Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 600242 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nayantara Sheoran Appleton |
| PRENOMES | Nayantara Sheoran |
| SOBRENOME | Appleton |
| ASSINATURA | APPLETON N S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6990-7004 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
AI as Emotional Support in Pregnancy
Background: People navigating pregnancy face significant emotional vulnerability, with emotional support serving as a crucial protective factor for perinatal wellbeing. While there is emerging scholarship on how AI is used as a diagnostic tool during pregnancies, early evidence suggests that people are increasingly turning to generative AI platforms for everyday emotional support during pregnancy. Yet, scholarly understanding of this phenomenon r…
Demographic Desires
Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of hormonal contraception and population anxiety, in Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India, Appleton shows how discourses and practices of ‘family planning’ weave together the demographic desires of the Indian state and Indian women. In examining the relationship(s) between demographic desires of a nation, reproductive justice on the ground, and women’s every…
Critical ethnographic respect
Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) are increasingly available over the counter as a form of hormonal birth control in India. As use of ECPs is increasing over time, this paper draws on ethnographic research in Dehradun, in Uttarakhand (Northern State) to highlight the everyday material conditions under which women create narrative around choice and agency regarding these ECPs. Women viewed ECPs as better options than abortion, appreciated the s…
The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘Covid’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of Covid-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2020, the government of Aotearoa New Zealand imposed some of the most stringent funerary restrictions in the world as part of its efforts to eliminate COVID-19. This article explores how people experienced this situation, asking why restrictions that some described as precipitating ‘the most difficult time of their lives’ were described by others as a ‘relief’, ‘blessing’, or ‘gift’. Much existing literature frames funerary restrictions as a d…
Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after Covid‐19 lockdown
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand, stringent lockdown measures lasting 7 weeks were introduced to manage community spread of the virus. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining how lockdown measures impacted upon the lives of nurses, midwives and personal care assistants caring for community-based patients during this time. The study involved nationwide surveys and in-depth interviews with 15…
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population
Anxiety about humans (over)reproducing has mobilized global capital and biomedical interventions, from hormonal contraceptives to sterilizations, historically as well as in the contemporary moment. It has allowed wealthier states to stand back as people are decimated from famine, droughts, and the communal and human tensions mobilized following such drastic climatic events. Contemporary climate change rhetoric, in both the liberal progressive pub…
Borders and Borderlands
This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzalda's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzalda's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hybridising potential of the US-Mexico borderlands and the various forms of living that emerged within. Though her writing was always critically and politically engaged, resistance, for Anzalda, was not enough, too m…
The Research Imagination During Covid-19
This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. We draw on our own experiences of participating in a team of 17 researchers, hailing from anthropology and anthropology-adjacent disciplines, to research social life in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the pandemic, …
‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and Covid-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand
International media have praised Aotearoa New Zealand for its response to the coronavirus pandemic. While New Zealand Police played a fundamental role in enforcing pandemic control measures, the policing landscape remained plural. This article employs Loader [2000. Plural policing and democratic governance. Social and legal studies, 9 (3), 323–345] model of plural policing to understand responses to public health emergencies. It identifies two fo…
(Alter)narratives of ‘winning’
COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but co…
Introduction
The four pieces in this section are innovative collaborations at various levels, ranging from anthropologists collaborating with communities to collaborative presentations as a way to subvert hierarchies and Euro-centric modes of being with/in academia. These papers engage with the relationship between collaboration and commoning, some explicitly and others implicitly, as ways to shape knowledge production and practice for a much more egalitarian…
An Editor's Farewell
Editor's Farewell from Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
Ethnographic Frontiers
The frontier, in western imaginary, is the paradoxical space of romantic conquest and simultaneously unbridled dangers. It serves both to showcase the potentialities of futures that can be created and also the inherent dangers present in those spaces that are yet to be conquered. The frontier is uncharted territory for some, but also relinquished territory for others. The frontier marks movement - forward and backward - for differently positioned…
Unsettling the (presumed) settled
In January 2017, New Zealand’s medicines and medical devices safety authority, Medsafe, announced in a press release that its Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) had recommended a reclassification of certain oral contraceptives in order for them to be made available over the counter in pharmacies. In A/NZ, a progressive temporal narrative has been established around contraception that begins with the heroic struggle of women at the turn of t…
Feminist Commons and Techno-Scientific Futures
There have been sustained conversations within eco-feminism and feminist materialism about the way reproduction, ecologies, and everyday life for women is rendered visible and important within the commons. However, there has been a lack of engaged discussion on how techno-scientific spaces (re)imagined in feminist commons is another way to articulate futures that disassemble hierarchies and exploitative everyday existence. In this short provocati…
The Never-Ending Story
The Research Imagination During Covid-19
This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. We draw on our own experiences of participating in a team of 17 researchers, hailing from anthropology and anthropology-adjacent disciplines, to research social life in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the pandemic, …
(Alter)narratives of ‘winning’
COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but co…
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population
