Bo Kyeong Seo
Biographic Data
| ID | 88908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bo Kyeong Seo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bo Kyeong |
| FAMILY NAME | Seo |
| SIGNATURE | SEO B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Freie Universität Berlin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7481-3296 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Habits of Maintenance: Infrastructure for Chronic Living
When infrastructure is invoked as a vital element for human possibility and looms as a battleground for public health contestation, the developmentalist emphasis on creation and upgrading obscures an essential dynamic of infrastructure: maintenance. Who tends the care infrastructures that sustain vulnerable lives? Who keeps public systems running against breakdowns? By describing the ways in which the home dialysis program has been instituted in …
Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
Populist Becoming: The Red Shirt Movement and Political Affliction in Thailand
In this article, I explore the ways in which political subjectivities take shape through populist mobilization and dissipation. While the rise and increasing electoral success of populist movements across the world are largely attributed to charismatic leadership that conjures the will of "the people," much less known is how people become populist subjects at a particular historical juncture. By attending to personal accounts of participation and…
The Work of Inscription: Antenatal Care, Birth Documents, and Shan Migrant Women in Chiang Mai
For transnational migrant populations, securing birth documents of newly born children has crucial importance in avoiding statelessness for new generations. Drawing on discussions of sovereignty and political subjectivization, I ask how the fact of birth is constituted in the context of transnational migration. Based on ethnographic data collected from an antenatal clinic in Thailand, this article describes how Shan migrant women from Myanmar (al…
Patient waiting: Care as a gift and debt in the Thai healthcare system
Drawing on fieldwork in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine poor Thais' and Shan migrants' experiences of receiving healthcare from a public hospital, and, in parallel, care from the state. While universal health coverage has become a way in which the state finds legitimacy in people's lives through giving care, being a recipient of state aid is implicated in the emotive domain of waiting. By focusing on how people feel and think of a gift…
Caring for Premature Life and Death: The Relational Dynamics of Detachment in a Nicu
Drawing on fieldwork in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine neonatal care as a contingent entanglement of technological and ethical relationships with vulnerable others. Along the continuum of universal antenatal and delivery care, neonatal medicine becomes a normative part of reproductive health care in Chiang Mai. As the NICU opens its door to sick newborns whose belonging to kinship and the natio…
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place connects the anthropology of medicine and longstanding concerns of Melanesian personhood with a focus on the workings of a public referral hospital in Papua New Gui...
Populist Becoming: The Red Shirt Movement and Political Affliction in Thailand
In this article, I explore the ways in which political subjectivities take shape through populist mobilization and dissipation. While the rise and increasing electoral success of populist movements across the world are largely attributed to charismatic leadership that conjures the will of "the people," much less known is how people become populist subjects at a particular historical juncture. By attending to personal accounts of participation and…
The Work of Inscription: Antenatal Care, Birth Documents, and Shan Migrant Women in Chiang Mai
For transnational migrant populations, securing birth documents of newly born children has crucial importance in avoiding statelessness for new generations. Drawing on discussions of sovereignty and political subjectivization, I ask how the fact of birth is constituted in the context of transnational migration. Based on ethnographic data collected from an antenatal clinic in Thailand, this article describes how Shan migrant women from Myanmar (al…
Patient waiting: Care as a gift and debt in the Thai healthcare system
Drawing on fieldwork in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine poor Thais' and Shan migrants' experiences of receiving healthcare from a public hospital, and, in parallel, care from the state. While universal health coverage has become a way in which the state finds legitimacy in people's lives through giving care, being a recipient of state aid is implicated in the emotive domain of waiting. By focusing on how people feel and think of a gift…
Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
Caring for Premature Life and Death: The Relational Dynamics of Detachment in a Nicu
Drawing on fieldwork in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine neonatal care as a contingent entanglement of technological and ethical relationships with vulnerable others. Along the continuum of universal antenatal and delivery care, neonatal medicine becomes a normative part of reproductive health care in Chiang Mai. As the NICU opens its door to sick newborns whose belonging to kinship and the natio…
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place: Infrastructure and Personhood in a Papua New Guinean Hospital
Biomedicine in an Unstable Place connects the anthropology of medicine and longstanding concerns of Melanesian personhood with a focus on the workings of a public referral hospital in Papua New Gui...
Patient waiting: Care as a gift and debt in the Thai healthcare system
Drawing on fieldwork in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine poor Thais' and Shan migrants' experiences of receiving healthcare from a public hospital, and, in parallel, care from the state. While universal health coverage has become a way in which the state finds legitimacy in people's lives through giving care, being a recipient of state aid is implicated in the emotive domain of waiting. By focusing on how people feel and think of a gift…
Caring for Premature Life and Death: The Relational Dynamics of Detachment in a Nicu
Drawing on fieldwork in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in Chiang Mai during 2010 and 2012, I examine neonatal care as a contingent entanglement of technological and ethical relationships with vulnerable others. Along the continuum of universal antenatal and delivery care, neonatal medicine becomes a normative part of reproductive health care in Chiang Mai. As the NICU opens its door to sick newborns whose belonging to kinship and the natio…
The Work of Inscription: Antenatal Care, Birth Documents, and Shan Migrant Women in Chiang Mai
For transnational migrant populations, securing birth documents of newly born children has crucial importance in avoiding statelessness for new generations. Drawing on discussions of sovereignty and political subjectivization, I ask how the fact of birth is constituted in the context of transnational migration. Based on ethnographic data collected from an antenatal clinic in Thailand, this article describes how Shan migrant women from Myanmar (al…
Populist Becoming: The Red Shirt Movement and Political Affliction in Thailand
In this article, I explore the ways in which political subjectivities take shape through populist mobilization and dissipation. While the rise and increasing electoral success of populist movements across the world are largely attributed to charismatic leadership that conjures the will of "the people," much less known is how people become populist subjects at a particular historical juncture. By attending to personal accounts of participation and…
Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang
Habits of Maintenance: Infrastructure for Chronic Living
When infrastructure is invoked as a vital element for human possibility and looms as a battleground for public health contestation, the developmentalist emphasis on creation and upgrading obscures an essential dynamic of infrastructure: maintenance. Who tends the care infrastructures that sustain vulnerable lives? Who keeps public systems running against breakdowns? By describing the ways in which the home dialysis program has been instituted in …
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