Advancing the Value of Ethnography

Tag: vulnerability

Amplifying Resilient Communities: Identifying Resilient Community Practices to Better Inform Health System Design

Amplifying Resilient Communities: Identifying Resilient Community Practices to Better Inform Health System Design

Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has been an inflection point, bringing heightened awareness around the preparedness and resilience of public health systems in dealing with severe shocks. While the pandemic has accentuated the existing weakness in public health systems, for many, especially those...

Against Resiliency: An Ethnographic Manifesto

Against Resiliency: An Ethnographic Manifesto

Using ethnography as an analytic tool to examine the concept of resiliency, we call for a shift in our practice and praxis. Research subjects and ethnographic practitioners are tired of working against and thriving despite. We are tired of being seen as resilient in a world that demands so much...

Resisting Resilience: An Anthropologist’s Paradox

Resisting Resilience: An Anthropologist’s Paradox

Resilience can be a tremendous asset to any individual’s ability to carry on despite difficulties. At the same time, revering resilience without a healthy amount of respect for emotional vulnerability—by which I mean the intentional choice to tap into our emotional beings and allow ourselves to...