Lisa M Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 78866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa M Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0599-6543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
HeART space
This article details the transformation of an empty store into a gallery honouring youth and others who have passed away from overdoses, and the creation of extensive harm reduction and grief support programming that accompanied the display of artwork. The outpouring of community interest, participation, and emotion that surfaced around heART space clearly shows how art, exhibitions and creative programming can help foster communities of care dur…
Social media as moral laboratory
Street involved youth experience both increased rates of mortality and the all too frequent deaths of people they know, rely on, and care about. In this paper, we explore how street-involved youth dealing with the death of peers or family are engaging in what Mattingly calls ‘moral laboratories’, that is, ‘experiments in how life might or should be lived’ (2014, 27). Drawing from interviews with youth in Victoria, Canada, we analyse aspects of th…
Accidental Intimacies”
Youth who use drugs (YWUD) are likely to encounter the police and experience victimization within those encounters. Negative experiences of police among youth can dramatically undermine youths’ trust in police, making them unlikely to ask for help when they need it. In this article, we use Rance and Fraser’s concept of “accidental intimacies” between staff and people who inject drugs arising in encounters within supervised consumption sites. Thei…
Time with Babe
Some North American hospitals now offer parents the opportunity to see, hold, and photograph fetal remains after pregnancy loss. I explore the social, material, and interpretive strategies mobilized to create this fetal visibility after second trimester-induced abortion for fetal anomaly. My analysis examines both the discursive framing of fetal remains in practice guidelines on pregnancy loss and the responses of a group of Canadian women to bei…
Imaging and Imagining the Fetus
Reviewed by: Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound by Malcolm Nicolson, John E. E. Fleming Lisa M. Mitchell Malcolm Nicolson and John E. E. Fleming. Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xi + 317 pp. Ill. $50.00 (ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0793-7, ISBN-10: 1-4214-0793-0). Ultrasound fetal images, familiar to many around the world, have…
Death and grief on-line
‘Virtual memorials’ intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
Death & Grief On-line
'Virtual memorials' intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
In a Younger Voice
Enchanted Worlds
In the Visayan Philippines, engkanto are a diverse category of spirits and supernatural entities. Children are seen as especially susceptible to contact with and harm from engkanto, yet their views on these spirits have not been researched. Based on conversations with and drawings by a group of children from an impoverished periurban community, we examine their anxieties, ideas about and experiences of engkanto. Previously conceptualised as relev…
Enchanted Worlds
The publisher regrets that on p. 113 of issue 2 (12) 2011 an editing error occurs. Lisa M. Mitchell's correspondence address reads ‘Department of Anthropology, the University of Victoria, Victoria ...
When a Baby Dies of Sids
Miah and Rich's The Medicalization of Cyberspace
Risk and the Pregnant Body
Reasoning well about risk is most challenging when a woman is pregnant, for patient and doctor alike. During pregnancy, we tend to note the risks of medical interventions without adequately noting those of failing to intervene, yet when it's time to give birth, interventions are seldom questioned, even when they don't work. Meanwhile, outside the clinic, advice given to pregnant women on how to stay healthy in everyday life can seem capricious an…
Born in the U.S.A
Child‐centered? Thinking Critically About Children's Drawings as a Visual Research Method
Children’s drawings have gained renewed interest as anthropologists and other researchers search for methods that align with the current conceptualization of children as social agents and cultural producers. In this article, based upon fieldwork in the Central Philippines, I critically examine the claim that drawing is a “child-centered” research technique. In particular, I discuss adult–child power relationships and ethical issues that arise whe…
Body and Illness
Despite a plethora of studies counting, examining, assessing, and diagnosing Filipino children living in poverty, children's own perceptions and concerns about their health and security are rarely elicited. This article draws from fieldwork in an urban neighbourhood in the Visayan Philippines among children who, every day, face a complex and precarious landscape dominated by multigenerational poverty, social marginalization, recurring hunger, and…
Barons, Brokers, and Buyers
Michael Billig, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003, 320 pages.Sally Ann Ness, Where Asia Smiles: An Ethnography of Philippine Tourism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, xvii + 301 pages.Reviewer: Lisa M. Mitchell University of VictoriaThere is considerable anthropological interest at the moment in the transnational flows of capital, humans, and goods and in the consequences of these forces for local groups. The two bo…
Baby's First Picture
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Baby's First Picture
Baby's First Picture
Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions
Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels. eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. vi +345 pp
The Invisible Topography of Power
This paper discusses how low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted from power lines, computers and electrical appliances have become a form of environmental pollution. At the heart of this controversy is a growing public and scientific preoccupation with measuring EMF `levels', quantifying EMF `exposure', and calculating the EMF `risk' to human health. Increasingly sophisticated measurement devices (dosimeters) are offered on the market…
Cross-Cultural Cyborgs
