Stacy Pigg
Simon Fraser University, Sociology And Anthropology, Faculty Member
This second collection of Roadsides employs artistically rendered depictions of labor to show how infrastructures become political and material things through social relations of work. Aesthetically creative and methodologically... more
This second collection of Roadsides employs artistically rendered depictions of labor to show how infrastructures become political and material things through social relations of work. Aesthetically creative and methodologically experimental, the articles utilize photographs, paintings, cartoons, and videos to examine and reveal the impacts and experiences of technological intervention that sometimes escape the frame of textual analysis. Taking up the challenge of labor across a range of scales and places, the collection moves from Nepal and India’s Himalayan borderlands to the Paraguayan Chaco, downtown London to the deserts of Sudan, and urban Sri Lanka to Afghanistan’s Wakhan highlands to illustrate many of the inevitable cracks in the dreams of infrastructural pasts and futures.
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1. (No abstract for Intro) 2. In this paper we draw attention to the difficulty of accessing reproductive rights in the absence of effective state and legal guarantees for gender equity and citizenship, and argue that if reproductive... more
1. (No abstract for Intro) 2. In this paper we draw attention to the difficulty of accessing reproductive rights in the absence of effective state and legal guarantees for gender equity and citizenship, and argue that if reproductive rights are to be meaningful interventions on the ground, they must be reframed in terms of reproductive justice. Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Rajasthan, Northwest India, we track two dynamic legal aid interventions on reproductive health rights in India, concerned with domestic violence and maternal mortality respectively, that have sought to fill this existing gap between ineffective state policies and the rhetoric on reproductive rights. Through an analysis of these interventions, we propose that requirements of reproductive justice cannot be met through discrete or private, albeit creative legal initiatives, pursued by individuals or civil society organisations but must involve comprehensive policies as well as strategies and alliances between state, non-state, transnational organisations and progressive political groups
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Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective. Vincanne Adams and Stacy Leigh Pigg, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 342 pp.
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The social study of science and technology is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research and theory that analyzes the production and dissemination of science and technology as a sociocultural endeavor. This body of work suggests that... more
The social study of science and technology is an emerging interdisciplinary field of research and theory that analyzes the production and dissemination of science and technology as a sociocultural endeavor. This body of work suggests that science is social and political in ways that cannot adequately be described as simple bias. It offers ways of looking at such phenomena as the establishment of research agendas, the dynamics of controversies and competing truth claims, the social consequences of new technologies, unintended discriminatory effects of science and technology, and the cultural assumptions embedded in the on-the-ground uses of medical technologies.
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In international health development "TBA" (traditional birth attendant) is used to refer to the diverse kinds of people who assist women during birth. This chapter examines the hidden process of cross-cultural translation... more
In international health development "TBA" (traditional birth attendant) is used to refer to the diverse kinds of people who assist women during birth. This chapter examines the hidden process of cross-cultural translation embedded in this generalized notion of the TBA. More broadly it explores how words organize actions. The language used by the international development establishment for talking about various indigenous healers including midwives has practical consequences. It works I will argue to position development institutions as the locus of authoritative knowledge while devaluing other local forms of knowledge. Paradoxically this devaluation of local practices occurs even as development programs explicitly seek to work with local practitioners. Programs for training TBAs in Nepal offer the basis of a case study that shows how development systematically dismantles different sociocultural realities in the course of taking them into account. (excerpt)
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Dans cette introduction, nous avançons que l'attention ethnographique portée aux documents, un élément banal de notre quotidien, peut révéler des manœuvres sociales qui accélèrent ou préservent des configurations particulières de... more
Dans cette introduction, nous avançons que l'attention ethnographique portée aux documents, un élément banal de notre quotidien, peut révéler des manœuvres sociales qui accélèrent ou préservent des configurations particulières de pouvoir et d'imputabilité. Nous employons l'expression « document/ation » pour rendre compte des possibles relevant des moments d'action. Les articles de ce numéro spécial mettent en évidence les tensions dynamiques entre la systématisation et l'ambigüité qui résultent des situations de vérification, d'appréciation et de validation.
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In this introduction we argue that ethnographic attention to documents, as a mundane feature of everyday life, can reveal social manoeuvres that accelerate or detain particular configurations of power and accountability. We use the term... more
In this introduction we argue that ethnographic attention to documents, as a mundane feature of everyday life, can reveal social manoeuvres that accelerate or detain particular configurations of power and accountability. We use the term “document/ation” to convey this space of possibility in moments of action. The articles collected in this special issue foreground the dynamic tensions between systematisation and ambiguity that arise in situations of verification, appraisal or validation.
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Research Interests: Sociology, Anthropology, International Development, Traditional Medicine, Health Planning, and 15 moreInternational Cooperation, Midwifery, Nepal, Health Policy, Humans, Program Development, Belief, Translating, Conceptual Framework, Public health systems and services research, Psychology of Power, International health, International Health, Curandero, and cultural characteristics
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... procedures of scientific research on AIDS have been set and treatment proto-cols established ... politically incisive engagement with the social inequalities linked both to HIV transmission itself ... be learned from following the... more
... procedures of scientific research on AIDS have been set and treatment proto-cols established ... politically incisive engagement with the social inequalities linked both to HIV transmission itself ... be learned from following the communication practices that count as AIDS education in ...
