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Please join us for our next London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Medical Anthropology seminar with Else Vogel
on Tuesday 28th January 4-5.15pm in the Jenny Roberts room, LSHTM, 15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH.
Abstract:
"Enacting community health: obesity prevention policies as practices of relating"<https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/events/enacting-community-health>
Drawing on Critical Policy Studies and feminist science, technology and society (STS), this lecture conceptualises obesity prevention activities as ongoing and precarious socio-material practices of relating - rather than as means for 'getting results' or vehicles through which normative discourses are being instilled. Else Vogel focuses on 'community approaches' within public health, whose aim is to stimulate and encourage healthy initiatives from what policy makers term 'bottom-up', emerging from the situations, concerns and abilities within neighbourhoods.
Else suggests that living up to this promise requires policy makers to pay careful attention to when, how and whose knowledge is recognized and mobilized. Drawing on ethnographic research on the 'Amsterdam Healthy Weight Program', Else will demonstrate that through different forms of engagement, particular notions of health and community take shape. She warns that reliance on statistics-based problem definitions, dietary advice and professional hierarchies risks locating the problem and solution within certain 'problem populations' defined around class and ethnicity.
In this seminar, Else will also show that community approaches may also foster spaces for 'situated caring', where health emerges in the negotiation of heterogeneous goods, including neighbourhood revival, togetherness and fun. Since situated caring has effects that cannot be captured in obesity prevalence statistics, Public Health is invited self-reflexively to develop its policy goals and commitments. Policy, after all, is not a monolithic structure of plans and commitments but is continuously done and redone in sites and situations. Else will also show in this seminar how multiplicity implies that alternatives to dominant biopolitical discourses may also be derived from within policy efforts of tackling obesity.
Else Vogel<https://liu.se/en/employee/elsvo95> is a researcher working at the intersection of medical anthropology and feminist STS with an interest in values, knowledge and subjectivity in care practices. She divides her time between the Anthropology department of the University of Amsterdam and the department of Technology & Social Change at Linköping University. Ongoing research projects include studies of obesity care and prevention and chronic pain rehabilitation in the Netherlands. Recently, she started a project of human-animal relations in farm animal care under a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council.
Please note that this session will NOT be live-streamed/recorded.
This seminar series is funded by the LSHTM Anthropology and Sociology Hub<https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/anthropology-sociology-hub>.
For more information please contact one of the organisers:
Annelieke Driessen ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
Fred Martineau ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
Melissa Parker ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
Annelieke Driessen
Research Fellow (Medical Anthropology)
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place, room 110, London, WC1H 9SH
Tel: 020 7958 8295 ext. 8295
More information about the Forms of Care project<http://blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/formsofcare/> and @Formsofcare<https://twitter.com/formsofcare>
Most recent article: 'Attending to difference: Enacting individuals in food provision for residents with dementia<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.13004>'
The Thinking With Dementia<http://somatosphere.net/thinking-with-dementia> Series
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