Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India (2023)
Journal Article
Fiks, E. (2023). Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India. Anthropology and Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2022.2152634

Laparoscopic tubal ligation is the most prevalent method of contraception amongst India's rural and urban poor. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork in rural Rajasthan in 2012-2013, this paper investigates how rural women's perceptions of a... Read More about Imaginaries of a laparoscope: power, convenience, and sterilization in rural India.

Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India (2022)
Journal Article
Lukšaitė, E. (2022). Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India. Anthropology Today, 38(5), 9-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8322.12752

Female sterilization, or tubal ligation, is the most prevalent form of contraception in rural India. The paperwork that surrounds this procedure provides an interesting lens to investigate the state, its institutions, and their material conditions. T... Read More about Documents that matter: Sterilization paperwork in rural India.