Lisa M. Mitchell, Eugenia Georges, Cross-Cultural Cyborgs: Greek and Canadian Women's Discourses on Fetal Ultrasound, Feminist Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminists and Fetuses (Summer, 1997), pp. 373-401
Women As Political Actors
Research on women as political actors has tended to focus on their separateness from men, the opposition of their goals from male goals, and on their state of oppression. It is argued that this problematic orientation stems from three primary sources of theoretical bias current anthropological definitions of politics which emphasize power and conflict, an acceptance of the universal oppression of women, and the linking of gender to the public ver…
Looking Out for Each Other
In public discourses, friendships among street-involved youth are often regarded as sources of delinquent or risky behaviour. Through interviews with street-involved youth in Victoria, BC, we explore youth's ideas about their friendships. Our analysis suggests that the youth we interviewed have created a "relational refuge," that is, a social space and metaphorical home constituted through trust, proximity, and sharing of emotions and resources. …
Child‐centered? Thinking Critically About Children's Drawings as a Visual Research Method
Children’s drawings have gained renewed interest as anthropologists and other researchers search for methods that align with the current conceptualization of children as social agents and cultural producers. In this article, based upon fieldwork in the Central Philippines, I critically examine the claim that drawing is a “child-centered” research technique. In particular, I discuss adult–child power relationships and ethical issues that arise whe…
Cross-Cultural Cyborgs
Lisa M. Mitchell, Eugenia Georges, Cross-Cultural Cyborgs: Greek and Canadian Women's Discourses on Fetal Ultrasound, Feminist Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminists and Fetuses (Summer, 1997), pp. 373-401
Risk and the Pregnant Body
Reasoning well about risk is most challenging when a woman is pregnant, for patient and doctor alike. During pregnancy, we tend to note the risks of medical interventions without adequately noting those of failing to intervene, yet when it's time to give birth, interventions are seldom questioned, even when they don't work. Meanwhile, outside the clinic, advice given to pregnant women on how to stay healthy in everyday life can seem capricious an…
Death and grief on-line
‘Virtual memorials’ intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
The Invisible Topography of Power
This paper discusses how low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted from power lines, computers and electrical appliances have become a form of environmental pollution. At the heart of this controversy is a growing public and scientific preoccupation with measuring EMF `levels', quantifying EMF `exposure', and calculating the EMF `risk' to human health. Increasingly sophisticated measurement devices (dosimeters) are offered on the market…
Time with Babe
Some North American hospitals now offer parents the opportunity to see, hold, and photograph fetal remains after pregnancy loss. I explore the social, material, and interpretive strategies mobilized to create this fetal visibility after second trimester-induced abortion for fetal anomaly. My analysis examines both the discursive framing of fetal remains in practice guidelines on pregnancy loss and the responses of a group of Canadian women to bei…
Social media as moral laboratory
Street involved youth experience both increased rates of mortality and the all too frequent deaths of people they know, rely on, and care about. In this paper, we explore how street-involved youth dealing with the death of peers or family are engaging in what Mattingly calls ‘moral laboratories’, that is, ‘experiments in how life might or should be lived’ (2014, 27). Drawing from interviews with youth in Victoria, Canada, we analyse aspects of th…
Accidental Intimacies”
Youth who use drugs (YWUD) are likely to encounter the police and experience victimization within those encounters. Negative experiences of police among youth can dramatically undermine youths’ trust in police, making them unlikely to ask for help when they need it. In this article, we use Rance and Fraser’s concept of “accidental intimacies” between staff and people who inject drugs arising in encounters within supervised consumption sites. Thei…
Body and Illness
Despite a plethora of studies counting, examining, assessing, and diagnosing Filipino children living in poverty, children's own perceptions and concerns about their health and security are rarely elicited. This article draws from fieldwork in an urban neighbourhood in the Visayan Philippines among children who, every day, face a complex and precarious landscape dominated by multigenerational poverty, social marginalization, recurring hunger, and…
Looking Out for Each Other
In public discourses, friendships among street-involved youth are often regarded as sources of delinquent or risky behaviour. Through interviews with street-involved youth in Victoria, BC, we explore youth's ideas about their friendships. Our analysis suggests that the youth we interviewed have created a "relational refuge," that is, a social space and metaphorical home constituted through trust, proximity, and sharing of emotions and resources. …
Women As Political Actors
Research on women as political actors has tended to focus on their separateness from men, the opposition of their goals from male goals, and on their state of oppression. It is argued that this problematic orientation stems from three primary sources of theoretical bias current anthropological definitions of politics which emphasize power and conflict, an acceptance of the universal oppression of women, and the linking of gender to the public ver…
The Invisible Topography of Power
This paper discusses how low frequency electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted from power lines, computers and electrical appliances have become a form of environmental pollution. At the heart of this controversy is a growing public and scientific preoccupation with measuring EMF `levels', quantifying EMF `exposure', and calculating the EMF `risk' to human health. Increasingly sophisticated measurement devices (dosimeters) are offered on the market…
Cross-Cultural Cyborgs
