Food Breath and the Anthropocene
In this autobiographical presentation, I reflect on my motivations in exploring food studies in ways that focus on expansive ideas about human freedoms and connectedness to non-humans and the environment.…
Policy and practice of home oxygen therapy in public and private health care – case studies from South Africa and Uruguay
Technologies for medicinal oxygen delivery at home are increasingly part of the global health technology landscape in the face of rising rates of chronic lung and heart diseases. From the…
Breath, Eyes, Public Memory: representing the basic elements of life in a time of crisis
Breath and the inspiration of air into the human corporeal form have long been central to considering the relationship between the human the metaphysical across various traditions, whether the religious…
Nerds, Bullies and Nannies: Breathing care into the post covid-19 university
This paper takes as its cue recurrent critiques of academia as a toxic enterprise. It asks what it will take to breathe care into the “university”? Nerds, bullies and academic…
Breathing through the noise: The illustration and practice of Critical race theory
We are saturated by theory. Our surroundings (i.e buildings, social practice, norms, etc) are based on the ideas of men and only recently acknowledged, the contributions of people of colour…
From breath to respiratory philosophy
For the ancient cultures of the world living in the natural environment of breathable air was regarded as sacred and known under the denominators such as ruah, aer, psyche, pneuma,…
Breath-Body-Mind integration
Especially relevant in the time of Covid-19, BBMi is a holistic and heuristic approach to living with chronic breathlessness. Utilising practical techniques from the traditions of yoga and mindfulness, underpinned…
My mother’s lungs
I have recently completed a book manuscript, How I Lost My Mother, dealing, in part, with issues of care of my dying mother. The book will appear in 2021. For…
Oxygen and suffocation in South Africa’s Health System
Though not adequately acknowledged, nurses are the oxygen of healthcare in South Africa. COVID-19 has amplified this reality while graphically exposing the suffocating nature of inequality and under financed public…