Saskia Wieringa
Biographic Data
| ID | 532622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saskia Wieringa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saskia |
| FAMILY NAME | Wieringa |
| SIGNATURE | WIERINGA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7758-8493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How ambiguity becomes productive: Implementing the policy concept of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare
Ambiguity is ascribed both productive and unproductive effects on the implementation of policy. What we do not know, however, is how ambiguity operates in these contrasting ways. This paper examines the duality of ambiguity by studying the implementation of the concept of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare. Drawing on an ethnographic approach, we analyze discussions on appropriate care based on fieldnotes of meetings (n = 51), interviews (n =…
How concepts guide policy: An ethnographic study of the meaning making of 'appropriate care' in Dutch healthcare
Concepts, such as value-based healthcare, patient-centered care and integrated care, are used to guide and govern healthcare structures and services. Although prior research has pointed us towards the multiplicity of interpretations of these concepts, there is little understanding of how a concept gets attributed a particular meaning from its various understandings. This paper describes how healthcare actors engage in the meaning-making of the co…
A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement
Here, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding. In the early 1980s, during the oppressive military dictatorship called the New Order in Indonesia, the first organizations of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans persons were established. They were short-lived, but prepared the ground for a more comprehensive LBT rights movement after the democratic opening of society in 19…
Clinical guidelines and the pursuit of reducing epistemic uncertainty. An ethnographic study of guideline development panels in three countries
Guideline development panels apply multiple - often conflicting - understandings of knowledge, inference and truth in an attempt to reduce epistemic uncertainty. Guidelines makers, clinicians, scientists and students should engage critically and reflexively with the philosophical assumptions that underpin guideline development and inductive inference to build capability to deal with clinical complexity
Long Covid - The illness narratives
Persistent symptoms after Covid-19: Qualitative study of 114 “long Covid” patients and draft quality principles for services
The Sage Handbook of Global Sexualities
The domain of sexualities has occupied the imaginary of the forbidden and the unspoken since early times. Taboo became an umbrella category to describe things best left unspoken, hidden behind closed doors or buried in the most intimate secret thoughts and desires. For decades and still today, medical doctors and spiritual leaders remain the guardians of that which we dare not speak. This book is about sexualities and it emerges at a time when th…
The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion
The Women and the GeneralsDocumentary, 56 min., 2013Director: Maj WechselmannProduction : Swedish Television (SvT) / Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) / Fritt Ord (Norway)Distributed via http://www.wechselmann.se/en/2013/03/26/the-women-and-the-generals/Language: English/Indonesian with English captions and subtextsThe documentary is also available, via VIMEO, in a longer version (84 min), which is the basis of the present review. The Women and the Ge…
Impure policies: Controversy in HIV prevention and the making of evidence
Controversies are part and parcel of the process of evidence-based interventions represent a problem for any notion of a ‘pure’ evidence-based intervention outside the purview of issues such as social norms, economic boundaries and moral dilemmas. This paper provides a detailed case-study of the recent debate and controversy regarding the roll out of HIV prophylaxis (PrEP) by the NHS in England. We describe and analyze the legal, scientific and s…
Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil
In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of one million people – a genocide that counts as one of the largest mass murders after WWII – and the incarceration of another million, many of them for a decade or more without any legal process. This drive was justified and enabled by a propaganda campaign in which com…
The crocodile hole in Ubud: How a feminist lunch evades a book ban
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
The Sexual History of the Global South: Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical and ethnographic research from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book examines the sexual investments underlying the colonial project and the construction of modern nation-states. Covering issues of heteronormativity, post-colonial amnesia regarding non-n…
Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion: Heteronormativity in India and Indonesia
By exploring the life stories of women in same-sex relations, sex workers and widows/divorced women in Jakarta and Delhi, this article analyses the way heteronormativity marginalises these women, both those who identify as heterosexual and those who do not. To counter the physical, material and subversive forms of violence they experience, they engage in various forms of agency, including symbolic forms of subversion. The focus is on the major co…
Is it time to drop the ‘knowledge translation’ metaphor? A critical literature review
The literature on ‘knowledge translation’ presents challenges for the reviewer because different terms have been used to describe the generation, sharing and application of knowledge and different research approaches embrace different philosophical positions on what knowledge is. We present a narrative review of this literature which deliberately sought to highlight rather than resolve tensions between these different framings. Our findings sugge…
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa
This unique book documents same sexuality in East and southern Africa. Eight of the chapters have been co-authored by women activists spanning six different countries. They have collected personal narratives on a range of issues related to sex and secrecy. This is an incredibly difficult area to research as many African leaders declare it taboo on the basis that these practices are alien to African culture and an import from the depraved west. Th…
