Miriam Waltz
Biographic Data
| ID | 165035 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Waltz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Waltz |
| SIGNATURE | WALTZ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How it is grown doesn't matter, as long as it's on the table
Agricultural pesticides are widely considered to be a crucial aspect of increasing food production, particularly in developing countries - despite concerns around their potentially harmful toxic effects. Based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in 2019, the author explores how smallholder farmers in a rural community in western Kenya face new pest infestations introduced through global trade networks and exacerbated by climate change. In resp…
Milk, meaning, and morality
Donated human milk's status comes into question as it leaves the mother-child relationship and is reconfigured through practices and discursive structures that seek to stabilise it as a specific kind of object. Based on research conducted in Cape Town, South Africa, we examine the crucial role of technologies in aiding the milk's transformation as milk moves from donors' homes into the clinical setting where it is received by preterm, low-birth w…
Milk and management
Ideas about motherhood among middle-class women in South Africa recently seem to have shifted toward more “intensive mothering,” partly enabled by class privilege resulting from highly unequal labour relations. In this context breastfeeding and other mothering practices are approached as a “project” that can be managed through planning, measuring and the application of medical expertise. Tracing the breastfeeding experiences of highly educated, m…
How it is grown doesn't matter, as long as it's on the table
Agricultural pesticides are widely considered to be a crucial aspect of increasing food production, particularly in developing countries - despite concerns around their potentially harmful toxic effects. Based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in 2019, the author explores how smallholder farmers in a rural community in western Kenya face new pest infestations introduced through global trade networks and exacerbated by climate change. In resp…
Milk, meaning, and morality
Donated human milk's status comes into question as it leaves the mother-child relationship and is reconfigured through practices and discursive structures that seek to stabilise it as a specific kind of object. Based on research conducted in Cape Town, South Africa, we examine the crucial role of technologies in aiding the milk's transformation as milk moves from donors' homes into the clinical setting where it is received by preterm, low-birth w…
Milk and management
Ideas about motherhood among middle-class women in South Africa recently seem to have shifted toward more “intensive mothering,” partly enabled by class privilege resulting from highly unequal labour relations. In this context breastfeeding and other mothering practices are approached as a “project” that can be managed through planning, measuring and the application of medical expertise. Tracing the breastfeeding experiences of highly educated, m…
Milk and management
Ideas about motherhood among middle-class women in South Africa recently seem to have shifted toward more “intensive mothering,” partly enabled by class privilege resulting from highly unequal labour relations. In this context breastfeeding and other mothering practices are approached as a “project” that can be managed through planning, measuring and the application of medical expertise. Tracing the breastfeeding experiences of highly educated, m…
Milk, meaning, and morality
Donated human milk's status comes into question as it leaves the mother-child relationship and is reconfigured through practices and discursive structures that seek to stabilise it as a specific kind of object. Based on research conducted in Cape Town, South Africa, we examine the crucial role of technologies in aiding the milk's transformation as milk moves from donors' homes into the clinical setting where it is received by preterm, low-birth w…
How it is grown doesn't matter, as long as it's on the table
Agricultural pesticides are widely considered to be a crucial aspect of increasing food production, particularly in developing countries - despite concerns around their potentially harmful toxic effects. Based on 11 months of ethnographic fieldwork in 2019, the author explores how smallholder farmers in a rural community in western Kenya face new pest infestations introduced through global trade networks and exacerbated by climate change. In resp…
Breastfeeding Practices and Influences (2 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (1 work) · Artificial Intelligence (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Breastfeeding (1 work) · Class (philosophy (1 work)