J Livingston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 13574 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | J Livingston |
| NOMBRES | J |
| APELLIDO | Livingston |
| FIRMA | LIVINGSTON J |
| AFILIACIONES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6845-6694 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 196 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
A pandemic of metrics
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted critical attention to the performative power of metrics. We suggest that the existential capacities of metrics as a means of pandemic living warrant further consideration. We describe how the COVID-19 pandemic that came into existence as a public health and political event could only have occurred because of the anticipatory metrical practices that were used to transform SARS-COV-2 into a matter of global health con…
Biophilia & Military Degrowth
This essay responds to Natasha Iskander and Nichola Lowe's essay on the potential for biophilic institutions, lauding their focus on labor justice and the body of the worker as a route to institutional change. Using the U.S. military as an example, this response asks if all institutions can become biophilic or if some must instead be shrunk, dismantled, or radically reimagined? It goes on to consider the collateral impact of the military in terms…
Keywords Symposium
2020 Keywords Symposium Jennifer C. Nash (bio), Samantha Pinto (bio), Marisol LeBrón (bio), Monica L. Miller (bio), Ann Cvetkovich (bio), Julie Livingston (bio), Psyche Williams-Forson (bio), Ruha Benjamin (bio), Christina Hanhardt (bio), Harris Solomon (bio), Neelima Navuluri (bio), Charles W. Hargett (bio), Peter S. Kussin (bio), Noémi Tousignant (bio), Joshua Chambers-Letson (bio), Tiana Reid (bio), Miriam Posner (bio), Racquel Gates, Sari Alt…
Cars, Debt, and Carcerality
Consumer lore in the United States celebrates the automobile as a "freedom machine," consecrating the mobility of a free people. Yet, paradoxically, the car also functions at the crossroads of two great systems of unfreedom and immobility-the debt economy and the carceral state. Drawing on interviews with formerly incarcerated people, this article investigates this paradox in detail, tracing how the long arms of carcerality and debt operate in ta…
Covid Roundtable
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan: We convened this roundtable conversation in February 2021 as an informal dialogue among leading scholars, thinking about the current COVID-19 pandemic as a moment of historical convergences. This pandemic reveals persistent, historical asymmetries and inequities rooted in specific histories of mobility and immobility—migration and displacement, capitalism and globalization, colonialism and decolonization. The roundtable e…
Water Scarcity & Health in Urban Africa
Water is the cornerstone of public health. Yet many people living in Africa's cities face serious challenges obtaining an adequate supply of clean water. This situation, which poses significant public health concerns, promises only to grow in magnitude in the coming years as rapid urbanization and climate change meet head-on to further constrain urban water provision. This essay explores the relationship between water supply and health in urban A…
African Studies Keyword
The human body is a central entity and analytic within African life and Africanist scholarship. The source of perception and the seat of animation, of life, it grounds experience of the world while also providing a rich set of symbols from which humans draw in political, social, and religious life to create and communicate meaning. Livingston reviews approaches to the body as a key concept in Africanist scholarship, tracing regimes of bodily repr…
The problem of self-devouring growth
How should future health be measured, in light of the insights collected in this special issue? This afterword calls into question the imperative of economic growth, showing how insatiable growth, predicated on consumption, produces profound collateral health effects, a process termed here 'self-devouring growth'. I argue for a new mode of value in public health predicated on refusing any calculus that separates desired effects from collateral ef…
Self-Devouring Growth
In *Self-Devouring Growth*, Julie Livingston examines the devastating paradox of development in contemporary southern Africa. Focusing on Botswana, a nation often lauded as an African success story, Livingston reveals how the pursuit of economic growth, fueled by diamond mining and neoliberal policies, has created a cycle of self-destruction. She argues that this "self-devouring growth" depletes natural resources, exacerbates inequality, and unde…
Collateral Afterworlds
American Nietzsche
Journal Article American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas Get access American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. x, 452 pp. $30.00.) James Livingston James Livingston Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick, New Jersey [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Improvising Medicine
AHR Conversation
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), and “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011). For each the process has been the same: the Editor conve…
Interspecies
This introduction to the journal's special issue on Interspecies takes stock of the recent intellectual histories of animal studies and posthumanism, arguing for interspecies as a way to navigate new directions in these intellectual formations. Interspecies is a framing paradigm that names the articulation of human/non-human binaries and human/animal/plant taxonomies as interrelated, even as these continue to operate in congealed and differentiat…
