Special Issue medical anthropology

GENERATIVE HANGING OUT IN HEALTH-RELATED RESEARCH

Edited by

Jeannette Pols & Kristine Krause

This special issue focusses on people who are difficult to engage in conventional research because they are not verbally fluent, such as people with dementia or learning disabilities, or who speak a language that the researcher does not understand. Jeannette Pols
In this article we reflect on fieldwork in which we did not speak the local language – Polish – but in which we could still learn something about a central practice in our field sites: how language was implicated in practices of care. Luise Schurian-Dąbrowska & Kristine Krause
Drawing on ethnographic research on everyday life and care for people with dementia in Dutch residential care, I argue that researchers who work with people with dementia can contribute to the enactment of “interesting subject positions". Annelieke Driesen
I argue that collaboration with people with disabilities is not about efforts of inclusion, but instead, it is our methodologies that need to be “cripped.” Leonie Dronkert
I demonstrate how experimenting with the drawing process as well as the resulting drawings enabled diverse forms of participation to see and unsee matters together with residents and staff members. Helena Cleeve
Collaborating with sighted service users of drop-in centers in Denmark, we reflect on the process of creating comics and image descriptions about their experiences with digital access, trauma, and disability. Barbara Nino Carreras & Brit Ross Winthereik
I look at what happened in workshop sessions and how this mattered to those involved, including what participants with dementia valued about the activity — by listening to what they had to say, but also by attending to their performative, creative and affective ways of engaging in Creatief met Clowns. Ruud Hendriks
This article presents different ways of using drawing as an ethnographic technique to tentatively find practice-specific words to articulate practices of feeling the body. Ulrike Scholtes
This special issue explores creative engagements of subjects in research.
‘Hanging out’ together forms the basis for this engagement.