Catherine Trundle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 115332 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Catherine Trundle |
| PRENOMES | Catherine |
| SOBRENOME | Trundle |
| ASSINATURA | TRUNDLE C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0908-9606 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 246 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Storying syndemics
Migrant women face disproportionate rates of co-occurring type 2 diabetes and distress globally. Biomedicine’s individualized care model for people with diabetes conceptualizes distress as an added comorbidity to be managed. However, this negates the ways in which diabetes and distress may be interwoven with complex forms of social suffering at the confluence of gender, socio-economic status, racialized identity, chronic illness, and migration, a…
Collaborating with care
Reflection is a valued pedagogical tool in academia. Research shows it is more effective when enacted collectively rather than individually. In this article, we offer fictional autoethnographic vignettes to paint an experiential picture of the daily tensions of being a reflective educator in an Australian university context. Through critically reflecting on our collaborative practices and the vignettes we produced, as well as engagement with the …
The Ethnographic Interview
Interviews are central to the health ethnographers’ toolkit. In this article, we offer a critical engagement with methodological literature coupled with reflective examples from our own research, in order to articulate the value of the ethnographic interview in health research. We contribute to literature on ethnographic interviews in two ways: by decoupling ethnographic interviews from the necessity of accompanying participant observation, and b…
Narrative Sandplay Interviews
Sandplay is often used in therapy to enable sensitive conversations and visually represent personal experiences. The method involves providing interlocutors with a large tray of sand and displaying a choice of miniature figurines to incorporate into their stories about their past, present, or imagined futures. In this paper, we report on a collaboration to develop and trial narrative sandplay as a qualitative research interview. We outline the hi…
Who's responsible for health during extreme heat events? An ethnographic document analysis of health promotion materials in Australia
With increasing temperatures due to climate change, public health and health promotion bodies in Australia have increasingly developed resources to promote awareness and protect the public from heat stress risks. Utilizing an ethnographic document analysis method, this article critically examines a sample of Australian public health and health promotion online resources from the last five years. We explore how relational environments, material re…
Unruly Embodiment as Feminist Research Methodology
Embodiment methodologies foreground the role of the researcher’s body within qualitative inquiry. By reflecting on a heat stress project, we build on sensorial feminism and feminist care ethics to argue for a praxis of unruly embodiment . This includes: (1) recognition of moments when the body or environment viscerally demands attention and overrides the researchers’ cognitive sense of mastery and agency; (2) attentiveness to mis-attunements, dis…
Beyond the Mirror
Qualitative researchers are increasingly utilising reflexive practices to ensure transparency and assure quality. Current researcher reflexivity, we show, often hinges upon a set of assumptions about reflexivity itself. Through a critical literature review combined with reflexive vignettes, we offer an epistemological critique of reflexivity. We advocate for robust reflexivity , a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself. We thus e…
Ethnographic document analysis
In this article, we propose a method for ethnographic document analysis (EDA) and outline the key sensibilities and processes involved. Despite the ubiquity of document data within ethnographic research, there remains few practical, methodological and epistemologically grounded guides for ethnographic approaches to documents. EDA offers a guide for ensuring ethnographic principles underpin the entire research process, from question design to writ…
We have a right to flourish in our own land’
This article responds to a pressing question, posed by Māori university students in Aotearoa, New Zealand: How do teachers transform universities into places where Indigenous students can thrive and heal? To address this question, we engage with pedagogies of healing, a radical critique of wellbeing within the classroom. We utilized the Māori practice of wānanga to facilitate collective reflection and action. We propose three principles for enabl…
Which Ethnography? Whose Ethnography? Medical anthropology's Epistemic Sensibilities Among Health Ethnographies
Medical anthropologists working in interdisciplinary teams often articulate expertise with respect to ethnography. Yet increasingly, health scientists utilize ethnographic methods. Through a comparative review of health ethnographies, and autoethnographic observations from interdisciplinary research, we find that anthropological ethnographies and health science ethnographies are founded on different epistemic sensibilities. Differences center on …
Defining focused ethnography
