Janina Kehr
Biographic Data
| ID | 157427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janina Kehr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janina |
| FAMILY NAME | Kehr |
| SIGNATURE | KEHR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6461-5256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hospitals Otherwise
This article revisits hospitals as spaces and places of biomedicine, ethnographic fieldwork, and anthropological thinking. We argue that hospitals and technoscientific biomedicine, in their globalized, capitalized, and financialized forms, simultaneously reproduce and aim to alleviate unequal entitlements to life that are infused by violent and emancipatory histories. Anthropological scholarship on hospitals evolved from a preoccupation with the …
Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare
In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers successive aspirations towards 'health for all': their pasts, their futures, and their diverse meanings and iterations. Across the world, hopes for providing 'health for all' were central to nation building in the long 20th century, and for international relations, particularly after the second world war and the establishment of the WHO. Health became seen…
The moral economy of universal public healthcare. On healthcare activism in austerity Spain
Spain has a national health service, universal in access and free at the point of use. The global economic crisis of 2008, with its subsequent austerity policies, has put the universality of public healthcare at risk. This has led to an increase in healthcare activism, whose aim is to fight healthcare cuts and privatization to safeguard the national health service for all. This article addresses such healthcare activism. Drawing on long-term fiel…
Valuation Struggles: Rethinking the Economy in Times of Crisis
For a more-than-human public health
The "more-than-human" has become an indispensable perspective in science and technology studies and in the social study of the life sciences more widely. In general, the more-than-human indicates that being, doing, living and relating is shaped not only by human but also by non-human worlds, materials and entities-be they animals, technologies, microbes or elements. This perspective takes multiple forms. Some scholars are influenced by studies on…
Se plaindre des soins dans l'Espagne de l'austérité
Soigner par temps d'austérité... Partant de son enquête sur les mobilisations et pratiques alternatives qui ont émergé depuis 2012 en Espagne à la suite de la crise économique et de la mise en œuvre des politiques d'austérité, Janina Kehr discute deux registres de réponse : celui de la Marea Blanca, qui ancre sa défense d'un système de santé publique dans des actions régionales et nationales hautement symboliques, la lutte contre les privatisatio…
L’hôpital
Qu’est-ce qu’un hôpital ? A cette question très simple, il n’est pas aisé de répondre. Et pourtant, rares sont les lieux qui sont investis d’autant de projections et de fantasmes dans notre imaginaire collectif (Bonah & Filliquet, 2016). L’hôpital est un échelon structurant de l'organisation des systèmes de santé, un lieu où se pratique la médecine et où de multiples professions médicales et non-médicales travaillent ensemble. Cette institution s…
Colonial Hauntings: Migrant Care in a French Hospital
In France, the treatment of migrant patients is haunted, but not overdetermined, by colonial practices of cultural essentialism and othering. Taking tuberculosis care in a public hospital as an example, I show how colonial hauntings surface in racialized patient-physician encounters and diagnostic practices. Colonial hauntings exist on two levels of awareness: on the level of the articulated, where physicians critique contemporary and historical …
Exotic no more’: Tuberculosis, public debt and global health in Berlin
Geographical divisions between North and South are coming increasingly undone in the field of global health. Settings in the global North, such as Berlin, are becoming linked up to those in the global South in manifold ways. In this article, I show through discourse analysis and ethnographic research how tuberculosis and its meanings have been transfigured in Western Europe through the worldwide circulation of the disease and its definition as a …
The Precariousness of Public Health: On Tuberculosis Control in Contemporary France
Through an ethnographic exploration of tuberculosis control in one of France's poorest regions, Seine-Saint-Denis, I interrogate the relationships between public health planning and interventions in conditions of multiple precarity. I show that the encounter between the feasible and the fantastic in the realm of public health generates feelings of absurdity and futility among medical professionals, characteristic of disease control in the precari…
Leiden: Ein Gespräch zur Moral Anthropology
Double trouble
Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection came to figure as one of the major global health problems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with multiple attempts to tackle this intricate issue on epidemiological, clinical, and public health levels. In this article, we propose thinking beyond the practical problems caused by co-infections in order to explore medicine's epistemological attachment to the idea of single diseases, using TB/HIV as an an…
The moral neoliberal. Welfare and citizenship in Italy , by Muehlebach, Andrea: Reviews
Une maladie sans avenir. Anthropologie de la tuberculose en France et en Allemagne: Sous la direction de Didier Fassin et de Stefan Beck. Thèse d’anthropologie soutenue dans le cadre d’une cotutelle e…
La tuberculose a cessé d’être un fléau il y a un demi-siècle en France comme en Allemagne. « Vaincue » par le double progrès social et médical dans les années 1950 et 1960, cette maladie infectieuse est aujourd’hui une préoccupation marginale du pouvoir politique et des institutions de santé publique dans les deux pays – contrastant ainsi avec la situation à l’échelle mondiale, où elle constitue depuis deux décennies un nouveau défi médical et sa…
Le « Réseau des Jeunes Chercheurs Santé et Société »: Un acteur des sciences sociales de la santé
Créé en 2003, le Réseau des Jeunes Chercheurs Santé et Société réunit aujourd’hui plus de 200 chercheurs en sciences sociales de la santé, majoritairement doctorant-e-s mais aussi post-doctorant-e-s et étudiant-e-s en master. Après huit ans d’existence, il attire toujours plus de membres, multiplie ses activités et renforce son inscription institutionnelle. On tentera, à partir d’un point de vue non distancié (les auteur-e-s sont particulièrement…
Réaliser un doctorat en sciences sociales de la santé: Financements, Pratiques De Recherche Et Enjeux De Professionnalisation
Introduction Quel doctorant en sciences sociales ne se pose pas de questions sur son avenir professionnel ? Dans un contexte de forte incertitude quant aux débouchés dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche, de nombreux jeunes chercheurs en France font preuve d’une certaine désillusion au sujet du parcours professionnel post-thèse. De nombreux débats, publications et mouvements de protestation l’ont récemment mis en évidence. Pourtant, dans …
Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: Screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that declined significantly throughout the 20th century. Large-scale TB screening of entire populations in France and Germany has thus been replaced by active screening of risk-groups, particularly migrants. The article engages with its problems and practices on three levels: by looking at the way information on migrants as an at-risk group is produced through disease surveillance data; by analysing how …
Leben in Gesellschaft: Biomedizin - Politik - Sozialwissenschaften
Beständig rückt der Begriff des »Lebens« weiter ins Zentrum sozialanthropologischer und soziologischer Analysen: das ›nackte Leben‹ des »homo sacer«, das biologische Leben der Lebenswissenschaften, das biographische und politische Über-Leben der Philosophie und Literaturkritik, das Leben-an-sich geformt durch Macht-Wissen oder das Leben-als-solches als das konkret gelebte Leben von Geburt bis Tod. Der Band basiert auf einer deutsch-französischen …
The moral economy of universal public healthcare. On healthcare activism in austerity Spain
Spain has a national health service, universal in access and free at the point of use. The global economic crisis of 2008, with its subsequent austerity policies, has put the universality of public healthcare at risk. This has led to an increase in healthcare activism, whose aim is to fight healthcare cuts and privatization to safeguard the national health service for all. This article addresses such healthcare activism. Drawing on long-term fiel…
Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare
In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers successive aspirations towards 'health for all': their pasts, their futures, and their diverse meanings and iterations. Across the world, hopes for providing 'health for all' were central to nation building in the long 20th century, and for international relations, particularly after the second world war and the establishment of the WHO. Health became seen…
The Precariousness of Public Health: On Tuberculosis Control in Contemporary France
Through an ethnographic exploration of tuberculosis control in one of France's poorest regions, Seine-Saint-Denis, I interrogate the relationships between public health planning and interventions in conditions of multiple precarity. I show that the encounter between the feasible and the fantastic in the realm of public health generates feelings of absurdity and futility among medical professionals, characteristic of disease control in the precari…
Réaliser un doctorat en sciences sociales de la santé: Financements, Pratiques De Recherche Et Enjeux De Professionnalisation
Introduction Quel doctorant en sciences sociales ne se pose pas de questions sur son avenir professionnel ? Dans un contexte de forte incertitude quant aux débouchés dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche, de nombreux jeunes chercheurs en France font preuve d’une certaine désillusion au sujet du parcours professionnel post-thèse. De nombreux débats, publications et mouvements de protestation l’ont récemment mis en évidence. Pourtant, dans …
Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: Screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that declined significantly throughout the 20th century. Large-scale TB screening of entire populations in France and Germany has thus been replaced by active screening of risk-groups, particularly migrants. The article engages with its problems and practices on three levels: by looking at the way information on migrants as an at-risk group is produced through disease surveillance data; by analysing how …
Se plaindre des soins dans l'Espagne de l'austérité
Soigner par temps d'austérité... Partant de son enquête sur les mobilisations et pratiques alternatives qui ont émergé depuis 2012 en Espagne à la suite de la crise économique et de la mise en œuvre des politiques d'austérité, Janina Kehr discute deux registres de réponse : celui de la Marea Blanca, qui ancre sa défense d'un système de santé publique dans des actions régionales et nationales hautement symboliques, la lutte contre les privatisatio…
Colonial Hauntings: Migrant Care in a French Hospital
In France, the treatment of migrant patients is haunted, but not overdetermined, by colonial practices of cultural essentialism and othering. Taking tuberculosis care in a public hospital as an example, I show how colonial hauntings surface in racialized patient-physician encounters and diagnostic practices. Colonial hauntings exist on two levels of awareness: on the level of the articulated, where physicians critique contemporary and historical …
Double trouble
Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection came to figure as one of the major global health problems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with multiple attempts to tackle this intricate issue on epidemiological, clinical, and public health levels. In this article, we propose thinking beyond the practical problems caused by co-infections in order to explore medicine's epistemological attachment to the idea of single diseases, using TB/HIV as an an…
Leben in Gesellschaft: Biomedizin - Politik - Sozialwissenschaften
Beständig rückt der Begriff des »Lebens« weiter ins Zentrum sozialanthropologischer und soziologischer Analysen: das ›nackte Leben‹ des »homo sacer«, das biologische Leben der Lebenswissenschaften, das biographische und politische Über-Leben der Philosophie und Literaturkritik, das Leben-an-sich geformt durch Macht-Wissen oder das Leben-als-solches als das konkret gelebte Leben von Geburt bis Tod. Der Band basiert auf einer deutsch-französischen …
Le « Réseau des Jeunes Chercheurs Santé et Société »: Un acteur des sciences sociales de la santé
Créé en 2003, le Réseau des Jeunes Chercheurs Santé et Société réunit aujourd’hui plus de 200 chercheurs en sciences sociales de la santé, majoritairement doctorant-e-s mais aussi post-doctorant-e-s et étudiant-e-s en master. Après huit ans d’existence, il attire toujours plus de membres, multiplie ses activités et renforce son inscription institutionnelle. On tentera, à partir d’un point de vue non distancié (les auteur-e-s sont particulièrement…
Réaliser un doctorat en sciences sociales de la santé: Financements, Pratiques De Recherche Et Enjeux De Professionnalisation
Introduction Quel doctorant en sciences sociales ne se pose pas de questions sur son avenir professionnel ? Dans un contexte de forte incertitude quant aux débouchés dans l’enseignement supérieur et la recherche, de nombreux jeunes chercheurs en France font preuve d’une certaine désillusion au sujet du parcours professionnel post-thèse. De nombreux débats, publications et mouvements de protestation l’ont récemment mis en évidence. Pourtant, dans …
Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: Screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany
Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that declined significantly throughout the 20th century. Large-scale TB screening of entire populations in France and Germany has thus been replaced by active screening of risk-groups, particularly migrants. The article engages with its problems and practices on three levels: by looking at the way information on migrants as an at-risk group is produced through disease surveillance data; by analysing how …
The moral neoliberal. Welfare and citizenship in Italy , by Muehlebach, Andrea: Reviews
Une maladie sans avenir. Anthropologie de la tuberculose en France et en Allemagne: Sous la direction de Didier Fassin et de Stefan Beck. Thèse d’anthropologie soutenue dans le cadre d’une cotutelle e…
La tuberculose a cessé d’être un fléau il y a un demi-siècle en France comme en Allemagne. « Vaincue » par le double progrès social et médical dans les années 1950 et 1960, cette maladie infectieuse est aujourd’hui une préoccupation marginale du pouvoir politique et des institutions de santé publique dans les deux pays – contrastant ainsi avec la situation à l’échelle mondiale, où elle constitue depuis deux décennies un nouveau défi médical et sa…
Leiden: Ein Gespräch zur Moral Anthropology
