Denielle Elliott
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 84175 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Denielle Elliott |
| NOMBRES | Denielle |
| APELLIDO | Elliott |
| FIRMA | ELLIOTT D |
| AFILIACIONES | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1553-9714 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The “Havana Syndrome”
This paper examines the phenomenon known as Havana Syndrome, first reported by United States embassy staff in Cuba in 2016, as a case study of how collective anxiety and geopolitical tension can produce embodied experiences of harm. Rather than seeking to identify a definitive biomedical cause for the reported symptoms, such as headaches, dizziness, and cognitive disturbances, the authors situate the Havana Syndrome within a broader socio-politic…
Marketing brain images and shaping ways of seeing
Brain images entice particular ways of looking that frame how brain health, human behavior, personhood, and cognition are understood. This article examines the brain images used to convey neuroscientific knowledge through digital media by examining the website of one of the world's leading tests for screening cognitive impairments. Based on Visual Discourse Analysis, this research found that the studied website prioritizes brain images to depict …
Neurological imaginaries
Based on ethnographic research conducted in neurology clinics across three sites in Kenya and Canada, we examine cross-cultural differences in how people describe their everyday sensory experiences in relation to their health conditions. We focus on sensations of heat, cold, burning, and freezing experienced by patients living with neurological symptoms. We examine how these sensory experiences influence patients’ communication of neurological co…
Illustrating neurological disabilities
Amid the rise of image-based social media, digitally circulated visual artefacts now dominate contemporary public health conversations. However, infographics and similar materials are more than just channels for clinical discussions; they perform healthcare roles, embodying the clinician's function to promote certain behaviours, prevent others and shape the material reality of a 'healthy' subject. The infographic as a material-discursive agent is…
Unsettling the self
Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two-part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential contributions of such writing, and how we might analyze this trend. What does the expansion of these anthropological…
A forgetful ethnography
In this paper, I consider how one writes an ethnographic memoir about memories, time, and our fieldwork when our memories, or our interlocutors' memories, are unreliable, inconsistent, false, or simply missing. Reflecting on a brain injury that resulted during fieldwork, my (dis)ordered memories, and the intense reliance on memory in sociocultural anthropology, I ask what writing would look like for anthropologists if we wrote with the forgetfuln…
Sonic stories, sensory ethnography, and listening with an injured mind
Brain injuries transform how one’s world sounds. What follows are two sonic stories. These short audio compositions are designed to transport the listener into the pre- and post-brain injury sensory environment—a textured and embodied landscape that non-injured minded individuals, including most clinicians, have little understanding of. This lack of understanding is a consequence of the sorts of neurological research done in the scientific tradit…
The memory multiverse
As an ethnographic experiment, this paper considers the texture of temporality, reflecting on how we know what is real, unreal, a hallucination, a memory, a confabulation. The paper explores unusual sensory experiences associated with traumatic brain injuries, the seemingly irrational imaginings by seemingly rational beings. Jamais vu and déjà vu - sensory experiences associated with neurological disorders resulting from either injury or epilepsy…
La mémoire multivers
Quelle est la texture de la temporalité, et comment savons-nous ce qui est réel, irréel, une hallucination, un souvenir, une confabulation ? L'article explore les expériences sensorielles inhabituelles associées aux lésions cérébrales traumatiques, les imaginations apparemment irrationnelles d'êtres apparemment rationnels. Le « jamais vu » et le « déjà vu » - expériences sensorielles associées à des troubles neurologiques résultant d'une lésion o…
Réinventer l'ethnographie
Sonic Art, Brain Injury, and Intimate Ethnography
It is hard to describe what Reassembled, Slightly Askew actually is. As an art form, it defies categories and definition. Since first viewing/hearing/ participating in it, I have recommended it to dozens of people and each time I do so, I refer to it as something else. A sonic installation, an experiential sonic performance, sort of a play, an autobiographical art installation, or maybe a multimodal art production? I was invited to see it in 2018…
Other images
How We Review and Support the Art of Ethnographic Poetry in Anthropology and Humanism
Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya
Lost in translation