This article offers the first critical review of focused ethnography, an increasingly popular research method across health disciplines. Focused ethnographers, we argue, exemplify the practice of methodological boundary work, defining their method in contrast to the 'traditional' ethnographic approach of anthropology and sociology. To examine this boundary work, we collected two samples of health research articles published over the last decade a…
On Power and Obligation in Publishing
Welcome to Volume 5 of Commoning Ethnography. We’ll start with the obvious: this issue was a challenge to produce. It arrives nearly three calendar years after our last issue. This was not our plan. There are myriad reasons for the issue’s untimeliness. Chiefly, these have to do with a quite volatile period in the life of our institution in the long wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as it played out in its own untimely way in Aotearoa. They also have…
Cultivating a trauma-informed pedagogy
Māori students in Aotearoa New Zealand have recently challenged anthropology to better support them to thrive on their own Indigenous terms. This commentary responds to their call and critically reflects on one fruitful avenue for deepening decolonizing work, namely engaging with historical trauma and trauma-informed frameworks. Such frameworks address the legacies of colonial violence and the present conditions and structures that exacerbate har…
CHAPTER 14 The Transformation of Compassion and the Ethics of Interaction within Charity Practices
Americans in Tuscany
Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues tha…
Introducing Volume 4
Welcome to Volume 4 of Commoning Ethnography
Cover page
Cover page volume 3
Introducing Issue Three
This issue has taken shape within the context of a global pandemic, and despite these challenges it has provided a welcome space to continue our common intellectual work. Our authors hail from around the globe and have each experienced different aspects of this volatility in different ways at different times. The issue features a special collection entitled Trial by Fire. These essays probe and question the underlying assumptions embedded within …
Trial by Fire
In this Introduction, we take two persistent tropes of fieldwork, the 'trial by fire' and the 'heroic fieldworker' to task. Our analysis traces out what we call everyday decentering of these tropes, which we argue is necessary for fieldwork to be taught and engaged with beyond romanticised twentieth century masculinist heroics. We argue that anthro-pology and related field research based disciplines might be better served by adopting a more ethno…
Unsettled Care
In this introduction, and indeed this special section, we explore care as a morally ambiguous and relationally unstable set of practices. By exploring care over longer temporal frames and across shifting subjectivities and intersubjectivities, we show how enactments of care are often unsettled by the transforming dynamics of relationships across time and often entail a multiplicity of competing affects and aspirations, such as hope and failure, l…
Tinkering Care, State Responsibility, and Abandonment
This article critically engages with Mol, Moser, and Pols' notion of "tinkering" care (2010) as "attentive experimentation." I explore the limits of tinkering care for United Kingdom and New Zealand military veterans who participated in British nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific. Although the British state has assured the men that they were exposed to safe levels of radiation, test veterans continue to believe their ill health is service related…
Vulnerable articulations
Medical anthropology overwhelmingly reveals vulnerability as a problem of powerlessness. Vulnerable groups and individuals are those exposed to the pernicious effects of inequalities, injustices, and oppressive political realities. This largely pejorative stance, we argue, simplifies the place of vulnerability within human experience and in relation to the body, health and illness. By showcasing a range of interlocking vulnerabilities, this paper…
Welcome to Commoning Ethnography
What does it mean to suggest that ethnography might be a site, source, or scene of commoning? What does combining the idea of commoning with the practice of ethnography allow us to think about or to do that we might not otherwise? Why create a journal dedicated to such an obviously paradoxical thought experiment? This editorial introduction outlines the impetus behind this project, our aspirations for it, and considers some of the questions it ra…
Uncomfortable Collaborations
Collaborative methodological approaches, increasingly popular within anthropology, emphasize the need to build meaningful engagements with participants that include them more deeply as partners in the process of research, from inception to textual representation. In this article I engage with methodological debates about collaboration to argue for greater disciplinary and narrative openness about the modes of relational detachment and disconnecti…
Think Piece
In considering what makes New Zealand unique for medical anthropological focus, this think piece sets out four themes. These reflect New Zealand’s particular historical, political, social and cultural landscape, and reveal the relevance of local scholarship for wider global debates about health. By tracing the neoliberal reform of state healthcare, indigenous approaches to wellbeing, local cultural practices of health, and the complex ethics invo…
Competing Responsibilities
