Rebecca Irons
Biographic Data
| ID | 669147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Irons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Irons |
| SIGNATURE | IRONS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5282-2597 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Bogotana House of the Spirits: Venezuelan and Colombian HIV/Aids Biosociality Beyond-the-Living
Biosociality is often referenced regarding those living with HIV/AIDS, but scholarship takes for granted that these relationships exist between living beings. Based on long-term ethnography in refuge houses for Venezuelan migrants and Colombians living with HIV in Bogotá, Colombia, I argue that HIV/AIDS biosociality may also exist between the living and beyond-the-living espíritus who historically lived and died with HIV/AIDS. The discussion will…
Postcards Post-Petroleras: Exploring Collaborative Ethnography via Mail from the Venezuelan Diaspora
Postcards, as 'travelling communication devices', have been identified as excellent tools for their ability to collapse 'the field' in a new, visually experiential way. Though often presented as a (post)colonial medium that has exoticized 'the other', they may also be able to give snapshots of diverse biographies otherwise silenced, and can therefore be utilised as a form of collaborative ethnography. This paper analyses postcards sent from Venez…
Introduction: Venezuela, Dispersed: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Venezuelan Migration
Resistance and the regimen: The microthanatopolitics of Venezuelan antiretroviral scarcity and HIV drug adherence failures
Challenging NHS Corporate Mentality: Hospital-Management and Bureaucracy in London's Pandemic
Whilst NHS Health Service management is usually characterized by hierarchized bureaucracy and profit-driven competitiveness, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically disrupted these ways of working and allowed London-based non-clinical management to experience their roles otherwise. This paper is based on 35 interviews with senior non-clinical management at a London-based NHS Trust during 'Alpha phase' of Britain's pandemic response (May-August 2020), a…
Diversity amongst Decision Makers: Workplace Inequality, Black Underrepresentation, and the Afterlife of Colonialism in NHS Governance
Whereas senior management within NHS England was once so monocultural that it was dubbed the 'snowy white peaks of the NHS', recent data suggests that things have begun to change. However, Black staff in particular are still underrepresented. Interviews with Black and White NHS managers from four London trusts found that though the acronyms 'BME'/'BAME' lack subtlety, management considered quantitative data important. The #BlackLivesMatter moveme…
Ceviche Revolution
As the flagship national dish and candidate for UNESCO intangible heritage, ceviche has become a poster child for Peru’s global gastronomic revolution in the past decade. Led by “gastropolitical elites,” the Peruvian boom sought to influence perceptions of the country, from struggling economy blighted by internal conflict to sophisticated culinary destination and exporter of world-class cuisine. However, the elite-led boom echoes colonial power s…
‘Aquí viene una Veneca más’: Venezuelan migrants and ‘the sexual question’ in Peru
Migrant access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has been highlighted as an urgent priority for the 800,000+ Venezuelans who have arrived in Peru in recent years due to political and economic crisis. Venezuelan migrants in Peru, however, negotiate their access to SRH services in what anthropologists term a ‘geography of blame’, and are accused and stigmatised for having imported sexually transmitted infections to the local populati…
Consciously quarantined: A review of the early anthropological response to the global Covid-19 lockdown
Whilst quarantine has been experienced in a multitude of ways around the world, for some anthropologists the quietening of public movement was met with a flurry of attentive typing. For those who were consciously quarantined, a social science response to COVID-19 was sought at University College London through a call for posts as part of the UCL Medical Anthropology blog; capturing the real-time observations and scholarly reflections on the unfol…
Virus amongst the vegetables: Peruvian marketplaces, hygiene, and post-colonial indigeneity under gender-segregated quarantine
Gender and public markets have long been intertwined in Peru. The vast majority of market-sellers are women, and significantly this kind of work has been intimately related to women’s empowerment and agency within a deeply patriarchal society. However, with the arrival of COVID-19 the woman-centred space of the marketplace became compromised. While once a place of female empowerment, during the pandemic the market became seen as a dangerous ‘vira…
Percepción de mujeres venezolanas sobre los servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva en Lima, Perú
Reproductive governance" could be employed by pharmacists to support migrant women and to inform about public SRH services available in Lima
