Emilija Zabiliūtė
Biographic Data
| ID | 123041 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilija Zabiliūtė |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilija |
| FAMILY NAME | Zabiliūtė |
| SIGNATURE | ZABILIŪTĖ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4221-953X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Care for neighbors and care on paper: Relationships, medical bureaucracies, and conflicting time in community health work
By foregrounding the exploration of the epistemology of time, this article theorizes heterochronicity of care and shows how care is subject to different and conflicting forms of social time. Specifically, I investigate bureaucratically accounted care work alongside relational undervalued and unrecognized forms of care to show how bureaucratic time forms not only conflict with one another but also with the time forms of relationships and everyday …
Care without heart: Kinship, chronic illness, and the emotion of care in Delhi
Drawing on ethnography of one family's life with diabetes in a poor settlement in Delhi's suburbs, this paper examines the relationship between emotional structures of care and kinship in the face of chronic illness. While anthropologists have argued for a relational understanding of care and discussed how, in India, modernity and social transformations have resulted in crises of familial care, less attention has been paid to the emotional terrai…
Relational chronicities: Kinship, care, and ethics of responsibility
Care for chronic illness in clinical and everyday settings is relational and underpinned by ethical dilemmas about kinship care responsibilities as much as it is about self-care practices and technologically aided living. Such is the central argument of this special issue, which explores kin care and ethics of responsibilities in the everyday lives of persons and families with chronic illness across different locations globally. Rather than outli…
Ethics of Neighborly Intimacy among Community Health Activists in Delhi
What makes community health activism an ethical undertaking? I examine how, among Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in an urban poor neighborhood in Delhi, health work is underscored by relational sensibilities. By primarily situating the inquiry into the everyday lives of ASHAs, and beyond the formal trajectories of their work, I show how their care work and relational commitments exceed the forms of care foregrounded in public health p…
Book Forum
Working with Veena Das's Textures of the Ordinary: Anthropology after Wittgenstein By Lotte Buch SegalRepairing the World: Ordinary Ethics and the Shadows of Moralism By Emilija ZabiliūtėThe Text's Texture By Marco MottaThe Residues of Kinship By Resto CruzUncertain Relations with People, Practice, and Ethnographic Knowledge By Andrew M. JeffersonThe Moon Shadows: When Arguments Rest By Veena Das
Claiming status and contesting sexual violence and harassment among community health activists in Delhi
Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork in an urban poor area in Delhi, this paper examines how Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) experience and critique sexual violence and harassment in the city. Inherent in these women’s critiques is blaming of urban poor men who belong to their social class, resonating with middle-class discourses emerging in urban India. Simultaneously, in their accounts of sexual violence in domestic spaces, women inv…
(En)countering sexual violence in the Indian city
Over the past decade, incidents of rape, sexual discrimination, honour killing, acid attacks and sex-related murders in Indian cities have come under much media and public scrutiny, significantly impacting conceptions of gender, risk and women’s safety in urban spaces. The city itself has become a dominant trope for underscoring the anxieties, discourses and exegeses of sexual violence, as exemplified in the oft-cited designation of Delhi as the …
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
Lesley Weaver in her book, Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India, examines women’s experiences of type-2 diabetes in India’s capital Delhi amidst the country’s ongoing societal tra
Wandering in a mall: Aspirations and family among young urban poor men in Delhi
In post-reform India, urban spaces have been redefined and reoriented towards the consumer public and are becoming increasingly segregated along class lines. While most of the scholarly attention has focused on the marginalization and segregation generated by anti-poor development in cities like Delhi, which aim to be ‘world-class’, less attention has been paid to the ways in which the poor experience the city and its middle-class consumer-orient…
Notes from the Field: Delhi Assembly Elections, Daru and Politisation of Violence against Women
(En)countering sexual violence in the Indian city
Over the past decade, incidents of rape, sexual discrimination, honour killing, acid attacks and sex-related murders in Indian cities have come under much media and public scrutiny, significantly impacting conceptions of gender, risk and women’s safety in urban spaces. The city itself has become a dominant trope for underscoring the anxieties, discourses and exegeses of sexual violence, as exemplified in the oft-cited designation of Delhi as the …
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
Lesley Weaver in her book, Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India, examines women’s experiences of type-2 diabetes in India’s capital Delhi amidst the country’s ongoing societal tra
Ethics of Neighborly Intimacy among Community Health Activists in Delhi
What makes community health activism an ethical undertaking? I examine how, among Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in an urban poor neighborhood in Delhi, health work is underscored by relational sensibilities. By primarily situating the inquiry into the everyday lives of ASHAs, and beyond the formal trajectories of their work, I show how their care work and relational commitments exceed the forms of care foregrounded in public health p…
