Elise Andaya
Biographic Data
| ID | 78004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elise Andaya |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elise |
| FAMILY NAME | Andaya |
| SIGNATURE | ANDAYA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7621-7466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 92 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resilience-Peril or promise? Mapping current and future directions in the anthropology of resilience
Resilience is everywhere in contemporary US discourse. In this article, we map anthropological research on resilience and suggest future contributions to resilience studies. To date, anthropological work either uses resilience to describe practices of human survival in adversity or studies resilience as a policy discourse. While anthropologists have long been concerned with human adaptation to adversity, we theorize that resilience discourses hol…
Clinicians’ criteria for fetal moral status
The antiabortion movement is increasingly using ostensibly scientific measurements such as ‘fetal heartbeat’ and ‘fetal pain’ to provide ‘objective’ evidence of the moral status of fetuses. However, there is little knowledge on how clinicians conceptualise and operationalise the moral status of fetuses. We interviewed obstetrician/gynaecologists and neonatologists on this topic since their practice regularly includes clinical management of entiti…
‘I never even tried to get out of work’
This study focuses on an under-investigated link between work–life interrelationships and health: how low-wage work impacts employees’ health by influencing their management of health-related concerns. Using structuration theory, interviews with 21 low-wage service work (LWSS) women workers were analyzed to identify structures and interactional dynamics in their reported interactions with their supervisors about health-related matters that inters…
Trading in harms
Conceptualizing Pain and Personhood in the Periviable Period
Conceiving Cuba
After Cuba’s 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union fell and Cuba’s economic troubles worsened, these programs began to collapse, with serious results for Cuban families. Conceiving Cuba offers an intimate look at how, with the island’s political a…
I'm building a wall around my uterus
After Donald Trump' s inauguration, I sent an email to friends soliciting photographs to accompany a then-forthcoming article on abortion rights in the United States (Andaya and Mishtal 2017).Of the many compelling images, one caught my eye.A woman stands on a subway platform on her way to a protest march, holding a sign proclaiming: "I'm building a wall around my uterus and making the GOP pay me back."It' s funny-a witty critique of the administ…
Race-ing Time
Analysis of clinical temporalities, or the social organization of time in the clinic, offers insights into how racism coheres in pregnant bodies and institutions, with implications for health care experiences for patients and providers. Based on research at a public prenatal clinic, I argue that long patient wait-times and pressure on providers to speed up are temporal instantiations of the same racist structures that shape public health care in …
Unrequited Engagement
Life and Time after Fidel
The Erosion of Rights to Abortion Care in the United States
Women's rights to legal abortion in the United States are now facing their greatest social and legislative challenges since its 1973 legalization. Legislation restricting rights and access to abortion care has been passed at state and federal levels at an unprecedented rate. Given the renewed vigor of anti-abortion movements, we call on anthropologists to engage with this shifting landscape of reproductive politics. This article examines recent l…
Relationships and Money, Money and Relationships
"Relationshipsand Money, Money and Relationships": Anxieties aroundPartnerChoice and Changing Economies in Post-SovietCuba Elise Andaya Now, everyone has family ... overseas that help them because here the salaries don't suffice. And if they don't have family overseas, people go looking ... for a partner with money, and that's the way it goes. Relationships and money, money and relationships. I'm telling you, girl, you have to survive and with th…
Community Health Care in Cuba by Susan E. Mason, David L. Strug, and Joan Beder Primary Health Care in Cuba by Linda M. Whiteford and Laurence G. Branch
The Gift of Health
Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 13 months of fieldwork in family doctor clinics in Havana from 2004 to 2005, I examine the shifting moral and material economies of Cuban socialist medical practice. In both official ideology and in daily practice, the moral economy of ideal socialist medicine is based on an ethos of reciprocal social exchange-that is, the gift-that informs not only doctors' relationships with the Cuban state and with i…
The Erosion of Rights to Abortion Care in the United States
Women's rights to legal abortion in the United States are now facing their greatest social and legislative challenges since its 1973 legalization. Legislation restricting rights and access to abortion care has been passed at state and federal levels at an unprecedented rate. Given the renewed vigor of anti-abortion movements, we call on anthropologists to engage with this shifting landscape of reproductive politics. This article examines recent l…
The Gift of Health
Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 13 months of fieldwork in family doctor clinics in Havana from 2004 to 2005, I examine the shifting moral and material economies of Cuban socialist medical practice. In both official ideology and in daily practice, the moral economy of ideal socialist medicine is based on an ethos of reciprocal social exchange-that is, the gift-that informs not only doctors' relationships with the Cuban state and with i…
I'm building a wall around my uterus
After Donald Trump' s inauguration, I sent an email to friends soliciting photographs to accompany a then-forthcoming article on abortion rights in the United States (Andaya and Mishtal 2017).Of the many compelling images, one caught my eye.A woman stands on a subway platform on her way to a protest march, holding a sign proclaiming: "I'm building a wall around my uterus and making the GOP pay me back."It' s funny-a witty critique of the administ…