Ideas of responsibility pervade social life, underpinning forms of governance, subjectivities, and collective relations. Inspired by current analyses of neoliberal projects of 'responsibilisation', this paper examines modes of responsibility that extend, challenge, or co-exist with neoliberal ideals. Our aim is twofold: first, we wish to broaden current scholarly understandings of how neoliberal 'responsible' subjects are nested within multiple f…
Unsettled Care
In this introduction, and indeed this special section, we explore care as a morally ambiguous and relationally unstable set of practices. By exploring care over longer temporal frames and across shifting subjectivities and intersubjectivities, we show how enactments of care are often unsettled by the transforming dynamics of relationships across time and often entail a multiplicity of competing affects and aspirations, such as hope and failure, l…
Tracing the Political Lives of Archival Documents
This volume explores the ways in which archival documents shape political struggles and influence social change. With case studies from the Pacific, Australasia, Africa, Inner Asia and South America, the articles ethnographically trace the political genealogies of archival documents as they are transformed across space and time. The contributors of this volume engage with a current turn in anthropology towards the documentary process and the mate…
Trial by Fire
In this Introduction, we take two persistent tropes of fieldwork, the 'trial by fire' and the 'heroic fieldworker' to task. Our analysis traces out what we call everyday decentering of these tropes, which we argue is necessary for fieldwork to be taught and engaged with beyond romanticised twentieth century masculinist heroics. We argue that anthro-pology and related field research based disciplines might be better served by adopting a more ethno…
Searching for Culpability in the Archives
In the late 1950s, Commonwealth servicemen participated in a series of British nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific. Today these veterans claim to suffer multiple health problems from radiation exposure, and seek compensation from the British and New Zealand governments. In resisting the State's control of evidential archival documents, the veterans devalue State documents and contest the truth of military records, instead elevating personal and col…
Biopolitical endpoints
Uncomfortable Collaborations
Collaborative methodological approaches, increasingly popular within anthropology, emphasize the need to build meaningful engagements with participants that include them more deeply as partners in the process of research, from inception to textual representation. In this article I engage with methodological debates about collaboration to argue for greater disciplinary and narrative openness about the modes of relational detachment and disconnecti…
Beyond the Mirror
Qualitative researchers are increasingly utilising reflexive practices to ensure transparency and assure quality. Current researcher reflexivity, we show, often hinges upon a set of assumptions about reflexivity itself. Through a critical literature review combined with reflexive vignettes, we offer an epistemological critique of reflexivity. We advocate for robust reflexivity , a practice that critically reflects on reflexivity itself. We thus e…
Which Ethnography? Whose Ethnography? Medical anthropology's Epistemic Sensibilities Among Health Ethnographies
Medical anthropologists working in interdisciplinary teams often articulate expertise with respect to ethnography. Yet increasingly, health scientists utilize ethnographic methods. Through a comparative review of health ethnographies, and autoethnographic observations from interdisciplinary research, we find that anthropological ethnographies and health science ethnographies are founded on different epistemic sensibilities. Differences center on …
Vulnerable articulations
Medical anthropology overwhelmingly reveals vulnerability as a problem of powerlessness. Vulnerable groups and individuals are those exposed to the pernicious effects of inequalities, injustices, and oppressive political realities. This largely pejorative stance, we argue, simplifies the place of vulnerability within human experience and in relation to the body, health and illness. By showcasing a range of interlocking vulnerabilities, this paper…
Tinkering Care, State Responsibility, and Abandonment
This article critically engages with Mol, Moser, and Pols' notion of "tinkering" care (2010) as "attentive experimentation." I explore the limits of tinkering care for United Kingdom and New Zealand military veterans who participated in British nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific. Although the British state has assured the men that they were exposed to safe levels of radiation, test veterans continue to believe their ill health is service related…
Cultivating a trauma-informed pedagogy
Māori students in Aotearoa New Zealand have recently challenged anthropology to better support them to thrive on their own Indigenous terms. This commentary responds to their call and critically reflects on one fruitful avenue for deepening decolonizing work, namely engaging with historical trauma and trauma-informed frameworks. Such frameworks address the legacies of colonial violence and the present conditions and structures that exacerbate har…
Welcome to Commoning Ethnography
