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

School of Social and Political Science

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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
Early online date	18 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2020.1764550
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 18 May 2020

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community health workers
care
ethics
India
neighborly relations
urban poor

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness on 18.5.2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2020.1764550. 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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Living with Others, Living with Diabetes: Relational Care among Diabetes Patients in Delhi, India (E. Zabiliute)
Zabiliute, E. & Harper, I.
EU government bodies
3/09/18 → 30/08/21
Project: Research

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Living with Others, Living with Diabetes: Relational Care among Diabetes Patients in Delhi, India (E. Zabiliute)

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