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Résumé Cet article prend le programme de prévention du sida au Népal comme étude de cas pour réfléchir sur l’intersection entre les programmes internationaux de bien-être social et les politiques locales du développement. Il s’agit... more
Résumé Cet article prend le programme de prévention du sida au Népal comme étude de cas pour réfléchir sur l’intersection entre les programmes internationaux de bien-être social et les politiques locales du développement. Il s’agit d’examiner comment un modèle progressiste mettant l’accent sur les conditions sociales qui favorisent l’infection au VIH s’est transformé dans la pratique, à la faveur de son application par des organisations non gouvernementales à travers la rationalité courante de l’appareil népalais de développement. Loin de remettre en question les rapports de pouvoir qui perpétuent les modèles de mauvaise santé, la réponse au sida issue des pratiques des ONG a davantage stigmatisé les groupes marginaux, spécialement les populations des castes inférieures et les travailleuses du sexe appartenant à une minorité ethnique, en les ciblant comme des gens qui « ont besoin » des interventions de prévention du sida. Pour comprendre comment et pourquoi cela a pu se produire, i...
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... 5 Linnet Pike's fieldwork was conducted in Nepal (in Kathmandu, Nepalgunj, and in Badi communities of Kailali and Bardiya Districts) from 1996 ... Robert Hurley (New York, Vintage Books, 1978), p. 230; J. Weeks, Sex,... more
... 5 Linnet Pike's fieldwork was conducted in Nepal (in Kathmandu, Nepalgunj, and in Badi communities of Kailali and Bardiya Districts) from 1996 ... Robert Hurley (New York, Vintage Books, 1978), p. 230; J. Weeks, Sex, Politics, and Society: The Regulation of Sexuality Since 1800 ...
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Research Interests: Sociology, Anthropology, International Development, Traditional Medicine, Health Planning, and 15 moreInternational Cooperation, Midwifery, Nepal, Health Policy, Humans, Program Development, Belief, Translating, Conceptual Framework, Public health systems and services research, Psychology of Power, International health, International Health, Curandero, and cultural characteristics
Imagine anthropologist Robbie Davis-Hoyd's surprise when she rounded a corner in a birth center owned by Dona Facunda, a partera traditional (traditional midwife)1 who works in Morelos, Mexico, and... more
Imagine anthropologist Robbie Davis-Hoyd's surprise when she rounded a corner in a birth center owned by Dona Facunda, a partera traditional (traditional midwife)1 who works in Morelos, Mexico, and encountered a flat marble delivery table complete with metal stir-rups. ...
Research Interests: Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Traditional Medicine, Midwifery, Cultural Anthropology, and 14 moreProfessional Role Socialization, Mexico, Canada, Pregnancy, Humans, Guatemala, Female, Netherlands, Professional Practice, Social Values, Psychology of Power, MEXICO, anthropology cultural, and Professional Role
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Page 1. Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2002 Expecting the Epidemic: A Social History of the Representation of Sexual Risk in Nepal Stacy Leigh Pigg On a hot monsoon day in 1997, I sat in the tiny office of the UNAIDS... more
Page 1. Feminist Media Studies, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2002 Expecting the Epidemic: A Social History of the Representation of Sexual Risk in Nepal Stacy Leigh Pigg On a hot monsoon day in 1997, I sat in the tiny office of the UNAIDS representative in Nepal. ...
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... these diseases as something they have in common with people of "developed countries," and that is why the kind of healing that evolved ... Cohabiting with people on the same hillsides, they form an extrasocial... more
... these diseases as something they have in common with people of "developed countries," and that is why the kind of healing that evolved ... Cohabiting with people on the same hillsides, they form an extrasocial universe, an invisible world intimately connected to the human one. ...
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... procedures of scientific research on AIDS have been set and treatment proto-cols established ... politically incisive engagement with the social inequalities linked both to HIV transmission itself ... be learned from following the... more
... procedures of scientific research on AIDS have been set and treatment proto-cols established ... politically incisive engagement with the social inequalities linked both to HIV transmission itself ... be learned from following the communication practices that count as AIDS education in ...
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... Stacy Leigh Pigg ... The social services, such as schools and hospitals; the infrastructure of roads,bridges, and dams; the economic initiatives such as land reform; the training and mobilization of a national elite; the... more
... Stacy Leigh Pigg ... The social services, such as schools and hospitals; the infrastructure of roads,bridges, and dams; the economic initiatives such as land reform; the training and mobilization of a national elite; the administrative organization of agencies and manpower-all this ...
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Nepal is a predominantly rural nation: Most people live in villages and make their living as subsistence farmers. The Nepalese government, assisted by international donor agencies, administers projects directed at improving the conditions... more
Nepal is a predominantly rural nation: Most people live in villages and make their living as subsistence farmers. The Nepalese government, assisted by international donor agencies, administers projects directed at improving the conditions of life for these rural people. Images of villages and village life accompany the promotion of development ideals. Radio Nepal has actors playing the part of villagers in didactic skits aimed at convincing rural people that they should consult doctors for their health problems or should feed oral rehydration solution to children suffering from diarrhea. Schoolbooks contain illustrations of village scenes and talk about village life as they inform children about development programs. When development policy makers plan programs, they discuss what villagers do, how they react, and what they think. Together, these images coalesce into a typical, generic village, turning all the villages of rural Nepal into the village.