Colloquium Speaker: Nari Senanayake
Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky
Topic: Theorizing liminal states of health: A spatio-temporal analysis of undiagnosis and anticipatory diagnosis in the shadow of toxic pollution.
Abstract: This talk focuses on peoples’ encounters with chronic kidney disease diagnosis and medical surveillance in Sri Lanka’s dry zone, where the causes of illness are uncertain, the consequences of disease are often deadly, and the possibilities of developing sickness in the future are both unpredictable and ever-present. The talk explains why residents are so reluctant to get screened for kidney disease and demonstrates how they strategically mobilize states of “undiagnosis” to resist patient subjectivities and prolong existing lifeways. The talk shows that residents of kidney disease hotspots negotiate various attempts to categorize them as being, or not being, healthy in ways that give rise to new states and experiences of liminality, and that geography matters to the constitution of these liminal states of health.
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