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Exposing multiple malarias: A photo-ethnography of young people's malaria-related health practice in the Philippine

Iskander, Dalia; (2015) Exposing multiple malarias: A photo-ethnography of young people's malaria-related health practice in the Philippine. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), Durham University. Green open access

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Abstract

This thesis explores malaria in the municipality of Bataraza in the Philippines. It shows how multiple versions of malaria exist inside (and in between) various bodies. These malarias are situated in both time and space, emerge interrelationally and are enacted through embodied practice. It focuses on young people in this context and shows how their identity is similarly enacted through practice. With this in mind, the thesis critically examines how photovoice, a participatory action research method can be used to both depict young people’s malaria-related health practice as well as potentially alter it. During a 15-week photovoice project, 44 school-going children took photographs of their lived experience of different malarias and worked in groups to identify possible changes they might make. As a result of engaging in the photovoice process, young people’s interactions with each other and their families appeared to change as well as their role in promoting health in relation to others. However, in contrast to the literature that highlights the ability of approaches like photovoice to ‘empower’ individuals to make changes to their lives by generating critical consciousness, this thesis makes a unique theoretical contribution by suggesting that photovoice might be effective precisely because it directly operates at and therefore interacts with the level of situated, relational and embodied practice. Taking seriously the context-specific, situated, relational and embodied nature of practice is a key message of this thesis, with important implications for behaviour change initiatives.

Type: Thesis (Doctoral)
Qualification: Ph.D
Title: Exposing multiple malarias: A photo-ethnography of young people's malaria-related health practice in the Philippine
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Language: English
Additional information: © The Author 2015. Copyright of this thesis is held by the author (http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11338/).
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10157958
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