E Moyer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6774 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | E Moyer |
| NOMBRES | E |
| APELLIDO | Moyer |
| FIRMA | MOYER E |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1233-6041 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 66 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 66 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
When ART is not a magic bullet
Community health workers (CHWs) play a crucial role in supporting retention in HIV care in Tanzania under the World Health Organization's Treat-All policy. While the WHO promotes the differentiated service delivery (DSD) model for stable clients, not all people living with HIV (PLHIV) can achieve sustained viral suppression independently. Using ethnographic case studies of one CHW and three vulnerable clients in Shinyanga, Tanzania (2022-2023), w…
Connecting the Dots
Plastics are valued for their affordability, durability, and adaptability, making them widely used in industries like packaging, electronics, and healthcare. However, plastic waste has surged, prompting the United Nations to push for a legally binding global treaty to regulate plastics by 2024. Despite ongoing negotiations, no agreement has been reached, highlighting the complexities of global plastic governance. Beyond visible pollution, plastic…
Rubbish Deaths
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Durban, South Africa, this article examines how environmental violence, masculinity, and inequality intersect in the context of the 2022 floods. Through the stories of three men: Barry, an unlikely conservationist; Peace, a young man living on the urban margins; and Roland, a disaster responder, we trace how crises are lived and gendered across race and class. Through the case study of Durban, we argue that disa…
Virtuous circles
Imaginings of the circular economy promise to minimize waste and maximize resource efficiency by ensuring that materials are reused, recycled or repurposed in a closed-loop system resulting, ideally, in 'zero waste'. Drawing on ethnographic research, in this article we analyze the valuation of plastic and food waste within Johannesburg's inner city, and the moral and material significance attributed to them by various stakeholders, including plas…
Strengthening community ties in South Africa
Structural violence and exclusionary policies exacerbate socio-economic inequalities. • Community-based action mitigates food insecurity and resource scarcity in South Africa. • Case studies from Gauteng and Eastern Cape provinces highlight grassroots survival strategies. • Social networks play a key role in addressing immediate needs in deprived communities. • Informal support mechanisms shape survival in marginalized communities. In this articl…
Hustling and suffering
Participating in and working for HIV interventions is both a source of both pride and suffering for many men who have sex with men (MSM) who engage in low-paying sex work in Kenya. Drawing on ongoing intermittent ethnographic research conducted among MSM sex workers since 2010, we analyse the relationship between hope and resilience on one hand, and narratives of suffering and hustling on the other. We show how HIV technologies that provide space…
The Non/Performativity of Solidarity in Transnational LGBTIQ+ Activism
Drawing on multisited ethnography in Kenya and the Netherlands, this article explores how Kenyan LGBTIQ+ activists navigate opportunities, tensions, and constraints in transnational activism. As a case study, it examines Rights Out There—a solidarity event organized in the Netherlands by Dutch INGOs with the participation of activists from the Global South—to explore how external imposition and localized practices are negotiated. Its findings dem…
Food insecurity, intimate partner violence, and barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among women in Lorentzville, South Africa
We underscore the need for comprehensive policy interventions that expand healthcare access for migrant populations and address the economic vulnerabilities that propel women into transactional sex. Our findings contribute to the literature on gender, migration, and survival strategies, demonstrating the importance of intersectional approaches in addressing food insecurity, violence, and reproductive justice
HIV status disclosure in the era of treat-all
Robust advancements in clinical treatment of people living with HIV (PLHIV) have resulted in the current "treatment as prevention" strategy: the inability to transmit the virus when it is undetectable. Nevertheless, disclosure within marital relationships remains important to adhere optimally to treatment and further limit transmission in the era of treat-all. Disclosure, however, can have serious social repercussions, particularly for women. Thi…
Sculpting stories
Purpose This study examines the application of arts-based research (ABR) methods in producing knowledge about the lived experiences of disasters, particularly focusing on the effects of flooding in an informal settlement in South Africa. It emphasizes the use of playdough sculpting as a tool for storytelling, aiming to address and reduce power imbalances between local participants and external researchers. Design/methodology/approach The study em…
Speaking of Hunger
How people speak of hunger extends beyond statements about food adequacy; people's remarks may reflect experiences of poverty and feelings of vulnerability, and may be used to request help. In this article, we build on the idea of idioms of distress to conceptualize hunger talk as expressing more than an empty belly. We draw on ethnographic data gathered in two settings in South Africa: one a peri-urban area under traditional jurisdiction in the …
Doing and undoing transgender health care
