Constructing the Roma audience: public health communication and intervention in contemporary Romania

Schneeweis, Adina

doi:10.1080/09581596.2010.508102

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“…the specific role of the Turkish women at home; eating habits). Such a depiction fits well with scholarly critique that public health interventions often ‘build upon an understanding of intervention and culture that has evolved from colonial initiatives of correction’ (Schneeweis : 297). According to such critiques, public health has often operated with a deficit model that treats minority groups as less developed, often implicitly or explicitly blaming their ‘culture’ for differences in health.…”

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“…). Public health programmes are increasingly framed as ‘diversity‐sensitive’, aiming to take the ‘special needs’ of different population groups into account (Schneeweis ). Within different national contexts, biomedical research is obliged to ensure that research subjects represent the diversity of the whole population (Epstein ).…”

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“…Health policies, educational training, and treatment guidelines aim to improve the 'cultural competencies' of health professionals and institutionalise 'diversity care' (Ciupitu and Babitsch 2011, Green et al 2014, Saha et al 2008. Public health programmes are increasingly framed as 'diversity-sensitive', aiming to take the 'special needs' of different population groups into account (Schneeweis 2011). Within different national contexts, biomedical research is obliged to ensure that research subjects represent the diversity of the whole population (Epstein 2007).…”

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How differences matter: tracing diversity practices in obesity treatment and health promotion

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Penkler

2016

Sociology Health & Illness

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Diversity has become a buzzword in medical care, denoting a re-evaluation of what it means to attend to differences among human bodies and lives. Questions about what types of differences matter and how they should be defined have become important normative and analytical challenges. Drawing on two case studies, we show how differences between patients and patient-collectives are not simply waiting to be recognised and addressed but also enacted within situated healthcare practices. Although concerns with diversity are present in both cases, they take different forms. In a Viennese health-promotion project for obese clients, care practices are both based on and reproduce large-scale categories that divide the population into distinct subgroups with specific needs. Conversely, in an outpatient clinic for bariatric surgery patients, a technical fix-oriented procedure leads to concerns over diversity becoming an add-on realised by tending to each patient's idiosyncrasies and personal stories. By tracing the practices of diversity and the tensions they produce, we show how classifications and understandings of human difference are based on infrastructures that enable and constrain them. Furthermore, we discuss how they become consequential in healthcare, thereby indicating the importance of remaining reflexive about the political implications of diversity discourse and practice.

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How differences matter: tracing diversity practices in obesity treatment and health promotion

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2016

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“…In the interviews, project reports, and conference talks, the perceptions of Turkish-speaking clients reiterated arguments that attributed their otherness to culture. 3 Their weight problems were depicted as rooted in their poor health literacy and cultural norms; thus, the center engendered public health concepts that define the poorer health status of particular groups in terms of a deficit with regard to the majority population (Schneeweis 2011;Douglas 1995). Turkish-speaking women were characterized as being less affected by beauty ideals because their lifestyle and mode of dressing were perceived as more traditional and less westernized.…”

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Challenging Diversity: Steering Effects of Buzzwords in Projectified Health Care

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Felt

2019

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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This article discusses the effects of two trends in contemporary biomedicine that have so far been largely addressed separately: the steering of fields through programmatic “buzzwords” and the projectified nature of contemporary health research, care, and promotion. Drawing on a case study of an Austrian diversity-sensitive health promotion project related to obesity prevention, we show how the articulation of these trends—governance by buzzwords and projectification—often leads to not unproblematic and often paradoxical outcomes. Buzzwords such as “diversity” become especially important in an innovation-driven environment encouraging a promissory rhetoric. At the same time, the project form shapes and restricts how buzzwords (as typically vague terms that need to be fleshed out) are articulated and translated into a specific project design. In our case study of an obesity prevention program, the need to translate diversity into a “doable” project encouraged the identification of seemingly clearly delineated target groups and thus promoted a rather narrow understanding of diversity, which stands in tension with much more fluid and context-sensitive ways of performing “diversity.” We show how actors grapple with these paradoxes. This restricts the full power a buzzword such as diversity could achieve in terms of social justice.

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“…See Guarrasi () on communication and education; Herakova () on communicating identity; or Schneeweis (), on health communication, to name but a few.…”

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Communicating the Victim: Nongovernmental Organizations Advocacy Discourses for Roma Rights

Schneeweis

2014

Communication, Culture & Critique

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This article is a study of advocacy communication about the Roma (Gypsies) in contemporary Europe. A movement for Roma rights has emerged and solidified since the 1990s, marked by the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, rising neo‐fascist anti‐Roma discrimination, European Union enlargement, immigration policies, and moral panics. Based on in‐depth longitudinal and historical analyses, this study explains the discourse of victimization as constructed in nongovernmental organizations' (NGOs) communication materials. I suggest here that a vehement position against anti‐Roma discrimination is rather self‐explanatory in post‐World War II and post‐Communist Europe; but I also critique the role that NGO communication plays within structures that maintain an anti‐Roma system in place—by overly victimizing the Roma peoples.

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Constructing the Roma audience: public health communication and intervention in contemporary Romania

Cited by 10 publications

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How differences matter: tracing diversity practices in obesity treatment and health promotion

How differences matter: tracing diversity practices in obesity treatment and health promotion

Challenging Diversity: Steering Effects of Buzzwords in Projectified Health Care

Communicating the Victim: Nongovernmental Organizations Advocacy Discourses for Roma Rights

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