Overview
Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California. Embodied Politics reconstructs how this initiative came to exist and describes how it operates. At the same time, it points out the conflicts, resistances, and counter-acts that emerge through the IHP's attempts to guide the health behaviors and practices of Triqui and Mixteco migrants. Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.
Full Product Details
Author: Rebecca J. Hester
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.004kg
ISBN: 9780813589503
ISBN 10: 0813589509
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 13 May 2022
Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years
Audience:
College/higher education
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future.""--Seth Holmes ""author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States"""
Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future. --Seth Holmes author of Training for Unequal Care: Medical Studies, Social Inequalities, and the Clinical Gaze in America
Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future. --Seth Holmes author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
"""Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future."" -- Seth Holmes * author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States * ""Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future."" -- Seth Holmes * author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States *"
Author Information
REBECCA J. HESTER is an assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She is a co-editor of Translocalities/Translocalidades: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas and the author of several publications on the promises and pitfalls of cultural competence.