Double trouble
Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection came to figure as one of the major global health problems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with multiple attempts to tackle this intricate issue on epidemiological, clinical, and public health levels. In this article, we propose thinking beyond the practical problems caused by co-infections in order to explore medicine's epistemological attachment to the idea of single diseases, using TB/HIV as an an…
The Precariousness of Public Health: On Tuberculosis Control in Contemporary France
Through an ethnographic exploration of tuberculosis control in one of France's poorest regions, Seine-Saint-Denis, I interrogate the relationships between public health planning and interventions in conditions of multiple precarity. I show that the encounter between the feasible and the fantastic in the realm of public health generates feelings of absurdity and futility among medical professionals, characteristic of disease control in the precari…
Exotic no more’: Tuberculosis, public debt and global health in Berlin
Geographical divisions between North and South are coming increasingly undone in the field of global health. Settings in the global North, such as Berlin, are becoming linked up to those in the global South in manifold ways. In this article, I show through discourse analysis and ethnographic research how tuberculosis and its meanings have been transfigured in Western Europe through the worldwide circulation of the disease and its definition as a …
L’hôpital
Qu’est-ce qu’un hôpital ? A cette question très simple, il n’est pas aisé de répondre. Et pourtant, rares sont les lieux qui sont investis d’autant de projections et de fantasmes dans notre imaginaire collectif (Bonah & Filliquet, 2016). L’hôpital est un échelon structurant de l'organisation des systèmes de santé, un lieu où se pratique la médecine et où de multiples professions médicales et non-médicales travaillent ensemble. Cette institution s…
Colonial Hauntings: Migrant Care in a French Hospital
In France, the treatment of migrant patients is haunted, but not overdetermined, by colonial practices of cultural essentialism and othering. Taking tuberculosis care in a public hospital as an example, I show how colonial hauntings surface in racialized patient-physician encounters and diagnostic practices. Colonial hauntings exist on two levels of awareness: on the level of the articulated, where physicians critique contemporary and historical …
Se plaindre des soins dans l'Espagne de l'austérité
Soigner par temps d'austérité... Partant de son enquête sur les mobilisations et pratiques alternatives qui ont émergé depuis 2012 en Espagne à la suite de la crise économique et de la mise en œuvre des politiques d'austérité, Janina Kehr discute deux registres de réponse : celui de la Marea Blanca, qui ancre sa défense d'un système de santé publique dans des actions régionales et nationales hautement symboliques, la lutte contre les privatisatio…
Valuation Struggles: Rethinking the Economy in Times of Crisis
For a more-than-human public health
The "more-than-human" has become an indispensable perspective in science and technology studies and in the social study of the life sciences more widely. In general, the more-than-human indicates that being, doing, living and relating is shaped not only by human but also by non-human worlds, materials and entities-be they animals, technologies, microbes or elements. This perspective takes multiple forms. Some scholars are influenced by studies on…
Health for all? Pasts, presents and futures of aspirations for universal healthcare
In this special issue, we bring together anthropological and historical work that considers successive aspirations towards 'health for all': their pasts, their futures, and their diverse meanings and iterations. Across the world, hopes for providing 'health for all' were central to nation building in the long 20th century, and for international relations, particularly after the second world war and the establishment of the WHO. Health became seen…
The moral economy of universal public healthcare. On healthcare activism in austerity Spain
Spain has a national health service, universal in access and free at the point of use. The global economic crisis of 2008, with its subsequent austerity policies, has put the universality of public healthcare at risk. This has led to an increase in healthcare activism, whose aim is to fight healthcare cuts and privatization to safeguard the national health service for all. This article addresses such healthcare activism. Drawing on long-term fiel…
Hospitals Otherwise
This article revisits hospitals as spaces and places of biomedicine, ethnographic fieldwork, and anthropological thinking. We argue that hospitals and technoscientific biomedicine, in their globalized, capitalized, and financialized forms, simultaneously reproduce and aim to alleviate unequal entitlements to life that are infused by violent and emancipatory histories. Anthropological scholarship on hospitals evolved from a preoccupation with the …
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