Kristi Heather Kenyon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4051608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristi Heather Kenyon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristi Heather |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenyon |
| SIGNATURE | KENYON K H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1024-6074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Lymphatic filariasis as an indigenous illness
Lymphatic filariasis (LF), also known as elephantiasis, is a chronic disease that is devastating for patients, both bodily and socially. Besides the unbearable chronic pain, disfigured limbs, and loss of livelihood, people living with LF are stigmatized and sometimes abandoned by family. To ease the burden of people living with LF, known locally as gyepim or duba , the social and cultural aspects must be investigated in unison with the biomedical…
Unsettling the Familiar
Research shows that experiential learning improves student learning, engagement and retention and yet, despite growth in university undergraduate human rights programmes, relatively little is known about experiential learning in the human rights classroom. This article examines a low-cost and online-adaptable experiential learning assignment focused on civic statues and monuments in Winnipeg, Canada. The assignment and supporting activities, spea…
Knowledge and perceptions of lymphatic filariasis patients in selected hotspot endemic communities in southern Ghana
Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a mosquito-borne neglected tropical disease that is one of the leading global causes of permanent disability. To date, LF interventions have been largely biomedical, focusing on drug treatments to disrupt parasite transmission and manage disease morbidity. Although important, these Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programs neglect the significance of socio-economic burden to the health of LF patients, which are compound…
Rainbow is not the new black’
In the 1990s, South Africa transitioned from apartheid to liberal democracy. Heroes, place names, holidays and symbols were revisited and replaced to reflect a ‘new’ nation and delineate a clear break from the ‘bad old days’. Central to this nation-building narrative is the figure of Nelson Mandela as a unifying hero exemplifying the ideals of this new nation. South Africa is now experiencing another transition. The so-called ‘born free’ generati…
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Disrupting structures of power in and through academic writing
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Tagore (1945)In Just Responsibility Ackerly sets out to develop a human rights theory of global justice that is useful not only
Court as a health intervention to advance Canada’s achievement of the sustainable development goals
BACKGROUND: The increase in problematic substance use is a major problem in Canada and elsewhere, placing a heavy burden on health and justice system resources given a spike in drug-related offences. Thus, achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 3.5 to 'Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse' is important for Canada's overall realization of the SDGs, including SDG 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing). Since 2008, Van…
Viewing international concepts through local eyes
Human rights are an increasingly common language of advocacy for civil society organisations, but are these groups using the same words to mean different things? Although the spread of human rights has been well examined, little attention has been paid to the content of these rights as understood by civil society actors in diverse settings. Focusing on this gap in the literature, this paper examines how personnel in human rights-based non-governm…
Health advocacy on the margins
Human rights discourse in health advocacy is largely correlated with experiences of vulnerability, marginalisation and discrimination, with the global story of HIV activism the most visible example. In a domestic context where culture, consensus and belonging are highly valued, both human rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people face critiques of being foreign, un-African, new, individualistic and threatening to …
Resilience and Contagion
HIV represents not only an unprecedented pandemic but also a site of civil society innovation. In the midst of devastation, activists in sub-Saharan Africa are progressing from traditional forms of health advocacy to strategies that engage human rights principles, techniques, and language. Employing a comparative case-study approach, Resilience and Contagion considers the efforts of nine local civil society organizations in Ghana, Uganda, South A…
Bringing the field into the classroom
Methods training is typically cordoned off into specific, designated courses and is often consequently isolated from the content of the topics we study. As a result of this separation, methods may appear abstract or technical, particularly to undergraduate students, who usually have no experience or expectation of applying methods during their degrees. This article discusses one experience of incorporating qualitative methods and experiential lea…
Exploring Human Rights-Based Activism as a Social Determinant of Health
Social determinants of health (SDH) are usually understood as circumstances and \nstructures that disadvantage individuals by increasing their vulnerability to disease \nand injury. In this model social determinants of health act upon individuals and communities \nwho are relatively powerless to react against the health impacts of factors \nsuch as poverty and marginalization. With the aim of expanding the concept of social \ndeterminants, we exa…
Gender, HIV and risk
In this systematic and detailed examination of the impact of gender on HIV infection, Anderson unpacks the contents and implications of structural violence as they apply to women in Malawi. Focusing on an ostensibly peaceful country with high rates of HIV, Anderson highlights everyday structures of gendered violence often overlooked by global prevention policies; she argues that these quotidian practices lead to increased risk of HIV infection. D…
Routine HIV Testing
ollowing an announcement in October 2003 by President Festus Mogae, routine testing for HIV (RHT) was introduced in Botswana in January 2004. It was assumed that RHT would reduce the stigma associated with the exclusivity of HIV testing, enable earlier testing, allow more timely access to treatment, and ultimately reduce the rate of infection.1-3 Botswana's first year of RHT has shown an increase in the accessibility of HIV testing and, consequen…
Bringing the field into the classroom
Methods training is typically cordoned off into specific, designated courses and is often consequently isolated from the content of the topics we study. As a result of this separation, methods may appear abstract or technical, particularly to undergraduate students, who usually have no experience or expectation of applying methods during their degrees. This article discusses one experience of incorporating qualitative methods and experiential lea…
Rainbow is not the new black’
In the 1990s, South Africa transitioned from apartheid to liberal democracy. Heroes, place names, holidays and symbols were revisited and replaced to reflect a ‘new’ nation and delineate a clear break from the ‘bad old days’. Central to this nation-building narrative is the figure of Nelson Mandela as a unifying hero exemplifying the ideals of this new nation. South Africa is now experiencing another transition. The so-called ‘born free’ generati…
Viewing international concepts through local eyes
