C Dole
Biographic Data
| ID | 7689 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Dole |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Dole |
| SIGNATURE | DOLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amherst College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6845-4178 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Optimism of Catastrophe: Loss and Liveable Futures in Post-Disaster Turkey
This article examines long-term experiences of loss and grief among survivors of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999. Based on extended ethnographic fieldwork in the region, I explore how subjectivity and temporality, loss and living on, can configure in the long aftermath of disaster. Drawing on the writings of Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî, I approach this relationship between disaster and future-making as a form of optimism. This ar…
Psychiatry, Disaster, Security: Mediterranean Assemblages
Giving Care a Platform: The Use of Instagram by Mothers of Children with Chronic Illness
In this article, we explore the ways that the social media platform Instagram shapes the intersubjective experience of caring for children with chronic illnesses. Based on long-term immersive social media research and in-depth interviews with women maintaining popular Instagram accounts dedicated to caring for children with chronic illnesses, we approach Instagram as a 'moral laboratory' (Mattingly 2010) in which caregivers negotiate the meaning …
Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey
A massive earthquake that struck Turkey in 1999 generated an unprecedented mobilization of Turkish psychiatrists and psychologists to address the mental and emotional aftermath of the disaster. In this article I examine how these mental health professionals, swept up in a wave of humanitarian compassion, confronted the limits of their own expertise and struggled to improvise a therapeutic response that could match the scale of psychological suffe…
Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey
Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye
Reviewed by: Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye Christopher Dole Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 304 pp. “There is something so beguiling about the combination of words and pictures in sequence that, once you start, it’s hard to stop turning the pages,” writes the cartoonist Paul …
Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes
Revolution, Occupation, and Love: The 2011 Year in Cultural Anthropology
What does anthropology have to offer for making sense of the events that have come to be known as the "Arab Spring"? In this article, I use this question to organize my discussion of the prominent scholarly conversations occurring in cultural anthropology for the year 2011. The topics I consider in this review are the critical study of secularism and liberalism; affect, intimacy, and care as registers of politics and economy; space, place, and ti…
Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling: A Methodological Comparison of Ethnographic and Research Diagnostic Interviews
The interpretive understanding that can be derived from interviews is highly influenced by methods of data collection, be they structured or semistructured, ethnographic, clinical, life-history or survey interviews. This article responds to calls for research into the interview process by analyzing data produced by two distinctly different types of interview, a semistructured ethnographic interview and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM, c…
The need to act a little more 'scientific: Biomedical Researchers Investigating Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The advent of scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has contributed to the current state of flux regarding the distinction between biomedicine and CAM. CAM research scientists play a unique role in reconfiguring this boundary by virtue of their training in biomedical sciences on the one hand and knowledge of CAM on the other. This study uses qualitative interviews to explore how CAM researchers perceive and negotiate…
Mass Media and the Repulsive Allure of Religious Healing: The Cinci Hoca in Turkish Modernity
[Fade in from commercial, sonorous male voice advertising the evening news.] Once again a cinci hoca , once again a sexual harassing... Recently in our country, this exorcizing of spirits, witchcraft, fortune-telling, and mediumship, which are all products of primitive, magical thought, have been spreading like an epidemic. For years, either knowingly or unknowingly, they have been given extensive advertisement in newspapers and on television sta…
Cracking the Temp Trap: Day Laborers' Grievances and Strategies for Change in Cleveland, Ohio
This article examines the experiences of homeless workers within the day-laborer industry in Cleveland, Ohio and the multiple chal lenges they encounter in attempting to gain full-time employment. To provide a context for this study, we discuss the specific histori cal background of the day-labor industry in the city. We present the grievances day laborers raise within the categories of hours and wages, racial discrimination, gender discriminatio…
In the Shadows of Medicine and Modernity: Medical Integration and Secular Histories of Religious Healing in Turkey
Trials of Navajo Youth: Identity, Healing, and the Struggle for Maturity
In this article, we examine the experiences of Navajo youth living on the contemporary Navajo reservation with the aim of conceptualizing how they position themselves between overarching discursive tensions of what it means to be Navajo and the everyday constraints of existence on the Navajo reservation. We take up three topics in particular: the categorical problems and processes of Navajo youth specifically in terms of their use of such organiz…
Revolution, Occupation, and Love: The 2011 Year in Cultural Anthropology
What does anthropology have to offer for making sense of the events that have come to be known as the "Arab Spring"? In this article, I use this question to organize my discussion of the prominent scholarly conversations occurring in cultural anthropology for the year 2011. The topics I consider in this review are the critical study of secularism and liberalism; affect, intimacy, and care as registers of politics and economy; space, place, and ti…
The need to act a little more 'scientific: Biomedical Researchers Investigating Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The advent of scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has contributed to the current state of flux regarding the distinction between biomedicine and CAM. CAM research scientists play a unique role in reconfiguring this boundary by virtue of their training in biomedical sciences on the one hand and knowledge of CAM on the other. This study uses qualitative interviews to explore how CAM researchers perceive and negotiate…
Cracking the Temp Trap: Day Laborers' Grievances and Strategies for Change in Cleveland, Ohio
This article examines the experiences of homeless workers within the day-laborer industry in Cleveland, Ohio and the multiple chal lenges they encounter in attempting to gain full-time employment. To provide a context for this study, we discuss the specific histori cal background of the day-labor industry in the city. We present the grievances day laborers raise within the categories of hours and wages, racial discrimination, gender discriminatio…
