Kathleen Rice
Biographic Data
| ID | 3581431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Rice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Rice |
| SIGNATURE | RICE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-6318-2912 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Experiences of remediation in family medicine postgraduate education
PURPOSE: Remediation programs in postgraduate medical education aim to help struggling residents successfully complete their training and graduate. Research has mostly focused on educators' and program directors' perspectives on the development and quality of remediation programs. However, little is known about the experience of being remediated. This investigation aimed to understand how practicing family physicians who underwent remediation dur…
Trapped in the labyrinth
This paper examines how systems of income support for Canadians living with chronic pain operate as forms of structural violence. Drawing on a secondary analysis of data from an institutional ethnographic study of chronic pain and marginalization, the paper traces the everyday “work” required to access and maintain Long-Term Disability and Workers’ Compensation benefits. Through analysis of 28 interviews with people who identified as both socioec…
Where state, market, and community meet
Lovestruck? Gender-based violence and the materiality of intimacy in the rural Eastern Cape
Drawing on an archive of approximately 300 ethnographic entries, as well as the author’s long-term fieldwork in the rural Eastern Cape, this article explores and theorises a connection between intimacy, materiality and gender-based violence (GBV) in the region. It takes up a current anthropological and Southern Africanist analytical interest in intimacy, exploring how violence can, within the region’s social, political, cultural and economic cont…
Post-pandemic transformations in omakoti’s (young wives’) attitudes towards unpaid labour at ceremonies in the rural Eastern Cape
In the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, ceremonies depend on the unpaid labour of young wives (omakoti). The expectation that omakoti will perform this work is connected to patriarchal and gerontocratic social norms. During the Covid-19 pandemic, ceremonies were banned temporarily. The impact that this had on omakoti’s unpaid labour was variable: those whose households adhered to lockdown policies enjoyed a respite from this work, while those wh…
Exploring uses of visual arts-based interventions for mental health of marginalized populations
BACKGROUND: The intentions of this scoping review are to determine current uses of visual arts-based interventions for mental health and trauma support of marginalized populations, and to identify current gaps in knowledge in this emergent field. METHOD: Six databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, PsycINFO, JSTOR) were searched for relevant studies. Following the PRISMA guidelines, 38 articles met the inclusion criteria. RESULTS: Most…
Knowing Otherwise”
The COVID-19 pandemic was a time of significant crisis for most Canadians. For those living with chronic pain, it was a disproportionately challenging time. There have been calls for researchers to address the experiences of chronic pain during the time of pandemic, including for those who also struggle with systemic and structural marginalization. The purpose of this study was to highlight the experiences of people living with chronic pain and p…
Not Without Judgment”
Sexual assault evidence kits (SAEKs) are forensic tools used in emergency departments to collect evidence of an assault from the survivor's body. We sought to determine the perceived barriers to providing sexual assault care in rural and Northwestern Ontario, as reflected through the perspectives of Northern healthcare providers. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with healthcare providers in Northwestern Ontario, and three the…
“We have to look deeper into why”
Eliminating gender inequality and promoting population health are stand-alone goals in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is crucial to understand goal setting and policy making processes aimed at promoting gender and health equality given the entrenched and structural natures of these inequalities. Our research examines the process of problem and solution representation, priority setting, and factors that shape the policymaking process…
Partner Exclusion from Childbirth During Covid-19 in Canada
We explore partner exclusion from perinatal care in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants' narratives show that pregnant couples frame partner presence as a [human] right that was denied, and articulated this as denial of the "right to experience" and the "right to care." These restrictions deprived birth partners and families of an experience that is important to them, and represent a repudiation of the resurgence of birth as a socia…
Gendering the Political Economy of Smallholder Agriculture
Gender plays a prominent role in shaping the practices and experiences of smallholding farming households. This scoping review seeks to chart and analyze how gender is used in the existing literature on the political economy of smallholder agriculture. The aim of this review is to first identify the extent to which gender is addressed as a unit of analysis in this body of literature, and second, to identify when and how gender is incorporated in …
Foregrounding women and household dynamics to inform Article 17
Women hold agency within tobacco-growing households and participate in decision-making processes regarding tobacco agriculture. Women should be included in future tobacco control policies and programmes pertaining to Article 17
Re-centering Relationships
Emerging evidence suggests that the COVD-19 pandemic is eroding childbirth rights. Drawing on narratives of women who gave birth in Canada during the pandemic, this article exposes a paradox in that policies aimed at limiting interpersonal contact implicitly acknowledge the connection between health, well-being, and the social context of people's lives, yet they frame this relationality as a liability to be eliminated. They do this despite the ma…
What does it mean to be a good neighbour
