Annalisa Plava
Biographic Data
| ID | 4581082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annalisa Plava |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annalisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Plava |
| SIGNATURE | PLAVA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bologna |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7748-6016 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Drawing emotions, building resilience
Emotional labour and resilience are key elements of healthcare work. However, prior research has highlighted that emotional regulation can result in burnout, stress and high turnover, phenomena that have been exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies. This article presents an art-based, creative method to explore healthcare professionals’ emotional labour and resilience strategies in practice. Specifically, we have designed a qualitative resear…
Making Uncertainty Habitable
Medical education has long been described as a "training for uncertainty," yet how uncertainty is practically organised in professional formation remains underexplored. Drawing on a sociocultural approach to risk and on anthropological theories of ritual, this article conceptualises anatomical dissection as a ritualised infrastructure through which uncertainty is collectively managed. Based on seven months of participant observation and 32 interv…
The Ethics of Drawing Illness
This paper illustrates how the design of health-related comics contributes to reflecting on the methodological and ethical challenges of qualitative research. In line with Comics-Based Research (CBR), we demonstrate how creating a comic on medical topics emerges from continuous and iterative dialogue among multiple voices: patients, sociologists, artists, and physicians. On an ethical and methodological level, our study explores the creation of a…
Covibesity
Obesity was designated a global epidemic, socially patterned, in the twenty‐first century. However, since March 2020, COVID‐19 has exacerbated this phenomenon. The effects of the stressful space‐time context of lockdown on the eating habits and lifestyles of both adults and children in families are the context in which covibesity originated. From a sociological perspective, covibesity is a situational obesity which, as a result of a confined life…
Health Delivery Systems
A health delivery system (HDS) is like a machine that consists of a series of gears that – driven by general interest – contribute to the cohesion, social justice, and sustainable development of a community. Each one, with its own frame and its own history, needs to improve health, equity, responsiveness, and respect for human beings' dignity. The COVID‐19 pandemic that started in 2020 reinforced the importance of health delivery systems. A digit…
Immigration and Language
A narrative traffic jam emerges in the current public debate when it involves immigration and language. On the one hand, a one‐way narrative could create exclusion, labeling, disinformation; on the other, a contamination of the mother tongue could be a precious tool for intercultural dialogue. Immigration sits within economic, social, cultural, political, and technological fields whose effects – positive or negative – have global relevance, start…
Stress and Migration
Stress is an event that occurs when a stimulus (stressor) of any kind occurs and the individual cannot respond immediately and adequately to it. Failure to adapt creates imbalance and interrupts the homeostasis. Since migrating has an ambivalent meaning – constantly changing – the migrant needs to interpret new parameters of behavior, identity recognition, values, laws, and traditions by seeking “iatroglobal” answers. The relationship between str…
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence (DV) or intimate partner violence (IPV) arises when there is violent, abusive, or intimidating behavior in a relationship in order to control the victim physically, psychologically, economically, and/or sexually. Furthermore, the digital environment and new technologies seem to favor and legitimize forms of violent communication‐action. A systemic perspective tries to frame the complexity of the phenomenon, considered a public h…
Crime, Hotspots
Conventional wisdom considers a crime hotspot as a series of statistical possibilities which produce disorder. But a crime hotspot is also a social problem without a clear definition. In fact, crime theories underline a firm connection between people's habits and unsafe events data. Furthermore, the digital society produces data and information that could help both to predict crime and to increase the risk of victimization. For this reason, predi…
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Crime, Hotspots
Conventional wisdom considers a crime hotspot as a series of statistical possibilities which produce disorder. But a crime hotspot is also a social problem without a clear definition. In fact, crime theories underline a firm connection between people's habits and unsafe events data. Furthermore, the digital society produces data and information that could help both to predict crime and to increase the risk of victimization. For this reason, predi…
Stress and Migration
Stress is an event that occurs when a stimulus (stressor) of any kind occurs and the individual cannot respond immediately and adequately to it. Failure to adapt creates imbalance and interrupts the homeostasis. Since migrating has an ambivalent meaning – constantly changing – the migrant needs to interpret new parameters of behavior, identity recognition, values, laws, and traditions by seeking “iatroglobal” answers. The relationship between str…
Domestic Violence
Domestic violence (DV) or intimate partner violence (IPV) arises when there is violent, abusive, or intimidating behavior in a relationship in order to control the victim physically, psychologically, economically, and/or sexually. Furthermore, the digital environment and new technologies seem to favor and legitimize forms of violent communication‐action. A systemic perspective tries to frame the complexity of the phenomenon, considered a public h…
Immigration and Language
A narrative traffic jam emerges in the current public debate when it involves immigration and language. On the one hand, a one‐way narrative could create exclusion, labeling, disinformation; on the other, a contamination of the mother tongue could be a precious tool for intercultural dialogue. Immigration sits within economic, social, cultural, political, and technological fields whose effects – positive or negative – have global relevance, start…
Health Delivery Systems
A health delivery system (HDS) is like a machine that consists of a series of gears that – driven by general interest – contribute to the cohesion, social justice, and sustainable development of a community. Each one, with its own frame and its own history, needs to improve health, equity, responsiveness, and respect for human beings' dignity. The COVID‐19 pandemic that started in 2020 reinforced the importance of health delivery systems. A digit…
Covibesity
Obesity was designated a global epidemic, socially patterned, in the twenty‐first century. However, since March 2020, COVID‐19 has exacerbated this phenomenon. The effects of the stressful space‐time context of lockdown on the eating habits and lifestyles of both adults and children in families are the context in which covibesity originated. From a sociological perspective, covibesity is a situational obesity which, as a result of a confined life…
The Ethics of Drawing Illness
This paper illustrates how the design of health-related comics contributes to reflecting on the methodological and ethical challenges of qualitative research. In line with Comics-Based Research (CBR), we demonstrate how creating a comic on medical topics emerges from continuous and iterative dialogue among multiple voices: patients, sociologists, artists, and physicians. On an ethical and methodological level, our study explores the creation of a…
Drawing emotions, building resilience
Emotional labour and resilience are key elements of healthcare work. However, prior research has highlighted that emotional regulation can result in burnout, stress and high turnover, phenomena that have been exacerbated by neoliberal economic policies. This article presents an art-based, creative method to explore healthcare professionals’ emotional labour and resilience strategies in practice. Specifically, we have designed a qualitative resear…
Making Uncertainty Habitable
Medical education has long been described as a "training for uncertainty," yet how uncertainty is practically organised in professional formation remains underexplored. Drawing on a sociocultural approach to risk and on anthropological theories of ritual, this article conceptualises anatomical dissection as a ritualised infrastructure through which uncertainty is collectively managed. Based on seven months of participant observation and 32 interv…
Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Criminology (2 works)