Measuring Women's Empowerment: An assessment of the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure
This paper describes work underway to enrich the present tools to measure women's empowerment -- particularly the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). The authors are developing an African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) on behalf of the Economic Commission for Africa, which is to be launched in 2004. The paper begins with a discussion of gender and power concepts, and then introduces a Women' s Emp…
Sexual Politics in Indonesia
This book analyzes the interaction between nationalism, feminism and socialism in Indonesia since the beginning of the twentieth century until the New Order State of President Suharto. The focus is on
Female desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures
Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis
Women's Interests and Empowerment: Gender Planning Reconsidered
This article looks at the empowerment approach in relation to issues of women and development. After explaining why this is currently the most fruitful perspective in the field of gender planning, it then goes on to explore two central problems of the empowerment approach. The first problem is the conceptualization of women's gender interests. The distinction between women's practical and strategic gender interests was introduced by Molyneux and …
IBU or the Beast: Gender Interests in Two Indonesian Women's Organizations
One of the most stimulating attempts to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of women's organizations is that of Maxine Molyneux, who makes the distinction between organization for practical and strategic gender interests. Part of the attraction of the distinction is that it promises to be a tool in efforts to assess the performance of women's organizations. However, these concepts are widely, and generally uncritically, used in discu…
Long Covid - The illness narratives
IBU or the Beast: Gender Interests in Two Indonesian Women's Organizations
One of the most stimulating attempts to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of women's organizations is that of Maxine Molyneux, who makes the distinction between organization for practical and strategic gender interests. Part of the attraction of the distinction is that it promises to be a tool in efforts to assess the performance of women's organizations. However, these concepts are widely, and generally uncritically, used in discu…
Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion: Heteronormativity in India and Indonesia
By exploring the life stories of women in same-sex relations, sex workers and widows/divorced women in Jakarta and Delhi, this article analyses the way heteronormativity marginalises these women, both those who identify as heterosexual and those who do not. To counter the physical, material and subversive forms of violence they experience, they engage in various forms of agency, including symbolic forms of subversion. The focus is on the major co…
Women's Interests and Empowerment: Gender Planning Reconsidered
This article looks at the empowerment approach in relation to issues of women and development. After explaining why this is currently the most fruitful perspective in the field of gender planning, it then goes on to explore two central problems of the empowerment approach. The first problem is the conceptualization of women's gender interests. The distinction between women's practical and strategic gender interests was introduced by Molyneux and …
Clinical guidelines and the pursuit of reducing epistemic uncertainty. An ethnographic study of guideline development panels in three countries
Guideline development panels apply multiple - often conflicting - understandings of knowledge, inference and truth in an attempt to reduce epistemic uncertainty. Guidelines makers, clinicians, scientists and students should engage critically and reflexively with the philosophical assumptions that underpin guideline development and inductive inference to build capability to deal with clinical complexity
The crocodile hole in Ubud: How a feminist lunch evades a book ban
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
IBU or the Beast: Gender Interests in Two Indonesian Women's Organizations
One of the most stimulating attempts to develop a theoretical framework for the analysis of women's organizations is that of Maxine Molyneux, who makes the distinction between organization for practical and strategic gender interests. Part of the attraction of the distinction is that it promises to be a tool in efforts to assess the performance of women's organizations. However, these concepts are widely, and generally uncritically, used in discu…
Women's Interests and Empowerment: Gender Planning Reconsidered
This article looks at the empowerment approach in relation to issues of women and development. After explaining why this is currently the most fruitful perspective in the field of gender planning, it then goes on to explore two central problems of the empowerment approach. The first problem is the conceptualization of women's gender interests. The distinction between women's practical and strategic gender interests was introduced by Molyneux and …
Women, the Environment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Theoretical Synthesis
Female desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures
Sexual Politics in Indonesia
This book analyzes the interaction between nationalism, feminism and socialism in Indonesia since the beginning of the twentieth century until the New Order State of President Suharto. The focus is on
Measuring Women's Empowerment: An assessment of the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure
This paper describes work underway to enrich the present tools to measure women's empowerment -- particularly the Gender-related Development Index (GDI) and the Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM). The authors are developing an African Gender and Development Index (AGDI) on behalf of the Economic Commission for Africa, which is to be launched in 2004. The paper begins with a discussion of gender and power concepts, and then introduces a Women' s Emp…
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa
This unique book documents same sexuality in East and southern Africa. Eight of the chapters have been co-authored by women activists spanning six different countries. They have collected personal narratives on a range of issues related to sex and secrecy. This is an incredibly difficult area to research as many African leaders declare it taboo on the basis that these practices are alien to African culture and an import from the depraved west. Th…
Is it time to drop the ‘knowledge translation’ metaphor? A critical literature review
The literature on ‘knowledge translation’ presents challenges for the reviewer because different terms have been used to describe the generation, sharing and application of knowledge and different research approaches embrace different philosophical positions on what knowledge is. We present a narrative review of this literature which deliberately sought to highlight rather than resolve tensions between these different framings. Our findings sugge…
Passionate Aesthetics and Symbolic Subversion: Heteronormativity in India and Indonesia
By exploring the life stories of women in same-sex relations, sex workers and widows/divorced women in Jakarta and Delhi, this article analyses the way heteronormativity marginalises these women, both those who identify as heterosexual and those who do not. To counter the physical, material and subversive forms of violence they experience, they engage in various forms of agency, including symbolic forms of subversion. The focus is on the major co…
The Sexual History of the Global South: Sexual Politics in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
The Sexual History of the Global South explores the gap between sexuality studies and post-colonial cultural critique. Featuring twelve case studies, based on original historical and ethnographic research from countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, the book examines the sexual investments underlying the colonial project and the construction of modern nation-states. Covering issues of heteronormativity, post-colonial amnesia regarding non-n…
The crocodile hole in Ubud: How a feminist lunch evades a book ban
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Propaganda and the Genocide in Indonesia: Imagined Evil
In Indonesia, the events of 1st October 1965 were followed by a campaign to annihilate the Communist Party and its alleged sympathisers. It resulted in the murder of an estimate of one million people – a genocide that counts as one of the largest mass murders after WWII – and the incarceration of another million, many of them for a decade or more without any legal process. This drive was justified and enabled by a propaganda campaign in which com…
Impure policies: Controversy in HIV prevention and the making of evidence
Controversies are part and parcel of the process of evidence-based interventions represent a problem for any notion of a ‘pure’ evidence-based intervention outside the purview of issues such as social norms, economic boundaries and moral dilemmas. This paper provides a detailed case-study of the recent debate and controversy regarding the roll out of HIV prophylaxis (PrEP) by the NHS in England. We describe and analyze the legal, scientific and s…
Persistent symptoms after Covid-19: Qualitative study of 114 “long Covid” patients and draft quality principles for services
The Sage Handbook of Global Sexualities
The domain of sexualities has occupied the imaginary of the forbidden and the unspoken since early times. Taboo became an umbrella category to describe things best left unspoken, hidden behind closed doors or buried in the most intimate secret thoughts and desires. For decades and still today, medical doctors and spiritual leaders remain the guardians of that which we dare not speak. This book is about sexualities and it emerges at a time when th…
The Women and the Generals: Unraveling a Myth of Sexual Perversion
The Women and the GeneralsDocumentary, 56 min., 2013Director: Maj WechselmannProduction : Swedish Television (SvT) / Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) / Fritt Ord (Norway)Distributed via http://www.wechselmann.se/en/2013/03/26/the-women-and-the-generals/Language: English/Indonesian with English captions and subtextsThe documentary is also available, via VIMEO, in a longer version (84 min), which is the basis of the present review. The Women and the Ge…
Clinical guidelines and the pursuit of reducing epistemic uncertainty. An ethnographic study of guideline development panels in three countries
Guideline development panels apply multiple - often conflicting - understandings of knowledge, inference and truth in an attempt to reduce epistemic uncertainty. Guidelines makers, clinicians, scientists and students should engage critically and reflexively with the philosophical assumptions that underpin guideline development and inductive inference to build capability to deal with clinical complexity
Long Covid - The illness narratives
A Political Biography of the Indonesian Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans Movement
Here, the history of the Indonesian LBT movement is charted, from invisibility, to visibility and now as it moves again into hiding. In the early 1980s, during the oppressive military dictatorship called the New Order in Indonesia, the first organizations of Lesbian, Bisexual and Trans persons were established. They were short-lived, but prepared the ground for a more comprehensive LBT rights movement after the democratic opening of society in 19…
How concepts guide policy: An ethnographic study of the meaning making of 'appropriate care' in Dutch healthcare
Concepts, such as value-based healthcare, patient-centered care and integrated care, are used to guide and govern healthcare structures and services. Although prior research has pointed us towards the multiplicity of interpretations of these concepts, there is little understanding of how a concept gets attributed a particular meaning from its various understandings. This paper describes how healthcare actors engage in the meaning-making of the co…
How ambiguity becomes productive: Implementing the policy concept of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare
Ambiguity is ascribed both productive and unproductive effects on the implementation of policy. What we do not know, however, is how ambiguity operates in these contrasting ways. This paper examines the duality of ambiguity by studying the implementation of the concept of ‘appropriate care’ in Dutch healthcare. Drawing on an ethnographic approach, we analyze discussions on appropriate care based on fieldnotes of meetings (n = 51), interviews (n =…
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Politics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works)