What does it mean to suggest that ethnography might be a site, source, or scene of commoning? What does combining the idea of commoning with the practice of ethnography allow us to think about or to do that we might not otherwise? Why create a journal dedicated to such an obviously paradoxical thought experiment? This editorial introduction outlines the impetus behind this project, our aspirations for it, and considers some of the questions it ra…
Breaking Ranks
Elusive Genes
Anthropological studies of genetic citizenship have focused on illnesses with medically explained etiologies. Such studies tend to trace patients' agency and resistance as they encounter genetic knowledge. By contrast, we explore how genetic knowledge is configured by those suffering from contested illnesses. Through interviews, we examine the claims for health care made by British and New Zealand veterans who in the 1950s took part in nuclear te…
Ethnographic document analysis
In this article, we propose a method for ethnographic document analysis (EDA) and outline the key sensibilities and processes involved. Despite the ubiquity of document data within ethnographic research, there remains few practical, methodological and epistemologically grounded guides for ethnographic approaches to documents. EDA offers a guide for ensuring ethnographic principles underpin the entire research process, from question design to writ…
Introducing Volume 4
Welcome to Volume 4 of Commoning Ethnography
Biopolitical endpoints
Tracing the Political Lives of Archival Documents
This volume explores the ways in which archival documents shape political struggles and influence social change. With case studies from the Pacific, Australasia, Africa, Inner Asia and South America, the articles ethnographically trace the political genealogies of archival documents as they are transformed across space and time. The contributors of this volume engage with a current turn in anthropology towards the documentary process and the mate…
Searching for Culpability in the Archives
In the late 1950s, Commonwealth servicemen participated in a series of British nuclear bomb tests in the Pacific. Today these veterans claim to suffer multiple health problems from radiation exposure, and seek compensation from the British and New Zealand governments. In resisting the State's control of evidential archival documents, the veterans devalue State documents and contest the truth of military records, instead elevating personal and col…
Breaking Ranks
Elusive Genes
Anthropological studies of genetic citizenship have focused on illnesses with medically explained etiologies. Such studies tend to trace patients' agency and resistance as they encounter genetic knowledge. By contrast, we explore how genetic knowledge is configured by those suffering from contested illnesses. Through interviews, we examine the claims for health care made by British and New Zealand veterans who in the 1950s took part in nuclear te…
Competing Responsibilities
Ideas of responsibility pervade social life, underpinning forms of governance, subjectivities, and collective relations. Inspired by current analyses of neoliberal projects of 'responsibilisation', this paper examines modes of responsibility that extend, challenge, or co-exist with neoliberal ideals. Our aim is twofold: first, we wish to broaden current scholarly understandings of how neoliberal 'responsible' subjects are nested within multiple f…
Local Lives
Contents: Introduction: local migrants and the politics of being in place, Brigitte BA nisch-Brednich and Catherine Trundle Part I Migrants and the Politics of Land Ownership: Migrant routes and local roots: negotiating property in DhArmi/Drimades in Southern Albania, NataA!a GregoriA.. Bon Against the gated community: contesting the 'ugly American dream' through rural New Zealand dreams, Catherine Trundle Past imperfect: displacing Hawaiians as …
Think Piece
In considering what makes New Zealand unique for medical anthropological focus, this think piece sets out four themes. These reflect New Zealand’s particular historical, political, social and cultural landscape, and reveal the relevance of local scholarship for wider global debates about health. By tracing the neoliberal reform of state healthcare, indigenous approaches to wellbeing, local cultural practices of health, and the complex ethics invo…
Indigenizing military citizenship
How does militarism reshape indigenous peoples’ relationships with settler states? In this article, we explore how military service both opens up and forecloses avenues for indigenous groups to claim new modes of responsibility, care and relationality from the state. Through a discussion of New Zealand Māori nuclear test veterans’ recent legal claims through the Waitangi Tribunal, we detail the range of ways that Māori veterans utilize and rework…
Mine, Yours or Ours
This piece draws upon experiences from our private and professional lives to identify nascent models of the commons in Aotearoa. Through examining practices of shared motherhood and the sharing of cultural knowledge within the university sphere, we reveal the unequal divisions of labour that often occur in practices that seek to contribute to a social good and a common goal. As academia has increasingly embraced the idea of the commons, we propos…
Welcome to Commoning Ethnography
What does it mean to suggest that ethnography might be a site, source, or scene of commoning? What does combining the idea of commoning with the practice of ethnography allow us to think about or to do that we might not otherwise? Why create a journal dedicated to such an obviously paradoxical thought experiment? This editorial introduction outlines the impetus behind this project, our aspirations for it, and considers some of the questions it ra…
