Event

The Centre for Gender and Development Studies (CGDS) will host a lunchtime seminar on Wednesday 5^th November, 2008 at the CGDS Seminar room from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.  The seminar will be presented by Ms. Lisa Chaudhari and is entitled ‘Locating Transnational Knowledge: Ethnoecology of Health and Well-being between Trinidadians in Atlanta and Trinidad.”

The seminar will try to determine how place impacts knowledge repertoires, sense of place and health networks from a transnational perspective. Trinidadians and Tobagonians living in Atlanta, Georgia are traced back to friends and family back home. This ongoing fieldwork documents patterns of local health knowledge while also determining differences. Individuals develop viable health care networks based on multilayered factors explored through multiple methods of representing health and well-being. Preliminary results indicate that ethnohealth knowledge may be used or expressed more frequently by those living abroad. Individual health care networks and sense of well-being are deeply rooted in place and the idea of home, whereby transnational ethnohealth networks are the norm for those living abroad.