Author Archives: dequatjb

This week’s readings from Tea and Solidarity: Tamil Women and Work in Postwar Sri Lanka illuminate the systemic, structural, and social inequalities these women face and how labor and gender expectations transform their daily experiences. From the start of her … Continue reading →

The Land of Open Graves struck me from the very beginning because of De León’s writing style. At first, the less monotonous, more conversational language and style of De León’s ethnography was offsetting as I am used to a more … Continue reading →

I found this week’s reading from Lara’s Queer Freedom : Black Sovereignty to be very thought-provoking and illuminating. One aspect of this ethnography I resonated with was the incorporation of different modes of thinking in her analysis of current oppressive … Continue reading →

Immediately, along with the other ethnographic texts we have read, The Pastoral Clinic caught my attention because of the ways Garcia interacts with her ethnographic methods. Through elaborating on particular narratives within her fieldwork, Garcia engages her arguments with the emic perspective … Continue reading →

This week’s reading from Lydia Dixon’s Delivering Health opened my eyes to the subtle ways women are conditioned to seek structured medical care in society today, revealing the humane and inhumane identity of infrastructure. This reading also made me reflect … Continue reading →

I thoroughly enjoyed the readings for this week, in particular Anand Taneja’s “Sharing a room with sparrows” and his characterization of and elaboration on the “ethics of the garden” (230). Azad’s readings elucidate a new way of defining our relationship … Continue reading →

I found Shang’s discussion of the tangle of complexities between education and incarceration very interesting and illuminating. I agree with Robeson in opposing the pipeline framework or “direct trajectory” (102) between the two, and was very engaged with Shang’s elaboration … Continue reading →