Spanning the countries of South Africa, Swaziland, and Ghana, this collection of work brings into focus child and youth experience together as a collage of anthropology, creative writing, poetry, and the fine arts. Woven together by questions related to the political economy of child and youth well-being, identity formation, and the multiple layers through which children articulate their health-narrative, ' Bodies of Knowledge' considers living in and coping with chronic illness, spirit-possession, and death. The growth in Critical Health Humanities and the Arts globally, suggests the desire for blended efforts to draw in a wider breadth of knowledge that cuts across the divided worlds of critical social science and the arts. This book, set in an African context, offers myriad possibilities for cross-disciplinary synergies as learning sites. It is a critical contribution to the field of children and childhood studies.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Note to the reader
- Acknowledgement
- Contributing Authors
- Introduction: Children and Childhoods in Perspectice
- Plate 1: The Collapsing Dark
- Chapter 1: Life in the Oncology Ward: Children's Experiences of Cancer treatment
- Chapter 2: Beloning somewhere Safe: Children Reflect on Violence in Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa
- Chapter 3: Invisible Harms: Humans as Waste, Toxic Layering, and Childhood Poisoning in Cape Town, South Africa
- Plate 2: The Kids Wear Crowns over Here
- Chapter 4: 'Growing Kids in Gods' Way': An Ethnographic Case Study of the Social Politics of Child-centred Humanitarian Care and REscue in the Context of a Care Programme for Children in Contemporary Swaziland
- Poem 1: Young Spirits and Uncured Skins: The Celebration of Young Matyrs and Braved Childhoods
- Chapter 5: Reading Bodies, Seeing Signs: Patient-making in a Paediatric Ward
- Poem 2: 'The Funeral" & "IM' Spiegel'
- Chapter 6: Living with Mortality: How Beliefs and Daily Routine are Experiences in a Paediatric Oncoly Ward
- Chapter 7: Managing Vulnerability and Change through Amakhosi Spirit Possession
- Chapter 8: "Making a Plan to Keep my Baby": Navigating Maternal Health Policy among South African Mineworkers
- SHORT STORY