Claudia Merli
@claudiamerli.bsky.social
Cultural & medical anthropologist. Biopolitics, body, disasters, trauma, cosmologies. Research in Thailand, Japan, Italy. EuroSEAS board member. Assoc Prof @ Uppsala University. Psychodynamic conversational therapist. She/Her. https://eirapsychotherapy.se
"It was a dark and stormy night"... there are deep implications in terms of reflections on colonial politics and ethnographic writing (specifically), as it has been discussed in recent works.
April 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"It was a dark and stormy night"... there are deep implications in terms of reflections on colonial politics and ethnographic writing (specifically), as it has been discussed in recent works.
My chapter focuses on shame and stigma in both contexts, Sweden and Japan "I examine how ‘caring by words’ is enacted via neologisms or ideologically meaningful terms that unveil the interplay between governments, health systems and citizens" (Merli 2025: 371). #longcovid #covid19 #chronic #pandemic
April 28, 2025 at 7:30 AM
My chapter focuses on shame and stigma in both contexts, Sweden and Japan "I examine how ‘caring by words’ is enacted via neologisms or ideologically meaningful terms that unveil the interplay between governments, health systems and citizens" (Merli 2025: 371). #longcovid #covid19 #chronic #pandemic
Hi Kevin, this startpack is meant to showcase information about research on and researchers of SouheastAsia. Enthusiasts welcome to follow!
April 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Hi Kevin, this startpack is meant to showcase information about research on and researchers of SouheastAsia. Enthusiasts welcome to follow!
The accepted papers will be part of a special issue in a #medanthro journal. Send your paper before 23 February 23:59, indicate that you submit to our panel!
February 2, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The accepted papers will be part of a special issue in a #medanthro journal. Send your paper before 23 February 23:59, indicate that you submit to our panel!
5/ By interrogating assembling and disassembling, we highlight the body—human and disciplinary—as a central site of tension and reimagination. How do anthropological assemblies can address fragility, confront systemic inequities, and propose alternatives for a more equitable and sustainable future.
February 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
5/ By interrogating assembling and disassembling, we highlight the body—human and disciplinary—as a central site of tension and reimagination. How do anthropological assemblies can address fragility, confront systemic inequities, and propose alternatives for a more equitable and sustainable future.
4/ Reproductive and immunitary innovations, while promising to preserve life, also reinforce systemic inequities, perpetuate neo/colonial power, and reshape the alignments between individual, social, and political bodies (Scheper-Hughes & Lock 1987). Medical knowledge retains comfortable hegemony.
February 2, 2025 at 3:34 PM
4/ Reproductive and immunitary innovations, while promising to preserve life, also reinforce systemic inequities, perpetuate neo/colonial power, and reshape the alignments between individual, social, and political bodies (Scheper-Hughes & Lock 1987). Medical knowledge retains comfortable hegemony.
3/ Well-being, sought to alleviate life’s fragility, is sought through technologies, knowledges, and practices that slash and assemble bodies into new states of relief and ethical quagmires.
February 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
3/ Well-being, sought to alleviate life’s fragility, is sought through technologies, knowledges, and practices that slash and assemble bodies into new states of relief and ethical quagmires.
2/ Dis/comfort of bodies in different health contexts as the focus of medical anthropology, examining how health practices and technologies transform bodies amidst contemporary precarity.
February 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
2/ Dis/comfort of bodies in different health contexts as the focus of medical anthropology, examining how health practices and technologies transform bodies amidst contemporary precarity.
February 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A plunge into old library practice, wonderful. How does it fill to actually fill requests by hand?
January 27, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A plunge into old library practice, wonderful. How does it fill to actually fill requests by hand?
I just added you.
November 25, 2024 at 7:45 PM
I just added you.
Now you are both on the starter list.
November 20, 2024 at 6:46 AM
Now you are both on the starter list.
Just added you!
November 18, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Just added you!
Added, welcome.
November 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Added, welcome.
The Thailand research group next?
November 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The Thailand research group next?
You are welcome!
November 17, 2024 at 9:11 AM
You are welcome!
Hi Ben, this starter pack is research oriented. But another one on entrepreneurship would also be great, though outside my area of competence.
November 17, 2024 at 8:30 AM
Hi Ben, this starter pack is research oriented. But another one on entrepreneurship would also be great, though outside my area of competence.