Cultural values, birth and parenting
Reproductive health and Lao socialism
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From July 2021 to June 2025, I will be running an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, FT200100346 Cultural values, birth and parenting: Reproductive health and Lao socialism.
This research investigates the rollout of an ambitious reproductive health initiative in Laos. It is estimated that 70% of women in Laos birth without any biomedical care. The Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (RMNCH) program aims to halve this, along with other significant indicators such as maternal mortality and childhood stunting.
My objectives are to document birth and parenting practices already present in Laos (including a museum exhibition appreciating birth and parenting practices as cultural heritage) and to also understand the cultural values at play in the push to change birth and parenting practices.
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Cultural values, birth and parenting in Laos: Online discussion at ADI
The Alfred Deakin Institute for Globalisation and Citizenship (ADI) invited me to talk online about my current Future Fellowship research…
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Mothering in the Lao Revolution — Paper at AAS 2022
My paper ‘Mothering in the Lao Revolution: Sacrifice, masochism and other idealisations’ is inspired by women’s experiences of the Lao…
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Upcoming conference panel: From Mothering as Reproduction to Mothering as Revolution
At the upcoming Australian Anthropology Society’s conference (Deakin University, November 23 – 26) I will host the panel From Mothering…
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