César E Abadía-Barrero
Biographic Data
| ID | 95983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | César E Abadía-Barrero |
| GIVEN NAMES | César E |
| FAMILY NAME | Abadía-Barrero |
| SIGNATURE | ABADÍA-BARRERO C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7157-0842 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Survivors, Artists, and Healers: Collective Healings of Ecological and War-Related Wounds in the Colombian Amazon
Through painting and embroidery, victims/survivors of the armed conflict in southwest Colombia, primarily women, linked their pains, wounds, and sorrows left by the war with their hopes for a beautiful/joyful future in which they can live, once again, surrounded by family, friends, plants, animals, and rivers. Both the artistic process and the final installation,Casa Común(i.e. Communal House), promoted some respite and healing that was felt indi…
Collective Healings of Colonial Wounds: A Conceptual Framework from Indigenous Perspectives
Colonial violence is ongoing. It started with the first imperial invasions of Indigenous lands and continues harming communalist ways of life. Indigenous scholars think of the trauma of colonial violence as historical, connecting past, present, and future and wounding the spirits and souls of body-territories. Collective healings are ritual practices that strengthen or restore memories, identities, knowledge, and practices, reconnecting reciproca…
Remedios Caseros: Imperative Resilience Among Mexican Immigrants in the Bronx (USA) During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Communities with already high rates of non-communicable diseases, including Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx, were burdened further by the novel coronavirus. In this context, many individuals sought ways to prevent and mitigate symptoms of COVID-19, including homemade remedies. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx reveal how they devised and deployed remedios caseros (home remedies) during the C…
Developmental Impacts of Pans/Pandas and Inadequate Support for Children and Families
Latin American Social Medicine in Colombia: Violence, neoliberalism, and Buen Vivir
This article explores the efforts of Latin American Social Medicine (LASM) scholars/activists to incorporate decolonial approaches to support peace building in Colombia. We draw from our participation in Red SaludPaz (RSP); a network of universities and civil society organizations dedicated to supporting the peace accord, and guided by social medicine and the indigenous epistemology of Buen Vivir. We describe the work of RSP both as researchers a…
Untimely care: How the modern logics of coverage and medicine compromise children's health and development
Social inequalities, sexual tourism and HIV in Cartagena, Colombia: An ethnographic study
Although the convergence of social inequalities has been thoroughly reported in the literature on social studies of HIV vulnerability; distinctive dynamics are occurring in Cartagena, including a clear link between the contemporary globalised sexual tourism industries and a racialised social structure - both having historical roots in the colonial past
Supremacía blanca y moralidad conservadora como amenaza a la prevención del VIH y la salud sexual y reproductiva
y sus esfuerzos por desandar políticas neoliberales y reparar sus destrozos, ha sido desestabilizada con golpes militares y golpes de Estado vía congreso que recuerdan la violencia antirrevolucionaria auspiciada en la región por Estados Unidos durante la Guerra Fría
Primary Health Care for Universal Health Coverage? Contributions for a Critical Anthropological Agenda
Forty years after the Alma-Ata declaration, the WHO has reaffirmed its commitment to Primary Health Care (PHC). We argue that this renewed interest in PHC is being coopted by the neoliberal agenda on health via its application to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We offer an overview of classic anthropological studies on PHC, and more recent ones on UHC, as a way to propose some research …
Social Class for Collective Health Research: A Conceptual and Empirical Challenge
Social Determination of Health (SDH)/Collective Health is a Latin American framework that sees the Marxist core concept of social class as fundamental for understanding health inequalities. In contrast to social stratification approaches, Marxist proposals seek to understand health as part of the historical transformations of capitalism's mode of production. In this article we aim to analyze the relationship between social class and health inequa…
Sociocultural dynamics that influence Chagas disease health care in Colombia
Chagas disease (CD) is a Latin America endemic and neglected tropical disease that affects primarily poor people living in rural areas. Its current low profile leads to many diagnostic, treatment, and control challenges. This study aimed to identify and characterize the sociocultural dynamics that influence CD health care in Colombia. Data for our ethnographic study was collected in 2013 and included participant observation in two main endemic ar…
Kangaroo Mother Care in Colombia: A Subaltern Health Innovation against For-profit Biomedicine
