Tanya Zivkovic
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 98135 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Tanya Zivkovic |
| NOMBRES | Tanya |
| APELLIDO | Zivkovic |
| FIRMA | ZIVKOVIC T |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Adelaide |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4990-4372 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 180 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The making of transplant kin
This is a paper about the relational and more-than-human matters of living and dying. Drawing on Australian fieldwork and interviews with bereaved families, I extend anthropological work on bodies and kinship in the context of organ donation and transplantation. Reorienting boundaries between bodies, life, and death, through an expansive category of 'transplant kin', I engage feminist science and technology studies (STS) to trouble imaginings of …
Softening hedges' as analytic lens and methodological tool in research on advance care planning with Vietnamese migrants
Advance care planning is built upon starting conversations about ageing, illness and the end of life. So too is research in this field. In an Australian study about Vietnamese migrants' responses to planning ahead for aged and end-of-life care, research participants called into question this direct approach to communication. Attempting to destabilise the dominance of Anglophone approaches to advance care planning and, moreover, to research in thi…
The clock is ticking
This article engages Italian migrant experiences and enactments of futurity to problematize neoliberal anticipatory approaches to ageing and care. Stepping beyond the focus on atomized and agentic individuals and a singular imagined future defined by notions of advancement and progress, sistemazione (home, future, and security) offers ways of building alternative and relational futures within times and spaces of shared precarity. We draw on ethno…
The dynamics of peer-to-peer care
Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart and Tamara Kneese (2020) define radical care as 'as a set of vital but underappreciated strategies for enduring precarious worlds' (16). Yet they sound a note of caution when they argue that 'because radical care is inseparable from systemic inequality and power structures, it can be used to coerce subjects into new forms of surveillance and unpaid labor' (16). This article explores scaffolded peer-to-pe…
Under pressure
In this paper, I seek to theorise the concept of pressure in relation to families' experiences of organ donation during COVID-19. Drawing on Australia-based fieldwork, I follow circuitries of pressure in and beyond interiorities of bodies, biographies and infrastructures of care to ask what happens when pressure builds to such an extent that there is no capacity left in bodies and in institutions. Pressure concentrates in some spaces and bodies m…
Rethinking Restriction in Residential Aged Care
Restricting movement is a major focus in policy directives to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in aged care homes. In this article, we rethink dominant framing of restriction through a critical examination of the politics of good care and ethnographic attention to spatial extensions and interdependencies between residents, care workers, and assistive technologies. Drawing on ethnographic observations in two South Australian care facilities, analysis…
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during Covid
COVID has exposed how health and racial inequities are deeply entangled. This article seeks to examine how race is made present but also erased in words, bodies and institutions. It takes as its point of departure two Australian health campaigns and their use of the promotional rhetoric of 'the race' to urgently increase immunisations and organ donation registrations at the time of COVID. In a critical analysis of the public policy and political …
Unfinished Lives and Multiple Deaths
This article examines an Australian campaign to increase organ and tissue donation for transplantation. It analyses the use of the gift rhetoric to promote community awareness and resources, target migrant groups, and recruit cultural and religious leaders to endorse organ and tissue donation as an altruistic act. In unpacking this 'gift of life' approach to organ donation, it explores the convergence of medical and religious bodies and pushes be…
Productive exposures
Theories of vulnerability are most often seen in the anthropology of disaster studies, where socio‐economic and political inequalities produce environmental vulnerabilities, and the people situated in these locations are positioned as vulnerable and dependent 'Others'. Rather than reproduce vulnerability as a concept denoting weakness, this paper seeks to examine the generative capacities of vulnerability practised in parallel in ethnographic and…
"Problematizing "Planning Ahead
Informed by values of autonomy and self-determination, advance care planning assumes that individuals should independently take control of their future health. In this article, we draw on research conducted with Vietnamese health and community workers to problematize individualized approaches to planning ahead, reframe notions of "cultural and linguistic barriers," and expose how homogeneous messages about care at the end of life are not readily …
Rethinking end of life care
About face
Lifelines and End-of-life Decision-making
This paper examines interrelated dichotomies in social anthropology and cross-cultural research on advance care directives (ACDs). It aims to recast the disjuncture between individual (Western) selves and collectivist (non-Western) Others that has impeded understandings of the cultural complexities of decision-making at the end of life. Based on research conducted with Chinese, Vietnamese and Indian communities living in Adelaide, South Australia…
