R Fitzgerald
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 16203 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R Fitzgerald |
| PRENOMES | R |
| SOBRENOME | Fitzgerald |
| ASSINATURA | FITZGERALD R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6042-8581 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Hope
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a life-shortening genetic condition involving progressive muscular wasting for which there is no hope of recovery at present. The lives of people with DMD, cherished by their families, are systematically marginalised and undervalued by healthcare bureaucracies while enrolment in clinical trials of new treatments offers possibilities of longer-term biomedical solutions. How is hope preserved under such circumst…
Teaching reproduction, gender and sexuality
The teaching of reproduction, gender and sexuality at tertiary level is often compartmentalised, separating biological components from the political, socio-cultural, psychological and ethical perspectives that influence how knowledge is understood and utilised. In parallel, educators often have specialised knowledge and can struggle to address the broader questions outside their area of expertise. This is particularly true in an era of changing c…
We're All Watching Each Other’
Restrictions implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand changed the space and sociality of supermarkets significantly. Personal management strategies such as handwashing, social distancing, and the use of facemasks transformed the lived experience of supermarket workers, making them a part of the emergency infrastructure of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public health response. This small qualitative study uses interviews a…
Dialogical Sense-Making in the Digital Public Sphere
This article explores the contested public discourses of citizenship and care surrounding national media coverage of the news story of ‘Baby Leo’, a New Zealand baby born overseas in 2015. Baby Leo’s diagnosis of Down Syndrome soon after his birth, precipitated the mother’s alleged abandonment of the child, the expat New Zealand father then fundraising for the child’s (and his) rapid return to New Zealand via a virally successfully crowdfunding c…
Weiqu , structural injustice and caring for sick older people in rural Chinese families
This paper examines caregiving for sick older family members in the context of socio‐economic transformations in rural China, combining empirical investigation with normative inquiry. The empirical part of this paper is based on a case study, taken from fieldwork in a rural Chinese hospital, of a son who took care of his hospitalized mother. This empirical study highlighted family members’ weiqu (sense of unfairness)—a mental status from experien…
Colonial Bio-Politics andMedical Mission inNWFP
This paper examines the colonial project of social control of the Pashtun body as seen through Foucauldian framework of biopower. This paper initiates debate into colonial health politics of NWFP and explores the biopolitical logic as to how the Pasthun subjectivities as medicalizable objects were constituted within the colonial missionary medicine discourses.It examines the ontological consequences of such constructions. It further aims to explo…
Unworthy of Care and Treatment”
This paper examines the experiences of seeking healthcare for rural Chinese older people, a population who experiences the multiple threats of socio-economic deprivation, marginalization, and lack of access to medical care, yet have been relatively overlooked within the existing scholarly literature. Based on ethnographical data collected from six-month fieldwork conducted in a rural primary hospital in Southern China, this paper identifies a wid…
Psychometrics as moral labour
This ethnography-based research article explores the negotiation of well-being and subjectivity for youth workers in a Faith-Based Organisation (Canterbury Youth Services [CYS]) in Christchurch, New Zealand. We highlight the emergent significance of the Clifton StrengthsFinder psychometric assessment as a biopolitical mechanism, operating to actualise vocational identities and optimise ‘life and health’ of CYS leaders, in response to burnout and …
Excluding indigenous bioethical concerns when regulating frozen embryo storage
Care, Cosmopolitanism, and Anthropology
Cosmopolitanism speaks to pan-nationalist and pan-human experience. How can this be reconciled with the lived political economies of care across the formal and informal sectors? How do the critical and interpretive medical anthropological commitments to cultural critique and social justice articulate with cosmopolitanism? We examine these thematics through the contributions of Australian and New Zealand anthropologists. In both countries, paid an…
Fetal genetic difference and a cosmopolitan vernacular of the right to choose
Complete tooth loss as status passage
The aim of this article is to add to the literature on the sociology of oral health and dentistry by presenting the relevance of status passage to the study of complete tooth loss. The article reports on an analysis of data taken from participants residing in the Nelson region of New Zealand. In total the data include interviews from 20 participants, all of whom had their remaining natural teeth removed before 1960. In total, 12 women and eight m…
Some Contemporary Critical Cosmopolitanisms and Anthropology