A formal Gender Dysphoria classification- as outlined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- is a prerequisite for the reimbursement of both gender-affirming medical care and transgender mental health care in the Netherlands. Gender Dysphoria and its conceptual precursors have always been moving targets: moving due to research, policy, care practices and activism both within and outside of medicine. Thi…
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes
The open burning of plastic wastes is a practice that is highly prevalent across the globe, toxic to human and environmental health, and a critical—but often overlooked—aspect of plastic pollution. Most of the countries where such burning is widespread have laws and policies in place against it; open burning continues nevertheless. In this article, using data from ethnographic fieldwork in urban and rural sites in India, Indonesia, the Philippine…
Mediating immediacy in the era of 'treat all
Based on our findings we propose a community-centered HIV care continuum that exposes moments of potential connection with or rupture from the health system and centers the importance of social support structures and forms of relational labor involving broader communities of care
Paradoxes of Patrimony
This article examines the experiences and motivations of young volunteers engaged in the development domain of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Uganda. While promoting various family-planning projects, volunteers deftly navigated human-rights discourses of international donors, norms of religious leaders, and development narratives of national policymakers as they attempted to advance their own life projects. Through the creation of n…
Social complexities of informed consent and assent among young males undergoing voluntary medical male circumcision in Eswatini
INTRODUCTION: As part of an effort to meet ambitious male circumcision targets in Eswatini, programme implementers have increasingly focused on young males, raising questions about informed consent. Males aged 10-19 years account for more than two-thirds of those circumcised since 2008 when internationally funded circumcision campaigns began in Eswatini. The ethical guidelines of these programmes conform to international standards, requiring that…
After-Crisis
In the early 2000s, massive economic and technical resources accompanied the framing of HIV as a humanitarian and global health crisis in much of the Global South. These resources and framing combined to produce and enhance a wide range of HIV-related structures, skills, and knowledge with afterlives that have exceeded the crisis period in Kenya and elsewhere. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among HIV support groups in Nairobi, Kenya, conducted…
The Fluidity of Patriarchy
In a context of rapid social change in post-conflict West Nile, Uganda, internationally funded non-governmental organisations and the state have joined efforts to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) amongst Lugbara people. That women rarely report GBV is often interpreted as an indicator that such interventions are failing because of flawed design or cultural recalcitrance. Seeking to understand women’s infrequent reporting of GBV, our research ex…
Navigating norms of masculinity
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, heteronormative presumptions relating to masculinity dictate that men should be engaged in or actively pursuing heterosexual relationships. For many gay men, fears of social rejection, stigma, and legal repercussion combine to prevent them from being open about their sexuality. This article examines social and legal pressures experienced by gay men in Dar es Salaam and the ways they navigate their daily lives to avoid …
A black man is a cornered man
Facing an ever-changing political-economic landscape marked by inequality, joblessness, and xenophobia, migrants in inner city Johannesburg are pushed towards the economic margins, or the ‘corner’ of life. In this precarious place, structural and everyday violence shape the daily lives and practices of men from various parts of Africa. This article examines how such men work to live up to self and societal expectations of masculinities while atte…
The knife's edge
In our field sites and clinical practice in East Africa, we regularly encounter men who have become overwhelmed by "thinking too many thoughts" and "gone crazy from confusion," brought about by the problems of life created by deepening social, economic and political precarity. Across diverse settings, many African men continue to be enmeshed in social and material obligations and expectations that position them as economic consumers and providers…
Collaborative conundrums and respectful partnerships
Re)Framing and the (medical) anthropological lens
Everyday afflictions in global context
Is the 21st century the age of biomedicalization
A Disease Unlike Any Other? Why HIV Remains Exceptional in the Age of Treatment
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEileen MoyerEileen Moyer's current research focuses on HIV patient activism in eastern Africa, as part of the Netherlands research council funded program, Filling the Gap: Social institutions and AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.Anita HardonAnita Hardon is an associate editor of Medical Anthropology. She is professor of the Anthropology of Care and Health at the University of Amsterdam and the Scienti…
The Anthropology of Life After Aids
Anthropologists working on HIV are increasingly reframing their research as taking place in "the age of treatment," marking a shift from "the age of AIDS." The age of treatment is characterized by the increasing biomedicalization of HIV, which has come about as a result of improved pharmaceutical and surveillance technologies and the presumption by international experts in global health that HIV could be eradicated in the near future through biom…