"Ready-made" assumptions
When it comes to food, eating and technologies, convenience is constructed as contradictory: on the one hand as a practice that saves time and effort, and on the other hand, an easy and often “unhealthy” choice, contributing to obesity rates. Moralizing, classed and gendered discourses around health and obesity mean that convenient options are rarely portrayed as “good choices”. Through ethnographic research on food and families in the suburbs of…
Preparing for (life after) death
This paper explores the disjuncture between medico-legal trajectories of living and dying, in which lives start and stop, and the cyclic comings and goings of Buddhist and Hindu bodies. Drawing on fieldwork with Buddhist and Hindu communities in Adelaide, South Australia, I attend to the multiple temporalities that become implicated in end-of-life decision-making about how and when a person may die. Thus, I reorient advance care planning from the…
Forecasting and foreclosing futures
Fat as Productive
By foregrounding positive and productive capacities of fat, we explore experiences of expanding, maintaining, or diminishing body sizes to accommodate the different meanings and enactments of fat. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a South Australian community that has experienced significant socioeconomic disadvantage, we detail how the "problem" of fat in public health discourse is countered in the lived experience of people targeted for obesity…
Moral Fiber
What are the symbolic meanings of breakfast in the context of one of Australia's largest childhood obesity intervention programs? Utilizing a range of theoretical insights into the morality of food and eating and the anthropology of food, we trace how breakfast is packaged and promoted to families in an Australian community as a 'healthy start' to the day. Through ethnographic and historic investigation, we argue that eating breakfast and certain…
Short horizons and obesity futures
Participant observation in obesity research with children
This article discusses the value of conducting participant observation in obesity research with children in an Australian community setting. Obesity is highly stigmatized, and the use of activity-based interviews exposed the intellectual and embodied consciousness that children negotiate when they take part in research about food and bodies. Instead of opening up possibilities, interview-based activities can lead to a moral correctness about heal…
Consuming the Lama
Tibetan understandings about the bodies of spiritual teachers or lamas challenge the idea of a singular and bounded form. Tibetan Buddhists believe that the presence of the lama does not depend on their skin-encapsulated temporal body, or a singular lifespan. After death, it is not uncommon for a lama to materialize in other appearances or to become incorporated into the bodies of others through devotees' consumption of their bodily remains. In t…
Returning from the dead
In this paper, I chronicle the cleavages in Tibetan Buddhist ideology and practice made apparent in the posthumous continuation of a spiritual exemplar’s life story. Traversing the life, death and purported transmigration of this figure into the body of another person, this paper examines the extension of life beyond biological confines. Death, in Tibetan Buddhist contexts, can be influenced by religious practice and the life course of a person c…
Mothers as smoking guns
Mothers are expected to monitor their children’s dietary intakes and physical activities and are blamed for over feeding their children if they are obese. Women are also urged to manage their own weight in preparation for conception and during pregnancy in order to reduce complications associated with maternal obesity at childbirth. Through a theoretical lens of maternal blame, we argue that Australian media representations of scientific studies …
Telescoping the origins of obesity to women's bodies
This powerful telescoping of the origins of obesity to women's bodies and their appetites is in stark contrast to earlier foci on gender inequalities and changing women's circumstances
Tibetan Buddhist Embodiment
When bodies are conceived as permeable fields our physical forms become inseparable from each other and the world from which they manifest. The extension of one's subjectivity to include cosmological divinities emphasizes the many other bodies which, in some cultural contexts, may overlap and unite with the world. In this article I explore how narratives of a Tibetan Buddhist high-lama's death and trajectory of lives contain complex formulations …
Mothers as smoking guns
Mothers are expected to monitor their children’s dietary intakes and physical activities and are blamed for over feeding their children if they are obese. Women are also urged to manage their own weight in preparation for conception and during pregnancy in order to reduce complications associated with maternal obesity at childbirth. Through a theoretical lens of maternal blame, we argue that Australian media representations of scientific studies …
Short horizons and obesity futures
Forecasting and foreclosing futures
In the name of the child
This paper investigates the ways in which 'the child' is positioned in obesity debates and, in doing so, examines the discursive relations between childhood obesity, mothering and child neglect. Using legal cases of parental neglect and an analysis of representations of obesity in Australian print media, we argue that a particular constellation of 'child politics' in which children are represented as innocent victims of poor parenting is at play.…
