John Harries

Biographic Data

ID146616
NAMEJohn Harries
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMEHarries
SIGNATUREHARRIES J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Cape Town
ORCID0000-0001-7359-8419
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS159
WORKS AS AUTHOR39
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX6

  • How women’s empowerment influences fertility-related outcomes and contraceptive practices

    Open AccessSofia Castro Lopes, Deborah Constant et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Women’s empowerment could be a crucial step for tackling gender inequality and improve women’s reproductive health and rights in Mozambique. This study aims to examine how different domains of women’s empowerment influence fertility-related outcomes and contraceptive practices in Mozambique. We used the 2015 Demographic Health Survey (DHS) conducted in Mozambique from which a sample of 2072 women aged 15 to 49 years were selected and included in …

  • Relationship, partner factors and stigma are associated with safer conception information, motivation, and behavioral skills among women living with HIV in Botswana

    Open AccessSarah A Gutin, G W Harper et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    Knowledge of SC methods varied widely. While some SC methods were well known (medical male circumcision by 83%, antiretroviral therapy for viral suppression by 64%), most other methods were known by less than 40% of participants. Our final models reveal that stigma as well as relationship and partner factors affect SC information, motivation, and behavioral skills. Both internalized childbearing stigma (ß=-0.50, 95%CI:-0.17, -0.02) and perceived …

  • Bloody Paperwork

    Open AccessGuro Huby, John HarriesARTICLEJournal of Extreme Anthropology2021

    This article is about paperwork: the work staff in UK integrated health and social care teams did to transform small transactions of everyday care work into big data, which in turn enabled the governance of complex service arrangements. This data-driven approach to governance, algorithmic governance, raises issues of agency and transparency. We address these issues by paying close attention to how care staff articulated their own understandings a…

  • Encountering the Past

    Paola Filippucci, John Harries et al.CHAPTERArchaeology and Anthropology2020

    Among the many areas of interest shared by archaeology and anthropology is the study of human bones. Although some of the cruder approaches to describing human diversity from the form and capacity of crania have, rightly, fallen out of favor, this shared interest in bones and, in particular, how the living think about, feel about, and interact with bones of the dead persists and continues to animate both anthropological and archaeological scholar…

  • I’m waiting for that’

    Open AccessSarah A Gutin, G W Harper et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2020

    Safe and effective low-cost safer conception (SC) methods are increasingly available and being integrated into national guidelines in sub-Saharan African contexts. Sero-different couples of childbearing age can benefit from such services and the routine provision of SC counselling. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV acquisition to uninfected partners can reduce the chances of HIV transmission when trying to achieve pregnancy. Botswana…

  • Perspectives about childbearing and pregnancy planning amongst people living with HIV in Gaborone, Botswana

    Sarah A Gutin, G W Harper et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2020

    Despite advances in clinical care, safer conception services are not utilised in many high HIV prevalence countries, including Botswana. We conducted in-depth interviews with 10 HIV healthcare providers and 10 women living with HIV to develop a deeper understanding of attitudes surrounding childbearing and pregnancy planning. Interviews were analysed using a phenomenological approach. Providers felt it was a human right and normative for women li…

  • Perspectives on contraceptive implant use in women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa

    Open AccessAnna Maria Brown, John Harries et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2019

    All South African women, including those living with HIV, should have access to the full range of contraceptive options for which they are medically eligible. Changing guidance should be initiated and communicated in consultation with primary-level providers and service beneficiaries. Guidance issued to providers needs to be clear and fully evidence-informed, and its correct interpretation and implementation facilitated and monitored. Guidance sh…

  • In pursuit of intimacy

    Ingrid Van Der Heijden, John Harries et al.ARTICLECulture Health & Sexuality2019

    Notions of womanhood inculcate naturalised ideologies of femininity, sexuality, motherhood and caregiving. The paper asks how disability stigma intersects with womanhood to characterise intimate partnerships in South Africa. In-depth interviews with 30 women with a range of disabilities were conducted in informal settlements in Cape Town. Findings suggest that disability stigma may hamper attainment of normative womanhood and sexual relationships…