The Pastoral Clinic
Death in a Church of Life
Aids
This essay considers key themes in the history of HIV/AIDS, including biopolitics, affective communities, epidemics, and the meanings of immunity. It traces a set of intellectual, existential, and material connections between bioscientific inquiry, human existence, care, and community. The authors emphasize the ways that human vulnerability bespeaks social life
Suicide, Risk, and Investment in the Heart of the African Miracle
This essay considers new forms of investment, risk, and self-determination, among Botswana's middle and aspirant classes, as well as the loneliness and rage that are at stake when they fail. In it, I use specific instances and more widespread talk of suicides and murder-suicides contemplated, attempted, and accomplished as a vehicle for pondering the social dimensions of investment, and the perils of secrecy and the loneliness that shadow it. Ami…
Disgust, Bodily Aesthetics and the Ethic of Being Human in Botswana
This article explores how people in Botswana approach and navigate their own feelings of disgust and morbid curiosity towards the aesthetically impaired bodies of their fellow citizens, and the problems and opportunities these feelings present in a context where a particular humanistic ethos of respect and manners,botho, is stressed in the public discourse of nationalism. The agenda of contemporary disability and patients' rights movements is bas…
The African Aids Epidemic
Reviewed by Julie Livingston Rutgers University John Iliffe. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. ix + 214 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-85255-891-0; ISBN-13: 978-085255-891-1); $24.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-85255-890-2; ISBN-13: 978-085255-890-4). Few topics in the history of medicine capture the interest of students and the public at large as thoroughly as the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and yet, given t…
Productive Misunderstandings and the Dynamism of Plural Medicine in Mid-century Bechuanaland
This article explores innovation in Tswana medicine (bongaka), and examines the effects of language translation in a plural medical world. Since practitioners and patients of bongaka locate medical authority in the language of ‘tradition’, innovation is often hidden under a gloss of semantic continuity that locates knowledge as ancient and immutable; yet Tswana medicine has changed over time, as all medical systems do. Bongaka embraces a historic…
Insights from an African History of Disability
Research Article| January 01 2006 Insights from an African History of Disability Julie Livingston Julie Livingston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-94-111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Livingston; Insights from an African History of Disability. Radical History Review 1 January 2006; 200…
Twice Dead
Aids as chronic illness
This paper suggests that people in south-eastern Botswana experience the AIDS epidemic as part of a recent epidemiological transition in which rates of chronic debilitating illness have risen, even as the degree of acute infectious disease has fallen (HIV/AIDS aside). Whereas international health programmes and practitioners focus on AIDS as an acute, lethal, infectious disease, patients and care-givers experience AIDS as a set of chronic, degene…
Pregnant Children and Half-Dead Adults
This paper utilizes ethnography and oral history to examine local perspectives on one aspect of the health transition, the female life cycle, in postcolonial Botswana. Botswana has undergone a remarkably rapid epidemiologic transition in recent decades, and it thus provides a unique context within which local actors analyze the interaction between biological and sociocultural change. Improvements in the standard of living have resulted in both an…
Interspecies
This introduction to the journal's special issue on Interspecies takes stock of the recent intellectual histories of animal studies and posthumanism, arguing for interspecies as a way to navigate new directions in these intellectual formations. Interspecies is a framing paradigm that names the articulation of human/non-human binaries and human/animal/plant taxonomies as interrelated, even as these continue to operate in congealed and differentiat…
Suicide, Risk, and Investment in the Heart of the African Miracle
This essay considers new forms of investment, risk, and self-determination, among Botswana's middle and aspirant classes, as well as the loneliness and rage that are at stake when they fail. In it, I use specific instances and more widespread talk of suicides and murder-suicides contemplated, attempted, and accomplished as a vehicle for pondering the social dimensions of investment, and the perils of secrecy and the loneliness that shadow it. Ami…
Disgust, Bodily Aesthetics and the Ethic of Being Human in Botswana
This article explores how people in Botswana approach and navigate their own feelings of disgust and morbid curiosity towards the aesthetically impaired bodies of their fellow citizens, and the problems and opportunities these feelings present in a context where a particular humanistic ethos of respect and manners,botho, is stressed in the public discourse of nationalism. The agenda of contemporary disability and patients' rights movements is bas…
Insights from an African History of Disability