Popular Cartographies
In post-socialist Tanzania people rarely articulate economic disparity in terms of class. Instead idioms of space and place are employed to designate differences between the haves and have-nots. The material presented in this paper was gathered during 1999-2000 research among a group of poor urban youth struggling to make a living in the streets of the downtown business district of Dares Salaam. This location allows for an exploration of various …
If I climb a wall of ten meters’
Rather than being seen as citizens, the children of immigrants are portrayed as a population to be controlled and contained across Europe. In Italy today, debates about cultural ‘authenticity’ and renewed nationalism accompany waves of moral panic that depict a country under siege by illegal and unwanted immigrants. Specifically in cities, immigrants and their children are imagined and portrayed as alien and out of place. Drawing on fourteen mont…
When families fail
The availability of free antiretroviral treatment in public health facilities since 2004 has contributed to the increasing biomedicalization of AIDS care in Kenya. This has been accompanied by a reduction of funding for community-based care and support organizations since the 2008 global economic crisis and a consequent donor divestment from HIV projects in Africa. This paper explores the ways that HIV interventions, including support groups, hom…
A black man is a cornered man
Facing an ever-changing political-economic landscape marked by inequality, joblessness, and xenophobia, migrants in inner city Johannesburg are pushed towards the economic margins, or the ‘corner’ of life. In this precarious place, structural and everyday violence shape the daily lives and practices of men from various parts of Africa. This article examines how such men work to live up to self and societal expectations of masculinities while atte…
Becoming and Coming Undone on the Streets of Dar es Salaam
We examine how young men who have spent years living on the streets of downtown Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have used urban spaces, as well as particular kinds of spatial "flights" and "fixes," to navigate the process of growing into adulthood.We argue that places called maskani have provided them with a powerful sense of forward momentum, engendering more immediate and future-oriented forms of becoming.As time has passed, however, life at these pla…
Plastic pollution and the open burning of plastic wastes
The open burning of plastic wastes is a practice that is highly prevalent across the globe, toxic to human and environmental health, and a critical—but often overlooked—aspect of plastic pollution. Most of the countries where such burning is widespread have laws and policies in place against it; open burning continues nevertheless. In this article, using data from ethnographic fieldwork in urban and rural sites in India, Indonesia, the Philippine…
Navigating norms of masculinity
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, heteronormative presumptions relating to masculinity dictate that men should be engaged in or actively pursuing heterosexual relationships. For many gay men, fears of social rejection, stigma, and legal repercussion combine to prevent them from being open about their sexuality. This article examines social and legal pressures experienced by gay men in Dar es Salaam and the ways they navigate their daily lives to avoid …
Medical technologies
While social scientists often highlight the way medical technologies mediate biomedical hegemony, this special issue focuses on the creative and often unexpected ways in which medical technologies are appropriated by diverse actors in homes, clinics and communities. The authors highlight key insights from twelve ethnographic case studies conducted in North and South America, Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The case studies …
Anthropology of Aids
We Have to Ask for Permission to Become
In this article, we analyze a series of feminist protests that have taken place within larger political mobilizations in South Africa. Specifically, we are interested in on- and offline activism that challenges norms of gendered violence and is led by young feminists. These protests were among those that received the widest media coverage in 2015 and 2016, shaping public discourse against sexual violence in South Africa. We focus here on three pr…
The knife's edge
In our field sites and clinical practice in East Africa, we regularly encounter men who have become overwhelmed by "thinking too many thoughts" and "gone crazy from confusion," brought about by the problems of life created by deepening social, economic and political precarity. Across diverse settings, many African men continue to be enmeshed in social and material obligations and expectations that position them as economic consumers and providers…
A Body Like a Baby
As part of the chronic disease paradigm now widely used for HIV in sub-Saharan Africa, antiretroviral treatment programs emphasize self-care. In the informal settlements of Mombasa, Kenya, the management of stress-associated with economic precariousness-plays a significant role in self-care practices and ideologies. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, we examine how local narratives of stress and self-care intertwine with social responsibilities of …
Peer mentors, mobile phone and pills
In 2006, the Kenyan state joined the international commitment to make antiretroviral treatment free in public health institutions to people infected with HIV. Less than a decade later, treatment has reached over 60% of those who need it in Kenya. This paper, which is based on an in-depth ethnographic case study of the HIV treatment programme at Kenyatta National Hospital, conducted intermittently between 2008 and 2014, examines how HIV-positive p…
