‘An (Im)Patient Population’: Waiting Experiences of Transgender Patients at Healthcare Services in Buenos Aires

Waiting during disasters: Negotiating the spatio‐temporalities of resilience and recovery

“…The restoration of those services was much slower in low‐income neighbourhoods such as Ingenio, compared with the pace of restoration in higher income neighbourhoods in Puerto Rico (Santiago et al, 2020). Women’s domestic duties became more time‐ and labour‐intensive while waiting for the state to recover those services, which made waiting feel stretched out and arduous, a finding that also resonates with previous work on the gendered aspects of waiting (Brun, 2015; Fan et al, 2016; Lahad, 2012; Mountz, 2011; Mulinari, 2021; Tiseyra et al, 2021). Yet, families with economic capital higher than, and social networks larger than, their neighbouring counterparts engaged in more acts of resilience to respond to and recover from the hurricane while waiting for the state to reconnect their houses to the grid and remove garbage from the streets.…”

“…Waiting can also feel protracted when one does not know when the waiting will end (Janeja & Bandak, 2018). For example, Carswell et al (2019, p. 599) have investigated experiences of waiting by poor, low‐class Dalits and Muslims in routine encounters with the state in India and found that when low‐income Indians apply for state pensions, the “temporal uncertainty around whether the pension will materialise resulted in a chronic state of despair, fear or expectation.” A growing body of work has also revealed the gendered aspects of waiting in diverse contexts, such as in relation to transport (Fan et al, 2016), unemployment (Mulinari, 2021), healthcare (Tiseyra et al, 2021), singlehood (Lahad, 2012), and migration (Brun, 2015; Mountz, 2011).…”