This ethnographic study presents the origins, growth, and collapse of the first Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) program, a well-established practice for neonatal care created in 1978 in Colombia. The WHO and UNICEF praised this zero-cost revolutionary technique for its promotion of skin-to-skin contact between premature and low-birth-weight newborns and family members. KMC facilitates early hospital discharge, brings many clinical and psychological be…
Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health
Hospital San Juan de Dios: Actor y víctima de las políticas públicas en Colombia
In this article, we narrate and analyze the historical configuration that a group of female workers and a collective of social organizations made about the Hospital San Juan de Dios (HSJD) and Instituto Materno Infantil (IMI) in Bogotá, Colombia, within the neoliberal crisis in health. Our ethnographic research intersects the Latinamerican traditions of collaborative ethnography and historic anthropology. The research was conducted in two sites. …
Work-related illness, work-related accidents, and lack of social security in Colombia
Neoliberal Justice and the Transformation of the Moral: The Privatization of the Right to Health Care in Colombia
Neoliberal reforms have transformed the legislative scope and everyday dynamics around the right to health care from welfare state social contracts to insurance markets administered by transnational financial capital. This article presents experiences of health care-seeking treatment, judicial rulings about the right to health care, and market-based health care legislation in Colombia. When insurance companies deny services, citizens petition the…
The Transformation of the Value of Life: Dispossession as Torture
Workers at the oldest maternity hospital in Colombia experienced the privatization of health care and the flexibilization of their labor. Drawing on their experience, I illustrate how neoliberalism transforms the value of life. This transformation occurs first in terms of its moral worth: the worth of life changes over time, as people and public hospitals are stigmatized as the 'living memory' of the old. Second, the hospital buildings, the land …
Critical Anthropology of Global Health “Takes a Stand” Statement: A Critical Medical Anthropological Approach to the U.S.'s Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010—the U.S.'s first major health care reform in over half a century—has sparked new debates in the United States about individual responsibility, the collective good, and the social contract. Although the ACA aims to reduce the number of the uninsured through the simultaneous expansion of the private insurance industry and government‐funded Medicaid, critics charge it merely expands rather than reforms the exist…
Machismo , public health and sexuality-related stigma in Cartagena
This paper reports on an ethnographic study in Cartagena, Colombia. Over a seven-month fieldwork period, 35 men and 35 women between 15 and 60 years of age discussed the social context of HIV/AIDS through in-depth interviews, life histories and drawing. Participants considered the transgression of traditional gender roles as prescribed by machismo a major risk factor for HIV infection. In addition, they integrated public-health concepts of risk g…
Bureaucratic Itineraries in Colombia. A theoretical and methodological tool to assess managed-care health care systems
Experiences of stigma and access to Haart in children and adolescents living with HIV/Aids in Brazil
Políticas y sujetos del sida en Brasil y Colombia
Basado en datos históricos y de investigaciones etnográficas, y en una serie de entrevistas a profundidad, este artículo analiza las respuestas exitosas de Brasil y muy deficientes de Colombia frente a la epidemia del sida, y propone vínculos entre estas respuestas, los sujetos que las han liderado y las reformas en salud en marcha en los dos países. Los datos sugieren que existe retroalimentación entre las políticas en salud, las respuestas fren…
Growing up in a world with Aids: Social advantages of having Aids in Brazil
Could HIV/AIDS become a positive factor for a child's life? This contradiction is explored in this paper based on anthropological fieldwork and research in Brazil. I used participant observation and informal interviewing both with children living with HIV/AIDS and uninfected street children to obtain qualitative data. Brazil is known as a country leader in social responses towards the AIDS epidemic. Not only has access to antiretroviral medicatio…
Crianças vivendo com HIV e Casas de Apoio em São Paulo: Cultura, Experiências E Contexto Domiciliar
Este artigo, baseado em pesquisa na área da Antropologia Médica, pretende analisar alguns fatores culturais que influem no desenvolvimento de crianças e adolescentes vivendo com HIV em casas de apoio. Existem semelhanças e diferenças nos padrões de criação de cada instituição e, em conseqüência, no desenvolvimento individual e social das crianças e adolescentes. Uma semelhança marcante é que a melhora na qualidade de vida e o aumento da sobrevida…
Bureaucratic Itineraries in Colombia. A theoretical and methodological tool to assess managed-care health care systems
