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.

Original language	English
Journal	Medical Anthropology
ISSN	0145-9740
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1764550
Publication status	Published - 18 May 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

community health workers
care
ethics
India
neighborly relations
urban poor

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