Research Article| January 01 2006 Insights from an African History of Disability Julie Livingston Julie Livingston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-94-111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Livingston; Insights from an African History of Disability. Radical History Review 1 January 2006; 200…
Self-Devouring Growth
In *Self-Devouring Growth*, Julie Livingston examines the devastating paradox of development in contemporary southern Africa. Focusing on Botswana, a nation often lauded as an African success story, Livingston reveals how the pursuit of economic growth, fueled by diamond mining and neoliberal policies, has created a cycle of self-destruction. She argues that this "self-devouring growth" depletes natural resources, exacerbates inequality, and unde…
Collateral Afterworlds
Reconfiguring old age
This paper explores recent changes in the negotiation of female old age in Southeastern Botswana. Over the past one-quarter century epidemiological and demographic transitions, increasing pressures on lay nursing care, changes in work, and the introduction of pensions have led to a fracturing of old age. The constituent elements of old age--senescence and social elderhood--have shifted at different tempos and in different directions in historical…
Productive Misunderstandings and the Dynamism of Plural Medicine in Mid-century Bechuanaland
This article explores innovation in Tswana medicine (bongaka), and examines the effects of language translation in a plural medical world. Since practitioners and patients of bongaka locate medical authority in the language of ‘tradition’, innovation is often hidden under a gloss of semantic continuity that locates knowledge as ancient and immutable; yet Tswana medicine has changed over time, as all medical systems do. Bongaka embraces a historic…
American Nietzsche
Journal Article American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas Get access American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. x, 452 pp. $30.00.) James Livingston James Livingston Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick, New Jersey [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
African Studies Keyword
The human body is a central entity and analytic within African life and Africanist scholarship. The source of perception and the seat of animation, of life, it grounds experience of the world while also providing a rich set of symbols from which humans draw in political, social, and religious life to create and communicate meaning. Livingston reviews approaches to the body as a key concept in Africanist scholarship, tracing regimes of bodily repr…
The problem of self-devouring growth
How should future health be measured, in light of the insights collected in this special issue? This afterword calls into question the imperative of economic growth, showing how insatiable growth, predicated on consumption, produces profound collateral health effects, a process termed here 'self-devouring growth'. I argue for a new mode of value in public health predicated on refusing any calculus that separates desired effects from collateral ef…
A pandemic of metrics
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted critical attention to the performative power of metrics. We suggest that the existential capacities of metrics as a means of pandemic living warrant further consideration. We describe how the COVID-19 pandemic that came into existence as a public health and political event could only have occurred because of the anticipatory metrical practices that were used to transform SARS-COV-2 into a matter of global health con…
Weaving the Threads of Life
Kilimanjaro Tales
Out to Africa my mother's manuscript Lushoto - our first station - 1925 my parents - 10 stations in 20 years babies and beasts the snows of Kilimanjaro servants, sickness and safaris bush doctor mad dogs and Englishmen European leave out in the midday sun Lupa goldrush war and epilogue
Historical Dictionary of Greater Johannesburg (review)
Musiker, Naomi and Reuben Musiker. 1999. Historical Dictionary of Greater Johannesburg. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press. 480 pp
Physical Fitness and Economic Opportunity in the Bechuanaland Protectorate in the 1930s and 1940s
This article explores changes in the meanings of able-bodiedness in Bechuanaland in the 1930s and 1940s from a number of vantage points. In this period, Tswana ideas about able-bodiedness were increasingly determined in relation to industrial ideas about African labour. I argue that physical fitness took on new meanings as Tswana notions of male social and economic identity became increasingly dependent upon the ability to obtain industrial emplo…
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives
Pregnant Children and Half-Dead Adults
This paper utilizes ethnography and oral history to examine local perspectives on one aspect of the health transition, the female life cycle, in postcolonial Botswana. Botswana has undergone a remarkably rapid epidemiologic transition in recent decades, and it thus provides a unique context within which local actors analyze the interaction between biological and sociocultural change. Improvements in the standard of living have resulted in both an…
Health, Power and Politics in Windhoek, Namibia, 1915-1945
Disease and Medicine in World History
Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in many cultures. Sheldon Watts shows that many medical practices in the past were shaped as much by philosophers and metaphysicians as by university-trained doct…
Reconfiguring old age