This is a book review essay based on the following texts: Caraus, T., and C.A. Parvu. eds. 2014. Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent, Florence: Taylor and Francis, 304 pages ISBN 9781317645023 (hardback) ISBN 9781315761381 (ebook) Josephides, L., and A. Hall. eds. 2014. We The Cosmopolitans. Moral And Existential Conditions Of Being Human. Oxford: Berghahn Books 186 pages ISBN 9781782382768 (hardback) ISBN 9782782382775 (institutional ebo…
Peripheral Cosmopolitanisms, An Introduction
This special issue on the topic of Peripheral Cosmopolitanisms emerges from a recent international social anthropology conference co-sponsored through the great generosity of the Wenner Gren Foundation, the AAS, the ASAANZ, and the New Zealand Royal Society. The conference was held in November 2014 at the alpine resort town of Queenstown, New Zealand, and was designed with several aims in mind. These included an interest to engage New Zealand ant…
The Predicament of d/Deaf
In our research with d/Deaf people in five families in the North and South Islands of New Zealand, we found that some of the challenges that we as researchers faced in our encounters with participants and within our mixed hearing and d/Deaf research group paralleled broader issues for this community. We use the details of our field research processes to explore the conundrum of d/Deafness, which may or may not be a disability, and use this explor…
Efficient national surveillance for health-care-associated infections
Our results show that the current surveillance system as it is used in Scotland is not optimal in detecting novel pathogens when compared to a gold standard. However, efficiency gains are possible by better choice of sentinel hospitals, or by increasing the number of hospitals involved in surveillance. Similar studies could be used elsewhere to inform the design and implementation of efficient national, hospital-based surveillance systems that ac…
Dedication
Cyril will be very much missed by our Board, our secretary, layout editor, financial officer, copy editors and our authors.His persistent and careful scholarship enriched his editing and reviewing and our journal was a grateful recipient of these labours along with the many other academic groups, Boards
Choice, Rights, and Virtue
Using a Foucauldian biopower analytic, this article combines insights from several ethnographic research projects around the moral reasoning styles underpinning debates over selective reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We show that divergent or shared public, private, state, individual, and community moral reasoning styles become highly politicized truth discourses that have the potential to, and at times do, affect one another, m…
Parent peer advocacy, information and refusing disability discourses
Parent peer advocacy is a distinct type of empowering relationship practised in Parent to Parent New Zealand that shares experiential knowledge gained from raising a child with disability, chronic illness or special needs and draws on both partnership and participation ideals of support. This support organisation matches families with impairment, illness and genetic difference in light of issues they encounter as families with disability. In this…
Reproduction, ethics and heritable deafness
Three consenting South Island (New Zealand) families with experience of living with a heritable type of deafness undertook a series of open ended interviews to ascertain their own views on reproductive decision making and genetic testing. All the families had undergone genetic testing however their orientation to testing in general was cautiously negative. They did not regard deafness as a suitable reason for considering the termination of a preg…
Forty years in Aotearoa New Zealand
In this article we recount some of the memories, hopes and strategies of 22 older migrants who are ageing in their adopted country of Aotearoa New Zealand. Having arrived as young adults in the 20 years after World War II, most of the immigrants have lived on ‘foreign’ soil for twice as long as their brief sojourns of childhood and early adulthood in their country of origin. Arriving from a variety of backgrounds in 12 different countries, they c…
The Embodied Liminalities of Occupational Overuse Syndrome
Drawing on interviews with sufferers of OOS (occupational overuse syndrome) in Aoteraoa/New Zealand, this article explores the liminalities associated with OOS and the ways in which this liminality is embodied. While successful rehabilitation could lead back to employment, the respondents' fragility while living with OOS and its accompanying social stigma render such rehabilitation both literally and symbolically "out of reach." Their situations …
Occupational Overuse Syndrome
In this article we examine the moral ambiguities expressed by New Zealand health professionals regarding their clients and patients who have occupational overuse syndrome (OOS). Workers with OOS were described as being hard working and dedicated, but also undisciplined in their work and personal lives. The goal of rehabilitation in such cases is a return to full work duties and to this end, health professionals represent the disciplinary and norm…
Embodying occupational overuse syndrome
This article explores the ways in which embodiedness has become problematic for New Zealand sufferers of occupational overuse syndrome (OOS). While successful rehabilitation could lead back to employment, this was based on the biographical continuity of a bodily hexus that ignored persistent pain. The reality of OOS involved a liminal fragility associated with social isolation, loss of identities, pain and functional disability that was incorpora…
Postpartum Depression and the Chaos of Moral Parenting
