A Freidus
Biographic Data
| ID | 37513 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Freidus |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Freidus |
| SIGNATURE | FREIDUS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8896-0791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Neoliberalism and work-life balance among Covid-19 nurses
The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID-19 cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses rose as well. In response, many hospitals and healthcare workplaces instituted measures designed to help nurses maintain their "work-life balance." This concept, under scrutiny here, suggests that there exists a separation between the "wo…
University Student Food Insecurity as a Form of Structural Violence
Studies of college student food insecurity emphasize the personal characteristics of students and their individual health outcomes, reflecting trends in public health to encourage individual lifestyle changes. More recent work in public health diverges from this focus to encourage conceptualizing health issues not as individual failings but rather as failures of larger systems that are necessary to support health and well-being, implicating the a…
Why College Students Don't Access Resources for Food Insecurity: Stigma and Perceptions of Need
Attempts to understand college student food insecurity have primarily focused on demographic characteristics associated with higher rates of food insecurity, and have recommended improving awareness of and access to resources such as campus food pantries. We argue in this article that this emphasis on individual-level factors and efforts can lead to stigma or shame for many of those using pantries and other programs. Our survey and interview data…
Mobilizing affect in the search for self-transformation: A case study of volunteer transformation in orphanage tourism
Integrating Praxis Through the Research Process: Caregivers for Older Americans During the Covid-19 Pandemic
While applied anthropological research is sometimes envisioned as a linear process, we present an alternative view based on our research with frontline workers providing long-term care (LTC) for older adults during COVID-19. We completed a rapid qualitative assessment in central North Carolina from May to November 2020. We conducted data analysis as we continued to collect data and implemented activities and interventions along the way. We report…
More than Money: Barriers to Food Security on a College Campus
Studies have shown that many college students are experiencing food insecurity and that the reasons for this are multifactorial. Students are unable to acquire adequate food to meet their needs because of limited money, time, transportation, and other factors. However, food insecurity rates are almost always assessed by using the USDA’s food security survey module, which frames the barriers to food access as purely financial by relying entirely o…
A Rapid Qualitative Appraisal of the Impact of Covid-19 on Long-term Care Communities in the United States: Perspectives from Area Aging Staff and Advocates
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit residents and staff of congregate long-term care communities particularly hard. In North Carolina, the site of this research, over half of registered mortality has been associated with congregate living communities. This article reports on phase one of a rapid qualitative assessment of long-term care professionals and regional aging staff navigating care during this epidemic. Our purpose is twofold. We demonstrate bo…
It Spread Like a Wildfire: Analyzing Affect in the Narratives of Nursing Home Staff During a Covid-19 Outbreak
Malawi, Orphans, and the Search of Authenticity in Protestant Short-Term Missions
This article combines Victor Turner's ideas on pilgrimage and communitas with tourism imaginaries to explore how United States students volunteering in Protestant short-term mission trips (STMs) to an orphanage in Malawi articulate their experiences. We find that volunteers travel to Malawi to seek an encounter that brings them closer to their authentic and spiritual selves and create meaningful relationships with each other. This is most achieva…
Raising Malawi’s Children: Unanticipated Outcomes Associated with Institutionalised Care
Malawian orphans and vulnerable children are becoming increasingly numerous and visible in the media and materials produced by non‐governmental organisations. As a result, orphanages are proliferating to meet their needs. Drawing on data collected in three different orphanages, this paper reports some of the positive and negative outcomes of ‘institutionalising’ children in Malawi. Being designated an orphan is becoming a valued identity for some…
Saving” Malawi: Faithful Responses to Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Malawi is scrambling to deal with one million orphans while contending with state rollbacks resulting in economic, political, and social breakdowns. As a result, a new space is emerging for faith‐based organizations. Their presence is justified through a global discourse of connection rooted in the western ideology of childhood as a state of innocence and immaturity in need of protection and intervention. These organizations function with myriad …
The space between: Globalization, liminal spaces and personal relations in rural Costa Rica
Globalization facilitates the movement of people, goods, ideologies and even diseases across borders and into local communities. This article explores the liminal space created by tourism in the rural Costa Rican community of Monteverde as a site where the movement of people, especially Western women (women from the global North), intersects, contests and even reinforces existing heteropatriarchal ideologies. Theories from feminist geography and …
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica
Mobilizing affect in the search for self-transformation: A case study of volunteer transformation in orphanage tourism
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica
The space between: Globalization, liminal spaces and personal relations in rural Costa Rica
Globalization facilitates the movement of people, goods, ideologies and even diseases across borders and into local communities. This article explores the liminal space created by tourism in the rural Costa Rican community of Monteverde as a site where the movement of people, especially Western women (women from the global North), intersects, contests and even reinforces existing heteropatriarchal ideologies. Theories from feminist geography and …
Why College Students Don't Access Resources for Food Insecurity: Stigma and Perceptions of Need
Attempts to understand college student food insecurity have primarily focused on demographic characteristics associated with higher rates of food insecurity, and have recommended improving awareness of and access to resources such as campus food pantries. We argue in this article that this emphasis on individual-level factors and efforts can lead to stigma or shame for many of those using pantries and other programs. Our survey and interview data…
Integrating Praxis Through the Research Process: Caregivers for Older Americans During the Covid-19 Pandemic