Anxiety about humans (over)reproducing has mobilized global capital and biomedical interventions, from hormonal contraceptives to sterilizations, historically as well as in the contemporary moment. It has allowed wealthier states to stand back as people are decimated from famine, droughts, and the communal and human tensions mobilized following such drastic climatic events. Contemporary climate change rhetoric, in both the liberal progressive pub…
Unsettling the (presumed) settled
In January 2017, New Zealand’s medicines and medical devices safety authority, Medsafe, announced in a press release that its Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) had recommended a reclassification of certain oral contraceptives in order for them to be made available over the counter in pharmacies. In A/NZ, a progressive temporal narrative has been established around contraception that begins with the heroic struggle of women at the turn of t…
Feminist Commons and Techno-Scientific Futures
There have been sustained conversations within eco-feminism and feminist materialism about the way reproduction, ecologies, and everyday life for women is rendered visible and important within the commons. However, there has been a lack of engaged discussion on how techno-scientific spaces (re)imagined in feminist commons is another way to articulate futures that disassemble hierarchies and exploitative everyday existence. In this short provocati…
Ethnographic Frontiers
The frontier, in western imaginary, is the paradoxical space of romantic conquest and simultaneously unbridled dangers. It serves both to showcase the potentialities of futures that can be created and also the inherent dangers present in those spaces that are yet to be conquered. The frontier is uncharted territory for some, but also relinquished territory for others. The frontier marks movement - forward and backward - for differently positioned…
Introduction
The four pieces in this section are innovative collaborations at various levels, ranging from anthropologists collaborating with communities to collaborative presentations as a way to subvert hierarchies and Euro-centric modes of being with/in academia. These papers engage with the relationship between collaboration and commoning, some explicitly and others implicitly, as ways to shape knowledge production and practice for a much more egalitarian…
An Editor's Farewell
Editor's Farewell from Nayantara Sheoran Appleton
‘Safer communities … together’? Plural policing and Covid-19 public health interventions in Aotearoa New Zealand
International media have praised Aotearoa New Zealand for its response to the coronavirus pandemic. While New Zealand Police played a fundamental role in enforcing pandemic control measures, the policing landscape remained plural. This article employs Loader [2000. Plural policing and democratic governance. Social and legal studies, 9 (3), 323–345] model of plural policing to understand responses to public health emergencies. It identifies two fo…
(Alter)narratives of ‘winning’
COVID-19 stories, especially from Aotearoa New Zealand as one of the leading nations ‘winning’ over the virus will be important historical documentation. The ‘team of 5 million’ is writing its narratives of life with/out COVID-19 – stories of ‘living in bubbles’, of ‘being kind’ and ‘being in it together.’ These are narratives of success which need to be examined alongside the narratives that have been absent from public national discourse but co…
Critical ethnographic respect
Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) are increasingly available over the counter as a form of hormonal birth control in India. As use of ECPs is increasing over time, this paper draws on ethnographic research in Dehradun, in Uttarakhand (Northern State) to highlight the everyday material conditions under which women create narrative around choice and agency regarding these ECPs. Women viewed ECPs as better options than abortion, appreciated the s…
The most difficult time of my life’ or ‘Covid’s gift to me’? Differential experiences of Covid-19 funerary restrictions in Aotearoa New Zealand
In 2020, the government of Aotearoa New Zealand imposed some of the most stringent funerary restrictions in the world as part of its efforts to eliminate COVID-19. This article explores how people experienced this situation, asking why restrictions that some described as precipitating ‘the most difficult time of their lives’ were described by others as a ‘relief’, ‘blessing’, or ‘gift’. Much existing literature frames funerary restrictions as a d…
Community healthcare workers' experiences during and after Covid‐19 lockdown
Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic reached Aotearoa New Zealand, stringent lockdown measures lasting 7 weeks were introduced to manage community spread of the virus. This paper reports the findings of a qualitative study examining how lockdown measures impacted upon the lives of nurses, midwives and personal care assistants caring for community-based patients during this time. The study involved nationwide surveys and in-depth interviews with 15…
Critical engagements on Making Kin not Population
Anxiety about humans (over)reproducing has mobilized global capital and biomedical interventions, from hormonal contraceptives to sterilizations, historically as well as in the contemporary moment. It has allowed wealthier states to stand back as people are decimated from famine, droughts, and the communal and human tensions mobilized following such drastic climatic events. Contemporary climate change rhetoric, in both the liberal progressive pub…
Borders and Borderlands
This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzalda's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzalda's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hybridising potential of the US-Mexico borderlands and the various forms of living that emerged within. Though her writing was always critically and politically engaged, resistance, for Anzalda, was not enough, too m…
The Research Imagination During Covid-19
This article explores some of the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has served as a collective critical event for anthropologists and other social scientists, examining how it has promoted new configurations of the research imagination. We draw on our own experiences of participating in a team of 17 researchers, hailing from anthropology and anthropology-adjacent disciplines, to research social life in Aotearoa/New Zealand during the pandemic, …
The Never-Ending Story
Demographic Desires
Through an exploration of the intertwined histories of hormonal contraception and population anxiety, in Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India, Appleton shows how discourses and practices of ‘family planning’ weave together the demographic desires of the Indian state and Indian women. In examining the relationship(s) between demographic desires of a nation, reproductive justice on the ground, and women’s every…
AI as Emotional Support in Pregnancy
Background: People navigating pregnancy face significant emotional vulnerability, with emotional support serving as a crucial protective factor for perinatal wellbeing. While there is emerging scholarship on how AI is used as a diagnostic tool during pregnancies, early evidence suggests that people are increasingly turning to generative AI platforms for everyday emotional support during pregnancy. Yet, scholarly understanding of this phenomenon r…
Sociology (12 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Law (8 obras) · Aotearoa (6 obras) · Gender Studies (6 obras) · Medicine (5 obras) · Population (5 obras) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (4 obras) · History (4 obras)