The duty to disclose in Kenyan health facilities
Disclosure of HIV status is routinely promoted as a public health measure to prevent transmission and enhance treatment adherence support. While studies show a range of positive and negative outcomes associated with disclosure, it has also been documented that disclosing is a challenging and ongoing process. This article aims to describe the role of health-care workers in Central and Nairobi provinces in Kenya in facilitating disclosure in the co…
Becoming a target of HIV intervention
This think piece asks readers to consider how the science of anthropology has contributed to (re)categorization and imaginaries of gender, class, and the state in the context of public and global health interventions. Anthropological work on HIV has since its inception questioned the public health categories of those considered at highest risk for HIV, while simultaneously helping to reconstitute those categories, as well as definitions of risk, …
Lost to follow up’
Through various campaigns and strategies, more women are being tested for HIV in countries with a high prevalence of the virus. Despite the ready availability of treatment at government clinics in sub-Saharan African countries like Swaziland, women consistently report difficulty in maintaining access to treatment. Drawing on two individual case studies selected from a larger study of the so-called leaky cascade in Swaziland, we illustrate the pro…
Street-Corner Justice in the Name of Jah
Eileen Moyer, Street-Corner Justice in the Name of Jah: Imperatives for Peace among Dar es Salaam Street Youth, Africa Today, Vol. 51, No. 3, Youth and Citizenship in East Africa (Spring, 2005), pp. 31-58
Doing and undoing transgender health care
A formal Gender Dysphoria classification- as outlined in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders- is a prerequisite for the reimbursement of both gender-affirming medical care and transgender mental health care in the Netherlands. Gender Dysphoria and its conceptual precursors have always been moving targets: moving due to research, policy, care practices and activism both within and outside of medicine. Thi…
The Fluidity of Patriarchy
In a context of rapid social change in post-conflict West Nile, Uganda, internationally funded non-governmental organisations and the state have joined efforts to reduce gender-based violence (GBV) amongst Lugbara people. That women rarely report GBV is often interpreted as an indicator that such interventions are failing because of flawed design or cultural recalcitrance. Seeking to understand women’s infrequent reporting of GBV, our research ex…
Is the 21st century the age of biomedicalization
The spaces in-between
Examining biomedicine
Congo in Cartoons
Congo in Cartoons
Musulmanes, Musulmans au Caire, a Téhéran, Istanbul, Paris, Dakar; Urban Islam
Popular Cartographies
In post-socialist Tanzania people rarely articulate economic disparity in terms of class. Instead idioms of space and place are employed to designate differences between the haves and have-nots. The material presented in this paper was gathered during 1999-2000 research among a group of poor urban youth struggling to make a living in the streets of the downtown business district of Dares Salaam. This location allows for an exploration of various …
Street-Corner Justice in the Name of Jah
Eileen Moyer, Street-Corner Justice in the Name of Jah: Imperatives for Peace among Dar es Salaam Street Youth, Africa Today, Vol. 51, No. 3, Youth and Citizenship in East Africa (Spring, 2005), pp. 31-58
Faidha gani? What's the point
Most HIV treatment guidelines advise people who test positive to disclose their status to improve adherence and garner psychosocial care and support. Similarly, advocacy groups for people living with HIV encourage disclosure as a key component of fighting self- and community-based stigma. Although there is arguably much to be gained by disclosing, there is also much at stake, including issues of individual and family honour and the possibility of…
The emergence and evolution of HIV counselling in Zambia
HIV-related counselling practices have evolved since emerging in Zambia in 1987. Whereas, initially, the goal of HIV counselling was to provide psychological support to the dying and their families, as knowledge about HIV grew, counselling objectives expanded to include behavioural change, encouraging safer sexual practices, encouraging disclosure, convincing people to test, treatment adherence and shaping HIV-positive people's sexual and reprodu…
They were about to take out their guns on us’
Although pastoralists are a significant proportion of the rural population in many African countries, they are often underserved with regard to health-related interventions. This paper presents data on an effort to provide information about HIV prevention and treatment to Afar people living in remote, northeastern Ethiopia. Using an evidence-based approach, we worked together with the National Network of Positive Women Ethiopians to build relatio…
Putting sex on the table
Psychosocial support groups offer an important space for people living with HIV to pursue greater wellbeing as they learn how to accept and live with their HIV status. They are critical for the cultivation of responsible and adherent patients. Occasionally, support groups provide spaces where members are encouraged to discuss sexual struggles related to being HIV-positive, including sexual performance issues, sexual relationships, fertility desir…
The duty to disclose in Kenyan health facilities
