CHANGE OF DATE !!! Next HSHH: 15 December, NOT 16 December !
Dear HSHH friends,
Some changes for our next Human Sciences Happy Hour meeting !
Since the "Southeast Asian Cultural Values : Cultural Industry" organised by the Royal Academy in Cambodia will be held in Siem Reap from December 17, we thought it was time to move our HSHH date so that participants could reach Siem Reap on the 16th.
So, our meeting won't happen on Wednesday December 16 as announced earlier, but on:
Tuesday December 15 – 6pm – Baitong Restaurant
(7 st 360, near Beung Keng Kang market)
Contact:
Emiko Stock & Pascale Hancart-Petitet
012 521 093 – 092 399 273
We'll have the pleasure to see how anthropology and health can meet in research with
Pascale Hancart-Petitet:
Social Construction and Social Production of Abortion. Insights from Cambodia.
In Cambodia, despite the implementation of governmental reproductive health care activities since 1994, contraception prevalence rate remains very low. Many women undergo chemical or mechanical abortion. Indeed, abortion has been legalized in Cambodia in 1997; however there is a lack of awareness regarding the legality of abortion and a lack of provision of safe abortion services. Unsafe abortion remains one of the most common causes of maternal death. Thus, we may wonder why, how and to which extends cultural values, gender norms, social organization of care and political will to tackle the problem head-on as well as individual experiences and attitudes regarding unwanted pregnancies shape abortion practices. We will investigate those issues in cross-crossing various perspectives levels. Firstly, we will give some historical elements related to abortion legalization and policies in Cambodia. Secondly, we will analyze how social organization of care shapes legal and illegal abortion practices. Thirdly, we will describe determining factors that lead women to seek abortion. Finally, we will investigate how abortion event makes sense in their reproductive lives. Thus, our findings may raise relevant issues for public health perspective, provide mirrored views on Cambodian Contemporary Society as well as bring various theoretical insights for anthropology.
Pascale Hancart Petitet is an anthropologist, research fellow at the Centre de Recherche Cultures, Santé, Societies (CReCSS), Universite Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III, France. Previously, she has been involved during eight years in humanitarian projects (in Mauritania, Angola, Pakistan and Afghanistan) mostly focused on maternal and child health issues. Her works and publications mainly concern the social construction of birth practices at the time of AIDS in India including the volume Maternités en Inde du Sud (2008), issued from her PhD, and various chapter related to birth in Himalaya, Mother to child transmission of HIV, Birth rites, and the knowledge and practices of traditional birth attendants in Southern India. Since january 2008, her research focus onpolitics of reproduction in Cambodia.
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Human Sciences Happy Hours in Phnom Penh
email: hshhpp@gmail.com
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Coordinating team:
Emiko Stock, Pascale Hancart Petitet, Gabriel Fauveau.
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