My neighbourhood, in Montreal, is an epicentre for the coronavirus epidemic in Canada It is also home to a high concentration of Hasidic Jews These facts are apparently connected, because so many Hasidic Montrealers recently returned from celebrating the holiday of Purim with Hasidic friends and family in New York, unknowingly bringing the virus with them This makes me uncomfortable, both because I fear for my health and that of my husband and ba…
A critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids
The social construction of the opioid epidemic polarizes individuals as good or bad with little attention paid to underlying institutional interests both in the creation of the problem or in the solutions that are proposed. We show that as concerns about harms from opioids become more pronounced, the narrative shifts to home in on illicit street-use with a corresponding uptake of stigmatizing references to so-called addicts. Concurrently, most re…
Working Women in Rural South Africa
In South Africa, economic liberalization and the technological innovations in the mining sector have altered employment opportunities for rural Xhosa. Young men struggle to find jobs as labor migrants, while some young women find work in villages. These women assume provider roles for their families that are reminiscent of longstanding normative masculine achievements. They also use their income to achieve relative independence. Although many hou…
The mismeasurement of complexity
Defining patient complexity as morbidity alone is inadequate; such models neglect syndromes and conditions that are not included in formal disease classifications. Chronic pain should be included among the chronic conditions that are considered to constitute multimorbidity. In order to provide effective patient-centered care, discussions of patient complexity must also attend to the complex social and economic circumstances in which many patients…
Gender and HIV in South Africa
In Gender and HIV in South Africa: Advancing Women’s Health and Capabilities, author Courtenay Sprague employs a health equity lens1 to explore Black South African women’s opportunities to be healt
Forbidden Fieldwork
This creative nonfiction essay is both a reflection about a complex intimate relationship that developed during doctoral fieldwork and a commentary on what anthropologists are socialized to compartmentalize, silence, and refuse for the sake of academic credibility. Grounded in the author's personal experience of having an affair in the field, it explains that pursing a course of action that the author was trained and socialized to eschew had the …
Understandingukuthwala
While marriage rates in South Africa are exceptionally low, ukuthwala ('abduction marriage,' or 'bride abduction') appears to be increasing in some rural communities despite declining rates of marriage overall. Moreover, contemporary abductions seem to be increasingly characterised by gendered violence. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a rural Xhosa village, in this article I link the growing incidence and escalating violence of …
Care interrupted
Internationally, rural people have poorer health outcomes relative to their urban counterparts, and primary care providers face particular challenges in rural and remote regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldnotes and 14 open-ended qualitative interviews with care providers and chronic pain patients in two remote resource communities in Northern Ontario, Canada, this article examines the challenges involved in providing and receiving primary care…
Rights and responsibilities in rural South Africa
In the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, contests over the meaning and merit of human rights feature prominently in intergenerational and intergendered conflicts. In this article I identify and analyse a tension betweenamalungelo(a socially embedded and relational form of rights) andirhayti(a Xhosaization of the English '[human] right') as a means of exploring the interpersonal tensions that arise through the production and contestation of the su…
Working on Holiday
Working holiday-maker programmes have facilitated a growing cohort of mobile young people who have an ambiguous status as both worker and tourist. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Canadian working holiday-makers in Scotland, this paper shows how working holiday-makers are situated in an ambiguous, contradictory position as working tourists, and are streamlined towards particular social and professional fields in which work-leisur…
A critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids
The social construction of the opioid epidemic polarizes individuals as good or bad with little attention paid to underlying institutional interests both in the creation of the problem or in the solutions that are proposed. We show that as concerns about harms from opioids become more pronounced, the narrative shifts to home in on illicit street-use with a corresponding uptake of stigmatizing references to so-called addicts. Concurrently, most re…
Working on Holiday
Working holiday-maker programmes have facilitated a growing cohort of mobile young people who have an ambiguous status as both worker and tourist. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Canadian working holiday-makers in Scotland, this paper shows how working holiday-makers are situated in an ambiguous, contradictory position as working tourists, and are streamlined towards particular social and professional fields in which work-leisur…
Rights and responsibilities in rural South Africa
In the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, contests over the meaning and merit of human rights feature prominently in intergenerational and intergendered conflicts. In this article I identify and analyse a tension betweenamalungelo(a socially embedded and relational form of rights) andirhayti(a Xhosaization of the English '[human] right') as a means of exploring the interpersonal tensions that arise through the production and contestation of the su…
Understandingukuthwala
While marriage rates in South Africa are exceptionally low, ukuthwala ('abduction marriage,' or 'bride abduction') appears to be increasing in some rural communities despite declining rates of marriage overall. Moreover, contemporary abductions seem to be increasingly characterised by gendered violence. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a rural Xhosa village, in this article I link the growing incidence and escalating violence of …