Human rights are an increasingly common language of advocacy for civil society organisations, but are these groups using the same words to mean different things? Although the spread of human rights has been well examined, little attention has been paid to the content of these rights as understood by civil society actors in diverse settings. Focusing on this gap in the literature, this paper examines how personnel in human rights-based non-governm…
Unsettling the Familiar
Research shows that experiential learning improves student learning, engagement and retention and yet, despite growth in university undergraduate human rights programmes, relatively little is known about experiential learning in the human rights classroom. This article examines a low-cost and online-adaptable experiential learning assignment focused on civic statues and monuments in Winnipeg, Canada. The assignment and supporting activities, spea…
Disrupting structures of power in and through academic writing
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Tagore (1945)In Just Responsibility Ackerly sets out to develop a human rights theory of global justice that is useful not only
Health advocacy on the margins
Human rights discourse in health advocacy is largely correlated with experiences of vulnerability, marginalisation and discrimination, with the global story of HIV activism the most visible example. In a domestic context where culture, consensus and belonging are highly valued, both human rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people face critiques of being foreign, un-African, new, individualistic and threatening to …
Routine HIV Testing
ollowing an announcement in October 2003 by President Festus Mogae, routine testing for HIV (RHT) was introduced in Botswana in January 2004. It was assumed that RHT would reduce the stigma associated with the exclusivity of HIV testing, enable earlier testing, allow more timely access to treatment, and ultimately reduce the rate of infection.1-3 Botswana's first year of RHT has shown an increase in the accessibility of HIV testing and, consequen…
Exploring Human Rights-Based Activism as a Social Determinant of Health
Social determinants of health (SDH) are usually understood as circumstances and \nstructures that disadvantage individuals by increasing their vulnerability to disease \nand injury. In this model social determinants of health act upon individuals and communities \nwho are relatively powerless to react against the health impacts of factors \nsuch as poverty and marginalization. With the aim of expanding the concept of social \ndeterminants, we exa…
Gender, HIV and risk
In this systematic and detailed examination of the impact of gender on HIV infection, Anderson unpacks the contents and implications of structural violence as they apply to women in Malawi. Focusing on an ostensibly peaceful country with high rates of HIV, Anderson highlights everyday structures of gendered violence often overlooked by global prevention policies; she argues that these quotidian practices lead to increased risk of HIV infection. D…
Resilience and Contagion
HIV represents not only an unprecedented pandemic but also a site of civil society innovation. In the midst of devastation, activists in sub-Saharan Africa are progressing from traditional forms of health advocacy to strategies that engage human rights principles, techniques, and language. Employing a comparative case-study approach, Resilience and Contagion considers the efforts of nine local civil society organizations in Ghana, Uganda, South A…
Bringing the field into the classroom
Methods training is typically cordoned off into specific, designated courses and is often consequently isolated from the content of the topics we study. As a result of this separation, methods may appear abstract or technical, particularly to undergraduate students, who usually have no experience or expectation of applying methods during their degrees. This article discusses one experience of incorporating qualitative methods and experiential lea…
Court as a health intervention to advance Canada’s achievement of the sustainable development goals
BACKGROUND: The increase in problematic substance use is a major problem in Canada and elsewhere, placing a heavy burden on health and justice system resources given a spike in drug-related offences. Thus, achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Target 3.5 to 'Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse' is important for Canada's overall realization of the SDGs, including SDG 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing). Since 2008, Van…
Viewing international concepts through local eyes
Human rights are an increasingly common language of advocacy for civil society organisations, but are these groups using the same words to mean different things? Although the spread of human rights has been well examined, little attention has been paid to the content of these rights as understood by civil society actors in diverse settings. Focusing on this gap in the literature, this paper examines how personnel in human rights-based non-governm…
Health advocacy on the margins
Human rights discourse in health advocacy is largely correlated with experiences of vulnerability, marginalisation and discrimination, with the global story of HIV activism the most visible example. In a domestic context where culture, consensus and belonging are highly valued, both human rights and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people face critiques of being foreign, un-African, new, individualistic and threatening to …
Disrupting structures of power in and through academic writing
You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Tagore (1945)In Just Responsibility Ackerly sets out to develop a human rights theory of global justice that is useful not only
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Rainbow is not the new black’
In the 1990s, South Africa transitioned from apartheid to liberal democracy. Heroes, place names, holidays and symbols were revisited and replaced to reflect a ‘new’ nation and delineate a clear break from the ‘bad old days’. Central to this nation-building narrative is the figure of Nelson Mandela as a unifying hero exemplifying the ideals of this new nation. South Africa is now experiencing another transition. The so-called ‘born free’ generati…
Knowledge and perceptions of lymphatic filariasis patients in selected hotspot endemic communities in southern Ghana
Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a mosquito-borne neglected tropical disease that is one of the leading global causes of permanent disability. To date, LF interventions have been largely biomedical, focusing on drug treatments to disrupt parasite transmission and manage disease morbidity. Although important, these Mass Drug Administration (MDA) programs neglect the significance of socio-economic burden to the health of LF patients, which are compound…
Unsettling the Familiar
Research shows that experiential learning improves student learning, engagement and retention and yet, despite growth in university undergraduate human rights programmes, relatively little is known about experiential learning in the human rights classroom. This article examines a low-cost and online-adaptable experiential learning assignment focused on civic statues and monuments in Winnipeg, Canada. The assignment and supporting activities, spea…
Lymphatic filariasis as an indigenous illness
Lymphatic filariasis (LF), also known as elephantiasis, is a chronic disease that is devastating for patients, both bodily and socially. Besides the unbearable chronic pain, disfigured limbs, and loss of livelihood, people living with LF are stigmatized and sometimes abandoned by family. To ease the burden of people living with LF, known locally as gyepim or duba , the social and cultural aspects must be investigated in unison with the biomedical…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Media studies (4 works)