This rather unorthodox essay is a dialogue between an anthropologist and an epidemiologist, both of whom were involved with a large-scale collaborative ethnographic project exploring medical field studies, or 'trial communities', in western Kenya. Reflecting on their involvement with this project, the authors consider the pragmatics of what 'collaboration' represents in different disciplines and how it is enacted. The dialogue, which included a f…
When Obama Visited Kenya
Research Article| September 01 2016 When Obama Visited Kenya: (In)Securities and Graduated Sovereignty in Nairobi Denielle Elliott Denielle Elliott York University [email protected] Denielle Elliott is a cultural anthropologist who teaches on postcolonial and indigenous science studies, the anthropology of biomedicine, and social suffering in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto. Her projects are driven by a commitment to pol…
The problem with the truth
This paper reflects on the making of a collaborative, ethnographic life story on/with a leading Kenyan scientist, Davy Kiprotich Koech. A prominent and controversial international scholar in immunology and molecular medicine, Koech, born in 1951, came of age in postcolonial Kenya, an era characterized by optimism and possibilities as the nation gained independence from British rule in 1963. Internationally educated in medicine and science, he eme…
Censorship in the name of ethics
Confirm that all the research meets the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements of the study country (manuscript submission system, Critical Public Health).Today, all auth
Debating Safe Injecting Sites in Vancouver's Inner City
North America's first and only legal, supervised injection site is located in Vancouver and has been one of Canada's most controversial biomedical interventions. Emerging from a progressive harm reduction model, and adopted in many cities around the globe from Sydney to Paris, safe injection facilities are considered by many to be the hallmark of innovative programming for the urban poor. In Vancouver, an intense public debate resulted, focusing …
The protected lab
This visual essay considers the links between medical research and securitization, and asks how they reconfigure local landscapes in East Africa. Humanitarian aid, including global medicine, has emerged as a 'military therapeutic complex', especially in African nations where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has drawn enormous contributions from states and transnational NGOs (Nguyen 2009; Fassin and Pandolfi 2010). One unintended effect of this therapeutic a…
Imagining 'Atlanta
In East Africa there is a field research station that locals call 'Atlanta.' It sits on the outskirts of a rural town, near Lake Victoria, equipped with 'state-of-the-art' biotechnological and entomological equipment for monitoring and exploring malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, rotavirus, and other tropical diseases. Drawn from ethnographic fieldwork with clinical trials in East Africa, this paper considers the stories people tell about the landscapes…
Truth, Shame, Complicity, and Flirtation
This unconventional, nonfiction paper begins by exploring the entanglements of subjects and researchers in the inner city, a space marked by economic and political marginalization and disparities in health and well-being. Blurring genres, the imaginative ethnographic narrative begins with the story of the lives of two men-an impoverished, homeless, Aboriginal man and a privileged, white clinical epidemiologist-and then drifts to consider the poli…
Unsettling the self
Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two-part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential contributions of such writing, and how we might analyze this trend. What does the expansion of these anthropological…
Truth, Shame, Complicity, and Flirtation
This unconventional, nonfiction paper begins by exploring the entanglements of subjects and researchers in the inner city, a space marked by economic and political marginalization and disparities in health and well-being. Blurring genres, the imaginative ethnographic narrative begins with the story of the lives of two men-an impoverished, homeless, Aboriginal man and a privileged, white clinical epidemiologist-and then drifts to consider the poli…
Debating Safe Injecting Sites in Vancouver's Inner City
North America's first and only legal, supervised injection site is located in Vancouver and has been one of Canada's most controversial biomedical interventions. Emerging from a progressive harm reduction model, and adopted in many cities around the globe from Sydney to Paris, safe injection facilities are considered by many to be the hallmark of innovative programming for the urban poor. In Vancouver, an intense public debate resulted, focusing …
A forgetful ethnography
In this paper, I consider how one writes an ethnographic memoir about memories, time, and our fieldwork when our memories, or our interlocutors' memories, are unreliable, inconsistent, false, or simply missing. Reflecting on a brain injury that resulted during fieldwork, my (dis)ordered memories, and the intense reliance on memory in sociocultural anthropology, I ask what writing would look like for anthropologists if we wrote with the forgetfuln…
