Svetlana Ristovski‐slijepcevic
Biographic Data
| ID | 146234 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svetlana Ristovski‐slijepcevic |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svetlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Ristovski‐slijepcevic |
| SIGNATURE | SLIJEPCEVIC S R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 115 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
"Communicating "Evidence: Lifestyle, Cancer, and the Promise of a Disease-free Future
In the era of evidence-based health care, conferences aimed at disseminating scientific knowledge perform an essential role in shaping policy and research agendas and transforming physician practice. Drawing on observations at two U.S. cancer prevention conferences aimed at knowledge translation, we examine the ways that evidence regarding the relationship between cancer and lifestyle is articulated and enacted. We show that characterizations of …
The Dying Mother: Film portrayals of mothering with incurable cancer
In a culture where concerted attempts are being made to postpone or circumvent inevitable processes of human life, the poignancy of a mother diagnosed with cancer provides a platform from which to explore broader cultural understandings of mothering. This paper examines four films that contend with the theme of mothering with terminal cancer. Despite being made decades apart and for different audiences, the films share seemingly unchanging repres…
Metastatic Cancer and Mothering: Being a Mother in the Face of a Contracted Future
For the majority of people diagnosed with metastatic cancer, there is little hope of a disease-free future. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a support group for women with metastatic cancer, we examine the relationship between metastases and mothering. We argue that the experience of raising children while living with a terminal illness crystallizes cultural expectations about mothering based on an essentialist model of parenthood whereby the…
Being a 'good mother: Dietary governmentality in the family food practices of three ethnocultural groups in Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore how official dietary guidelines provide particular standards concerning 'healthy eating' that marginalize other understandings of the relationship between food and health. In families where parents and youth held shared ways of understanding healthy eating, the role of 'good mother' was constructed so as to include healthy eating expertise. Mothers expr…
Being 'thick' indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada
Despite recent critiques of contemporary obesity discourses that link 'modern Western lifestyles' to an 'obesity epidemic', the population's weight remains a central concern of current dietary guidelines. Food choices that are considered beneficial to maintaining a certain weight are understood to play a key role in one's health. This concern reflects medico-moral assumptions about the properties of food and what people should eat. However, the i…
People Are Just Becoming More Conscious of How Everything's Connected: Ethical' Food Consumption in Two Regions of Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore the ways reflexivity and tradition may help explain regional differences concerning 'ethical consumption' in relation to food. We argue that 'reflexive modernity' cannot be said to apply unambiguously in contemporary Canada. The food concerns of Punjabi British Columbian and African Nova Scotian participants centred more on cultural traditions than on e…
Tough Teens: The Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Teenagers as Research Participants
Encouraging a teenager to have a conversation in a semistructured research interview is fraught with difficulties. The authors discuss the methodological challenges encountered when interviewing adolescents of European Canadian, African Canadian, and Punjabi Canadian families who took part in the Family Food Decision-Making Study in two regions of Canada. The researchers were interested in how family members made decisions about food choices. In …
Engaging with healthy eating discourse(s): Ways of knowing about food and health in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Ways of knowing about healthy eating in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Food-related health concerns of Punjabi British Columbians: Postcolonial perspectives on nutrition and health education
Engaging with healthy eating discourse(s): Ways of knowing about food and health in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Metastatic Cancer and Mothering: Being a Mother in the Face of a Contracted Future
For the majority of people diagnosed with metastatic cancer, there is little hope of a disease-free future. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a support group for women with metastatic cancer, we examine the relationship between metastases and mothering. We argue that the experience of raising children while living with a terminal illness crystallizes cultural expectations about mothering based on an essentialist model of parenthood whereby the…
Tough Teens: The Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Teenagers as Research Participants
Encouraging a teenager to have a conversation in a semistructured research interview is fraught with difficulties. The authors discuss the methodological challenges encountered when interviewing adolescents of European Canadian, African Canadian, and Punjabi Canadian families who took part in the Family Food Decision-Making Study in two regions of Canada. The researchers were interested in how family members made decisions about food choices. In …
Being a 'good mother: Dietary governmentality in the family food practices of three ethnocultural groups in Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore how official dietary guidelines provide particular standards concerning 'healthy eating' that marginalize other understandings of the relationship between food and health. In families where parents and youth held shared ways of understanding healthy eating, the role of 'good mother' was constructed so as to include healthy eating expertise. Mothers expr…
