
Kristine KrauseUniversity of Amsterdam | UVA · Department of Anthropology
Kristine Krause
DPhil
PI of ERC funded project ReloCare
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Introduction
As an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Amsterdam my research interests include political subjectivities, citizenship and care. In the past I have worked on transnational therapy networks and the intersections of medicine and religion in global Pentecostalism pertaining to the Ghanaian diaspora in UK and Germany. I am currently leading an ERC Project on care relocation to Central Eastern European countries.
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January 2010 - February 2010
January 2014 - present
June 2011 - December 2013
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Publications (30)
In the introduction to this special volume the editors focus on the analytical value of "political subjectivities" in emergent social fields that are characterized by multiple diasporic overlaps. They emphasize the central role played by various forms of governance in producing, confirming and contesting politics of transnational incorporation and...
This series is a collection of stories that are written to ‘think with dementia’.
To become classified as disabled opens up the possibility to access resources. At the same time, it fixes multiple and idiosyncratic experiences of impairment into a circumscribed status of different and lesser. In this article I am thinking about the contradictory nature of classification and citizenship with the complex case of Miriam, a Ghanaian...
What have affirmative action policies, categorization of care needs, plastic surgery, forensic identification of dead bodies and age assessments of refugees in common? They all determine recognition and access to resources and rights via the body. In the introduction to this special issue, the editors emphasize that the body only becomes distinct a...
In this article, we describe experiences with dialogue evenings within a research collaboration on long-term care and dementia in the Netherlands. What started as a conventional process of ‘reporting back’ to interlocutors transformed over the course of two years into learning and knowing together. We argue that learning took place in three differe...
Being able to speak and understand local languages is regarded as an important prerequisite for conducting fieldwork. 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 car...
This is the introduction to the Special Issue "Political Subjectivities in Times of Transformations, Critical African Studies, 2018, Vol. 10(3), co-edited with Katharina Schramm.
In this article we explore freedom in residential dementia care. As part of the larger shift from restricting residents’ freedom for reasons to do with safety, to granting freedom for reasons to do with enhancing quality of life, some nursing homes for people with dementia have adopted open door policies. Based on fieldwork in one such care home in...
Medical sociology has a poor track record of researching diversity in theoretically innovative ways. This paper notes usage of the term superdiversity in migration and urban studies, to ask about its utility in general and more specifically for researching the social production of health and illness. Referring to a multi-country interview study abo...
Medical pluralism plays a role in many people's lives. In the existing body of literature, it is described as the «co-existence of ideas and practitioners from several traditions occupying the same therapeutic space in society» (Janzen 2002: 234). And although anthropologists have long written about the influence of distance on the assumed efficacy...
The nexus between Pentecostalism and migration has been studied extensively and in divergent terms. One line of research has looked at churches founded by migrants as home away from home, helping migrants to settle in a new place and at the same time connecting them back to where they came from. Another strand has rather highlighted incorporation i...
This chapter concerns how Pentecostal believers evaluate, sustain, and create moral geographies of their inner selves, their surroundings, and the wider world in their charismatic practices. It explores these practices based on fieldwork conducted with migrants from Ghana in London, but also on research in transnational Pentecostal networks of Ghan...
Wie können transnationale Öffentlichkeiten untersucht werden? Ob in Zusammenhang mit der globalen AIDS-Epidemie, in migrantischen Organisationen, im Umfeld der pentekostalen Kirche oder im Zuge der neuen sozialen Bewegungen: Weltweit entstehen diskursive Arenen und Formen zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagements, deren Handlungsspektrum und politische W...
The recently developed sociological concept of superdiversity provides a potentially interesting and useful way of developing an understanding of life in contemporary Europe. Here we report on research based on individual narratives about access to health care, as described by a range of people from very different sociocultural backgrounds in four...
In this article I analyze different spatial practices related to Pentecostal healing, drawing on fieldwork with Pentecostal believers who have migrated from Ghana to London, UK. I explore the relationship between space and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit by looking at how points of contact with the divine are created in the personal life of pe...
As shown by research on ‘the social life of medicines,’ pharmaceuticals can be used in a number of ways. Based on research with Ghanaian Pentecostal practitioners and patients in Ghana and Europe, I examine how pills and substances can become points of contact for God. By being prayed upon, pills move from being a medical commodity to becoming a bo...
How can we understand health-seeking behaviour, if the space in which this behaviour
takes place stretches across borders? Is there more happening than just the
increase in options? Based on examples from research on reproductive travels, medical
remittances, the circulation of medicines in migrants’ personal networks, and
the revitalisation of loc...
During the 1990s, migrants from West Africa developed New Pentecostal Mission Churches as they settled in European metropoles. These churches are characterized by intense transnational connections and aim to incorporate their members into a global Christendom. Focusing on the Christian Church Outreach Mission International (CCOMI), a church founded...
»Arm, aber sexy« – Berlins Affinität zur Krise schlägt sich in vielen Repräsentationen der Stadt nieder. Aber welche sozialen Positionen lassen sich in einer ökonomisch krisenhaften Stadt wie Berlin erreichen? Diese Ausgabe der Berliner Blätter bietet anregende Einblicke in die aktuelle Stadtforschung über Berlin.
https://www.panama-verlag.de/prog...
This article brings together ideas from medical anthropology on so-called medical pluralism, and a transnational lens in migration studies. It examines how legal status, transnational networks and religion interrelate in health practices among Ghanaians living in London. It provides an overview of the settlement of Ghanaians in London since the 196...