Browsing by Author "Dombroski KF"

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    Care-full Community Economies
    (Routledge, 2018) Dombroski KF; Healy S; McKinnon KI; Harcourt, W; Bauhardt, C
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    Learning to be affected: Maternal connection, intuition and "elimination communication"
    (2018-02) Dombroski KF
    Even when heterosexual couples have relatively egalitarian relationships prior to children, once children are born, mothers tend to take on more and more of the care tasks associated with the home and family. Mothers themselves often report an unwillingness to leave their infants in the care of others, even co-parents, for fear that the caregiver may not be able to read or intuit the needs of their infant. The aim of this paper is to examine the sociomaterial and embodied process by which mothers deliberately come to develop intuition – in this case around their infant's elimination needs. Using the experiences of practitioners of both the early infant toileting practice “elimination communication” and the equivalent Chinese practice of ba niao, I argue intuition can be deliberately cultivated through parenting practices that promote embodied and responsive connection. I describe how mothers and (a few) others “learn to be affected” (Latour, 2004b) by their infants preverbal communication, and conclude that the practice offers a way for other committed caregivers to develop a form of “maternal” intuition.
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    Multiplying possibilities: A postdevelopment approach to hygiene and sanitation in Northwest China
    (2015-12) Dombroski KF
    Postdevelopment thinkers and writers have critiqued development discourse for its role in perpetuating inequality. In water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) literature and interventions, the discourse used perpetuates inequality through classing anything other than private toilets as ‘without sanitation’. This implies that the people who use forms of hygiene and sanitation relying on collective toilets and alternative strategies are somehow unhygienic. Yet residents of Xining (Qinghai Province, China) rely on hygiene assemblages that do not always include private toilets, but nonetheless still work to guard health for families with young children. In this paper, I develop a postdevelopment approach to hygiene and sanitation based on starting with the place-based hygiene realities already working to guard health in some way, then working to multiply possibilities for future discursive and material hygiene realities. In this approach, contemporary and future realities may look quite different from those based on private toilets.
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    Surviving Well Together
    (2018) Dombroski KF; Healy S
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    The Diverse Economy: Feminism, Capitalocentrism, and Postcapitalist Futures
    (Edward Elgar, 2018) McKinnon K; Dombroski KF; Morrow O; Elias, J; Roberts, A