Ethics of neighborly intimacy among community health activists in Delhi

Emilija Zabiliute

doi:10.1080/01459740.2020.1764550

Ethics of neighborly intimacy among community health activists in Delhi

Emilija Zabiliute

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Abstract

What makes community health activism and ethical undertaking/? I examine how among Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) in an urban poor neighborhood in Delhi, health work is underscored by relational sensibilities. By primarily situating the inquiry into their everyday lives, and beyond the trajectories of their work, I show how care work and relational commitments among ASHAs exceed the forms of care foregrounding in the public health program protocols. ASHAs operate through ethics of neighborly intimacy – relational knowledge and acts, guided by ethical obligations towards their neighbors, and underscored by the existing dependencies, care, detachments, and differentiation of relationships.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Medical Anthropology
ISSN	0145-9740
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1764550
Status	Udgivet - 18 maj 2020
Udgivet eksternt	Ja

Bibliografisk note

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No 798706.

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10.1080/01459740.2020.1764550

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