This paper explores the shared and personal experiences of postpartum depression (PPD) for five families in the lower east South Island, New Zealand. Despite the idealized accounts of recovery and community reintegration following depressive episodes which mark New Zealand’s mental health awareness public campaigns, these families, whilst officially ‘recovered’, continue to live with the effects of PPD and moral uncertainty over their ability to …
The lived political economy of occupational overuse syndrome among New Zealand workers
In New Zealand, as in other industrialised nations, rates of work-related gradual onset injuries increased during the 1980s and 1990s. The perspectives and experiences of workers suffering what became known as occupational overuse injuries in New Zealand offer insights into local lived political economies. Here, we explore the dominant metaphor, 'battling', in participants' narratives. On the face of it, battles were fought over diagnoses, over o…
The New Zealand health reforms
Complete tooth loss as status passage
The aim of this article is to add to the literature on the sociology of oral health and dentistry by presenting the relevance of status passage to the study of complete tooth loss. The article reports on an analysis of data taken from participants residing in the Nelson region of New Zealand. In total the data include interviews from 20 participants, all of whom had their remaining natural teeth removed before 1960. In total, 12 women and eight m…
The Embodied Liminalities of Occupational Overuse Syndrome
Drawing on interviews with sufferers of OOS (occupational overuse syndrome) in Aoteraoa/New Zealand, this article explores the liminalities associated with OOS and the ways in which this liminality is embodied. While successful rehabilitation could lead back to employment, the respondents' fragility while living with OOS and its accompanying social stigma render such rehabilitation both literally and symbolically "out of reach." Their situations …
Embodying occupational overuse syndrome
This article explores the ways in which embodiedness has become problematic for New Zealand sufferers of occupational overuse syndrome (OOS). While successful rehabilitation could lead back to employment, this was based on the biographical continuity of a bodily hexus that ignored persistent pain. The reality of OOS involved a liminal fragility associated with social isolation, loss of identities, pain and functional disability that was incorpora…
Dialogical Sense-Making in the Digital Public Sphere
This article explores the contested public discourses of citizenship and care surrounding national media coverage of the news story of ‘Baby Leo’, a New Zealand baby born overseas in 2015. Baby Leo’s diagnosis of Down Syndrome soon after his birth, precipitated the mother’s alleged abandonment of the child, the expat New Zealand father then fundraising for the child’s (and his) rapid return to New Zealand via a virally successfully crowdfunding c…
Choice, Rights, and Virtue
Using a Foucauldian biopower analytic, this article combines insights from several ethnographic research projects around the moral reasoning styles underpinning debates over selective reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We show that divergent or shared public, private, state, individual, and community moral reasoning styles become highly politicized truth discourses that have the potential to, and at times do, affect one another, m…
Parent peer advocacy, information and refusing disability discourses
Parent peer advocacy is a distinct type of empowering relationship practised in Parent to Parent New Zealand that shares experiential knowledge gained from raising a child with disability, chronic illness or special needs and draws on both partnership and participation ideals of support. This support organisation matches families with impairment, illness and genetic difference in light of issues they encounter as families with disability. In this…
Occupational Overuse Syndrome
In this article we examine the moral ambiguities expressed by New Zealand health professionals regarding their clients and patients who have occupational overuse syndrome (OOS). Workers with OOS were described as being hard working and dedicated, but also undisciplined in their work and personal lives. The goal of rehabilitation in such cases is a return to full work duties and to this end, health professionals represent the disciplinary and norm…
Rural Nurse Specialists
Doctor flight from rural areas is an international phenomenon that places great pressure on primary health care delivery. In New Zealand, the response to these empty doctors' surgeries has been the introduction of nurse-led rural health clinics that have attracted controversy both in the media and from urban-based doctors over whether such nurse-led care is a direct substitution of medical care. This article analyzes the reflections of nurses wor…
Follow the fear
To understand and to investigate publicly voiced concerns over the consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) food from an anthropological perspective requires careful selection of an appropriate methodology. Given the complex nature of debates around GM, we use one specific event as our starting point - the New Zealand Royal Commission on GM. We have chosen a multi-sited ethnographic approach (Marcus, 1998) and used a bricolage technique to track …
Content Analysis of Bias in International Print Media Coverage of Genetically Modified Food
