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2011.
Walking the walk: On the epistemological merits of literary ethnography. Anthropology and Humanism 36 (2):
178-192. † *
2011.
Knowing is half the battle? Reflections on myth, metaphor, and the untranslatability
of pain. Totem: The University of Western
Ontario Journal of Anthropology 19 (1): 38-49. †
2011.
Desperation or dissent? An ethnographic perspective on capitalism, alienation,
and transgressive sexuality. Review of Wayward
Women: Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society, by Holly Wardlow.
Theme issue, “Situating Theory,” Peninsula:
A Journal of Relational Politics 1 (1):
journals.uvic.ca/index.php/peninsula/article/view/685 †
2010.
Variations on a familiar theme: Reflections on advocacy journalism and the
neoliberalization of mental health activism in 21st-century Canada. vis-à-vis: Explorations in Anthropology
10 (1): 81-101. †
2010. How
it looks from the wrong end of the siphon: James Ferguson on Africa,
neoliberalism, and moral relativism in the social sciences. Review of Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal
World Order, by James Ferguson. vis-à-vis:
Explorations in Anthropology 10 (1): 126-130.
2009. Nature/culture dichotomies
in bioethics debates. Review of Biology
Unmoored: Melanesian Reflections on Life and Biotechnology, by Sandra
Bamford. Science as Culture 18 (4):
501-504. *
2009.
Pharmaceutical imperialism and the global trade in psychotherapeutics. Counterpunch 16 (15): 1-4.
2009.
Inside the DSM. Counterpunch 16 (12):
1, 3-5, 8.
2009. Primum non nocere: Evaluating and amalgamating competing
blueprints for a new anthropology of psychiatry. Theme issue, “Body, Health, Illness:
Bordering the Medical and the Social,” Altérités:
Revue d’anthropologie du contemporain 6 (1): 66-76. †
2009. The spirit and the letter.
Hart House Review 18: 25-27. Third
prize, 27th annual Hart House Literary Contest, short fiction category. †