People Are Just Becoming More Conscious of How Everything's Connected: Ethical' Food Consumption in Two Regions of Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore the ways reflexivity and tradition may help explain regional differences concerning 'ethical consumption' in relation to food. We argue that 'reflexive modernity' cannot be said to apply unambiguously in contemporary Canada. The food concerns of Punjabi British Columbian and African Nova Scotian participants centred more on cultural traditions than on e…
Being 'thick' indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada
Despite recent critiques of contemporary obesity discourses that link 'modern Western lifestyles' to an 'obesity epidemic', the population's weight remains a central concern of current dietary guidelines. Food choices that are considered beneficial to maintaining a certain weight are understood to play a key role in one's health. This concern reflects medico-moral assumptions about the properties of food and what people should eat. However, the i…
"Communicating "Evidence: Lifestyle, Cancer, and the Promise of a Disease-free Future
In the era of evidence-based health care, conferences aimed at disseminating scientific knowledge perform an essential role in shaping policy and research agendas and transforming physician practice. Drawing on observations at two U.S. cancer prevention conferences aimed at knowledge translation, we examine the ways that evidence regarding the relationship between cancer and lifestyle is articulated and enacted. We show that characterizations of …
The Dying Mother: Film portrayals of mothering with incurable cancer
In a culture where concerted attempts are being made to postpone or circumvent inevitable processes of human life, the poignancy of a mother diagnosed with cancer provides a platform from which to explore broader cultural understandings of mothering. This paper examines four films that contend with the theme of mothering with terminal cancer. Despite being made decades apart and for different audiences, the films share seemingly unchanging repres…
Ways of knowing about healthy eating in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Food-related health concerns of Punjabi British Columbians: Postcolonial perspectives on nutrition and health education
Engaging with healthy eating discourse(s): Ways of knowing about food and health in three ethnocultural groups in Canada
Tough Teens: The Methodological Challenges of Interviewing Teenagers as Research Participants
Encouraging a teenager to have a conversation in a semistructured research interview is fraught with difficulties. The authors discuss the methodological challenges encountered when interviewing adolescents of European Canadian, African Canadian, and Punjabi Canadian families who took part in the Family Food Decision-Making Study in two regions of Canada. The researchers were interested in how family members made decisions about food choices. In …
Being a 'good mother: Dietary governmentality in the family food practices of three ethnocultural groups in Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore how official dietary guidelines provide particular standards concerning 'healthy eating' that marginalize other understandings of the relationship between food and health. In families where parents and youth held shared ways of understanding healthy eating, the role of 'good mother' was constructed so as to include healthy eating expertise. Mothers expr…
Being 'thick' indicates you are eating, you are healthy and you have an attractive body shape: Perspectives on fatness and food choice amongst Black and White men and women in Canada
Despite recent critiques of contemporary obesity discourses that link 'modern Western lifestyles' to an 'obesity epidemic', the population's weight remains a central concern of current dietary guidelines. Food choices that are considered beneficial to maintaining a certain weight are understood to play a key role in one's health. This concern reflects medico-moral assumptions about the properties of food and what people should eat. However, the i…
People Are Just Becoming More Conscious of How Everything's Connected: Ethical' Food Consumption in Two Regions of Canada
In this qualitative study with three ethnocultural groups in two regions of Canada, we explore the ways reflexivity and tradition may help explain regional differences concerning 'ethical consumption' in relation to food. We argue that 'reflexive modernity' cannot be said to apply unambiguously in contemporary Canada. The food concerns of Punjabi British Columbian and African Nova Scotian participants centred more on cultural traditions than on e…
Metastatic Cancer and Mothering: Being a Mother in the Face of a Contracted Future
For the majority of people diagnosed with metastatic cancer, there is little hope of a disease-free future. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork at a support group for women with metastatic cancer, we examine the relationship between metastases and mothering. We argue that the experience of raising children while living with a terminal illness crystallizes cultural expectations about mothering based on an essentialist model of parenthood whereby the…
The Dying Mother: Film portrayals of mothering with incurable cancer
In a culture where concerted attempts are being made to postpone or circumvent inevitable processes of human life, the poignancy of a mother diagnosed with cancer provides a platform from which to explore broader cultural understandings of mothering. This paper examines four films that contend with the theme of mothering with terminal cancer. Despite being made decades apart and for different audiences, the films share seemingly unchanging repres…
"Communicating "Evidence: Lifestyle, Cancer, and the Promise of a Disease-free Future
In the era of evidence-based health care, conferences aimed at disseminating scientific knowledge perform an essential role in shaping policy and research agendas and transforming physician practice. Drawing on observations at two U.S. cancer prevention conferences aimed at knowledge translation, we examine the ways that evidence regarding the relationship between cancer and lifestyle is articulated and enacted. We show that characterizations of …
Culinary Culture and Tourism (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Obesity and Health Practices (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Political science (3 works) · Cancer (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)