This paper explores recent changes in the negotiation of female old age in Southeastern Botswana. Over the past one-quarter century epidemiological and demographic transitions, increasing pressures on lay nursing care, changes in work, and the introduction of pensions have led to a fracturing of old age. The constituent elements of old age--senescence and social elderhood--have shifted at different tempos and in different directions in historical…
Aids as chronic illness
This paper suggests that people in south-eastern Botswana experience the AIDS epidemic as part of a recent epidemiological transition in which rates of chronic debilitating illness have risen, even as the degree of acute infectious disease has fallen (HIV/AIDS aside). Whereas international health programmes and practitioners focus on AIDS as an acute, lethal, infectious disease, patients and care-givers experience AIDS as a set of chronic, degene…
Twice Dead
Insights from an African History of Disability
Research Article| January 01 2006 Insights from an African History of Disability Julie Livingston Julie Livingston Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (94): 111–126. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-94-111 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Livingston; Insights from an African History of Disability. Radical History Review 1 January 2006; 200…
The African Aids Epidemic
Reviewed by Julie Livingston Rutgers University John Iliffe. The African AIDS Epidemic: A History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. ix + 214 pp. Ill. $55.00 (cloth, ISBN-10: 0-85255-891-0; ISBN-13: 978-085255-891-1); $24.95 (paperbound, ISBN-10: 0-85255-890-2; ISBN-13: 978-085255-890-4). Few topics in the history of medicine capture the interest of students and the public at large as thoroughly as the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and yet, given t…
Productive Misunderstandings and the Dynamism of Plural Medicine in Mid-century Bechuanaland
This article explores innovation in Tswana medicine (bongaka), and examines the effects of language translation in a plural medical world. Since practitioners and patients of bongaka locate medical authority in the language of ‘tradition’, innovation is often hidden under a gloss of semantic continuity that locates knowledge as ancient and immutable; yet Tswana medicine has changed over time, as all medical systems do. Bongaka embraces a historic…
Disgust, Bodily Aesthetics and the Ethic of Being Human in Botswana
This article explores how people in Botswana approach and navigate their own feelings of disgust and morbid curiosity towards the aesthetically impaired bodies of their fellow citizens, and the problems and opportunities these feelings present in a context where a particular humanistic ethos of respect and manners,botho, is stressed in the public discourse of nationalism. The agenda of contemporary disability and patients' rights movements is bas…
Aids
This essay considers key themes in the history of HIV/AIDS, including biopolitics, affective communities, epidemics, and the meanings of immunity. It traces a set of intellectual, existential, and material connections between bioscientific inquiry, human existence, care, and community. The authors emphasize the ways that human vulnerability bespeaks social life
Suicide, Risk, and Investment in the Heart of the African Miracle
This essay considers new forms of investment, risk, and self-determination, among Botswana's middle and aspirant classes, as well as the loneliness and rage that are at stake when they fail. In it, I use specific instances and more widespread talk of suicides and murder-suicides contemplated, attempted, and accomplished as a vehicle for pondering the social dimensions of investment, and the perils of secrecy and the loneliness that shadow it. Ami…
Interspecies
This introduction to the journal's special issue on Interspecies takes stock of the recent intellectual histories of animal studies and posthumanism, arguing for interspecies as a way to navigate new directions in these intellectual formations. Interspecies is a framing paradigm that names the articulation of human/non-human binaries and human/animal/plant taxonomies as interrelated, even as these continue to operate in congealed and differentiat…
The Pastoral Clinic
Death in a Church of Life
Improvising Medicine
AHR Conversation
In the past few years, the AHR has published five “Conversations,” each on a subject of interest to a wide range of historians: “On Transnational History” (2006), “Religious Identities and Violence” (2007), “Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis” (2008), “Historians and the Study of Material Culture” (2009), and “Historical Perspectives on the Circulation of Information” (2011). For each the process has been the same: the Editor conve…
American Nietzsche
Journal Article American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas Get access American Nietzsche: A History of an Icon and His Ideas. By Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012. x, 452 pp. $30.00.) James Livingston James Livingston Rutgers UniversityNew Brunswick, New Jersey [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume…
Collateral Afterworlds
The problem of self-devouring growth
How should future health be measured, in light of the insights collected in this special issue? This afterword calls into question the imperative of economic growth, showing how insatiable growth, predicated on consumption, produces profound collateral health effects, a process termed here 'self-devouring growth'. I argue for a new mode of value in public health predicated on refusing any calculus that separates desired effects from collateral ef…
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