Trials of Navajo Youth: Identity, Healing, and the Struggle for Maturity
In this article, we examine the experiences of Navajo youth living on the contemporary Navajo reservation with the aim of conceptualizing how they position themselves between overarching discursive tensions of what it means to be Navajo and the everyday constraints of existence on the Navajo reservation. We take up three topics in particular: the categorical problems and processes of Navajo youth specifically in terms of their use of such organiz…
Mass Media and the Repulsive Allure of Religious Healing: The Cinci Hoca in Turkish Modernity
[Fade in from commercial, sonorous male voice advertising the evening news.] Once again a cinci hoca , once again a sexual harassing... Recently in our country, this exorcizing of spirits, witchcraft, fortune-telling, and mediumship, which are all products of primitive, magical thought, have been spreading like an epidemic. For years, either knowingly or unknowingly, they have been given extensive advertisement in newspapers and on television sta…
Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey
A massive earthquake that struck Turkey in 1999 generated an unprecedented mobilization of Turkish psychiatrists and psychologists to address the mental and emotional aftermath of the disaster. In this article I examine how these mental health professionals, swept up in a wave of humanitarian compassion, confronted the limits of their own expertise and struggled to improvise a therapeutic response that could match the scale of psychological suffe…
Trials of Navajo Youth: Identity, Healing, and the Struggle for Maturity
In this article, we examine the experiences of Navajo youth living on the contemporary Navajo reservation with the aim of conceptualizing how they position themselves between overarching discursive tensions of what it means to be Navajo and the everyday constraints of existence on the Navajo reservation. We take up three topics in particular: the categorical problems and processes of Navajo youth specifically in terms of their use of such organiz…
In the Shadows of Medicine and Modernity: Medical Integration and Secular Histories of Religious Healing in Turkey
Cracking the Temp Trap: Day Laborers' Grievances and Strategies for Change in Cleveland, Ohio
This article examines the experiences of homeless workers within the day-laborer industry in Cleveland, Ohio and the multiple chal lenges they encounter in attempting to gain full-time employment. To provide a context for this study, we discuss the specific histori cal background of the day-labor industry in the city. We present the grievances day laborers raise within the categories of hours and wages, racial discrimination, gender discriminatio…
Mass Media and the Repulsive Allure of Religious Healing: The Cinci Hoca in Turkish Modernity
[Fade in from commercial, sonorous male voice advertising the evening news.] Once again a cinci hoca , once again a sexual harassing... Recently in our country, this exorcizing of spirits, witchcraft, fortune-telling, and mediumship, which are all products of primitive, magical thought, have been spreading like an epidemic. For years, either knowingly or unknowingly, they have been given extensive advertisement in newspapers and on television sta…
Ways of Asking, Ways of Telling: A Methodological Comparison of Ethnographic and Research Diagnostic Interviews
The interpretive understanding that can be derived from interviews is highly influenced by methods of data collection, be they structured or semistructured, ethnographic, clinical, life-history or survey interviews. This article responds to calls for research into the interview process by analyzing data produced by two distinctly different types of interview, a semistructured ethnographic interview and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM, c…
The need to act a little more 'scientific: Biomedical Researchers Investigating Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The advent of scientific research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has contributed to the current state of flux regarding the distinction between biomedicine and CAM. CAM research scientists play a unique role in reconfiguring this boundary by virtue of their training in biomedical sciences on the one hand and knowledge of CAM on the other. This study uses qualitative interviews to explore how CAM researchers perceive and negotiate…
Healing Secular Life: Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes
Revolution, Occupation, and Love: The 2011 Year in Cultural Anthropology
What does anthropology have to offer for making sense of the events that have come to be known as the "Arab Spring"? In this article, I use this question to organize my discussion of the prominent scholarly conversations occurring in cultural anthropology for the year 2011. The topics I consider in this review are the critical study of secularism and liberalism; affect, intimacy, and care as registers of politics and economy; space, place, and ti…
Secular Histories, Saintly Returns: Death and Devotion in Modern Turkey
Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye
Reviewed by: Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye Christopher Dole Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye, Lissa: A Story About Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. 304 pp. “There is something so beguiling about the combination of words and pictures in sequence that, once you start, it’s hard to stop turning the pages,” writes the cartoonist Paul …
Experiments in Scale: Humanitarian Psychiatry in Post-Disaster Turkey
A massive earthquake that struck Turkey in 1999 generated an unprecedented mobilization of Turkish psychiatrists and psychologists to address the mental and emotional aftermath of the disaster. In this article I examine how these mental health professionals, swept up in a wave of humanitarian compassion, confronted the limits of their own expertise and struggled to improvise a therapeutic response that could match the scale of psychological suffe…
Giving Care a Platform: The Use of Instagram by Mothers of Children with Chronic Illness
In this article, we explore the ways that the social media platform Instagram shapes the intersubjective experience of caring for children with chronic illnesses. Based on long-term immersive social media research and in-depth interviews with women maintaining popular Instagram accounts dedicated to caring for children with chronic illnesses, we approach Instagram as a 'moral laboratory' (Mattingly 2010) in which caregivers negotiate the meaning …
Psychiatry, Disaster, Security: Mediterranean Assemblages
The Optimism of Catastrophe: Loss and Liveable Futures in Post-Disaster Turkey
This article examines long-term experiences of loss and grief among survivors of a massive earthquake that struck western Turkey in 1999. Based on extended ethnographic fieldwork in the region, I explore how subjectivity and temporality, loss and living on, can configure in the long aftermath of disaster. Drawing on the writings of Abû Hâmid al-Ghazâlî, I approach this relationship between disaster and future-making as a form of optimism. This ar…
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