Moral Fiber
What are the symbolic meanings of breakfast in the context of one of Australia's largest childhood obesity intervention programs? Utilizing a range of theoretical insights into the morality of food and eating and the anthropology of food, we trace how breakfast is packaged and promoted to families in an Australian community as a 'healthy start' to the day. Through ethnographic and historic investigation, we argue that eating breakfast and certain…
About face
"Ready-made" assumptions
When it comes to food, eating and technologies, convenience is constructed as contradictory: on the one hand as a practice that saves time and effort, and on the other hand, an easy and often “unhealthy” choice, contributing to obesity rates. Moralizing, classed and gendered discourses around health and obesity mean that convenient options are rarely portrayed as “good choices”. Through ethnographic research on food and families in the suburbs of…
The Biographical Process of a Tibetan Lama
This paper is concerned with the social life of a deceased Tibetan Buddhist lama. It details the role of death and successive lives in a lifestory that ends not with the passing of the subject but with his rebirth. Ethnographic attendance to tales told about the lama's death and reincarnation, and their textualization in the Tibetan convention of hagiography, or namtar, draw attention to quintessentially Tibetan understandings of the lifecourse. …
Fat as Productive
By foregrounding positive and productive capacities of fat, we explore experiences of expanding, maintaining, or diminishing body sizes to accommodate the different meanings and enactments of fat. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a South Australian community that has experienced significant socioeconomic disadvantage, we detail how the "problem" of fat in public health discourse is countered in the lived experience of people targeted for obesity…
Tibetan Buddhist Embodiment
When bodies are conceived as permeable fields our physical forms become inseparable from each other and the world from which they manifest. The extension of one's subjectivity to include cosmological divinities emphasizes the many other bodies which, in some cultural contexts, may overlap and unite with the world. In this article I explore how narratives of a Tibetan Buddhist high-lama's death and trajectory of lives contain complex formulations …
Lifelines and End-of-life Decision-making
This paper examines interrelated dichotomies in social anthropology and cross-cultural research on advance care directives (ACDs). It aims to recast the disjuncture between individual (Western) selves and collectivist (non-Western) Others that has impeded understandings of the cultural complexities of decision-making at the end of life. Based on research conducted with Chinese, Vietnamese and Indian communities living in Adelaide, South Australia…
The clock is ticking
This article engages Italian migrant experiences and enactments of futurity to problematize neoliberal anticipatory approaches to ageing and care. Stepping beyond the focus on atomized and agentic individuals and a singular imagined future defined by notions of advancement and progress, sistemazione (home, future, and security) offers ways of building alternative and relational futures within times and spaces of shared precarity. We draw on ethno…
Productive exposures
Theories of vulnerability are most often seen in the anthropology of disaster studies, where socio‐economic and political inequalities produce environmental vulnerabilities, and the people situated in these locations are positioned as vulnerable and dependent 'Others'. Rather than reproduce vulnerability as a concept denoting weakness, this paper seeks to examine the generative capacities of vulnerability practised in parallel in ethnographic and…
"Problematizing "Planning Ahead
Informed by values of autonomy and self-determination, advance care planning assumes that individuals should independently take control of their future health. In this article, we draw on research conducted with Vietnamese health and community workers to problematize individualized approaches to planning ahead, reframe notions of "cultural and linguistic barriers," and expose how homogeneous messages about care at the end of life are not readily …
Participant observation in obesity research with children
This article discusses the value of conducting participant observation in obesity research with children in an Australian community setting. Obesity is highly stigmatized, and the use of activity-based interviews exposed the intellectual and embodied consciousness that children negotiate when they take part in research about food and bodies. Instead of opening up possibilities, interview-based activities can lead to a moral correctness about heal…
Under pressure
In this paper, I seek to theorise the concept of pressure in relation to families' experiences of organ donation during COVID-19. Drawing on Australia-based fieldwork, I follow circuitries of pressure in and beyond interiorities of bodies, biographies and infrastructures of care to ask what happens when pressure builds to such an extent that there is no capacity left in bodies and in institutions. Pressure concentrates in some spaces and bodies m…
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during Covid
COVID has exposed how health and racial inequities are deeply entangled. This article seeks to examine how race is made present but also erased in words, bodies and institutions. It takes as its point of departure two Australian health campaigns and their use of the promotional rhetoric of 'the race' to urgently increase immunisations and organ donation registrations at the time of COVID. In a critical analysis of the public policy and political …