  • Barriers to gender-based violence services and support for women with disabilities in Cape Town, South Africa

    Ingrid Van Der Heijden, John Harries et al.ARTICLEDisability & Society2019Cited by: 1References: 3

    Globally, South Africa has one of the highest rates of gender based violence (GBV). While little is known about the levels of GBV against women with disabilities in the country, less is known about the accessibility or inclusivity of post-violence support and services. The paper draws on data from interviews and focus group discussions with thirty women with disabilities and nineteen disability and GBV service providers in Cape Town, South Africa…

  • Human Remains, Rights and Treatment of

    Open AccessJohn HarriesOTHERThe International Encyclopedia of…2018

    The question of how we should treat human remains speaks to a more fundamental question: What, if any, are the “rights” of human remains? In other words, do the mortal remains of the dead have any moral standing in and of themselves, or can we understand their significance, and thereby articulate and resolve the question of their treatment, only in reference to the interests of living people? When considering what is best to do with human remains…

  • Ethical considerations for disability-inclusive gender-based violence research

    Open AccessIngrid Van Der Heijden, John Harries et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2018

    Globally, women with disabilities experience heightened and unique forms of violence compared to men with disabilities and women without disabilities. Yet formalised guidelines for their inclusion in gender-based violence (GBV) research is lacking. This paper draws on ethical guidelines for researching violence against women, and studies on the ethicality of including people with disabilities in research, to advocate for women with disabilities' …

  • Exploring motivation to notify and barriers to partner notification of sexually transmitted infections in South Africa

    Open AccessJulia M Wood, John Harries et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    While the intervention appears to be successful in facilitating partners' intentions to notify, the data shows significant social and structural barriers that will create difficulties for the prevention of future STIs. Participants' persistent concerns about acquiring HIV or their current positive status affect decision-making and therefore, could be a window of opportunity for health-care providers or lay counsellors to discuss STIs in high prev…

  • Exposure

    Open AccessJohn Harries, Linda Fibiger et al.ARTICLEHuman Remains and Violence An…2018Cited by: 4References: 5

    This article will query the ethics of making and displaying photographs of human remains. In particular, we will focus on the role of photography in constituting human remains as specimens, and the centrality of the creation and circulation of photographic images to the work of physical anthropology and bioarchaeology. This work has increasingly become the object of ethical scrutiny, particularly in the context of a (post)colonial politics of rec…

  • TheEmpower Nudgelottery to increase dual protection use

    Omar Galárraga, John Harries et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2018References: 36

    The objective of this study is to measure the preliminary efficacy of a pilot intervention, grounded in behavioural economics, increasing adherence of dual protection (simultaneous use of effective modern contraception and a barrier method, such as a condom) to protect against HIV, other sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy. Between 2015 and 2016, 100 women aged 18-40 years, seeking post-abortion care in Cape Town, South Afri…

  • Women's reproductive decision making and abortion experiences in Cape Town, South Africa

    Marie E Sullivan, Anna Harrison et al.ARTICLEHealth Care For Women International2017

    Unintended pregnancy is a significant public health issue in South Africa. Despite free services including contraception, women face structural and institutional barriers to accessing care. This qualitative study comprised interviews with 16 women aged 18 to 40 years and receiving post-abortion services at a public clinic in Cape Town. Data analysis revealed three main themes: personal journeys in seeking abortion, contraceptive experiences, and …

  • A stone that feels right in the hand

    Open AccessJohn HarriesARTICLEJournal of Material Culture2017Cited by: 14References: 51

    This article is a theoretical and ethnographic exploration of the possibility of 'touching the past'. Drawing on fieldwork from Newfoundland, Canada, and in conversation with Gell's Art and Agency (1998), it focuses on the process of abduction whereby, in their discovery and handling, pieces of stone become artefacts that index the presence of an absent other. It is argued that through this tactile process of becoming an artefactual index, the di…

