Minna Säävälä
Biographic Data
| ID | 74857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minna Säävälä |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minna |
| FAMILY NAME | Säävälä |
| SIGNATURE | SÄÄVÄLÄ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9627-0878 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fertility Intentions and Early Life Health Stress Among Women in Eight Indian Cities
In life history theory, early life adversity is associated with an accelerated reproductive tempo. In harsh and unpredictable conditions in developing societies fertility is generally higher and the reproductive tempo faster than in more secure environments. This paper examines whether differences in female anthropometry, particularly adult height, are associated with fertility intentions of women in urban environments in India. The study populat…
Domestic violence made public
Disputes within the family and cases of domestic violence in Bangladesh have traditionally been resolved either among kinsmen or in village panchayats where young women have had less opportunity to be heard. This article describes a third-sector initiative in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in cases of domestic violence in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Data from 20 case studies of female victims of domestic violence, interviews with six lawyers, and p…
Innovation
This special issue examines innovation as social change in South Asia. From an anthropological micro perspective, innovation is moulded by social systems of value and hierarchy and simultaneously potentially transforms them. The articles in this special issue examine a number of innovations in South Asian contexts: the printing press's changing technology and its intersections with communal and language ideologies in India (Peterson); mobile tele…
Semen Loss and Sexual Anxiety Among Young Unmarried Men
An Introduction to Changing India
Globalization and the Middle Classes in India
Globalization and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms." Asian Studies Review, 36(4), pp. 574–575
Assessing young unmarried men's access to reproductive health information and services in rural India
Young unmarried men in rural India are underserved with regard to SRH information and services, because they are not recognized as key targets under the public health system, and they receive their limited knowledge and information mainly from the mass media; this situation could be greatly improved by public health service providers. It is important that programmers involve young men with effective communication strategies to enable them to act …
Influence of mothers-in-law on young couples' family planning decisions in rural India
It has been widely documented in patrilocal and strongly patrilineal settings in India that the presence and influence of mothers-in-law in the household may affect fertility decisions made by young couples. However, not much is known about how intra-family relationships per se influence choice of contraceptive method and timing of use. To understand patterns of family planning decision-making, we carried out short, open-ended interviews in rural…
Forced Migrants, Active Mothers or Desired Wives
All forms of migration have fundamental repercussions in terms of family networks and obligations. This article investigates how women of refugee and migrant background view their deliberative capacities in making choices and how this combines with their self-representation as mothers, daughters and wives. What are the fundamental motivations immigrant women represent as legitimate explanations for their migrancy, in their own eyes and in the eye…
Male Perceptions on Female Sterilization
CONTEXT: Use of modern contraceptive methods has increased fourfold in India since the 1970s,characterized by a predominance of female sterilization.There has been considerable investigation about women's choice of female sterilization, but little from the male perspective. METHODS: Seven focus group discussions were conducted among 58 men currently married to women aged 15-45, followed by a cross-sectional survey among 793 men currently married …
The Eastern and the Imagined
Entangled in the imagination
By analysing a visit to Ramoji Film City, a theme park in Hyderabad, by a group of youths, this essay examines how transterritorial flows of imagery are socially contextualized by India's new middle classes. A theme park is a spatial arrangement thatincorporatesimaginary worlds and makes them available to experiencein a contextless 'here-and-now'. As such, the theme parkis a stage where the fragileidentity of India's new middle classes is put on …
Auspicious Hindu houses. The new middle classes in Hyderabad, India
L'A. soutient que la notion hindoue de l'auspice - l'attachement a des moments benis, aux ceremonies d'initiation et d'autres pratiques qui doivent assurer du succes - reste cruciale pour l'auto-definition de la nouvelle classe moyenne en Inde. Il discute d'abord le concept de l'auspice et le debat sur cette notion des annees 1980 et 1990. Il presente ensuite quelques esquisses ethnographiques sur les pratiques de logement de la nouvelle classe m…
Low caste but middle-class