An interesting contrast exists about claims of media bias against Genetically Modified (GM)/ Genetically Engineered (GE) food. Industry groups and academic proponents of the technology like Thomas Hoban claim high levels of negative media bias. However, the actual results of preliminary media analysis of GM/GE food display the opposite – that early media coverage has generally been positive to the new technology. This paper uses content analysis …
Follow the fear
To understand and to investigate publicly voiced concerns over the consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) food from an anthropological perspective requires careful selection of an appropriate methodology. Given the complex nature of debates around GM, we use one specific event as our starting point - the New Zealand Royal Commission on GM. We have chosen a multi-sited ethnographic approach (Marcus, 1998) and used a bricolage technique to track …
The New Zealand health reforms
Inhabiting the Places and Non-Places of a Residential Home
This study is based on interviews with the residents of two aged care facilities in southern New Zealand which explored the residents' concept of home.Home proved to be an ambiguous and polysemous concept and was used by the residents in several different ways to refer to both their current and their past circumstances.Noticeable differences in the residents' perception of the 'homeliness' of each institution as well as in the general ethos of ea…
Negotiating Pku
This paper explores the experience for nine New Zealanders of living with Phenylketonuria (PKU). PKU is an inherited disorder of metabolism, detected by newborn screening and treated primarily through adherence to a strict and rather unpalatable diet which current medical opinion suggests should be lifelong. Our goal is to problematise this biomedical notion of 'adherence' to such a diet, and to do so by drawing on two areas of expert knowledge w…
Biological citizenship at the periphery
This paper engages critically with constructions of biological citizenship through analysis of the experiences of 10 New Zealand families with rare and currently incurable genetic disorders affiliated to the New Zealand Organisation for Rare Disorders (NZORD). While sharing elements in common with other health activist support groups (such as the forging of research collaborations between sufferers and scientists), NZORD activism is also influenc…
Rural Nurse Specialists
Doctor flight from rural areas is an international phenomenon that places great pressure on primary health care delivery. In New Zealand, the response to these empty doctors' surgeries has been the introduction of nurse-led rural health clinics that have attracted controversy both in the media and from urban-based doctors over whether such nurse-led care is a direct substitution of medical care. This article analyzes the reflections of nurses wor…
Postpartum Depression and the Chaos of Moral Parenting
This paper explores the shared and personal experiences of postpartum depression (PPD) for five families in the lower east South Island, New Zealand. Despite the idealized accounts of recovery and community reintegration following depressive episodes which mark New Zealand’s mental health awareness public campaigns, these families, whilst officially ‘recovered’, continue to live with the effects of PPD and moral uncertainty over their ability to …
The lived political economy of occupational overuse syndrome among New Zealand workers
In New Zealand, as in other industrialised nations, rates of work-related gradual onset injuries increased during the 1980s and 1990s. The perspectives and experiences of workers suffering what became known as occupational overuse injuries in New Zealand offer insights into local lived political economies. Here, we explore the dominant metaphor, 'battling', in participants' narratives. On the face of it, battles were fought over diagnoses, over o…
Occupational Overuse Syndrome
In this article we examine the moral ambiguities expressed by New Zealand health professionals regarding their clients and patients who have occupational overuse syndrome (OOS). Workers with OOS were described as being hard working and dedicated, but also undisciplined in their work and personal lives. The goal of rehabilitation in such cases is a return to full work duties and to this end, health professionals represent the disciplinary and norm…
Embodying occupational overuse syndrome
This article explores the ways in which embodiedness has become problematic for New Zealand sufferers of occupational overuse syndrome (OOS). While successful rehabilitation could lead back to employment, this was based on the biographical continuity of a bodily hexus that ignored persistent pain. The reality of OOS involved a liminal fragility associated with social isolation, loss of identities, pain and functional disability that was incorpora…
Forty years in Aotearoa New Zealand
In this article we recount some of the memories, hopes and strategies of 22 older migrants who are ageing in their adopted country of Aotearoa New Zealand. Having arrived as young adults in the 20 years after World War II, most of the immigrants have lived on ‘foreign’ soil for twice as long as their brief sojourns of childhood and early adulthood in their country of origin. Arriving from a variety of backgrounds in 12 different countries, they c…
The Embodied Liminalities of Occupational Overuse Syndrome
Drawing on interviews with sufferers of OOS (occupational overuse syndrome) in Aoteraoa/New Zealand, this article explores the liminalities associated with OOS and the ways in which this liminality is embodied. While successful rehabilitation could lead back to employment, the respondents' fragility while living with OOS and its accompanying social stigma render such rehabilitation both literally and symbolically "out of reach." Their situations …
