Mythily Meher

WORKING BEYOND ANTHROPOLOGY ACROSS DIFFERENT EPISTEMIC CULTURES

Julie Spray, Laura McLauchlan, Pauline Herbst, Alexandra Palmer et autres

The ASAANZ conference in Dunedin in 2023 was a catalyst for this conversation about anthropological practices of interdisciplinarity which we have glossed as working across different epistemic cultures. In this piece, we canvas the concept of disciplines as epistemic cultures, argue for …

Ethical Stakes for Past, Present, and Prospective Tuberculosis Isolate Research Towards a Multicultural Data Sovereignty Model for Isolate Samples in Research

Anneka Anderson, Mythily Meher, Z. Maroof, S. Malua et autres

Tuberculosis (TB) is a potentially fatal infectious disease that, in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ), inequitably affects Asian, Pacific, Middle Eastern, Latin American, and African (MELAA), and Māori people. Medical research involving genome sequencing of TB samples enables more nuanced understanding of disease …

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Borders and Borderlands: (Re)negotiating biomedicine, belonging, and nation

Mythily Meher, Pauline Herbst, Nayantara Sheoran Appleton, Courtney Addison

This special issue takes as its primary theoretical touchstone cultural, queer, and feminist theorist Gloria Anzaldúa's La Frontera (2007), a text that interrogated Anzaldúa's own 'mestiza consciousness' to theorise the multiplying and hybridising potential of the US-Mexico borderlands and the various forms …

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Locating transport sector responsibilities for the wellbeing of mobility-challenged people in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mythily Meher, Julie Spray, Janine L. Wiles, Anneka Anderson et autres

wellbeing is a central tenet in the Aotearoa New Zealand government's Transport Outcomes Framework. Yet considerations of how place mediates diverse opportunities for wellbeing seldom identify how decision-making on transport and pedestrian infrastructure affects these opportunities. Considering the lived realities of older …

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Anthropology and #MeToo: Reimagining fieldwork

Tanya J. King, David Boarder Giles, Mythily Meher, Hannah Gould

Abstract #MeToo deals in the everyday ambiguous and intersectional, providing a space for discussion of the grey areas of sexual propriety. Since 2017, when the term was mobilised spectacularly in the US entertainment industry, other industries have undertaken an examination of their …

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Epistolary fragments for an Anthropology of Loneliness

Bryonny Goodwin‐Hawkins, Mythily Meher

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Displacing Place, Unstating Feminism (or: One Migrant Settler’s Quest for a Standing Place)

Mythily Meher

Place forms the material grounds of our personal-political becomings, and feminist theory after Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde demonstrates how understanding our respective locatedness forms a critical step towards meaningful theory and praxis. Such politics and ethics of place are cultivated in …

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Pollution and Intimacy in a Transcendent Ethics of Care: A Case of Aged-care in India

Mythily Meher, Susanna Helen Trnka, Christine Dureau

In India, where children’s care of ageing parents is seen as practical and sacred, animated by notions of seva (selfless service), the outsourcing of elder care causes considerable concern. Meanwhile, carers’ work in old-age homes is treated as transactional, and their moral …

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Mr. Joshi's Wife

Mythily Meher

The fourth time she fell, her glass bangle cracked against her brow, narrowly missing her eye.The hospital's brain scans were un-illuminating.Their doctor apologized, unable to tell them anything that offered conclusion.Husband and wife returned home.The next day, she argued with the maid …

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Interrupting knowledge, decolonising care: understanding mental health with a refugee-run NGO in Sydney, Australia

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Emotions in Ritual Theories

Meredith Rossner, Mythily Meher

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The process and dynamics of restorative justice: research on forum sentencing

Meredith Rossner, Jasmine Bruce, Mythily Meher

This research report presents findings from a study of Forum Sentencing in NSW. Forum Sentencing is a restorative justice program operating within the local court jurisdiction. It provides an alternative sentencing option, which allows offenders to meet with victims and other community …