Re-centering Relationships
Emerging evidence suggests that the COVD-19 pandemic is eroding childbirth rights. Drawing on narratives of women who gave birth in Canada during the pandemic, this article exposes a paradox in that policies aimed at limiting interpersonal contact implicitly acknowledge the connection between health, well-being, and the social context of people's lives, yet they frame this relationality as a liability to be eliminated. They do this despite the ma…
Forbidden Fieldwork
This creative nonfiction essay is both a reflection about a complex intimate relationship that developed during doctoral fieldwork and a commentary on what anthropologists are socialized to compartmentalize, silence, and refuse for the sake of academic credibility. Grounded in the author's personal experience of having an affair in the field, it explains that pursing a course of action that the author was trained and socialized to eschew had the …
Care interrupted
Internationally, rural people have poorer health outcomes relative to their urban counterparts, and primary care providers face particular challenges in rural and remote regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldnotes and 14 open-ended qualitative interviews with care providers and chronic pain patients in two remote resource communities in Northern Ontario, Canada, this article examines the challenges involved in providing and receiving primary care…
Working Women in Rural South Africa
In South Africa, economic liberalization and the technological innovations in the mining sector have altered employment opportunities for rural Xhosa. Young men struggle to find jobs as labor migrants, while some young women find work in villages. These women assume provider roles for their families that are reminiscent of longstanding normative masculine achievements. They also use their income to achieve relative independence. Although many hou…
Working on Holiday
Working holiday-maker programmes have facilitated a growing cohort of mobile young people who have an ambiguous status as both worker and tourist. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted among Canadian working holiday-makers in Scotland, this paper shows how working holiday-makers are situated in an ambiguous, contradictory position as working tourists, and are streamlined towards particular social and professional fields in which work-leisur…
Care interrupted
Internationally, rural people have poorer health outcomes relative to their urban counterparts, and primary care providers face particular challenges in rural and remote regions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldnotes and 14 open-ended qualitative interviews with care providers and chronic pain patients in two remote resource communities in Northern Ontario, Canada, this article examines the challenges involved in providing and receiving primary care…
Rights and responsibilities in rural South Africa
In the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, contests over the meaning and merit of human rights feature prominently in intergenerational and intergendered conflicts. In this article I identify and analyse a tension betweenamalungelo(a socially embedded and relational form of rights) andirhayti(a Xhosaization of the English '[human] right') as a means of exploring the interpersonal tensions that arise through the production and contestation of the su…
Understandingukuthwala
While marriage rates in South Africa are exceptionally low, ukuthwala ('abduction marriage,' or 'bride abduction') appears to be increasing in some rural communities despite declining rates of marriage overall. Moreover, contemporary abductions seem to be increasingly characterised by gendered violence. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a rural Xhosa village, in this article I link the growing incidence and escalating violence of …
The mismeasurement of complexity
Defining patient complexity as morbidity alone is inadequate; such models neglect syndromes and conditions that are not included in formal disease classifications. Chronic pain should be included among the chronic conditions that are considered to constitute multimorbidity. In order to provide effective patient-centered care, discussions of patient complexity must also attend to the complex social and economic circumstances in which many patients…
Gender and HIV in South Africa
In Gender and HIV in South Africa: Advancing Women’s Health and Capabilities, author Courtenay Sprague employs a health equity lens1 to explore Black South African women’s opportunities to be healt
Forbidden Fieldwork
This creative nonfiction essay is both a reflection about a complex intimate relationship that developed during doctoral fieldwork and a commentary on what anthropologists are socialized to compartmentalize, silence, and refuse for the sake of academic credibility. Grounded in the author's personal experience of having an affair in the field, it explains that pursing a course of action that the author was trained and socialized to eschew had the …
What does it mean to be a good neighbour
My neighbourhood, in Montreal, is an epicentre for the coronavirus epidemic in Canada It is also home to a high concentration of Hasidic Jews These facts are apparently connected, because so many Hasidic Montrealers recently returned from celebrating the holiday of Purim with Hasidic friends and family in New York, unknowingly bringing the virus with them This makes me uncomfortable, both because I fear for my health and that of my husband and ba…
A critical content analysis of media reporting on opioids
The social construction of the opioid epidemic polarizes individuals as good or bad with little attention paid to underlying institutional interests both in the creation of the problem or in the solutions that are proposed. We show that as concerns about harms from opioids become more pronounced, the narrative shifts to home in on illicit street-use with a corresponding uptake of stigmatizing references to so-called addicts. Concurrently, most re…
Working Women in Rural South Africa
