Poster Presentations
Thursday 12 April 2012 at 15:30 – 16:00 Dawood, Q.
Muslim Madams and Their Maids: The Maid's Place in the Madams Space
Relationships between madams and maids have been the subject of various South African works, detailing the lives of domestic workers and their daily struggles. This study however aims to turn the focus on the madam and questions the complex intimacy at work between the two. It is this intricate association between 'madam' and 'maid' as well as the context of the home, which creates a site for a unique personal relationship that extends beyond the constraints of the working contract. There exist three central themes around which my research is based – intimacy and distance, the contradictory site of the home and the religious influences at work within it as well as the concept of gender as a divergent or unifying catalyst between madam and maid.
This poster focuses on 'the Maid's place in the Madam's Space', one of the chapters of analysis and discussion of the research project. This pertains to the second chapter of qualitative results gathered from 20 in depth interviews with Muslim madams, two focus groups and 5 key informant interviews with domestic workers. Included in the poster is the examination of the maid's role in the madam's home, the Islamic influence on the domestic worker's workspace and personal space, negotiation between public and private spaces within the home and finally, the apartment block as a site for tensions between madams. These factors play a crucial role in assessing the relationship between madam and maid and have already uncovered a plethora of factors which have otherwise been overlooked.
My research contributes to the existing literature exploring the relationships between madams and maid and highlights further avenues for research. It confirms that there exist notions of privacy, social boundaries and ultimately, a rather personal negotiation of space, which transcend the strict parameters of the employment contract. The extents of these are key to examining the consequent tensions or friendships which emerge from this type of informal employment.
Flett, H. University of Chester
Are We Nearly There Yet? An Ethnographic Study of Adolescents Who Are Dependent on Long-term Invasive Ventilation as They Transition From Paediatric to Adult Health Care in Hospital and the Community
The objective is to advance understanding of effective transition processes for adolescents who are dependent on long term invasive ventilation (LTV), their families and healthcare providers.
Advances in medical technology and expertise mean that these patients who are dependent on LTV are surviving into adulthood.
adolescents. Pathways for solutions to problematic transitions will be mapped in the interests of attaining better standards of care as set out in Department of Health/Department for Education and Skills documents such as Your Welcome and Aiming High for Disabled Children.
Paediatric health care systems require the transfer of their patients to adult services, usually between the ages of 16-19 years, but many barriers remain at the interface of transfer between both settings due the complex interplay of needs and resources at individual, professional and organisation systems level. Managing transition and transfer of health care effectively, to protect the physical and psychological health of these young people and those that care for them, while also enabling broader life transition, is a multifaceted and complex process.
The core sample will be 3 – 6 adolescents, who are in differing processes of having their medical care transferred from paediatric to adult health care services within the North West (pre-transfer, across transfer, post-transfer). The extended sample will be defined by the patient participants from the settings in which they interface with the patient. Participants will be interviewed on three different occasions guided by ethnographic and interpretative phenomenological methods.
Gislason, M. An Ecological Analysis of Austerity: Climate Change, Health and Risk
Sociological theories of risk emphasising reflexive modernisation emphasise the external 'environmental' character of hazards and point to their 'suppressed sociality' – the social drivers behind them. Ulrich Beck cautions, however, that there is still a failure to fully consider the role of humans in producing the hazards of the time making this a kind of post-histoire thinking. This poster takes a novel approach to thinking about the survival of the social habitus within risk theory. Reading risk through the lens of climate driven health injuries shows that issues of austerity will reach far beyond the social as environmental degradation intensifies.
While risk theorists like Beck (1995) have
argued that the solution is the development of an ecological democracy based on principles of accountability many 50
University of Sussex Both paediatric and adult settings have little experience in the transition process for these Sports Hall 2 University of Kwazulu Natal
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