Stacey Ann Langwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 126819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stacey Ann Langwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stacey Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Langwick |
| SIGNATURE | LANGWICK S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1688-8561 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Properties of (Dis)Possession
Late colonial efforts to articulate witchcraft and herbalism intervened in the precolonial categories of practice through which East Africans differentiated healing (uganga) and harming (uchawi). Taking these interventions as critical points in the genealogy of traditional medicine in Tanzania enables an account of how and why plants have become central to contemporary debates over indigenous knowledge. Developing, promoting, and protecting tradi…
Cultivating Vitality
A Politics of Habitability
For Tanzanians, modern bodies bear complicated toxic loads not only because of the dumping of capitalism's harmful by-products but also because of the social-material effects of efforts designed to address insecurity, poverty, and disease. Dawa lishe(nutritious medicine) is forged in this double bind. Producers of dawa lisheproblematize toxicity as the condition under which life is attenuated, diminished, depleted, exhausted, or drained away. The…
Partial Publics
This essay examines how the publics of public health and those of public domain are reshaping one another in efforts to commercialize and manage modern traditional medicine in Tanzanian universities, government laboratories, nongovernmental clinics, and ministry offices. I argue that struggles over the practices that constitute the public to which contemporary traditional medicine will appeal are also struggles over who is obliged to respond to p…
Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
Hansjorg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick Introduction Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power 1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick 2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania Hansjorg Dilger 3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, S…
From Non-Aligned Medicines to Market-Based Herbals
The institutionalization of traditional medicine in Tanzania reveals how strategies for socialist liberation are morphing into strategies for neoliberalization. In the 1960s and 1970s, traditional medicine promised the raw material for the scientific development of an indigenous pharmaceutical industry. At the turn of the millennium, however, traditional medicine has re-emerged in Tanzania as a new path into the fast-growing global herbals market…
Articulate(d) bodies
Hospital practitioners in East Africa see traditional and modern medicine interrupt and interfere with one another on hospital grounds everyday. In response, nurses and nurse's aides have developed innovative ways of assembling diverse therapies and the knowledges, practices, desires, and medicines of which they consist. Through their care and coordination, nurses and nurse's aides forge complex bodies within the therapeutic interruptions and int…
Devils, Parasites,and Fierce Needles
In Tanzania, the encounter between a traditional malady called degedege and the modern malady malaria is a fight to participate in the making of the bodies of women and children as well as the agents that afflict them. In their respective settings, degedege and malaria are considered two of the most common threats to the well-being of pregnant women and their young children. Local, national, and international public-health concerns for the early …
The Steamer Parish
The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By Charles M. Good, Jr. University of Chicago Geography Research Paper, Number 244. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 487. $30.00 paper. The Steamer Parish adds to the growing literature on African medical missions by providing an innovative look at the way that technology shaped colonial and missionary society. In particular, Good e…
A Politics of Habitability
For Tanzanians, modern bodies bear complicated toxic loads not only because of the dumping of capitalism's harmful by-products but also because of the social-material effects of efforts designed to address insecurity, poverty, and disease. Dawa lishe(nutritious medicine) is forged in this double bind. Producers of dawa lisheproblematize toxicity as the condition under which life is attenuated, diminished, depleted, exhausted, or drained away. The…
Articulate(d) bodies
Hospital practitioners in East Africa see traditional and modern medicine interrupt and interfere with one another on hospital grounds everyday. In response, nurses and nurse's aides have developed innovative ways of assembling diverse therapies and the knowledges, practices, desires, and medicines of which they consist. Through their care and coordination, nurses and nurse's aides forge complex bodies within the therapeutic interruptions and int…
Devils, Parasites,and Fierce Needles
In Tanzania, the encounter between a traditional malady called degedege and the modern malady malaria is a fight to participate in the making of the bodies of women and children as well as the agents that afflict them. In their respective settings, degedege and malaria are considered two of the most common threats to the well-being of pregnant women and their young children. Local, national, and international public-health concerns for the early …
From Non-Aligned Medicines to Market-Based Herbals