Critical Anthropology of Global Health “Takes a Stand” Statement: A Critical Medical Anthropological Approach to the U.S.'s Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010—the U.S.'s first major health care reform in over half a century—has sparked new debates in the United States about individual responsibility, the collective good, and the social contract. Although the ACA aims to reduce the number of the uninsured through the simultaneous expansion of the private insurance industry and government‐funded Medicaid, critics charge it merely expands rather than reforms the exist…
Experiences of stigma and access to Haart in children and adolescents living with HIV/Aids in Brazil
Neoliberal Justice and the Transformation of the Moral: The Privatization of the Right to Health Care in Colombia
Neoliberal reforms have transformed the legislative scope and everyday dynamics around the right to health care from welfare state social contracts to insurance markets administered by transnational financial capital. This article presents experiences of health care-seeking treatment, judicial rulings about the right to health care, and market-based health care legislation in Colombia. When insurance companies deny services, citizens petition the…
The Transformation of the Value of Life: Dispossession as Torture
Workers at the oldest maternity hospital in Colombia experienced the privatization of health care and the flexibilization of their labor. Drawing on their experience, I illustrate how neoliberalism transforms the value of life. This transformation occurs first in terms of its moral worth: the worth of life changes over time, as people and public hospitals are stigmatized as the 'living memory' of the old. Second, the hospital buildings, the land …
Sociocultural dynamics that influence Chagas disease health care in Colombia
Chagas disease (CD) is a Latin America endemic and neglected tropical disease that affects primarily poor people living in rural areas. Its current low profile leads to many diagnostic, treatment, and control challenges. This study aimed to identify and characterize the sociocultural dynamics that influence CD health care in Colombia. Data for our ethnographic study was collected in 2013 and included participant observation in two main endemic ar…
Crianças vivendo com HIV e Casas de Apoio em São Paulo: Cultura, Experiências E Contexto Domiciliar
Este artigo, baseado em pesquisa na área da Antropologia Médica, pretende analisar alguns fatores culturais que influem no desenvolvimento de crianças e adolescentes vivendo com HIV em casas de apoio. Existem semelhanças e diferenças nos padrões de criação de cada instituição e, em conseqüência, no desenvolvimento individual e social das crianças e adolescentes. Uma semelhança marcante é que a melhora na qualidade de vida e o aumento da sobrevida…
Primary Health Care for Universal Health Coverage? Contributions for a Critical Anthropological Agenda
Forty years after the Alma-Ata declaration, the WHO has reaffirmed its commitment to Primary Health Care (PHC). We argue that this renewed interest in PHC is being coopted by the neoliberal agenda on health via its application to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We offer an overview of classic anthropological studies on PHC, and more recent ones on UHC, as a way to propose some research …
Kangaroo Mother Care in Colombia: A Subaltern Health Innovation against For-profit Biomedicine
This ethnographic study presents the origins, growth, and collapse of the first Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) program, a well-established practice for neonatal care created in 1978 in Colombia. The WHO and UNICEF praised this zero-cost revolutionary technique for its promotion of skin-to-skin contact between premature and low-birth-weight newborns and family members. KMC facilitates early hospital discharge, brings many clinical and psychological be…
Políticas y sujetos del sida en Brasil y Colombia
Basado en datos históricos y de investigaciones etnográficas, y en una serie de entrevistas a profundidad, este artículo analiza las respuestas exitosas de Brasil y muy deficientes de Colombia frente a la epidemia del sida, y propone vínculos entre estas respuestas, los sujetos que las han liderado y las reformas en salud en marcha en los dos países. Los datos sugieren que existe retroalimentación entre las políticas en salud, las respuestas fren…
Latin American Social Medicine in Colombia: Violence, neoliberalism, and Buen Vivir
This article explores the efforts of Latin American Social Medicine (LASM) scholars/activists to incorporate decolonial approaches to support peace building in Colombia. We draw from our participation in Red SaludPaz (RSP); a network of universities and civil society organizations dedicated to supporting the peace accord, and guided by social medicine and the indigenous epistemology of Buen Vivir. We describe the work of RSP both as researchers a…
Untimely care: How the modern logics of coverage and medicine compromise children's health and development
Supremacía blanca y moralidad conservadora como amenaza a la prevención del VIH y la salud sexual y reproductiva
