismayo and Gar…
Concerning 'Neglect
Neglect' is a lucrative concept attracting billions of US dollars in research and development funding and transforming what is prioritised in global health. Stemming from a wider project aiming to improve healthcare at the intersection of gender and protracted displacement amongst Somali and Congolese internally displaced people and refugees, this article unpacks conceptualisations of 'neglect' in relation to mental health. Drawing on interviews …
How can we talk about our struggles?” reflections on researcher wellbeing and recommendations for psychosocial support for researchers in conflict-affected areas
First, echoing calls for a feminist ethics of care, the article recognises emotional responses as an inherent part of ethical research practice. Second, it articulates the benefits of local wellbeing champions. Third, it highlights that researcher wellbeing support should be a multifaceted and ongoing process rather than a one size fits all once-off event. Fourth, it calls for structural change to recognise emotional challenges as part of researc…
Political science (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Context (archaeology (3 obras) · Economics (3 obras) · Geography (3 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (3 obras) · Somali (3 obras) · Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Issues (2 obras)