Laurie Denyer Willis
Biographic Data
| ID | 133715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurie Denyer Willis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurie Denyer |
| FAMILY NAME | Willis |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIS L D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2630-9092 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
The politics of irrationality
In siloed discussions of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic use on farms in the Global South has emerged as a key site for intervention. The antibiotic consumption targeted is not all consumption, but "irrational" consumption. This concept of irrationality is neither new, nor true, but rather is a long-standing form of maintenance work within global health systems. Via an attention to chickens and the antibiotics farmers use to raise them in th…
Reconciling imperatives: Clinical guidelines, antibiotic prescribing and the enactment of good care in lower-level health facilities in Tororo, Uganda
Faced with the threat of antimicrobial resistance, health workers are urged to reduce unnecessary prescription of antimicrobials. Clinical guidelines are expected to form the basis of prescribing decisions in practice. Emerging through evaluations of best practice - bundling clinical, technological and economic dimensions - guidelines also create benchmarks through which practice can be assessed with metrics. To understand the relationships betwe…
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda
The ways in which dimensions of health and healthcare intersect with economics and politics in particular contexts requires close attention. In this article we connect concerns about antibiotic overuse in Uganda to the social milieu created through policies that follow President Museveni's vision for a population who kulembeka , "tap wealth." Ethnographic fieldwork in rural Eastern Uganda illustrates how taking medicines in rural households refle…
Antibiotic stories: A mixed-methods, multi-country analysis of household antibiotic use in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: As concerns about the prevalence of infections that are resistant to available antibiotics increase, attention has turned toward the use of these medicines both within and outside of formal healthcare settings. Much of what is known about use beyond formal settings is informed by survey-based research. Few studies to date have used comparative, mixed-methods approaches to render visible patterns of use within and between settings as w…
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: Health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda
Antibiotics are a routine part of everyday life in many contexts, contributing to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our ethnographic research documents the ways that antibiotics have become a key part of everyday life for precariously employed urban day-wage workers living in a large informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda. We found that for many people, their daily work and ongoing health was entangled with antibiotic use; that i…
In Attention to Pain: Governance and Bodies in Brazil
Ethnographies of bodies have become entry points for understanding the sensorially rich ways that worlds are generated and lived. Here, I adduce a slow-paced ethnographic mode that centers how bodily pain and touch orient attention, with a focus on gendered and racialized violence in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. In doing so, I make explicit the expectation in Rio's urban governance that resilience means toughening through pain. In turn, I detai…
Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology's Storytelling
In this special issue of Medical Anthropology, we focus on notions of precarity and care viewed through the lens of pace. We were inspired by Elizabeth Povinelli’s effort to track the way ‘events’
Quick fix for care, productivity, hygiene and inequality: Reframing the entrenched problem of antibiotic overuse
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge of our time. A key global objective is to reduce antibiotic use (ABU), in order to reduce resistance caused by antimicrobial pressure. This is often set as a ‘behaviour change’ issue, locating intervention efforts in the knowledge and attitudes of individual prescribers and users of medicines. Such approaches have had limited impact and fall short of addressing wider drivers of antibiotic use. T…
The ‘Drug Bag’ method: Lessons from anthropological studies of antibiotic use in Africa and South-East Asia
Understanding the prevalence and types of antibiotics used in a given human and/or animal population is important for informing stewardship strategies. Methods used to capture such data often rely on verbal elicitation of reported use that tend to assume shared medical terminology. Studies have shown the category 'antibiotic' does not translate well linguistically or conceptually, which limits the accuracy of these reports. This article presents …
It smells like a thousand angels marching: The Salvific Sensorium in Rio de Janeiro's Western Subúrbios
Based on almost three years of ethnographic research living in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, I consider how the senses comes to matter and how Pentecostalism, margins, smells, and soaps are put to work to construct new kinds of affective space. To do so, I track the way in which a fragrance composed of runoff waste from an international flavor and fragrance company has come to be understood as "pieces of grace," or divinely given fragments of prosp…
It smells like a thousand angels marching: The Salvific Sensorium in Rio de Janeiro's Western Subúrbios
Based on almost three years of ethnographic research living in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, I consider how the senses comes to matter and how Pentecostalism, margins, smells, and soaps are put to work to construct new kinds of affective space. To do so, I track the way in which a fragrance composed of runoff waste from an international flavor and fragrance company has come to be understood as "pieces of grace," or divinely given fragments of prosp…
In Attention to Pain: Governance and Bodies in Brazil
Ethnographies of bodies have become entry points for understanding the sensorially rich ways that worlds are generated and lived. Here, I adduce a slow-paced ethnographic mode that centers how bodily pain and touch orient attention, with a focus on gendered and racialized violence in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. In doing so, I make explicit the expectation in Rio's urban governance that resilience means toughening through pain. In turn, I detai…
Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology's Storytelling
In this special issue of Medical Anthropology, we focus on notions of precarity and care viewed through the lens of pace. We were inspired by Elizabeth Povinelli’s effort to track the way ‘events’
The politics of irrationality
In siloed discussions of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic use on farms in the Global South has emerged as a key site for intervention. The antibiotic consumption targeted is not all consumption, but "irrational" consumption. This concept of irrationality is neither new, nor true, but rather is a long-standing form of maintenance work within global health systems. Via an attention to chickens and the antibiotics farmers use to raise them in th…
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda
The ways in which dimensions of health and healthcare intersect with economics and politics in particular contexts requires close attention. In this article we connect concerns about antibiotic overuse in Uganda to the social milieu created through policies that follow President Museveni's vision for a population who kulembeka , "tap wealth." Ethnographic fieldwork in rural Eastern Uganda illustrates how taking medicines in rural households refle…
It smells like a thousand angels marching: The Salvific Sensorium in Rio de Janeiro's Western Subúrbios
Based on almost three years of ethnographic research living in Rio de Janeiro's subúrbios, I consider how the senses comes to matter and how Pentecostalism, margins, smells, and soaps are put to work to construct new kinds of affective space. To do so, I track the way in which a fragrance composed of runoff waste from an international flavor and fragrance company has come to be understood as "pieces of grace," or divinely given fragments of prosp…
Quick fix for care, productivity, hygiene and inequality: Reframing the entrenched problem of antibiotic overuse
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge of our time. A key global objective is to reduce antibiotic use (ABU), in order to reduce resistance caused by antimicrobial pressure. This is often set as a ‘behaviour change’ issue, locating intervention efforts in the knowledge and attitudes of individual prescribers and users of medicines. Such approaches have had limited impact and fall short of addressing wider drivers of antibiotic use. T…
The ‘Drug Bag’ method: Lessons from anthropological studies of antibiotic use in Africa and South-East Asia
Understanding the prevalence and types of antibiotics used in a given human and/or animal population is important for informing stewardship strategies. Methods used to capture such data often rely on verbal elicitation of reported use that tend to assume shared medical terminology. Studies have shown the category 'antibiotic' does not translate well linguistically or conceptually, which limits the accuracy of these reports. This article presents …
In Attention to Pain: Governance and Bodies in Brazil
Ethnographies of bodies have become entry points for understanding the sensorially rich ways that worlds are generated and lived. Here, I adduce a slow-paced ethnographic mode that centers how bodily pain and touch orient attention, with a focus on gendered and racialized violence in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro. In doing so, I make explicit the expectation in Rio's urban governance that resilience means toughening through pain. In turn, I detai…
Balancing the Quotidian: Precarity, Care and Pace in Anthropology's Storytelling
In this special issue of Medical Anthropology, we focus on notions of precarity and care viewed through the lens of pace. We were inspired by Elizabeth Povinelli’s effort to track the way ‘events’
Antibiotic stories: A mixed-methods, multi-country analysis of household antibiotic use in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe
BACKGROUND: As concerns about the prevalence of infections that are resistant to available antibiotics increase, attention has turned toward the use of these medicines both within and outside of formal healthcare settings. Much of what is known about use beyond formal settings is informed by survey-based research. Few studies to date have used comparative, mixed-methods approaches to render visible patterns of use within and between settings as w…
Antibiotic ‘entanglements’: Health, labour and everyday life in an urban informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda
Antibiotics are a routine part of everyday life in many contexts, contributing to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Our ethnographic research documents the ways that antibiotics have become a key part of everyday life for precariously employed urban day-wage workers living in a large informal settlement in Kampala, Uganda. We found that for many people, their daily work and ongoing health was entangled with antibiotic use; that i…
Reconciling imperatives: Clinical guidelines, antibiotic prescribing and the enactment of good care in lower-level health facilities in Tororo, Uganda
Faced with the threat of antimicrobial resistance, health workers are urged to reduce unnecessary prescription of antimicrobials. Clinical guidelines are expected to form the basis of prescribing decisions in practice. Emerging through evaluations of best practice - bundling clinical, technological and economic dimensions - guidelines also create benchmarks through which practice can be assessed with metrics. To understand the relationships betwe…
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda
The ways in which dimensions of health and healthcare intersect with economics and politics in particular contexts requires close attention. In this article we connect concerns about antibiotic overuse in Uganda to the social milieu created through policies that follow President Museveni's vision for a population who kulembeka , "tap wealth." Ethnographic fieldwork in rural Eastern Uganda illustrates how taking medicines in rural households refle…
The politics of irrationality
In siloed discussions of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic use on farms in the Global South has emerged as a key site for intervention. The antibiotic consumption targeted is not all consumption, but "irrational" consumption. This concept of irrationality is neither new, nor true, but rather is a long-standing form of maintenance work within global health systems. Via an attention to chickens and the antibiotics farmers use to raise them in th…
Feminist Cyberlaw
This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Antibiotic Use and Resistance (4 works) · Antibiotics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works)