Race-ing Time
Analysis of clinical temporalities, or the social organization of time in the clinic, offers insights into how racism coheres in pregnant bodies and institutions, with implications for health care experiences for patients and providers. Based on research at a public prenatal clinic, I argue that long patient wait-times and pressure on providers to speed up are temporal instantiations of the same racist structures that shape public health care in …
Conceptualizing Pain and Personhood in the Periviable Period
Relationships and Money, Money and Relationships
"Relationshipsand Money, Money and Relationships": Anxieties aroundPartnerChoice and Changing Economies in Post-SovietCuba Elise Andaya Now, everyone has family ... overseas that help them because here the salaries don't suffice. And if they don't have family overseas, people go looking ... for a partner with money, and that's the way it goes. Relationships and money, money and relationships. I'm telling you, girl, you have to survive and with th…
Unrequited Engagement
Resilience-Peril or promise? Mapping current and future directions in the anthropology of resilience
Resilience is everywhere in contemporary US discourse. In this article, we map anthropological research on resilience and suggest future contributions to resilience studies. To date, anthropological work either uses resilience to describe practices of human survival in adversity or studies resilience as a policy discourse. While anthropologists have long been concerned with human adaptation to adversity, we theorize that resilience discourses hol…
The Gift of Health
Drawing on ethnographic data collected over 13 months of fieldwork in family doctor clinics in Havana from 2004 to 2005, I examine the shifting moral and material economies of Cuban socialist medical practice. In both official ideology and in daily practice, the moral economy of ideal socialist medicine is based on an ethos of reciprocal social exchange-that is, the gift-that informs not only doctors' relationships with the Cuban state and with i…
Community Health Care in Cuba by Susan E. Mason, David L. Strug, and Joan Beder Primary Health Care in Cuba by Linda M. Whiteford and Laurence G. Branch
Relationships and Money, Money and Relationships
"Relationshipsand Money, Money and Relationships": Anxieties aroundPartnerChoice and Changing Economies in Post-SovietCuba Elise Andaya Now, everyone has family ... overseas that help them because here the salaries don't suffice. And if they don't have family overseas, people go looking ... for a partner with money, and that's the way it goes. Relationships and money, money and relationships. I'm telling you, girl, you have to survive and with th…
Life and Time after Fidel
The Erosion of Rights to Abortion Care in the United States
Women's rights to legal abortion in the United States are now facing their greatest social and legislative challenges since its 1973 legalization. Legislation restricting rights and access to abortion care has been passed at state and federal levels at an unprecedented rate. Given the renewed vigor of anti-abortion movements, we call on anthropologists to engage with this shifting landscape of reproductive politics. This article examines recent l…
Unrequited Engagement
Conceiving Cuba
After Cuba’s 1959 revolution, the Castro government sought to instill a new social order. Hoping to achieve a new and egalitarian society, the state invested in policies designed to promote the well-being of women and children. Yet once the Soviet Union fell and Cuba’s economic troubles worsened, these programs began to collapse, with serious results for Cuban families. Conceiving Cuba offers an intimate look at how, with the island’s political a…
I'm building a wall around my uterus
After Donald Trump' s inauguration, I sent an email to friends soliciting photographs to accompany a then-forthcoming article on abortion rights in the United States (Andaya and Mishtal 2017).Of the many compelling images, one caught my eye.A woman stands on a subway platform on her way to a protest march, holding a sign proclaiming: "I'm building a wall around my uterus and making the GOP pay me back."It' s funny-a witty critique of the administ…
Race-ing Time
Analysis of clinical temporalities, or the social organization of time in the clinic, offers insights into how racism coheres in pregnant bodies and institutions, with implications for health care experiences for patients and providers. Based on research at a public prenatal clinic, I argue that long patient wait-times and pressure on providers to speed up are temporal instantiations of the same racist structures that shape public health care in …
Conceptualizing Pain and Personhood in the Periviable Period
‘I never even tried to get out of work’
This study focuses on an under-investigated link between work–life interrelationships and health: how low-wage work impacts employees’ health by influencing their management of health-related concerns. Using structuration theory, interviews with 21 low-wage service work (LWSS) women workers were analyzed to identify structures and interactional dynamics in their reported interactions with their supervisors about health-related matters that inters…
Trading in harms
Clinicians’ criteria for fetal moral status
The antiabortion movement is increasingly using ostensibly scientific measurements such as ‘fetal heartbeat’ and ‘fetal pain’ to provide ‘objective’ evidence of the moral status of fetuses. However, there is little knowledge on how clinicians conceptualise and operationalise the moral status of fetuses. We interviewed obstetrician/gynaecologists and neonatologists on this topic since their practice regularly includes clinical management of entiti…
Resilience-Peril or promise? Mapping current and future directions in the anthropology of resilience
Resilience is everywhere in contemporary US discourse. In this article, we map anthropological research on resilience and suggest future contributions to resilience studies. To date, anthropological work either uses resilience to describe practices of human survival in adversity or studies resilience as a policy discourse. While anthropologists have long been concerned with human adaptation to adversity, we theorize that resilience discourses hol…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)