Wandering in a mall: Aspirations and family among young urban poor men in Delhi
In post-reform India, urban spaces have been redefined and reoriented towards the consumer public and are becoming increasingly segregated along class lines. While most of the scholarly attention has focused on the marginalization and segregation generated by anti-poor development in cities like Delhi, which aim to be ‘world-class’, less attention has been paid to the ways in which the poor experience the city and its middle-class consumer-orient…
Book Forum
Working with Veena Das's Textures of the Ordinary: Anthropology after Wittgenstein By Lotte Buch SegalRepairing the World: Ordinary Ethics and the Shadows of Moralism By Emilija ZabiliūtėThe Text's Texture By Marco MottaThe Residues of Kinship By Resto CruzUncertain Relations with People, Practice, and Ethnographic Knowledge By Andrew M. JeffersonThe Moon Shadows: When Arguments Rest By Veena Das
Claiming status and contesting sexual violence and harassment among community health activists in Delhi
Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork in an urban poor area in Delhi, this paper examines how Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) experience and critique sexual violence and harassment in the city. Inherent in these women’s critiques is blaming of urban poor men who belong to their social class, resonating with middle-class discourses emerging in urban India. Simultaneously, in their accounts of sexual violence in domestic spaces, women inv…
Notes from the Field: Delhi Assembly Elections, Daru and Politisation of Violence against Women
Notes from the Field: Delhi Assembly Elections, Daru and Politisation of Violence against Women
Wandering in a mall: Aspirations and family among young urban poor men in Delhi
In post-reform India, urban spaces have been redefined and reoriented towards the consumer public and are becoming increasingly segregated along class lines. While most of the scholarly attention has focused on the marginalization and segregation generated by anti-poor development in cities like Delhi, which aim to be ‘world-class’, less attention has been paid to the ways in which the poor experience the city and its middle-class consumer-orient…
Claiming status and contesting sexual violence and harassment among community health activists in Delhi
Drawing on an ethnographic fieldwork in an urban poor area in Delhi, this paper examines how Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) experience and critique sexual violence and harassment in the city. Inherent in these women’s critiques is blaming of urban poor men who belong to their social class, resonating with middle-class discourses emerging in urban India. Simultaneously, in their accounts of sexual violence in domestic spaces, women inv…
(En)countering sexual violence in the Indian city
Over the past decade, incidents of rape, sexual discrimination, honour killing, acid attacks and sex-related murders in Indian cities have come under much media and public scrutiny, significantly impacting conceptions of gender, risk and women’s safety in urban spaces. The city itself has become a dominant trope for underscoring the anxieties, discourses and exegeses of sexual violence, as exemplified in the oft-cited designation of Delhi as the …
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India
Lesley Weaver in her book, Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India, examines women’s experiences of type-2 diabetes in India’s capital Delhi amidst the country’s ongoing societal tra
Ethics of Neighborly Intimacy among Community Health Activists in Delhi
What makes community health activism an ethical undertaking? I examine how, among Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in an urban poor neighborhood in Delhi, health work is underscored by relational sensibilities. By primarily situating the inquiry into the everyday lives of ASHAs, and beyond the formal trajectories of their work, I show how their care work and relational commitments exceed the forms of care foregrounded in public health p…
Book Forum
Working with Veena Das's Textures of the Ordinary: Anthropology after Wittgenstein By Lotte Buch SegalRepairing the World: Ordinary Ethics and the Shadows of Moralism By Emilija ZabiliūtėThe Text's Texture By Marco MottaThe Residues of Kinship By Resto CruzUncertain Relations with People, Practice, and Ethnographic Knowledge By Andrew M. JeffersonThe Moon Shadows: When Arguments Rest By Veena Das
Care without heart: Kinship, chronic illness, and the emotion of care in Delhi
Drawing on ethnography of one family's life with diabetes in a poor settlement in Delhi's suburbs, this paper examines the relationship between emotional structures of care and kinship in the face of chronic illness. While anthropologists have argued for a relational understanding of care and discussed how, in India, modernity and social transformations have resulted in crises of familial care, less attention has been paid to the emotional terrai…
Relational chronicities: Kinship, care, and ethics of responsibility
Care for chronic illness in clinical and everyday settings is relational and underpinned by ethical dilemmas about kinship care responsibilities as much as it is about self-care practices and technologically aided living. Such is the central argument of this special issue, which explores kin care and ethics of responsibilities in the everyday lives of persons and families with chronic illness across different locations globally. Rather than outli…
Care for neighbors and care on paper: Relationships, medical bureaucracies, and conflicting time in community health work
By foregrounding the exploration of the epistemology of time, this article theorizes heterochronicity of care and shows how care is subject to different and conflicting forms of social time. Specifically, I investigate bureaucratically accounted care work alongside relational undervalued and unrecognized forms of care to show how bureaucratic time forms not only conflict with one another but also with the time forms of relationships and everyday …
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