Parent peer advocacy, information and refusing disability discourses
Parent peer advocacy is a distinct type of empowering relationship practised in Parent to Parent New Zealand that shares experiential knowledge gained from raising a child with disability, chronic illness or special needs and draws on both partnership and participation ideals of support. This support organisation matches families with impairment, illness and genetic difference in light of issues they encounter as families with disability. In this…
Reproduction, ethics and heritable deafness
Three consenting South Island (New Zealand) families with experience of living with a heritable type of deafness undertook a series of open ended interviews to ascertain their own views on reproductive decision making and genetic testing. All the families had undergone genetic testing however their orientation to testing in general was cautiously negative. They did not regard deafness as a suitable reason for considering the termination of a preg…
The Predicament of d/Deaf
In our research with d/Deaf people in five families in the North and South Islands of New Zealand, we found that some of the challenges that we as researchers faced in our encounters with participants and within our mixed hearing and d/Deaf research group paralleled broader issues for this community. We use the details of our field research processes to explore the conundrum of d/Deafness, which may or may not be a disability, and use this explor…
Efficient national surveillance for health-care-associated infections
Our results show that the current surveillance system as it is used in Scotland is not optimal in detecting novel pathogens when compared to a gold standard. However, efficiency gains are possible by better choice of sentinel hospitals, or by increasing the number of hospitals involved in surveillance. Similar studies could be used elsewhere to inform the design and implementation of efficient national, hospital-based surveillance systems that ac…
Dedication
Cyril will be very much missed by our Board, our secretary, layout editor, financial officer, copy editors and our authors.His persistent and careful scholarship enriched his editing and reviewing and our journal was a grateful recipient of these labours along with the many other academic groups, Boards
Choice, Rights, and Virtue
Using a Foucauldian biopower analytic, this article combines insights from several ethnographic research projects around the moral reasoning styles underpinning debates over selective reproductive technologies in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We show that divergent or shared public, private, state, individual, and community moral reasoning styles become highly politicized truth discourses that have the potential to, and at times do, affect one another, m…
Some Contemporary Critical Cosmopolitanisms and Anthropology
This is a book review essay based on the following texts: Caraus, T., and C.A. Parvu. eds. 2014. Cosmopolitanism and the Legacies of Dissent, Florence: Taylor and Francis, 304 pages ISBN 9781317645023 (hardback) ISBN 9781315761381 (ebook) Josephides, L., and A. Hall. eds. 2014. We The Cosmopolitans. Moral And Existential Conditions Of Being Human. Oxford: Berghahn Books 186 pages ISBN 9781782382768 (hardback) ISBN 9782782382775 (institutional ebo…
Peripheral Cosmopolitanisms, An Introduction
This special issue on the topic of Peripheral Cosmopolitanisms emerges from a recent international social anthropology conference co-sponsored through the great generosity of the Wenner Gren Foundation, the AAS, the ASAANZ, and the New Zealand Royal Society. The conference was held in November 2014 at the alpine resort town of Queenstown, New Zealand, and was designed with several aims in mind. These included an interest to engage New Zealand ant…
Fetal genetic difference and a cosmopolitan vernacular of the right to choose
Complete tooth loss as status passage
The aim of this article is to add to the literature on the sociology of oral health and dentistry by presenting the relevance of status passage to the study of complete tooth loss. The article reports on an analysis of data taken from participants residing in the Nelson region of New Zealand. In total the data include interviews from 20 participants, all of whom had their remaining natural teeth removed before 1960. In total, 12 women and eight m…
Care, Cosmopolitanism, and Anthropology
Cosmopolitanism speaks to pan-nationalist and pan-human experience. How can this be reconciled with the lived political economies of care across the formal and informal sectors? How do the critical and interpretive medical anthropological commitments to cultural critique and social justice articulate with cosmopolitanism? We examine these thematics through the contributions of Australian and New Zealand anthropologists. In both countries, paid an…
Psychometrics as moral labour
This ethnography-based research article explores the negotiation of well-being and subjectivity for youth workers in a Faith-Based Organisation (Canterbury Youth Services [CYS]) in Christchurch, New Zealand. We highlight the emergent significance of the Clifton StrengthsFinder psychometric assessment as a biopolitical mechanism, operating to actualise vocational identities and optimise ‘life and health’ of CYS leaders, in response to burnout and …
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