This article examines some religious means that socio-economically mobile low caste families use to identify themselves as 'middle-class people' in an urban setting in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. Special attention is paid to the situation of ex-Untouchables whose religious strategies, through partly specific to them, nevertheless reveal tendencies that are general among low caste Hindus in urban areas. The portrait of an ex-Untouchable fa…
Understanding the Prevalence of Female Sterilization in Rural South India
By analyzing the practice of female sterilization in rural Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, this article examines the role culture plays in demographic research. The popularity of female sterilization in rural Andhra Pradesh is shown to be intelligible if the symbolic value of a young mother's reproductive capacity is understood in terms of familial power relations. Through sterilization, young mothers can symbolically push their influential mo…
Auspicious Hindu houses. The new middle classes in Hyderabad, India
L'A. soutient que la notion hindoue de l'auspice - l'attachement a des moments benis, aux ceremonies d'initiation et d'autres pratiques qui doivent assurer du succes - reste cruciale pour l'auto-definition de la nouvelle classe moyenne en Inde. Il discute d'abord le concept de l'auspice et le debat sur cette notion des annees 1980 et 1990. Il presente ensuite quelques esquisses ethnographiques sur les pratiques de logement de la nouvelle classe m…
Low caste but middle-class
This article examines some religious means that socio-economically mobile low caste families use to identify themselves as 'middle-class people' in an urban setting in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. Special attention is paid to the situation of ex-Untouchables whose religious strategies, through partly specific to them, nevertheless reveal tendencies that are general among low caste Hindus in urban areas. The portrait of an ex-Untouchable fa…
Understanding the Prevalence of Female Sterilization in Rural South India
By analyzing the practice of female sterilization in rural Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, this article examines the role culture plays in demographic research. The popularity of female sterilization in rural Andhra Pradesh is shown to be intelligible if the symbolic value of a young mother's reproductive capacity is understood in terms of familial power relations. Through sterilization, young mothers can symbolically push their influential mo…
Influence of mothers-in-law on young couples' family planning decisions in rural India
It has been widely documented in patrilocal and strongly patrilineal settings in India that the presence and influence of mothers-in-law in the household may affect fertility decisions made by young couples. However, not much is known about how intra-family relationships per se influence choice of contraceptive method and timing of use. To understand patterns of family planning decision-making, we carried out short, open-ended interviews in rural…
Forced Migrants, Active Mothers or Desired Wives
All forms of migration have fundamental repercussions in terms of family networks and obligations. This article investigates how women of refugee and migrant background view their deliberative capacities in making choices and how this combines with their self-representation as mothers, daughters and wives. What are the fundamental motivations immigrant women represent as legitimate explanations for their migrancy, in their own eyes and in the eye…
Entangled in the imagination
By analysing a visit to Ramoji Film City, a theme park in Hyderabad, by a group of youths, this essay examines how transterritorial flows of imagery are socially contextualized by India's new middle classes. A theme park is a spatial arrangement thatincorporatesimaginary worlds and makes them available to experiencein a contextless 'here-and-now'. As such, the theme parkis a stage where the fragileidentity of India's new middle classes is put on …
Globalization and the Middle Classes in India
Globalization and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms." Asian Studies Review, 36(4), pp. 574–575
Domestic violence made public
Disputes within the family and cases of domestic violence in Bangladesh have traditionally been resolved either among kinsmen or in village panchayats where young women have had less opportunity to be heard. This article describes a third-sector initiative in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in cases of domestic violence in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Data from 20 case studies of female victims of domestic violence, interviews with six lawyers, and p…
Semen Loss and Sexual Anxiety Among Young Unmarried Men
Understanding the Prevalence of Female Sterilization in Rural South India
By analyzing the practice of female sterilization in rural Andhra Pradesh, in southern India, this article examines the role culture plays in demographic research. The popularity of female sterilization in rural Andhra Pradesh is shown to be intelligible if the symbolic value of a young mother's reproductive capacity is understood in terms of familial power relations. Through sterilization, young mothers can symbolically push their influential mo…
Low caste but middle-class
