SANABRIA, Emilia. 2016. Plastic Bodies: sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil

Manica, Daniela Tonelli

doi:10.1590/1678-49442017v23n3p677

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“…We must pay attention, then, to how normative castings in local practice may challenge and/or undermine global claims of essential medicines. Moreover, our findings highlight how the idea of the ‘deserving’ biosexual citizen can shape how essential medicine may—or may not—be apportioned more widely across sexual health, with significant implications for those who may not perform in expected ways in sexual health areas that extend beyond HIV (e.g., Mamo et al., 2022; Sanabira, 2016).…”

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‘Don’t lose it on the bus!’: Casting the normative biosexual citizen in early Scottish pre‐exposure prophylaxis provision

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Boydell

2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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The introduction of HIV pre‐exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) raises important questions around how new biotechnologies are negotiated within contemporary settings and how they can shape the moral governance of biocitizens, or as we explore, biosexual citizens. This article draws on qualitative interviews and focus groups to consider how the normative biosexual citizen was cast at the start of provision in Scotland by clinical and community practitioners. Our findings show how practitioners navigated ideas around who was deserving of support and access to PrEP in the context of limited resources, interpreted what legitimate risk narratives might look like for different groups and translated particular gendered, sexualised and racialised risk profiles in the context of PrEP provision. This draws attention to how normative biosexual citizenship was not determined through meeting a set of clinical criteria and adhering to a prophylaxis regime but cast through ongoing negotiations with clinical and community practitioners in relation to normative ideas of essential care, constrained resources, risk narratives and gendered and racialised bodies. Our research indicates how access to PrEP will continue to demand particular enactments of normative biosexual citizenship that may well be at odds with the experiences and needs of communities affected by HIV.

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confidence: 87%

‘Don’t lose it on the bus!’: Casting the normative biosexual citizen in early Scottish pre‐exposure prophylaxis provision

Young

Boydell

2023

Sociology Health & Illness

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“…Anthropologists have attended to the ways in which notions of plasticity shape bodily practices in Brazil, from popular and religious healing to biomedicine, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian ceremonies to cosmetic plastic surgery (Béhague 2016;Edmonds 2010;Jarrín 2017;Rabelo 2014;Sanabria 2016;Vilaça 2005;Williamson 2021). While some have emphasized how biomedical therapeutic technologies like disaggregated, synthetic birth-control hormones, become modalities of self-care, bodymind enhancement, and even social mobility, scant attention has been paid to technologies of (re)habilitation for children, much less for disabled children (cf.…”

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Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential

Williamson

2024

Cult. Anthropol.

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This article traces how Brazilian mothers raising children with congenital Zika syndrome cultivate their children’s bodyminds through habilitative care—care that mobilizes a range of substances, technologies, and techniques to encourage maximum potential development of embodied abilities in young disabled children. Based on fieldwork conducted since 2016 with families impacted by the Zika epidemic in Bahia, Brazil, I argue that Bahian mothers’ intensive investments in habilitative care constitute a way of asserting their children’s deservingness of ongoing care and of contesting public narratives of their children’s lack of futurity, thereby challenging exclusionary ideas about whose bodyminds are worth “potentializing.” In dialogue with critical disability studies, I show how habilitative care is bound to discourses of “overcoming” and “curing” disability that scholars in this field have long criticized. I use my ethnography to unsettle these critiques, asking how to attend to the shaping of developing bodyminds amid the precarities of everyday life in the Global South. RESUMO Este artigo examina como mães brasileiras com crianças diagnosticadas com a síndrome congênita do vírus Zika (SCVZ) cultivam os corpos-mentes dos seus filhos através de cuidado habilitativo—cuidado que mobiliza uma série de substâncias, tecnologias e técnicas para fomentar o desenvolvimento potencial máximo de habilidades corporificadas em crianças pequenas com deficiências. Baseado em pesquisa de campo de natureza etnográfica, conduzida desde 2016 com famílias impactadas pela epidemia do vírus Zika na Bahia, Brasil, argumento que os investimentos intensivos das mães baianas constituem uma forma de reivindicar que os filhos merecem cuidado terapêutico e de contestar narrativas da sua falta de futuro, contestando, assim, narrativas repletas de ideias excludentes sobre quais corpos-mentes valem a pena “potencializar”. Dialogando com os Estudos Críticos de Deficiência, mostro como o cuidado habilitativo está ligado a discursos de “superar” e “curar” a deficiência, os quais este campo tem criticado há muito tempo. Lanço mão à minha etnografia para questionar estas críticas, perguntando como se pode pensar a moldagem de pequenos corpos-mentes em desenvolvimento no contexto das precariedades do Sul Global.

