Edinburgh Research Archive

This thesis explores patient experiences in the controversy of chronic Lyme disease in Scotland, and the importance of social relationships between patients, doctors, advocates, and researchers as these groups navigate the ...

This thesis lies at the nexus of recent transitions towards medicalised childbirth, marketisation of maternal health services and moralities of care, examining how women, their families and health actors navigate ...

This thesis explores efforts to rebuild a sense of everyday life in the ruins of the 2011 ‘triple disaster’ in Japan—a disaster which included an earthquake, a tsunami, and the subsequent meltdown of the nuclear powerplant ...

This thesis is about the personhood of mountains in the southern Peruvian Andes and the ways in which Quechua-speaking people called Runakuna attempt to enter into reciprocal yet asymmetric exchange relations with them. ...

This thesis explores sugar consumption and kin-making in a north Edinburgh neighbourhood, and shows that sugar is central to processes of social relatedness. I argue that sugar reveals the meaning of kinship in Scotland, ...

The emerging connected and automated vehicles (CAV) have caught much research attention in the past few years. However, a techno-centric bias in the CAV research domain implies the lack of in-depth qualitative studies. To ...

This thesis is about Christian women. It demonstrates how embodied Christian gender is intrinsically linked to ontological architecture in the ethnographic context of a semi-enclaved, pro-natalist, homeschooling conservative ...

This thesis investigates women and men’s experiences of the transition to parenthood in Edinburgh, UK, in the context of changing laws on parental leave and notions of ‘new fatherhood.’ In the UK, policies and care in ...

This thesis explores how a desire to own guns is constituted within locally situated human lives in an attempt to explain why firearms have become such important objects of contestation in the United States. I spent a ...

This PhD thesis is a study of Mexican activism that aims to show how relatives of Mexico’s disappeared—often without earlier experience of human rights advocacy—become activists protesting violence through public displays ...