Rethinking end of life care
Preparing for (life after) death
This paper explores the disjuncture between medico-legal trajectories of living and dying, in which lives start and stop, and the cyclic comings and goings of Buddhist and Hindu bodies. Drawing on fieldwork with Buddhist and Hindu communities in Adelaide, South Australia, I attend to the multiple temporalities that become implicated in end-of-life decision-making about how and when a person may die. Thus, I reorient advance care planning from the…
Consuming the Lama
Tibetan understandings about the bodies of spiritual teachers or lamas challenge the idea of a singular and bounded form. Tibetan Buddhists believe that the presence of the lama does not depend on their skin-encapsulated temporal body, or a singular lifespan. After death, it is not uncommon for a lama to materialize in other appearances or to become incorporated into the bodies of others through devotees' consumption of their bodily remains. In t…
Tibetan Buddhist Embodiment
When bodies are conceived as permeable fields our physical forms become inseparable from each other and the world from which they manifest. The extension of one's subjectivity to include cosmological divinities emphasizes the many other bodies which, in some cultural contexts, may overlap and unite with the world. In this article I explore how narratives of a Tibetan Buddhist high-lama's death and trajectory of lives contain complex formulations …
In the name of the child
This paper investigates the ways in which 'the child' is positioned in obesity debates and, in doing so, examines the discursive relations between childhood obesity, mothering and child neglect. Using legal cases of parental neglect and an analysis of representations of obesity in Australian print media, we argue that a particular constellation of 'child politics' in which children are represented as innocent victims of poor parenting is at play.…
The Biographical Process of a Tibetan Lama
This paper is concerned with the social life of a deceased Tibetan Buddhist lama. It details the role of death and successive lives in a lifestory that ends not with the passing of the subject but with his rebirth. Ethnographic attendance to tales told about the lama's death and reincarnation, and their textualization in the Tibetan convention of hagiography, or namtar, draw attention to quintessentially Tibetan understandings of the lifecourse. …
Telescoping the origins of obesity to women's bodies
This powerful telescoping of the origins of obesity to women's bodies and their appetites is in stark contrast to earlier foci on gender inequalities and changing women's circumstances
Mothers as smoking guns
Mothers are expected to monitor their children’s dietary intakes and physical activities and are blamed for over feeding their children if they are obese. Women are also urged to manage their own weight in preparation for conception and during pregnancy in order to reduce complications associated with maternal obesity at childbirth. Through a theoretical lens of maternal blame, we argue that Australian media representations of scientific studies …
Returning from the dead
In this paper, I chronicle the cleavages in Tibetan Buddhist ideology and practice made apparent in the posthumous continuation of a spiritual exemplar’s life story. Traversing the life, death and purported transmigration of this figure into the body of another person, this paper examines the extension of life beyond biological confines. Death, in Tibetan Buddhist contexts, can be influenced by religious practice and the life course of a person c…
Participant observation in obesity research with children
This article discusses the value of conducting participant observation in obesity research with children in an Australian community setting. Obesity is highly stigmatized, and the use of activity-based interviews exposed the intellectual and embodied consciousness that children negotiate when they take part in research about food and bodies. Instead of opening up possibilities, interview-based activities can lead to a moral correctness about heal…
Consuming the Lama
Tibetan understandings about the bodies of spiritual teachers or lamas challenge the idea of a singular and bounded form. Tibetan Buddhists believe that the presence of the lama does not depend on their skin-encapsulated temporal body, or a singular lifespan. After death, it is not uncommon for a lama to materialize in other appearances or to become incorporated into the bodies of others through devotees' consumption of their bodily remains. In t…
Short horizons and obesity futures
Moral Fiber
What are the symbolic meanings of breakfast in the context of one of Australia's largest childhood obesity intervention programs? Utilizing a range of theoretical insights into the morality of food and eating and the anthropology of food, we trace how breakfast is packaged and promoted to families in an Australian community as a 'healthy start' to the day. Through ethnographic and historic investigation, we argue that eating breakfast and certain…
Forecasting and foreclosing futures
Fat as Productive
By foregrounding positive and productive capacities of fat, we explore experiences of expanding, maintaining, or diminishing body sizes to accommodate the different meanings and enactments of fat. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in a South Australian community that has experienced significant socioeconomic disadvantage, we detail how the "problem" of fat in public health discourse is countered in the lived experience of people targeted for obesity…