y sus esfuerzos por desandar políticas neoliberales y reparar sus destrozos, ha sido desestabilizada con golpes militares y golpes de Estado vía congreso que recuerdan la violencia antirrevolucionaria auspiciada en la región por Estados Unidos durante la Guerra Fría
Growing up in a world with Aids: Social advantages of having Aids in Brazil
Could HIV/AIDS become a positive factor for a child's life? This contradiction is explored in this paper based on anthropological fieldwork and research in Brazil. I used participant observation and informal interviewing both with children living with HIV/AIDS and uninfected street children to obtain qualitative data. Brazil is known as a country leader in social responses towards the AIDS epidemic. Not only has access to antiretroviral medicatio…
Crianças vivendo com HIV e Casas de Apoio em São Paulo: Cultura, Experiências E Contexto Domiciliar
Este artigo, baseado em pesquisa na área da Antropologia Médica, pretende analisar alguns fatores culturais que influem no desenvolvimento de crianças e adolescentes vivendo com HIV em casas de apoio. Existem semelhanças e diferenças nos padrões de criação de cada instituição e, em conseqüência, no desenvolvimento individual e social das crianças e adolescentes. Uma semelhança marcante é que a melhora na qualidade de vida e o aumento da sobrevida…
Políticas y sujetos del sida en Brasil y Colombia
Basado en datos históricos y de investigaciones etnográficas, y en una serie de entrevistas a profundidad, este artículo analiza las respuestas exitosas de Brasil y muy deficientes de Colombia frente a la epidemia del sida, y propone vínculos entre estas respuestas, los sujetos que las han liderado y las reformas en salud en marcha en los dos países. Los datos sugieren que existe retroalimentación entre las políticas en salud, las respuestas fren…
Experiences of stigma and access to Haart in children and adolescents living with HIV/Aids in Brazil
Bureaucratic Itineraries in Colombia. A theoretical and methodological tool to assess managed-care health care systems
Machismo , public health and sexuality-related stigma in Cartagena
This paper reports on an ethnographic study in Cartagena, Colombia. Over a seven-month fieldwork period, 35 men and 35 women between 15 and 60 years of age discussed the social context of HIV/AIDS through in-depth interviews, life histories and drawing. Participants considered the transgression of traditional gender roles as prescribed by machismo a major risk factor for HIV infection. In addition, they integrated public-health concepts of risk g…
Critical Anthropology of Global Health “Takes a Stand” Statement: A Critical Medical Anthropological Approach to the U.S.'s Affordable Care Act
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010—the U.S.'s first major health care reform in over half a century—has sparked new debates in the United States about individual responsibility, the collective good, and the social contract. Although the ACA aims to reduce the number of the uninsured through the simultaneous expansion of the private insurance industry and government‐funded Medicaid, critics charge it merely expands rather than reforms the exist…
The Transformation of the Value of Life: Dispossession as Torture
Workers at the oldest maternity hospital in Colombia experienced the privatization of health care and the flexibilization of their labor. Drawing on their experience, I illustrate how neoliberalism transforms the value of life. This transformation occurs first in terms of its moral worth: the worth of life changes over time, as people and public hospitals are stigmatized as the 'living memory' of the old. Second, the hospital buildings, the land …
Neoliberal Justice and the Transformation of the Moral: The Privatization of the Right to Health Care in Colombia
Neoliberal reforms have transformed the legislative scope and everyday dynamics around the right to health care from welfare state social contracts to insurance markets administered by transnational financial capital. This article presents experiences of health care-seeking treatment, judicial rulings about the right to health care, and market-based health care legislation in Colombia. When insurance companies deny services, citizens petition the…
Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health
Hospital San Juan de Dios: Actor y víctima de las políticas públicas en Colombia
In this article, we narrate and analyze the historical configuration that a group of female workers and a collective of social organizations made about the Hospital San Juan de Dios (HSJD) and Instituto Materno Infantil (IMI) in Bogotá, Colombia, within the neoliberal crisis in health. Our ethnographic research intersects the Latinamerican traditions of collaborative ethnography and historic anthropology. The research was conducted in two sites. …
Work-related illness, work-related accidents, and lack of social security in Colombia
Social Class for Collective Health Research: A Conceptual and Empirical Challenge
Social Determination of Health (SDH)/Collective Health is a Latin American framework that sees the Marxist core concept of social class as fundamental for understanding health inequalities. In contrast to social stratification approaches, Marxist proposals seek to understand health as part of the historical transformations of capitalism's mode of production. In this article we aim to analyze the relationship between social class and health inequa…