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“…In all, this article asks how specific materials of growth make sugarcane into a "capitalist species" today (Blanchette 2020). Staying with the trouble (Haraway 2016) of plant science, it asks what can be learned from sugarcane's molecules (Murphy 2017a;Myers 2015;Sanabria 2016;Agard-Jones 2014;Choy 2011) via scientists' attunements to them (Hartigan 2017;Reis-Castro 2021;Wanderer 2018;Helmreich 2009). By analyzing how Brazilian scientists' research aligns with (sustainable) growth, this article shows how minute technical practices establish the conditions for reinforcing the petro status quo and/or opening more pluripotent possibilities.…”

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The Substitute and the Excuse

Ulrich

2023

Cult. Anthropol.

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Amid climate change and produced unevenness in geopolitical development, the question of how sustainability and growth might be brought together is a concern for many scientists of renewable energy in the Global South. This article explores answers offered by scientists in São Paulo, Brazil, who make renewable fuels and materials from sugarcane. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and tracing the “material of growth,” the article analyzes the traffic between sugarcane biological growth, industry growth, and economic growth in the context of the crop’s history of colonial expansion and environmental destruction. It argues that some scientific practices lay the molecular foundations for a substitutive “sustainable growth” that replicates petro-extractivist growth. Others allow for further permutations of how sustainability and growth might go together, particularly when scientists use sugarcane renewables as an excuse to develop other research aims. The article contributes to anthropological understandings of science, energy cultures, technical practices, and transition. RESUMO Em meio a um contexto de aquecimento global e de desigualdades produzidas no desenvolvimento geopolítico, a questão de como sustentabilidade e crescimento podem andar juntos é uma preocupação para muitos cientistas de energia renovável no Sul Global. Este artigo explora respostas concedidas por cientistas de São Paulo, Brasil, que produzem biocombustíveis e materiais renováveis a partir da cana-de-açúcar. Com base em trabalho de campo etnográfico e no rastreamento do “material do crescimento,” o artigo analisa a circulação entre o crescimento biológico da cana-de-açúcar, o crescimento da indústria, e o crescimento econômico no contexto da história canavial de expansão colonial e destruição ambiental. Argumento que algumas práticas científicas lançam as bases moleculares para um “crescimento sustentável” substitutivo que replica o crescimento petroextrativista. Já outras possibilitam novas configurações conjuntas de sustentabilidade e crescimento, particularmente quando cientistas usam produtos renováveis feitos a partir da cana-de-açúcar como desculpa para desenvolver outros objetivos de pesquisa. O artigo contribui para a compreensão antropológica da ciência, culturas energéticas, práticas técnicas, e transição.

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SANABRIA, Emilia. 2016. Plastic Bodies: sex hormones and menstrual suppression in Brazil

Cited by 4 publications

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‘Don’t lose it on the bus!’: Casting the normative biosexual citizen in early Scottish pre‐exposure prophylaxis provision

‘Don’t lose it on the bus!’: Casting the normative biosexual citizen in early Scottish pre‐exposure prophylaxis provision

Habilitating Bodyminds, Caring for Potential

The Substitute and the Excuse

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