The institutionalization of traditional medicine in Tanzania reveals how strategies for socialist liberation are morphing into strategies for neoliberalization. In the 1960s and 1970s, traditional medicine promised the raw material for the scientific development of an indigenous pharmaceutical industry. At the turn of the millennium, however, traditional medicine has re-emerged in Tanzania as a new path into the fast-growing global herbals market…
Partial Publics
This essay examines how the publics of public health and those of public domain are reshaping one another in efforts to commercialize and manage modern traditional medicine in Tanzanian universities, government laboratories, nongovernmental clinics, and ministry offices. I argue that struggles over the practices that constitute the public to which contemporary traditional medicine will appeal are also struggles over who is obliged to respond to p…
Properties of (Dis)Possession
Late colonial efforts to articulate witchcraft and herbalism intervened in the precolonial categories of practice through which East Africans differentiated healing (uganga) and harming (uchawi). Taking these interventions as critical points in the genealogy of traditional medicine in Tanzania enables an account of how and why plants have become central to contemporary debates over indigenous knowledge. Developing, promoting, and protecting tradi…
The Steamer Parish
The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By Charles M. Good, Jr. University of Chicago Geography Research Paper, Number 244. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 487. $30.00 paper. The Steamer Parish adds to the growing literature on African medical missions by providing an innovative look at the way that technology shaped colonial and missionary society. In particular, Good e…
Cultivating Vitality
The Steamer Parish
The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. By Charles M. Good, Jr. University of Chicago Geography Research Paper, Number 244. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004. Pp. xix, 487. $30.00 paper. The Steamer Parish adds to the growing literature on African medical missions by providing an innovative look at the way that technology shaped colonial and missionary society. In particular, Good e…
Devils, Parasites,and Fierce Needles
In Tanzania, the encounter between a traditional malady called degedege and the modern malady malaria is a fight to participate in the making of the bodies of women and children as well as the agents that afflict them. In their respective settings, degedege and malaria are considered two of the most common threats to the well-being of pregnant women and their young children. Local, national, and international public-health concerns for the early …
Articulate(d) bodies
Hospital practitioners in East Africa see traditional and modern medicine interrupt and interfere with one another on hospital grounds everyday. In response, nurses and nurse's aides have developed innovative ways of assembling diverse therapies and the knowledges, practices, desires, and medicines of which they consist. Through their care and coordination, nurses and nurse's aides forge complex bodies within the therapeutic interruptions and int…
From Non-Aligned Medicines to Market-Based Herbals
The institutionalization of traditional medicine in Tanzania reveals how strategies for socialist liberation are morphing into strategies for neoliberalization. In the 1960s and 1970s, traditional medicine promised the raw material for the scientific development of an indigenous pharmaceutical industry. At the turn of the millennium, however, traditional medicine has re-emerged in Tanzania as a new path into the fast-growing global herbals market…
Medicine, mobility, and power in global Africa
Hansjorg Dilger, Abdoulaye Kane, and Stacey A. Langwick Introduction Part 1. Scale as an Effect of Power 1. The Choreography of Global Subjection: The Traditional Birth Attendant in Contemporary Configurations of World Health Stacey A. Langwick 2. Targeting the Empowered Individual: Transnational Policy-Making, the Global Economy of Aid and the Limitations of 'Biopower' in Tanzania Hansjorg Dilger 3. Health Security on the Move. Biobureaucracy, S…
Partial Publics
This essay examines how the publics of public health and those of public domain are reshaping one another in efforts to commercialize and manage modern traditional medicine in Tanzanian universities, government laboratories, nongovernmental clinics, and ministry offices. I argue that struggles over the practices that constitute the public to which contemporary traditional medicine will appeal are also struggles over who is obliged to respond to p…
Cultivating Vitality
A Politics of Habitability
For Tanzanians, modern bodies bear complicated toxic loads not only because of the dumping of capitalism's harmful by-products but also because of the social-material effects of efforts designed to address insecurity, poverty, and disease. Dawa lishe(nutritious medicine) is forged in this double bind. Producers of dawa lisheproblematize toxicity as the condition under which life is attenuated, diminished, depleted, exhausted, or drained away. The…
Properties of (Dis)Possession
Late colonial efforts to articulate witchcraft and herbalism intervened in the precolonial categories of practice through which East Africans differentiated healing (uganga) and harming (uchawi). Taking these interventions as critical points in the genealogy of traditional medicine in Tanzania enables an account of how and why plants have become central to contemporary debates over indigenous knowledge. Developing, promoting, and protecting tradi…
Sociology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Tanzania (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works)