The memory multiverse
As an ethnographic experiment, this paper considers the texture of temporality, reflecting on how we know what is real, unreal, a hallucination, a memory, a confabulation. The paper explores unusual sensory experiences associated with traumatic brain injuries, the seemingly irrational imaginings by seemingly rational beings. Jamais vu and déjà vu - sensory experiences associated with neurological disorders resulting from either injury or epilepsy…
Other images
The problem with the truth
This paper reflects on the making of a collaborative, ethnographic life story on/with a leading Kenyan scientist, Davy Kiprotich Koech. A prominent and controversial international scholar in immunology and molecular medicine, Koech, born in 1951, came of age in postcolonial Kenya, an era characterized by optimism and possibilities as the nation gained independence from British rule in 1963. Internationally educated in medicine and science, he eme…
Imagining 'Atlanta
In East Africa there is a field research station that locals call 'Atlanta.' It sits on the outskirts of a rural town, near Lake Victoria, equipped with 'state-of-the-art' biotechnological and entomological equipment for monitoring and exploring malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, rotavirus, and other tropical diseases. Drawn from ethnographic fieldwork with clinical trials in East Africa, this paper considers the stories people tell about the landscapes…
Censorship in the name of ethics
Confirm that all the research meets the ethical guidelines, including adherence to the legal requirements of the study country (manuscript submission system, Critical Public Health).Today, all auth
Debating Safe Injecting Sites in Vancouver's Inner City
North America's first and only legal, supervised injection site is located in Vancouver and has been one of Canada's most controversial biomedical interventions. Emerging from a progressive harm reduction model, and adopted in many cities around the globe from Sydney to Paris, safe injection facilities are considered by many to be the hallmark of innovative programming for the urban poor. In Vancouver, an intense public debate resulted, focusing …
The protected lab
This visual essay considers the links between medical research and securitization, and asks how they reconfigure local landscapes in East Africa. Humanitarian aid, including global medicine, has emerged as a 'military therapeutic complex', especially in African nations where the HIV/AIDS epidemic has drawn enormous contributions from states and transnational NGOs (Nguyen 2009; Fassin and Pandolfi 2010). One unintended effect of this therapeutic a…
Imagining 'Atlanta
In East Africa there is a field research station that locals call 'Atlanta.' It sits on the outskirts of a rural town, near Lake Victoria, equipped with 'state-of-the-art' biotechnological and entomological equipment for monitoring and exploring malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, rotavirus, and other tropical diseases. Drawn from ethnographic fieldwork with clinical trials in East Africa, this paper considers the stories people tell about the landscapes…
Truth, Shame, Complicity, and Flirtation
This unconventional, nonfiction paper begins by exploring the entanglements of subjects and researchers in the inner city, a space marked by economic and political marginalization and disparities in health and well-being. Blurring genres, the imaginative ethnographic narrative begins with the story of the lives of two men-an impoverished, homeless, Aboriginal man and a privileged, white clinical epidemiologist-and then drifts to consider the poli…
When Obama Visited Kenya
Research Article| September 01 2016 When Obama Visited Kenya: (In)Securities and Graduated Sovereignty in Nairobi Denielle Elliott Denielle Elliott York University [email protected] Denielle Elliott is a cultural anthropologist who teaches on postcolonial and indigenous science studies, the anthropology of biomedicine, and social suffering in the Department of Social Science at York University in Toronto. Her projects are driven by a commitment to pol…
The problem with the truth
This paper reflects on the making of a collaborative, ethnographic life story on/with a leading Kenyan scientist, Davy Kiprotich Koech. A prominent and controversial international scholar in immunology and molecular medicine, Koech, born in 1951, came of age in postcolonial Kenya, an era characterized by optimism and possibilities as the nation gained independence from British rule in 1963. Internationally educated in medicine and science, he eme…
Lost in translation
This rather unorthodox essay is a dialogue between an anthropologist and an epidemiologist, both of whom were involved with a large-scale collaborative ethnographic project exploring medical field studies, or 'trial communities', in western Kenya. Reflecting on their involvement with this project, the authors consider the pragmatics of what 'collaboration' represents in different disciplines and how it is enacted. The dialogue, which included a f…
Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya
How We Review and Support the Art of Ethnographic Poetry in Anthropology and Humanism
Other images
Réinventer l'ethnographie
Sonic Art, Brain Injury, and Intimate Ethnography
It is hard to describe what Reassembled, Slightly Askew actually is. As an art form, it defies categories and definition. Since first viewing/hearing/ participating in it, I have recommended it to dozens of people and each time I do so, I refer to it as something else. A sonic installation, an experiential sonic performance, sort of a play, an autobiographical art installation, or maybe a multimodal art production? I was invited to see it in 2018…
Sonic stories, sensory ethnography, and listening with an injured mind
Brain injuries transform how one’s world sounds. What follows are two sonic stories. These short audio compositions are designed to transport the listener into the pre- and post-brain injury sensory environment—a textured and embodied landscape that non-injured minded individuals, including most clinicians, have little understanding of. This lack of understanding is a consequence of the sorts of neurological research done in the scientific tradit…
The memory multiverse
As an ethnographic experiment, this paper considers the texture of temporality, reflecting on how we know what is real, unreal, a hallucination, a memory, a confabulation. The paper explores unusual sensory experiences associated with traumatic brain injuries, the seemingly irrational imaginings by seemingly rational beings. Jamais vu and déjà vu - sensory experiences associated with neurological disorders resulting from either injury or epilepsy…
La mémoire multivers
Quelle est la texture de la temporalité, et comment savons-nous ce qui est réel, irréel, une hallucination, un souvenir, une confabulation ? L'article explore les expériences sensorielles inhabituelles associées aux lésions cérébrales traumatiques, les imaginations apparemment irrationnelles d'êtres apparemment rationnels. Le « jamais vu » et le « déjà vu » - expériences sensorielles associées à des troubles neurologiques résultant d'une lésion o…
Unsettling the self
Autoethnography, intimate ethnography, and ethnographic memoir have become increasingly central modes of anthropological writing. Although this trend has historical precedents, as found in the work of Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Behar, and others, this two-part special section explores the directions this work is taking, the potential contributions of such writing, and how we might analyze this trend. What does the expansion of these anthropological…
A forgetful ethnography
In this paper, I consider how one writes an ethnographic memoir about memories, time, and our fieldwork when our memories, or our interlocutors' memories, are unreliable, inconsistent, false, or simply missing. Reflecting on a brain injury that resulted during fieldwork, my (dis)ordered memories, and the intense reliance on memory in sociocultural anthropology, I ask what writing would look like for anthropologists if we wrote with the forgetfuln…
The “Havana Syndrome”
This paper examines the phenomenon known as Havana Syndrome, first reported by United States embassy staff in Cuba in 2016, as a case study of how collective anxiety and geopolitical tension can produce embodied experiences of harm. Rather than seeking to identify a definitive biomedical cause for the reported symptoms, such as headaches, dizziness, and cognitive disturbances, the authors situate the Havana Syndrome within a broader socio-politic…
Marketing brain images and shaping ways of seeing
Brain images entice particular ways of looking that frame how brain health, human behavior, personhood, and cognition are understood. This article examines the brain images used to convey neuroscientific knowledge through digital media by examining the website of one of the world's leading tests for screening cognitive impairments. Based on Visual Discourse Analysis, this research found that the studied website prioritizes brain images to depict …
Neurological imaginaries
Based on ethnographic research conducted in neurology clinics across three sites in Kenya and Canada, we examine cross-cultural differences in how people describe their everyday sensory experiences in relation to their health conditions. We focus on sensations of heat, cold, burning, and freezing experienced by patients living with neurological symptoms. We examine how these sensory experiences influence patients’ communication of neurological co…
Illustrating neurological disabilities
Amid the rise of image-based social media, digitally circulated visual artefacts now dominate contemporary public health conversations. However, infographics and similar materials are more than just channels for clinical discussions; they perform healthcare roles, embodying the clinician's function to promote certain behaviours, prevent others and shape the material reality of a 'healthy' subject. The infographic as a material-discursive agent is…
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