Lisa M. Mitchell, Eugenia Georges, Cross-Cultural Cyborgs: Greek and Canadian Women's Discourses on Fetal Ultrasound, Feminist Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feminists and Fetuses (Summer, 1997), pp. 373-401
Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions
Fetal Subjects, Feminist Positions. Lynn M. Morgan and Meredith W. Michaels. eds. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. vi +345 pp
Baby's First Picture
Baby's First Picture
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Baby's First Picture
Barons, Brokers, and Buyers
Michael Billig, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2003, 320 pages.Sally Ann Ness, Where Asia Smiles: An Ethnography of Philippine Tourism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003, xvii + 301 pages.Reviewer: Lisa M. Mitchell University of VictoriaThere is considerable anthropological interest at the moment in the transnational flows of capital, humans, and goods and in the consequences of these forces for local groups. The two bo…
Child‐centered? Thinking Critically About Children's Drawings as a Visual Research Method
Children’s drawings have gained renewed interest as anthropologists and other researchers search for methods that align with the current conceptualization of children as social agents and cultural producers. In this article, based upon fieldwork in the Central Philippines, I critically examine the claim that drawing is a “child-centered” research technique. In particular, I discuss adult–child power relationships and ethical issues that arise whe…
Body and Illness
Despite a plethora of studies counting, examining, assessing, and diagnosing Filipino children living in poverty, children's own perceptions and concerns about their health and security are rarely elicited. This article draws from fieldwork in an urban neighbourhood in the Visayan Philippines among children who, every day, face a complex and precarious landscape dominated by multigenerational poverty, social marginalization, recurring hunger, and…
Born in the U.S.A
Miah and Rich's The Medicalization of Cyberspace
Risk and the Pregnant Body
Reasoning well about risk is most challenging when a woman is pregnant, for patient and doctor alike. During pregnancy, we tend to note the risks of medical interventions without adequately noting those of failing to intervene, yet when it's time to give birth, interventions are seldom questioned, even when they don't work. Meanwhile, outside the clinic, advice given to pregnant women on how to stay healthy in everyday life can seem capricious an…
When a Baby Dies of Sids
Enchanted Worlds
In the Visayan Philippines, engkanto are a diverse category of spirits and supernatural entities. Children are seen as especially susceptible to contact with and harm from engkanto, yet their views on these spirits have not been researched. Based on conversations with and drawings by a group of children from an impoverished periurban community, we examine their anxieties, ideas about and experiences of engkanto. Previously conceptualised as relev…
Enchanted Worlds
The publisher regrets that on p. 113 of issue 2 (12) 2011 an editing error occurs. Lisa M. Mitchell's correspondence address reads ‘Department of Anthropology, the University of Victoria, Victoria ...
Death and grief on-line
‘Virtual memorials’ intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
Death & Grief On-line
'Virtual memorials' intended to memorialize the lives of children imply significant shifts in the conceptualization of death, particularly for grieving parents. Created by parents in memory of their deceased children, on-line memorials constructed using templates reflect strong cultural beliefs about the nature of childhood deaths, grief and the development of a kind of digital afterlife. Virtual memorials create a new social value for the deceas…
In a Younger Voice
Imaging and Imagining the Fetus
Reviewed by: Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound by Malcolm Nicolson, John E. E. Fleming Lisa M. Mitchell Malcolm Nicolson and John E. E. Fleming. Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xi + 317 pp. Ill. $50.00 (ISBN-13: 978-1-4214-0793-7, ISBN-10: 1-4214-0793-0). Ultrasound fetal images, familiar to many around the world, have…
Time with Babe
Some North American hospitals now offer parents the opportunity to see, hold, and photograph fetal remains after pregnancy loss. I explore the social, material, and interpretive strategies mobilized to create this fetal visibility after second trimester-induced abortion for fetal anomaly. My analysis examines both the discursive framing of fetal remains in practice guidelines on pregnancy loss and the responses of a group of Canadian women to bei…
Social media as moral laboratory
Street involved youth experience both increased rates of mortality and the all too frequent deaths of people they know, rely on, and care about. In this paper, we explore how street-involved youth dealing with the death of peers or family are engaging in what Mattingly calls ‘moral laboratories’, that is, ‘experiments in how life might or should be lived’ (2014, 27). Drawing from interviews with youth in Victoria, Canada, we analyse aspects of th…
Accidental Intimacies”
Youth who use drugs (YWUD) are likely to encounter the police and experience victimization within those encounters. Negative experiences of police among youth can dramatically undermine youths’ trust in police, making them unlikely to ask for help when they need it. In this article, we use Rance and Fraser’s concept of “accidental intimacies” between staff and people who inject drugs arising in encounters within supervised consumption sites. Thei…
HeART space
This article details the transformation of an empty store into a gallery honouring youth and others who have passed away from overdoses, and the creation of extensive harm reduction and grief support programming that accompanied the display of artwork. The outpouring of community interest, participation, and emotion that surfaced around heART space clearly shows how art, exhibitions and creative programming can help foster communities of care dur…
Sociology (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Children's Rights and Participation (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Grief (5 works) · Obstetrics (5 works)