ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Structural Violence, Double Burden, Attention
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You can only formulate an effective problem statement in the course of reading, writing, and thinking. Critically analyze public health and biomedical sources (grey and academic literature: not just take them at face value. Cite your sources in you problem statement. Articulate topic/question reading writing/thinking rearticulate topic/question. Finding resources for your topic: popular databases, look through bibliographies of useful articles, uoft libraries site research guides ant348. Books are good for narrowing down broad topics. Aims to show transnational political economic and historical forces at work through ethnography, especially. Forces constraining individual agency: writing against how agency is invoked, or how individuals are blamed for their illness/infection as opposed to how their agency is constrained by structural forces. Insufficient tools to analyse how structures of domination work (kirmayer; green; Wacquant: asserts that they exist, shows their effects ethnographically in the lives of women, but don"t really get major insights into microlevels of structural power and violence.