  • Unfamiliar Edinburgh

    Open AccessStephen McConnachie, Koreen M Reece et al.ARTICLEThe Unfamiliar2016

    Unfamiliar Edinburgh: Being and Becoming in the City

  • Disarticulated Bones

    Open AccessJohn HarriesARTICLETechniques & culture2016References: 29

    Cet article porte sur les restes humains en tant que matières résiduelles : quelque chose qui persiste, laissé à l’abandon, en trop ou inadéquat aux besoins immédiats. Selon nous, ces ossements abandonnés, pratiques culturelles de l’Europe contemporaine, ont été désarticulés, dans le sens où les assemblages qu’ils articulaient et auxquels ils étaient articulés ont disparu. Ces os sont donc devenus « muets », non seulement désarticulés, mais aussi…

  • Squelettes désarticulés

    Open AccessJohn HarriesARTICLETechniques & culture2016

    Image d’ouverture Crâne © Joan Smith Cet article traite du projet intitulé The Bones Beneath the Face (« Les os sous le visage ») mené par un collectif d’artistes, d’anthropologues et d’archéologues de l’Université d’Edimbourg. Au cœur de ce projet, une chose abandonnée. Un « déchet ». Quelque chose dont on n’a plus besoin. Cette chose est un crâne humain trouvé dans les réserves du College of Art d’Edimbourg (ECA). L’objectif de notre projet a é…

  • Coming of age? Women's sexual and reproductive health after twentyone years of democracy in South Africa

    Diane Cooper, John Harries et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2016Cited by: 2References: 26

    This paper is a sequel to a 2004 article that reviewed South Africa's introduction of new sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and rights laws, policies and programmes, a decade into democracy. Similarly to the previous article, this paper focuses on key areas of women's SRH: contraception and fertility, abortion, maternal health, HIV, cervical and breast cancer and sexual violence. In the last decade, South Africa has retained and expanded its s…

  • Pregnant women's experiences of male partner involvement in the context of prevention of mother-to-child transmission in Khayelitsha, South Africa

    Kirsty Brittain, Janet Giddy et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2015

    Male partner involvement (MPI) has been identified as a priority intervention in programmes for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, but rates of MPI remain low worldwide. This study used a quantitative survey (n=170) and two focus group discussions (FGDs) with 16 HIV-positive pregnant women attending a public sector antenatal care service in Khayelitsha, South Africa, to examine the determinants of high levels of involv…

  • Africa on the Moon

    Open AccessJohn HarriesARTICLEDancecult2015References: 3

    This article attempts a detailed and specific analysis of the music and the mythology of Lee "Scratch" Perry and other key figures and works in dub, in relation to Afrofuturist thought and the music, theory and philosophy of Sun Ra in particular.It discovers at every turn multiple layers of complication, points of disjuncture as well as confluence, but argues that we can identify complicity and hybridity between these forms and their key protagon…

  • Assessment of completion of early medical abortion using a text questionnaire on mobile phones compared to a self-administered paper questionnaire among women attending four clinics, Cape Town, South …

    Deborah Constant, Katherine De Tolly et al.ARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2014Cited by: 2References: 18

    In-clinic follow-up to assess completion of medical abortion is no longer a requirement according to World Health Organization guidance, provided adequate counselling is given. However, timely recognition of ongoing pregnancy, complications or incomplete abortion, which require treatment, is important. As part of a larger trial, this study aimed to establish whether women having a medical abortion could self-assess whether their abortion was comp…

  • The vitality and efficacy of human substances

    Joost Fontein, John HarriesARTICLECritical African Studies2013Cited by: 19References: 25

    In recent years, there has been a proliferation of scholarly work devoted to the 'materialities of death' in Africa and beyond. Aligned with a burst of activity exploring the changing nature of dea

  • The Challenges of Offering Public Second Trimester Abortion Services in South Africa

    Open AccessJohn Harries, Naomi Lince-Deroche et al.ARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science2012

    Around 25% of abortions in South Africa are performed in the second trimester. This study aimed to better understand what doctors, nurses and hospital managers involved in second trimester abortion care thought about these services and how they could be improved. Nineteen in-depth interviews with abortion-related service providers and managers in the Western Cape Province, South Africa, were undertaken. Data were analysed using a thematic analysi…