While applied anthropological research is sometimes envisioned as a linear process, we present an alternative view based on our research with frontline workers providing long-term care (LTC) for older adults during COVID-19. We completed a rapid qualitative assessment in central North Carolina from May to November 2020. We conducted data analysis as we continued to collect data and implemented activities and interventions along the way. We report…
Neoliberalism and work-life balance among Covid-19 nurses
The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID-19 cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses rose as well. In response, many hospitals and healthcare workplaces instituted measures designed to help nurses maintain their "work-life balance." This concept, under scrutiny here, suggests that there exists a separation between the "wo…
It Spread Like a Wildfire: Analyzing Affect in the Narratives of Nursing Home Staff During a Covid-19 Outbreak
Saving” Malawi: Faithful Responses to Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Malawi is scrambling to deal with one million orphans while contending with state rollbacks resulting in economic, political, and social breakdowns. As a result, a new space is emerging for faith‐based organizations. Their presence is justified through a global discourse of connection rooted in the western ideology of childhood as a state of innocence and immaturity in need of protection and intervention. These organizations function with myriad …
The space between: Globalization, liminal spaces and personal relations in rural Costa Rica
Globalization facilitates the movement of people, goods, ideologies and even diseases across borders and into local communities. This article explores the liminal space created by tourism in the rural Costa Rican community of Monteverde as a site where the movement of people, especially Western women (women from the global North), intersects, contests and even reinforces existing heteropatriarchal ideologies. Theories from feminist geography and …
Female Tourists, Casual Sex, and HIV Risk in Costa Rica
Raising Malawi’s Children: Unanticipated Outcomes Associated with Institutionalised Care
Malawian orphans and vulnerable children are becoming increasingly numerous and visible in the media and materials produced by non‐governmental organisations. As a result, orphanages are proliferating to meet their needs. Drawing on data collected in three different orphanages, this paper reports some of the positive and negative outcomes of ‘institutionalising’ children in Malawi. Being designated an orphan is becoming a valued identity for some…
Saving” Malawi: Faithful Responses to Orphans and Vulnerable Children
Malawi is scrambling to deal with one million orphans while contending with state rollbacks resulting in economic, political, and social breakdowns. As a result, a new space is emerging for faith‐based organizations. Their presence is justified through a global discourse of connection rooted in the western ideology of childhood as a state of innocence and immaturity in need of protection and intervention. These organizations function with myriad …
Malawi, Orphans, and the Search of Authenticity in Protestant Short-Term Missions
This article combines Victor Turner's ideas on pilgrimage and communitas with tourism imaginaries to explore how United States students volunteering in Protestant short-term mission trips (STMs) to an orphanage in Malawi articulate their experiences. We find that volunteers travel to Malawi to seek an encounter that brings them closer to their authentic and spiritual selves and create meaningful relationships with each other. This is most achieva…
More than Money: Barriers to Food Security on a College Campus
Studies have shown that many college students are experiencing food insecurity and that the reasons for this are multifactorial. Students are unable to acquire adequate food to meet their needs because of limited money, time, transportation, and other factors. However, food insecurity rates are almost always assessed by using the USDA’s food security survey module, which frames the barriers to food access as purely financial by relying entirely o…
A Rapid Qualitative Appraisal of the Impact of Covid-19 on Long-term Care Communities in the United States: Perspectives from Area Aging Staff and Advocates
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit residents and staff of congregate long-term care communities particularly hard. In North Carolina, the site of this research, over half of registered mortality has been associated with congregate living communities. This article reports on phase one of a rapid qualitative assessment of long-term care professionals and regional aging staff navigating care during this epidemic. Our purpose is twofold. We demonstrate bo…
It Spread Like a Wildfire: Analyzing Affect in the Narratives of Nursing Home Staff During a Covid-19 Outbreak
Mobilizing affect in the search for self-transformation: A case study of volunteer transformation in orphanage tourism
Integrating Praxis Through the Research Process: Caregivers for Older Americans During the Covid-19 Pandemic
While applied anthropological research is sometimes envisioned as a linear process, we present an alternative view based on our research with frontline workers providing long-term care (LTC) for older adults during COVID-19. We completed a rapid qualitative assessment in central North Carolina from May to November 2020. We conducted data analysis as we continued to collect data and implemented activities and interventions along the way. We report…
Why College Students Don't Access Resources for Food Insecurity: Stigma and Perceptions of Need
Attempts to understand college student food insecurity have primarily focused on demographic characteristics associated with higher rates of food insecurity, and have recommended improving awareness of and access to resources such as campus food pantries. We argue in this article that this emphasis on individual-level factors and efforts can lead to stigma or shame for many of those using pantries and other programs. Our survey and interview data…
University Student Food Insecurity as a Form of Structural Violence
Studies of college student food insecurity emphasize the personal characteristics of students and their individual health outcomes, reflecting trends in public health to encourage individual lifestyle changes. More recent work in public health diverges from this focus to encourage conceptualizing health issues not as individual failings but rather as failures of larger systems that are necessary to support health and well-being, implicating the a…
Neoliberalism and work-life balance among Covid-19 nurses
The COVID-19 pandemic presented new challenges to healthcare workers: with rising COVID-19 cases, constantly changing guidelines, and an uncertain and rapidly unfolding situation, stress and burnout among nurses rose as well. In response, many hospitals and healthcare workplaces instituted measures designed to help nurses maintain their "work-life balance." This concept, under scrutiny here, suggests that there exists a separation between the "wo…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Food insecurity (3 works) · Food security (3 works)