In this week’s ethnography, I am inspired by the focus of the research. Drugs is something really unfamiliar to me because I never had the experience of encountering drugs. The author’s approach of this topic is also quite thourough in the sense that she is also considering institutional and historical effects. This approach inspired my research topic. I am thinking of expanding the research and inplementing the societal and insitutional effects on Centennial’s opinion of marriage later, possibly during the summer.
From the author’s interview with a mother of two young children, the concept of structural violence appeared to me again. I related this to last week’s reading about midwives and I think the “lack of care” is a really crucial problem in the society. I also see this kind of structural violence happening in China, where people are told to do one thing but couldn’t get the thing “done” by using that methods. Clearly, this is not a single instance, many places are experiencing this kind of issue. How should the government/institution fix this kind of problem? I wonder. And I would like to pose this question to the class.