Sociocultural dynamics that influence Chagas disease health care in Colombia
Chagas disease (CD) is a Latin America endemic and neglected tropical disease that affects primarily poor people living in rural areas. Its current low profile leads to many diagnostic, treatment, and control challenges. This study aimed to identify and characterize the sociocultural dynamics that influence CD health care in Colombia. Data for our ethnographic study was collected in 2013 and included participant observation in two main endemic ar…
Kangaroo Mother Care in Colombia: A Subaltern Health Innovation against For-profit Biomedicine
This ethnographic study presents the origins, growth, and collapse of the first Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) program, a well-established practice for neonatal care created in 1978 in Colombia. The WHO and UNICEF praised this zero-cost revolutionary technique for its promotion of skin-to-skin contact between premature and low-birth-weight newborns and family members. KMC facilitates early hospital discharge, brings many clinical and psychological be…
Primary Health Care for Universal Health Coverage? Contributions for a Critical Anthropological Agenda
Forty years after the Alma-Ata declaration, the WHO has reaffirmed its commitment to Primary Health Care (PHC). We argue that this renewed interest in PHC is being coopted by the neoliberal agenda on health via its application to Universal Health Coverage (UHC) reforms as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We offer an overview of classic anthropological studies on PHC, and more recent ones on UHC, as a way to propose some research …
Social inequalities, sexual tourism and HIV in Cartagena, Colombia: An ethnographic study
Although the convergence of social inequalities has been thoroughly reported in the literature on social studies of HIV vulnerability; distinctive dynamics are occurring in Cartagena, including a clear link between the contemporary globalised sexual tourism industries and a racialised social structure - both having historical roots in the colonial past
Supremacía blanca y moralidad conservadora como amenaza a la prevención del VIH y la salud sexual y reproductiva
y sus esfuerzos por desandar políticas neoliberales y reparar sus destrozos, ha sido desestabilizada con golpes militares y golpes de Estado vía congreso que recuerdan la violencia antirrevolucionaria auspiciada en la región por Estados Unidos durante la Guerra Fría
Untimely care: How the modern logics of coverage and medicine compromise children's health and development
Latin American Social Medicine in Colombia: Violence, neoliberalism, and Buen Vivir
This article explores the efforts of Latin American Social Medicine (LASM) scholars/activists to incorporate decolonial approaches to support peace building in Colombia. We draw from our participation in Red SaludPaz (RSP); a network of universities and civil society organizations dedicated to supporting the peace accord, and guided by social medicine and the indigenous epistemology of Buen Vivir. We describe the work of RSP both as researchers a…
Developmental Impacts of Pans/Pandas and Inadequate Support for Children and Families
Remedios Caseros: Imperative Resilience Among Mexican Immigrants in the Bronx (USA) During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Communities with already high rates of non-communicable diseases, including Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx, were burdened further by the novel coronavirus. In this context, many individuals sought ways to prevent and mitigate symptoms of COVID-19, including homemade remedies. Twenty-five semi-structured interviews with Mexican immigrants living in the Bronx reveal how they devised and deployed remedios caseros (home remedies) during the C…
Survivors, Artists, and Healers: Collective Healings of Ecological and War-Related Wounds in the Colombian Amazon
Through painting and embroidery, victims/survivors of the armed conflict in southwest Colombia, primarily women, linked their pains, wounds, and sorrows left by the war with their hopes for a beautiful/joyful future in which they can live, once again, surrounded by family, friends, plants, animals, and rivers. Both the artistic process and the final installation,Casa Común(i.e. Communal House), promoted some respite and healing that was felt indi…
Collective Healings of Colonial Wounds: A Conceptual Framework from Indigenous Perspectives
Colonial violence is ongoing. It started with the first imperial invasions of Indigenous lands and continues harming communalist ways of life. Indigenous scholars think of the trauma of colonial violence as historical, connecting past, present, and future and wounding the spirits and souls of body-territories. Collective healings are ritual practices that strengthen or restore memories, identities, knowledge, and practices, reconnecting reciproca…
Political science (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Health care (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Economic growth (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Politics (6 works)