Jane L Saffitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 122606 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane L Saffitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane L |
| FAMILY NAME | Saffitz |
| SIGNATURE | SAFFITZ J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Denison University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6207-0862 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Provincializing bodyminds, decolonizing disability
In critical disability studies and crip theory, a key intervention has been to challenge Cartesian dualism by using terms such as bodyminds, body-minds, mind/bodies, and other hybrids. While the concept of "bodyminds" integrates physical and cognitive experiences and challenges dualistic thinking, it has been criticized by scholars for prioritizing Eurocentric notions of the mind and subjectivity over other understandings of bodily normality and …
Spectacle: The Semiotics of Albinism in Tanzania
In the past fifteen years, scores of high-profile murders of Africans with albinism have sparked a robust global movement for albinism rights. In Tanzania, disparate albinism stakeholders (wadau) attribute violence to an illicit market for albino body parts run by traditional healers and their patrons, who are said to believe in the extraordinary powers of these parts to access an unseen realm. This article tacks between stakeholders with albinis…
Question mark in Landia
What happens when we remove key specificities that orient ethnography? Based on 30 months of fieldwork somewhere and set in fictional Landia, this piece eschews conventional ways of representing ethnographic encounters-through specific matterings of people and place-for disquieting generality. Against vague references to violence by Snatchers and a movement to protect the Marked, I foreground the affective experiences of two interlocutors without…
Realms unseen: Albinism and epistemic decoloniality in Tanzania
Since 2006, albinism has emerged as both a subject and an object of contestation in Tanzania and beyond. An abiding global narrative purports that, as a recessively inherited condition, albinism is fetishized by Africans who falsely attribute otherworldly potentials to albino body parts and commodify them in a grisly market run by "traditional" healers and their patrons. In response, translocal albinism rights stakeholders have formed to cement a…
Albinism and the Unseen in Tanzania
Understanding Gender-based Violence: Evidence from Kilimanjaro Assessment of Rombo and Moshi Rural
This paper presents findings from an empirical study on the prevalence and beliefs surroundinggender-based violence (gBv) in the Kilimanjaro region. The analysis and ensuing discussion is the result of a representative sample of adults (n=384) surveyed in two districts, Rombo and Moshi Rural, in Kilimanjaro, tanzania. In contrast to previous research of a similar nature, which has focused primarily on the frequency of violence, this study devotes…
Realms unseen: Albinism and epistemic decoloniality in Tanzania
Since 2006, albinism has emerged as both a subject and an object of contestation in Tanzania and beyond. An abiding global narrative purports that, as a recessively inherited condition, albinism is fetishized by Africans who falsely attribute otherworldly potentials to albino body parts and commodify them in a grisly market run by "traditional" healers and their patrons. In response, translocal albinism rights stakeholders have formed to cement a…
Provincializing bodyminds, decolonizing disability
In critical disability studies and crip theory, a key intervention has been to challenge Cartesian dualism by using terms such as bodyminds, body-minds, mind/bodies, and other hybrids. While the concept of "bodyminds" integrates physical and cognitive experiences and challenges dualistic thinking, it has been criticized by scholars for prioritizing Eurocentric notions of the mind and subjectivity over other understandings of bodily normality and …
Question mark in Landia
What happens when we remove key specificities that orient ethnography? Based on 30 months of fieldwork somewhere and set in fictional Landia, this piece eschews conventional ways of representing ethnographic encounters-through specific matterings of people and place-for disquieting generality. Against vague references to violence by Snatchers and a movement to protect the Marked, I foreground the affective experiences of two interlocutors without…
Understanding Gender-based Violence: Evidence from Kilimanjaro Assessment of Rombo and Moshi Rural
This paper presents findings from an empirical study on the prevalence and beliefs surroundinggender-based violence (gBv) in the Kilimanjaro region. The analysis and ensuing discussion is the result of a representative sample of adults (n=384) surveyed in two districts, Rombo and Moshi Rural, in Kilimanjaro, tanzania. In contrast to previous research of a similar nature, which has focused primarily on the frequency of violence, this study devotes…
Albinism and the Unseen in Tanzania
Realms unseen: Albinism and epistemic decoloniality in Tanzania
Since 2006, albinism has emerged as both a subject and an object of contestation in Tanzania and beyond. An abiding global narrative purports that, as a recessively inherited condition, albinism is fetishized by Africans who falsely attribute otherworldly potentials to albino body parts and commodify them in a grisly market run by "traditional" healers and their patrons. In response, translocal albinism rights stakeholders have formed to cement a…
Question mark in Landia
What happens when we remove key specificities that orient ethnography? Based on 30 months of fieldwork somewhere and set in fictional Landia, this piece eschews conventional ways of representing ethnographic encounters-through specific matterings of people and place-for disquieting generality. Against vague references to violence by Snatchers and a movement to protect the Marked, I foreground the affective experiences of two interlocutors without…
Provincializing bodyminds, decolonizing disability
In critical disability studies and crip theory, a key intervention has been to challenge Cartesian dualism by using terms such as bodyminds, body-minds, mind/bodies, and other hybrids. While the concept of "bodyminds" integrates physical and cognitive experiences and challenges dualistic thinking, it has been criticized by scholars for prioritizing Eurocentric notions of the mind and subjectivity over other understandings of bodily normality and …
Spectacle: The Semiotics of Albinism in Tanzania
In the past fifteen years, scores of high-profile murders of Africans with albinism have sparked a robust global movement for albinism rights. In Tanzania, disparate albinism stakeholders (wadau) attribute violence to an illicit market for albino body parts run by traditional healers and their patrons, who are said to believe in the extraordinary powers of these parts to access an unseen realm. This article tacks between stakeholders with albinis…
Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · History (3 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (2 works) · Albinism (2 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)