Quarantime: Lockdown and the Global Disruption of Intimacies with Routine, Clock Time, and the Intensification of Time-Space Compression
Global lockdowns have resulted in a challenge to our carefully constructed notions of time, the work week and time-space compression. For the past few months, we have been living in ‘Quarantime’. Quarantime moves differently than our daily lived temporalities of routine and order, and forces us to question the intimate relationship that we may have with how we structure our daily lives around a clock and timesheet. This article questions the chal…
Pandemic … or syndemic ? Re‐framing Covid‐19 disease burden and ‘underlying health conditions’
Análisis cualitativo de la atención en los servicios de planificación familiar ofrecidos a pacientes quechuahablantes en Ayacucho, Perú
No significant fear of past sterilizations was found; on the contrary, women are more afraid of the relationship between cancer and contraception. Health worker training should focus on understanding patient perspectives and reducing stigma around poverty, as well as explaining the reasons for being a recipient of the SIS and the "JUNTOS" program
(Re)produciendo profesionales peruanos: La Asistencia Social Y La Ciudadanía-Materna De Las Madres Quechuas Empobrecidas
A través de los discursos de independencia financiera y «profesio-nalización» de la descendencia promovidos por la asistencia médica (SIS) y social (Juntos) provista por el Estado, las mujeres quechuas que viven en la pobreza descubren que, al ingresar a la maternidad, su plena ciudadanía se vuelve condicional a los comportamientos exitosos y la administración de los hijos para obtener un medio de vida más «deseable» que el suyo. Esto sugiere que…
Virus amongst the vegetables: Peruvian marketplaces, hygiene, and post-colonial indigeneity under gender-segregated quarantine
Gender and public markets have long been intertwined in Peru. The vast majority of market-sellers are women, and significantly this kind of work has been intimately related to women’s empowerment and agency within a deeply patriarchal society. However, with the arrival of COVID-19 the woman-centred space of the marketplace became compromised. While once a place of female empowerment, during the pandemic the market became seen as a dangerous ‘vira…
Postcards Post-Petroleras: Exploring Collaborative Ethnography via Mail from the Venezuelan Diaspora
Postcards, as 'travelling communication devices', have been identified as excellent tools for their ability to collapse 'the field' in a new, visually experiential way. Though often presented as a (post)colonial medium that has exoticized 'the other', they may also be able to give snapshots of diverse biographies otherwise silenced, and can therefore be utilised as a form of collaborative ethnography. This paper analyses postcards sent from Venez…
Resistance and the regimen: The microthanatopolitics of Venezuelan antiretroviral scarcity and HIV drug adherence failures
Diversity amongst Decision Makers: Workplace Inequality, Black Underrepresentation, and the Afterlife of Colonialism in NHS Governance
Whereas senior management within NHS England was once so monocultural that it was dubbed the 'snowy white peaks of the NHS', recent data suggests that things have begun to change. However, Black staff in particular are still underrepresented. Interviews with Black and White NHS managers from four London trusts found that though the acronyms 'BME'/'BAME' lack subtlety, management considered quantitative data important. The #BlackLivesMatter moveme…
Análisis cualitativo de la atención en los servicios de planificación familiar ofrecidos a pacientes quechuahablantes en Ayacucho, Perú
No significant fear of past sterilizations was found; on the contrary, women are more afraid of the relationship between cancer and contraception. Health worker training should focus on understanding patient perspectives and reducing stigma around poverty, as well as explaining the reasons for being a recipient of the SIS and the "JUNTOS" program
(Re)produciendo profesionales peruanos: La Asistencia Social Y La Ciudadanía-Materna De Las Madres Quechuas Empobrecidas
A través de los discursos de independencia financiera y «profesio-nalización» de la descendencia promovidos por la asistencia médica (SIS) y social (Juntos) provista por el Estado, las mujeres quechuas que viven en la pobreza descubren que, al ingresar a la maternidad, su plena ciudadanía se vuelve condicional a los comportamientos exitosos y la administración de los hijos para obtener un medio de vida más «deseable» que el suyo. Esto sugiere que…
Quarantime: Lockdown and the Global Disruption of Intimacies with Routine, Clock Time, and the Intensification of Time-Space Compression
Global lockdowns have resulted in a challenge to our carefully constructed notions of time, the work week and time-space compression. For the past few months, we have been living in ‘Quarantime’. Quarantime moves differently than our daily lived temporalities of routine and order, and forces us to question the intimate relationship that we may have with how we structure our daily lives around a clock and timesheet. This article questions the chal…