This article examines some religious means that socio-economically mobile low caste families use to identify themselves as 'middle-class people' in an urban setting in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. Special attention is paid to the situation of ex-Untouchables whose religious strategies, through partly specific to them, nevertheless reveal tendencies that are general among low caste Hindus in urban areas. The portrait of an ex-Untouchable fa…
Auspicious Hindu houses. The new middle classes in Hyderabad, India
L'A. soutient que la notion hindoue de l'auspice - l'attachement a des moments benis, aux ceremonies d'initiation et d'autres pratiques qui doivent assurer du succes - reste cruciale pour l'auto-definition de la nouvelle classe moyenne en Inde. Il discute d'abord le concept de l'auspice et le debat sur cette notion des annees 1980 et 1990. Il presente ensuite quelques esquisses ethnographiques sur les pratiques de logement de la nouvelle classe m…
Entangled in the imagination
By analysing a visit to Ramoji Film City, a theme park in Hyderabad, by a group of youths, this essay examines how transterritorial flows of imagery are socially contextualized by India's new middle classes. A theme park is a spatial arrangement thatincorporatesimaginary worlds and makes them available to experiencein a contextless 'here-and-now'. As such, the theme parkis a stage where the fragileidentity of India's new middle classes is put on …
Male Perceptions on Female Sterilization
CONTEXT: Use of modern contraceptive methods has increased fourfold in India since the 1970s,characterized by a predominance of female sterilization.There has been considerable investigation about women's choice of female sterilization, but little from the male perspective. METHODS: Seven focus group discussions were conducted among 58 men currently married to women aged 15-45, followed by a cross-sectional survey among 793 men currently married …
The Eastern and the Imagined
Influence of mothers-in-law on young couples' family planning decisions in rural India
It has been widely documented in patrilocal and strongly patrilineal settings in India that the presence and influence of mothers-in-law in the household may affect fertility decisions made by young couples. However, not much is known about how intra-family relationships per se influence choice of contraceptive method and timing of use. To understand patterns of family planning decision-making, we carried out short, open-ended interviews in rural…
Forced Migrants, Active Mothers or Desired Wives
All forms of migration have fundamental repercussions in terms of family networks and obligations. This article investigates how women of refugee and migrant background view their deliberative capacities in making choices and how this combines with their self-representation as mothers, daughters and wives. What are the fundamental motivations immigrant women represent as legitimate explanations for their migrancy, in their own eyes and in the eye…
Assessing young unmarried men's access to reproductive health information and services in rural India
Young unmarried men in rural India are underserved with regard to SRH information and services, because they are not recognized as key targets under the public health system, and they receive their limited knowledge and information mainly from the mass media; this situation could be greatly improved by public health service providers. It is important that programmers involve young men with effective communication strategies to enable them to act …
An Introduction to Changing India
Globalization and the Middle Classes in India
Globalization and the Middle Classes in India: The Social and Cultural Impact of Neoliberal Reforms." Asian Studies Review, 36(4), pp. 574–575
Semen Loss and Sexual Anxiety Among Young Unmarried Men
Domestic violence made public
Disputes within the family and cases of domestic violence in Bangladesh have traditionally been resolved either among kinsmen or in village panchayats where young women have had less opportunity to be heard. This article describes a third-sector initiative in alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in cases of domestic violence in Sylhet, Bangladesh. Data from 20 case studies of female victims of domestic violence, interviews with six lawyers, and p…
Innovation
This special issue examines innovation as social change in South Asia. From an anthropological micro perspective, innovation is moulded by social systems of value and hierarchy and simultaneously potentially transforms them. The articles in this special issue examine a number of innovations in South Asian contexts: the printing press's changing technology and its intersections with communal and language ideologies in India (Peterson); mobile tele…
Fertility Intentions and Early Life Health Stress Among Women in Eight Indian Cities
In life history theory, early life adversity is associated with an accelerated reproductive tempo. In harsh and unpredictable conditions in developing societies fertility is generally higher and the reproductive tempo faster than in more secure environments. This paper examines whether differences in female anthropometry, particularly adult height, are associated with fertility intentions of women in urban environments in India. The study populat…
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