Disclosure of HIV status is routinely promoted as a public health measure to prevent transmission and enhance treatment adherence support. While studies show a range of positive and negative outcomes associated with disclosure, it has also been documented that disclosing is a challenging and ongoing process. This article aims to describe the role of health-care workers in Central and Nairobi provinces in Kenya in facilitating disclosure in the co…
Dilemmas of Patient Expertise
This article examines the work lives of HIV positive peer educators at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi, Ghana, who have been trained to complement the work of health workers. Drawing on fifteen months of ethnographic research in the voluntary counselling and testing centre and the antiretroviral treatment clinic, we found that, despite the wide range of services offered by peer educators, there was a general lack of recognition for t…
Medicine Anthropology Theory
Peer mentors, mobile phone and pills
In 2006, the Kenyan state joined the international commitment to make antiretroviral treatment free in public health institutions to people infected with HIV. Less than a decade later, treatment has reached over 60% of those who need it in Kenya. This paper, which is based on an in-depth ethnographic case study of the HIV treatment programme at Kenyatta National Hospital, conducted intermittently between 2008 and 2014, examines how HIV-positive p…
Medical technologies
While social scientists often highlight the way medical technologies mediate biomedical hegemony, this special issue focuses on the creative and often unexpected ways in which medical technologies are appropriated by diverse actors in homes, clinics and communities. The authors highlight key insights from twelve ethnographic case studies conducted in North and South America, Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. The case studies …
When families fail
The availability of free antiretroviral treatment in public health facilities since 2004 has contributed to the increasing biomedicalization of AIDS care in Kenya. This has been accompanied by a reduction of funding for community-based care and support organizations since the 2008 global economic crisis and a consequent donor divestment from HIV projects in Africa. This paper explores the ways that HIV interventions, including support groups, hom…
A Disease Unlike Any Other? Why HIV Remains Exceptional in the Age of Treatment
Additional informationNotes on contributorsEileen MoyerEileen Moyer's current research focuses on HIV patient activism in eastern Africa, as part of the Netherlands research council funded program, Filling the Gap: Social institutions and AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.Anita HardonAnita Hardon is an associate editor of Medical Anthropology. She is professor of the Anthropology of Care and Health at the University of Amsterdam and the Scienti…
Anthropology of Aids
Sex is never the same
Faced with an HIV prevalence of 31% among 18- to 49-year-olds, Swaziland developed a male circumcision policy in 2009, following compelling scientific evidence from three randomised controlled trials. Utilising United States Agency for International Development funds, the state set out to circumcise 80% of adult men in 2011. Only 8667 of the targeted 150,000 men were circumcised during the campaign. This paper presents findings from a 2012 to 201…
The open question
The open question: Medical anthropology and open access
Boundaries and crossings
The Anthropology of Life After Aids
Anthropologists working on HIV are increasingly reframing their research as taking place in "the age of treatment," marking a shift from "the age of AIDS." The age of treatment is characterized by the increasing biomedicalization of HIV, which has come about as a result of improved pharmaceutical and surveillance technologies and the presumption by international experts in global health that HIV could be eradicated in the near future through biom…
Rethinking the family in the context of care for adolescents living with HIV in Swaziland
Drawing from 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in one urban and one rural setting in Swaziland, involving 13 case studies of adolescents living with HIV, in this article we explore the meaning of the family as it applies to Swazi adolescents' everyday life. Our findings suggest that the meaning of the family is constantly evolving and transforming based on changing needs of, and expectations by, adolescents in different contexts and moments of …
Lost to follow up’
Through various campaigns and strategies, more women are being tested for HIV in countries with a high prevalence of the virus. Despite the ready availability of treatment at government clinics in sub-Saharan African countries like Swaziland, women consistently report difficulty in maintaining access to treatment. Drawing on two individual case studies selected from a larger study of the so-called leaky cascade in Swaziland, we illustrate the pro…
If I climb a wall of ten meters’
Rather than being seen as citizens, the children of immigrants are portrayed as a population to be controlled and contained across Europe. In Italy today, debates about cultural ‘authenticity’ and renewed nationalism accompany waves of moral panic that depict a country under siege by illegal and unwanted immigrants. Specifically in cities, immigrants and their children are imagined and portrayed as alien and out of place. Drawing on fourteen mont…
On the public and private politics of well-being
Examining biomedicine
Sociology (35 obras) · Political science (27 obras) · Medicine (24 obras) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (19 obras) · Psychology (19 obras) · Family medicine (15 obras) · Ethnography (12 obras) · Gender Studies (12 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Anthropology (11 obras)