"Ready-made" assumptions
When it comes to food, eating and technologies, convenience is constructed as contradictory: on the one hand as a practice that saves time and effort, and on the other hand, an easy and often “unhealthy” choice, contributing to obesity rates. Moralizing, classed and gendered discourses around health and obesity mean that convenient options are rarely portrayed as “good choices”. Through ethnographic research on food and families in the suburbs of…
Preparing for (life after) death
This paper explores the disjuncture between medico-legal trajectories of living and dying, in which lives start and stop, and the cyclic comings and goings of Buddhist and Hindu bodies. Drawing on fieldwork with Buddhist and Hindu communities in Adelaide, South Australia, I attend to the multiple temporalities that become implicated in end-of-life decision-making about how and when a person may die. Thus, I reorient advance care planning from the…
Productive exposures
Theories of vulnerability are most often seen in the anthropology of disaster studies, where socio‐economic and political inequalities produce environmental vulnerabilities, and the people situated in these locations are positioned as vulnerable and dependent 'Others'. Rather than reproduce vulnerability as a concept denoting weakness, this paper seeks to examine the generative capacities of vulnerability practised in parallel in ethnographic and…
"Problematizing "Planning Ahead
Informed by values of autonomy and self-determination, advance care planning assumes that individuals should independently take control of their future health. In this article, we draw on research conducted with Vietnamese health and community workers to problematize individualized approaches to planning ahead, reframe notions of "cultural and linguistic barriers," and expose how homogeneous messages about care at the end of life are not readily …
Rethinking end of life care
About face
Lifelines and End-of-life Decision-making
This paper examines interrelated dichotomies in social anthropology and cross-cultural research on advance care directives (ACDs). It aims to recast the disjuncture between individual (Western) selves and collectivist (non-Western) Others that has impeded understandings of the cultural complexities of decision-making at the end of life. Based on research conducted with Chinese, Vietnamese and Indian communities living in Adelaide, South Australia…
Unfinished Lives and Multiple Deaths
This article examines an Australian campaign to increase organ and tissue donation for transplantation. It analyses the use of the gift rhetoric to promote community awareness and resources, target migrant groups, and recruit cultural and religious leaders to endorse organ and tissue donation as an altruistic act. In unpacking this 'gift of life' approach to organ donation, it explores the convergence of medical and religious bodies and pushes be…
Rethinking Restriction in Residential Aged Care
Restricting movement is a major focus in policy directives to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in aged care homes. In this article, we rethink dominant framing of restriction through a critical examination of the politics of good care and ethnographic attention to spatial extensions and interdependencies between residents, care workers, and assistive technologies. Drawing on ethnographic observations in two South Australian care facilities, analysis…
Race, rhetorical veneers and the virulence of colonial violence during Covid
COVID has exposed how health and racial inequities are deeply entangled. This article seeks to examine how race is made present but also erased in words, bodies and institutions. It takes as its point of departure two Australian health campaigns and their use of the promotional rhetoric of 'the race' to urgently increase immunisations and organ donation registrations at the time of COVID. In a critical analysis of the public policy and political …
The dynamics of peer-to-peer care
Hi'ilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart and Tamara Kneese (2020) define radical care as 'as a set of vital but underappreciated strategies for enduring precarious worlds' (16). Yet they sound a note of caution when they argue that 'because radical care is inseparable from systemic inequality and power structures, it can be used to coerce subjects into new forms of surveillance and unpaid labor' (16). This article explores scaffolded peer-to-pe…
Under pressure
In this paper, I seek to theorise the concept of pressure in relation to families' experiences of organ donation during COVID-19. Drawing on Australia-based fieldwork, I follow circuitries of pressure in and beyond interiorities of bodies, biographies and infrastructures of care to ask what happens when pressure builds to such an extent that there is no capacity left in bodies and in institutions. Pressure concentrates in some spaces and bodies m…
The making of transplant kin
This is a paper about the relational and more-than-human matters of living and dying. Drawing on Australian fieldwork and interviews with bereaved families, I extend anthropological work on bodies and kinship in the context of organ donation and transplantation. Reorienting boundaries between bodies, life, and death, through an expansive category of 'transplant kin', I engage feminist science and technology studies (STS) to trouble imaginings of …
Sociology (26 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Gender Studies (14 obras) · Psychology (13 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (9 obras) · Aesthetics (8 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Obesity and Health Practices (8 obras)