K Eliza Williamson
Biographic Data
| ID | 651652 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Eliza Williamson |
| GIVEN NAMES | K Eliza |
| FAMILY NAME | Williamson |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMSON K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4831-364X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential: Disability Therapeutics after Zika in Bahia, Brazil
This article traces how Brazilian mothers raising children with congenital Zika syndrome cultivate their children's bodyminds through habilitative care-care that mobilizes a range of substances, technologies, and techniques to encourage maximum potential development of embodied abilities in young disabled children. Based on fieldwork conducted since 2016 with families impacted by the Zika epidemic in Bahia, Brazil, I argue that Bahian mothers' in…
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces
Care for disabled family members in Brazil has historically been concentrated in the home, but the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified domestic care labor by limiting infrastructures of care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with women caring for disabled others at different stages of life in three regions of Brazil, we advance two interconnected concepts that emerged in our interlocutors’ narratives. We contend that the Covid-19 pandemic has enge…
The iatrogenesis of obstetric racism in Brazil: Beyond the body, beyond the clinic
In Brazil, Black women are disproportionately denied access to timely care and are made vulnerable to death by avoidable obstetric causes. However, they have not been at the center of recent initiatives to improve maternal health. This paper contends that the effectiveness of Brazilian maternal and infant health policy is limited by failures to robustly address racial health inequities. Multi-sited ethnographic research on the implementation of t…
Interventive Care: Uncertainty, Distributed Agency, and Cesarean Section in a Zika Virus Epidemic
Beginning in 2015, Brazil witnessed the births of thousands of children with neurological abnormalities linked to the Zika virus. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018 with parents of children with congenital Zika syndrome in Salvador da Bahia, this article attends to how one of Brazil's most overused obstetric technologies-cesarean section-was mobilized to mitigate the uncertainties of Zika's reproductive consequences…
Cuidado nos tempos de Zika: Notas da pós-epidemia em Salvador (Bahia), Brasil
Este artigo traz uma reflexão sobre a pós-epidemia do vírus Zika por meio das narrativas de mães de crianças nascidas com más-formações neurológicas associadas ao vírus na Bahia. A partir de 11 entrevistas semiestruturadas com mães e pais cujos filhos fazem atendimento em um centro de referência estadual em reabilitação e em diálogo com teorizações contemporâneas de tempo e deficiência na antropologia cultural, propõe-se uma abordagem à temporali…
Cuidado nos tempos de Zika: Notas da pós-epidemia em Salvador (Bahia), Brasil
Este artigo traz uma reflexão sobre a pós-epidemia do vírus Zika por meio das narrativas de mães de crianças nascidas com más-formações neurológicas associadas ao vírus na Bahia. A partir de 11 entrevistas semiestruturadas com mães e pais cujos filhos fazem atendimento em um centro de referência estadual em reabilitação e em diálogo com teorizações contemporâneas de tempo e deficiência na antropologia cultural, propõe-se uma abordagem à temporali…
Interventive Care: Uncertainty, Distributed Agency, and Cesarean Section in a Zika Virus Epidemic
Beginning in 2015, Brazil witnessed the births of thousands of children with neurological abnormalities linked to the Zika virus. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018 with parents of children with congenital Zika syndrome in Salvador da Bahia, this article attends to how one of Brazil's most overused obstetric technologies-cesarean section-was mobilized to mitigate the uncertainties of Zika's reproductive consequences…
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential: Disability Therapeutics after Zika in Bahia, Brazil
This article traces how Brazilian mothers raising children with congenital Zika syndrome cultivate their children's bodyminds through habilitative care-care that mobilizes a range of substances, technologies, and techniques to encourage maximum potential development of embodied abilities in young disabled children. Based on fieldwork conducted since 2016 with families impacted by the Zika epidemic in Bahia, Brazil, I argue that Bahian mothers' in…
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces
Care for disabled family members in Brazil has historically been concentrated in the home, but the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified domestic care labor by limiting infrastructures of care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with women caring for disabled others at different stages of life in three regions of Brazil, we advance two interconnected concepts that emerged in our interlocutors’ narratives. We contend that the Covid-19 pandemic has enge…
Cuidado nos tempos de Zika: Notas da pós-epidemia em Salvador (Bahia), Brasil
Este artigo traz uma reflexão sobre a pós-epidemia do vírus Zika por meio das narrativas de mães de crianças nascidas com más-formações neurológicas associadas ao vírus na Bahia. A partir de 11 entrevistas semiestruturadas com mães e pais cujos filhos fazem atendimento em um centro de referência estadual em reabilitação e em diálogo com teorizações contemporâneas de tempo e deficiência na antropologia cultural, propõe-se uma abordagem à temporali…
The iatrogenesis of obstetric racism in Brazil: Beyond the body, beyond the clinic
In Brazil, Black women are disproportionately denied access to timely care and are made vulnerable to death by avoidable obstetric causes. However, they have not been at the center of recent initiatives to improve maternal health. This paper contends that the effectiveness of Brazilian maternal and infant health policy is limited by failures to robustly address racial health inequities. Multi-sited ethnographic research on the implementation of t…
Interventive Care: Uncertainty, Distributed Agency, and Cesarean Section in a Zika Virus Epidemic
Beginning in 2015, Brazil witnessed the births of thousands of children with neurological abnormalities linked to the Zika virus. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2018 with parents of children with congenital Zika syndrome in Salvador da Bahia, this article attends to how one of Brazil's most overused obstetric technologies-cesarean section-was mobilized to mitigate the uncertainties of Zika's reproductive consequences…
The Chronicity of Home-Making: Women Caregivers in Dis/Abling Spaces
Care for disabled family members in Brazil has historically been concentrated in the home, but the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified domestic care labor by limiting infrastructures of care. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with women caring for disabled others at different stages of life in three regions of Brazil, we advance two interconnected concepts that emerged in our interlocutors’ narratives. We contend that the Covid-19 pandemic has enge…
Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential: Disability Therapeutics after Zika in Bahia, Brazil
This article traces how Brazilian mothers raising children with congenital Zika syndrome cultivate their children's bodyminds through habilitative care-care that mobilizes a range of substances, technologies, and techniques to encourage maximum potential development of embodied abilities in young disabled children. Based on fieldwork conducted since 2016 with families impacted by the Zika epidemic in Bahia, Brazil, I argue that Bahian mothers' in…
Sociology (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (2 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (2 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (2 works) · Agency (philosophy (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Care work (1 works)