Pamela Downe
Biographic Data
| ID | 3572969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pamela Downe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pamela |
| FAMILY NAME | Downe |
| SIGNATURE | DOWNE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5557-6758 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Moving Forward with Physical Activity
Negotiating What Constitutes Depression
Background Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements for medication communicate a distinct image of illness and have the potential to shape how we understand what constitutes illness.Analysis The purpose of this study was to explore discursive patterns in how women interact with the messages related to depression in DTC television advertisements for antidepressants. We conducted six focus groups of 1 to 2 hours, with 4 to 6 female participants per …
Feminist Anthropology Anew
Ongoing discussions about feminist anthropology as an active and relevant sub-discipline largely rely on historical comparisons that pit the political fervour of the past against what is deemed to be the less defined and increasingly disengaged feminist anthropology of today. In this paper, I argue that the prevailing tone of pessimism surrounding feminist anthropology should be met with a critical response that: (1) situates the current characte…
Feminist Anthropology Confronts Disengagement
Feminist ethnography was a hot topic at anthropology conferences in the 1980s and 1990s. As students, we remember meeting rooms so packed that people crowded in the doorways, straining to hear energetic debates over the negotiation of power, the embodiment of systemic and structural violence, the possibilities for combining scholarship and political activism, and issues of identity and difference – not least the dangers of imposing an ethnocentri…
Strategic Stories and Reflexive Interruptions
This article presents a narrative that emerged during research with 12 young women involved in cross-border sex work in the eastern Caribbean. This narrative draws on a locally specific historical reference and allows the young women to construct a notion of a "healthy home" amidst the uprootedness, frequent travel, and violence and risk that they face in their work. Drawing on Bruno Latour's constructivist notion of reflexivity, the framing of t…
The Everyday Occurrence
This article reports the results of qualitative interviews with 47 women involved in prostitution from three western Canadian provinces. More than two thirds of the women had become involved at age 15 or younger. The respondents described high rates of violence perpetrated against them. They reported considerable childhood sexual abuse, most often by a family member or by caretakers while they were living in foster care or group homes. The young …
The Everyday Occurrence
This article reports the results of qualitative interviews with 47 women involved in prostitution from three western Canadian provinces. More than two thirds of the women had become involved at age 15 or younger. The respondents described high rates of violence perpetrated against them. They reported considerable childhood sexual abuse, most often by a family member or by caretakers while they were living in foster care or group homes. The young …
On the Plaza
Playing with Names
Children have long been present in anthropologi cal research but rarely does their involvement receive the criti cal attention that is given to adult participants. This paper examines what is revealed about the construction of identities of self when the research-related play of two girls in quite dif ferent ethnographic contexts is examined. Drawing on research in Bridgetown, Barbados, and Saskatoon, Canada, it is argued that through the playful…
Laughing when it hurts
Constructing a complex of contagion
The Everyday Occurrence
This article reports the results of qualitative interviews with 47 women involved in prostitution from three western Canadian provinces. More than two thirds of the women had become involved at age 15 or younger. The respondents described high rates of violence perpetrated against them. They reported considerable childhood sexual abuse, most often by a family member or by caretakers while they were living in foster care or group homes. The young …
Laughing when it hurts
Constructing a complex of contagion
Playing with Names
Children have long been present in anthropologi cal research but rarely does their involvement receive the criti cal attention that is given to adult participants. This paper examines what is revealed about the construction of identities of self when the research-related play of two girls in quite dif ferent ethnographic contexts is examined. Drawing on research in Bridgetown, Barbados, and Saskatoon, Canada, it is argued that through the playful…
The Everyday Occurrence
This article reports the results of qualitative interviews with 47 women involved in prostitution from three western Canadian provinces. More than two thirds of the women had become involved at age 15 or younger. The respondents described high rates of violence perpetrated against them. They reported considerable childhood sexual abuse, most often by a family member or by caretakers while they were living in foster care or group homes. The young …
Strategic Stories and Reflexive Interruptions
This article presents a narrative that emerged during research with 12 young women involved in cross-border sex work in the eastern Caribbean. This narrative draws on a locally specific historical reference and allows the young women to construct a notion of a "healthy home" amidst the uprootedness, frequent travel, and violence and risk that they face in their work. Drawing on Bruno Latour's constructivist notion of reflexivity, the framing of t…
Constructing a complex of contagion
Laughing when it hurts
Playing with Names
Children have long been present in anthropologi cal research but rarely does their involvement receive the criti cal attention that is given to adult participants. This paper examines what is revealed about the construction of identities of self when the research-related play of two girls in quite dif ferent ethnographic contexts is examined. Drawing on research in Bridgetown, Barbados, and Saskatoon, Canada, it is argued that through the playful…
The Everyday Occurrence
This article reports the results of qualitative interviews with 47 women involved in prostitution from three western Canadian provinces. More than two thirds of the women had become involved at age 15 or younger. The respondents described high rates of violence perpetrated against them. They reported considerable childhood sexual abuse, most often by a family member or by caretakers while they were living in foster care or group homes. The young …
The Everyday Occurrence
This article reports the results of qualitative interviews with 47 women involved in prostitution from three western Canadian provinces. More than two thirds of the women had become involved at age 15 or younger. The respondents described high rates of violence perpetrated against them. They reported considerable childhood sexual abuse, most often by a family member or by caretakers while they were living in foster care or group homes. The young …
On the Plaza
Strategic Stories and Reflexive Interruptions
This article presents a narrative that emerged during research with 12 young women involved in cross-border sex work in the eastern Caribbean. This narrative draws on a locally specific historical reference and allows the young women to construct a notion of a "healthy home" amidst the uprootedness, frequent travel, and violence and risk that they face in their work. Drawing on Bruno Latour's constructivist notion of reflexivity, the framing of t…
Feminist Anthropology Anew
Ongoing discussions about feminist anthropology as an active and relevant sub-discipline largely rely on historical comparisons that pit the political fervour of the past against what is deemed to be the less defined and increasingly disengaged feminist anthropology of today. In this paper, I argue that the prevailing tone of pessimism surrounding feminist anthropology should be met with a critical response that: (1) situates the current characte…
Feminist Anthropology Confronts Disengagement
Feminist ethnography was a hot topic at anthropology conferences in the 1980s and 1990s. As students, we remember meeting rooms so packed that people crowded in the doorways, straining to hear energetic debates over the negotiation of power, the embodiment of systemic and structural violence, the possibilities for combining scholarship and political activism, and issues of identity and difference – not least the dangers of imposing an ethnocentri…
Negotiating What Constitutes Depression
Background Direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertisements for medication communicate a distinct image of illness and have the potential to shape how we understand what constitutes illness.Analysis The purpose of this study was to explore discursive patterns in how women interact with the messages related to depression in DTC television advertisements for antidepressants. We conducted six focus groups of 1 to 2 hours, with 4 to 6 female participants per …
Moving Forward with Physical Activity
Sociology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Sex work and related issues (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works)