Pandemic … or syndemic ? Re‐framing Covid‐19 disease burden and ‘underlying health conditions’
Percepción de mujeres venezolanas sobre los servicios de salud sexual y reproductiva en Lima, Perú
Reproductive governance" could be employed by pharmacists to support migrant women and to inform about public SRH services available in Lima
Ceviche Revolution
As the flagship national dish and candidate for UNESCO intangible heritage, ceviche has become a poster child for Peru’s global gastronomic revolution in the past decade. Led by “gastropolitical elites,” the Peruvian boom sought to influence perceptions of the country, from struggling economy blighted by internal conflict to sophisticated culinary destination and exporter of world-class cuisine. However, the elite-led boom echoes colonial power s…
‘Aquí viene una Veneca más’: Venezuelan migrants and ‘the sexual question’ in Peru
Migrant access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has been highlighted as an urgent priority for the 800,000+ Venezuelans who have arrived in Peru in recent years due to political and economic crisis. Venezuelan migrants in Peru, however, negotiate their access to SRH services in what anthropologists term a ‘geography of blame’, and are accused and stigmatised for having imported sexually transmitted infections to the local populati…
Consciously quarantined: A review of the early anthropological response to the global Covid-19 lockdown
Whilst quarantine has been experienced in a multitude of ways around the world, for some anthropologists the quietening of public movement was met with a flurry of attentive typing. For those who were consciously quarantined, a social science response to COVID-19 was sought at University College London through a call for posts as part of the UCL Medical Anthropology blog; capturing the real-time observations and scholarly reflections on the unfol…
Virus amongst the vegetables: Peruvian marketplaces, hygiene, and post-colonial indigeneity under gender-segregated quarantine
Gender and public markets have long been intertwined in Peru. The vast majority of market-sellers are women, and significantly this kind of work has been intimately related to women’s empowerment and agency within a deeply patriarchal society. However, with the arrival of COVID-19 the woman-centred space of the marketplace became compromised. While once a place of female empowerment, during the pandemic the market became seen as a dangerous ‘vira…
Resistance and the regimen: The microthanatopolitics of Venezuelan antiretroviral scarcity and HIV drug adherence failures
Challenging NHS Corporate Mentality: Hospital-Management and Bureaucracy in London's Pandemic
Whilst NHS Health Service management is usually characterized by hierarchized bureaucracy and profit-driven competitiveness, the COVID-19 pandemic drastically disrupted these ways of working and allowed London-based non-clinical management to experience their roles otherwise. This paper is based on 35 interviews with senior non-clinical management at a London-based NHS Trust during 'Alpha phase' of Britain's pandemic response (May-August 2020), a…
Diversity amongst Decision Makers: Workplace Inequality, Black Underrepresentation, and the Afterlife of Colonialism in NHS Governance
Whereas senior management within NHS England was once so monocultural that it was dubbed the 'snowy white peaks of the NHS', recent data suggests that things have begun to change. However, Black staff in particular are still underrepresented. Interviews with Black and White NHS managers from four London trusts found that though the acronyms 'BME'/'BAME' lack subtlety, management considered quantitative data important. The #BlackLivesMatter moveme…
A Bogotana House of the Spirits: Venezuelan and Colombian HIV/Aids Biosociality Beyond-the-Living
Biosociality is often referenced regarding those living with HIV/AIDS, but scholarship takes for granted that these relationships exist between living beings. Based on long-term ethnography in refuge houses for Venezuelan migrants and Colombians living with HIV in Bogotá, Colombia, I argue that HIV/AIDS biosociality may also exist between the living and beyond-the-living espíritus who historically lived and died with HIV/AIDS. The discussion will…
Postcards Post-Petroleras: Exploring Collaborative Ethnography via Mail from the Venezuelan Diaspora
Postcards, as 'travelling communication devices', have been identified as excellent tools for their ability to collapse 'the field' in a new, visually experiential way. Though often presented as a (post)colonial medium that has exoticized 'the other', they may also be able to give snapshots of diverse biographies otherwise silenced, and can therefore be utilised as a form of collaborative ethnography. This paper analyses postcards sent from Venez…
Introduction: Venezuela, Dispersed: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Venezuelan Migration
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Public Health and Social Inequalities (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)