In South Africa, economic liberalization and the technological innovations in the mining sector have altered employment opportunities for rural Xhosa. Young men struggle to find jobs as labor migrants, while some young women find work in villages. These women assume provider roles for their families that are reminiscent of longstanding normative masculine achievements. They also use their income to achieve relative independence. Although many hou…
Gendering the Political Economy of Smallholder Agriculture
Gender plays a prominent role in shaping the practices and experiences of smallholding farming households. This scoping review seeks to chart and analyze how gender is used in the existing literature on the political economy of smallholder agriculture. The aim of this review is to first identify the extent to which gender is addressed as a unit of analysis in this body of literature, and second, to identify when and how gender is incorporated in …
Foregrounding women and household dynamics to inform Article 17
Women hold agency within tobacco-growing households and participate in decision-making processes regarding tobacco agriculture. Women should be included in future tobacco control policies and programmes pertaining to Article 17
Re-centering Relationships
Emerging evidence suggests that the COVD-19 pandemic is eroding childbirth rights. Drawing on narratives of women who gave birth in Canada during the pandemic, this article exposes a paradox in that policies aimed at limiting interpersonal contact implicitly acknowledge the connection between health, well-being, and the social context of people's lives, yet they frame this relationality as a liability to be eliminated. They do this despite the ma…
“We have to look deeper into why”
Eliminating gender inequality and promoting population health are stand-alone goals in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is crucial to understand goal setting and policy making processes aimed at promoting gender and health equality given the entrenched and structural natures of these inequalities. Our research examines the process of problem and solution representation, priority setting, and factors that shape the policymaking process…
Partner Exclusion from Childbirth During Covid-19 in Canada
We explore partner exclusion from perinatal care in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants' narratives show that pregnant couples frame partner presence as a [human] right that was denied, and articulated this as denial of the "right to experience" and the "right to care." These restrictions deprived birth partners and families of an experience that is important to them, and represent a repudiation of the resurgence of birth as a socia…
Not Without Judgment”
Sexual assault evidence kits (SAEKs) are forensic tools used in emergency departments to collect evidence of an assault from the survivor's body. We sought to determine the perceived barriers to providing sexual assault care in rural and Northwestern Ontario, as reflected through the perspectives of Northern healthcare providers. Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with healthcare providers in Northwestern Ontario, and three the…
Experiences of remediation in family medicine postgraduate education
PURPOSE: Remediation programs in postgraduate medical education aim to help struggling residents successfully complete their training and graduate. Research has mostly focused on educators' and program directors' perspectives on the development and quality of remediation programs. However, little is known about the experience of being remediated. This investigation aimed to understand how practicing family physicians who underwent remediation dur…
Trapped in the labyrinth
This paper examines how systems of income support for Canadians living with chronic pain operate as forms of structural violence. Drawing on a secondary analysis of data from an institutional ethnographic study of chronic pain and marginalization, the paper traces the everyday “work” required to access and maintain Long-Term Disability and Workers’ Compensation benefits. Through analysis of 28 interviews with people who identified as both socioec…
Where state, market, and community meet
Lovestruck? Gender-based violence and the materiality of intimacy in the rural Eastern Cape
Drawing on an archive of approximately 300 ethnographic entries, as well as the author’s long-term fieldwork in the rural Eastern Cape, this article explores and theorises a connection between intimacy, materiality and gender-based violence (GBV) in the region. It takes up a current anthropological and Southern Africanist analytical interest in intimacy, exploring how violence can, within the region’s social, political, cultural and economic cont…
Post-pandemic transformations in omakoti’s (young wives’) attitudes towards unpaid labour at ceremonies in the rural Eastern Cape
In the rural Eastern Cape, South Africa, ceremonies depend on the unpaid labour of young wives (omakoti). The expectation that omakoti will perform this work is connected to patriarchal and gerontocratic social norms. During the Covid-19 pandemic, ceremonies were banned temporarily. The impact that this had on omakoti’s unpaid labour was variable: those whose households adhered to lockdown policies enjoyed a respite from this work, while those wh…
Exploring uses of visual arts-based interventions for mental health of marginalized populations
BACKGROUND: The intentions of this scoping review are to determine current uses of visual arts-based interventions for mental health and trauma support of marginalized populations, and to identify current gaps in knowledge in this emergent field. METHOD: Six databases (MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Web of Science, PsycINFO, JSTOR) were searched for relevant studies. Following the PRISMA guidelines, 38 articles met the inclusion criteria. RESULTS: Most…
Knowing Otherwise”
The COVID-19 pandemic was a time of significant crisis for most Canadians. For those living with chronic pain, it was a disproportionately challenging time. There have been calls for researchers to address the experiences of chronic pain during the time of pandemic, including for those who also struggle with systemic and structural marginalization. The purpose of this study was to highlight the experiences of people living with chronic pain and p…
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