Uncomfortable Collaborations
Collaborative methodological approaches, increasingly popular within anthropology, emphasize the need to build meaningful engagements with participants that include them more deeply as partners in the process of research, from inception to textual representation. In this article I engage with methodological debates about collaboration to argue for greater disciplinary and narrative openness about the modes of relational detachment and disconnecti…
Vulnerable articulations
Medical anthropology overwhelmingly reveals vulnerability as a problem of powerlessness. Vulnerable groups and individuals are those exposed to the pernicious effects of inequalities, injustices, and oppressive political realities. This largely pejorative stance, we argue, simplifies the place of vulnerability within human experience and in relation to the body, health and illness. By showcasing a range of interlocking vulnerabilities, this paper…
Cover page
Cover page volume 3
Introducing Issue Three
This issue has taken shape within the context of a global pandemic, and despite these challenges it has provided a welcome space to continue our common intellectual work. Our authors hail from around the globe and have each experienced different aspects of this volatility in different ways at different times. The issue features a special collection entitled Trial by Fire. These essays probe and question the underlying assumptions embedded within …
Trial by Fire
In this Introduction, we take two persistent tropes of fieldwork, the 'trial by fire' and the 'heroic fieldworker' to task. Our analysis traces out what we call everyday decentering of these tropes, which we argue is necessary for fieldwork to be taught and engaged with beyond romanticised twentieth century masculinist heroics. We argue that anthro-pology and related field research based disciplines might be better served by adopting a more ethno…
Unsettled Care
In this introduction, and indeed this special section, we explore care as a morally ambiguous and relationally unstable set of practices. By exploring care over longer temporal frames and across shifting subjectivities and intersubjectivities, we show how enactments of care are often unsettled by the transforming dynamics of relationships across time and often entail a multiplicity of competing affects and aspirations, such as hope and failure, l…
Tinkering Care, State Responsibility, and Abandonment
This article critically engages with Mol, Moser, and Pols' notion of "tinkering" care (2010) as "attentive experimentation." I explore the limits of tinkering care for United Kingdom and New Zealand military veterans who participated in British nuclear bomb testing in the Pacific. Although the British state has assured the men that they were exposed to safe levels of radiation, test veterans continue to believe their ill health is service related…
Introducing Volume 4
Welcome to Volume 4 of Commoning Ethnography
CHAPTER 14 The Transformation of Compassion and the Ethics of Interaction within Charity Practices
Americans in Tuscany
Since the time of the Grand Tour, the Italian region of Tuscany has sustained a highly visible American and Anglo migrant community. Today American women continue to migrate there, many in order to marry Italian men. Confronted with experiences of social exclusion, unfamiliar family relations, and new cultural terrain, many women struggle to build local lives. In the first ethnographic monograph of Americans in Italy, Catherine Trundle argues tha…
Defining focused ethnography
This article offers the first critical review of focused ethnography, an increasingly popular research method across health disciplines. Focused ethnographers, we argue, exemplify the practice of methodological boundary work, defining their method in contrast to the 'traditional' ethnographic approach of anthropology and sociology. To examine this boundary work, we collected two samples of health research articles published over the last decade a…
On Power and Obligation in Publishing
Welcome to Volume 5 of Commoning Ethnography. We’ll start with the obvious: this issue was a challenge to produce. It arrives nearly three calendar years after our last issue. This was not our plan. There are myriad reasons for the issue’s untimeliness. Chiefly, these have to do with a quite volatile period in the life of our institution in the long wake of the COVID-19 pandemic as it played out in its own untimely way in Aotearoa. They also have…
Cultivating a trauma-informed pedagogy
Māori students in Aotearoa New Zealand have recently challenged anthropology to better support them to thrive on their own Indigenous terms. This commentary responds to their call and critically reflects on one fruitful avenue for deepening decolonizing work, namely engaging with historical trauma and trauma-informed frameworks. Such frameworks address the legacies of colonial violence and the present conditions and structures that exacerbate har…
We have a right to flourish in our own land’
This article responds to a pressing question, posed by Māori university students in Aotearoa, New Zealand: How do teachers transform universities into places where Indigenous students can thrive and heal? To address this question, we engage with pedagogies of healing, a radical critique of wellbeing within the classroom. We utilized the Māori practice of wānanga to facilitate collective reflection and action. We propose three principles for enabl…
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