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"We were just living," I was told of growing up an Afrikaner as apartheid was being born. Is to p... more "We were just living," I was told of growing up an Afrikaner as apartheid was being born. Is to possible for living at this time to be anything but political? To say "we were just living" of being an Afrikaner at this time is a political statement as much as a claim to there being a time outside of politics, a claim to being apolitical. Based on fieldwork with Afrikaner genealogists, genetic disease scientists and separatists, this paper considers the deliberative constitution of time outside "the political" that is, nevertheless, always already political. This is a creative time that makes it possible to change history and express changed political points of view. It can also be a space for disingenuous disavowal of the aggressive nature of apartheid, and the history of present-day privilege. Genealogic suggests that the imbrication of life and politics be thought of in terms of temporality and in relation to conceptions of history, destiny, contingency and honesty.
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Birth in disruptive times: sustainable solutions, 2020
In Cape Town where cesarian rates range from 70 percent to 30 percent, birth practitioners and pr... more In Cape Town where cesarian rates range from 70 percent to 30 percent, birth practitioners and pregnant women in Cape Town use tranquility to sustain spontaneous vaginal birth. Tranquil birth methods involve psychological as well as physical preparation for labor, but even more importantly peaceful, private low-light settings for labor. For respondents in my ethnographic study from 2014 to 2017, in the highly emergency-conscious sociality of post-apartheid Cape Town, non-institutional settings and non-hospital birth practitioners are less risky for medically unnecessary, expensive, potentially dangerous and invasive birth interventions (such as pharmaceutical inductions and cesarians). Women in my study were typically not informed of reasonable birthing alternatives, or were otherwise coerced. Tragically, where most pregnancies are understood as risky, and where infrastructure is limited, facilities for surgical and pharmaceutical intervention may not be available for genuine emergencies.
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Connected Lives: Families, Households, Health and Care in Contemporary South Africa, 2020
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