Author : Maria Tapias
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097157
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Book Synopsis Embodied Protests by : Maria Tapias
Download or read book Embodied Protests written by Maria Tapias and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied Protests examines how Bolivia's hesitant courtship with globalization manifested in the visceral and emotional diseases that afflicted many Bolivian women. Drawing on case studies conducted among market- and working-class women in the provincial town of Punata, Maria Tapias examines how headaches and debilidad, so-called normal bouts of infant diarrhea, and the malaise oppressing whole communities were symptomatic of profound social suffering. She approaches the narratives of distress caused by poverty, domestic violence, and the failure of social networks as constituting the knowledge that shaped their understandings of well-being. At the crux of Tapias's definitive analysis is the idea that individual health perceptions, actions, and practices cannot be separated from local cultural narratives or from global and economic forces. Evocative and compassionate, Embodied Protests gives voice to the human costs of the ongoing neoliberal experiment.