Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India

Naveen Bagalkot; Syeda Zainab Akbar; Swati Sharma; Nicola MacKintosh; Deirdre Harrington; Paula Griffiths; Judith Angelitta Noronha; Nervo Verdezoto

doi:10.1145/3491102.3501950

Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India

Naveen Bagalkot
, Syeda Zainab Akbar
, Swati Sharma
, Nicola MacKintosh
, Deirdre Harrington
, Paula Griffiths
, Judith Angelitta Noronha
, Nervo Verdezoto

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Abstract

Behavior change and improving health literacy based on normative ideals of motherhood is a dominant paradigm to address maternal health challenges. However, these ideals often remove women's control over their bodies overlooking how the bodily experiences of pregnancy are socially and culturally constructed. We report on 27 interviews with pregnant women and nursing mothers in rural and semi-urban areas of South India, and six focus groups with 23 frontline health workers as secondary data. We explore how the embodied pregnancy experiences are influenced and negotiated by the socio-cultural context and existing care infrastructures. Our findings highlight how the ways of seeing, knowing, and caring for a body of a pregnant woman through often conflicting norms, beliefs and practices of medicine, nourishment and care actively shape the experiences of pregnancy. We open up a space for novel opportunities for digital health technologies to enhance women's embodied experiences and pregnancy care infrastructures in the Global South.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450391573
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501950
Publication status	Published - 29-04-2022
Event	2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022 - Virtual, Online, United States Duration: 30-04-2022 → 05-05-2022

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

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Conference	2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2022
Country/Territory	United States
City	Virtual, Online
Period	30-04-22 → 05-05-22

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Bagalkot, N., Akbar, S. Z., Sharma, S., MacKintosh, N., Harrington, D., Griffiths, P., Noronha, J. A., & Verdezoto, N. (2022). Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India. In CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article 286 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501950

Bagalkot, Naveen ; Akbar, Syeda Zainab ; Sharma, Swati et al. / Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India. CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2022. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India. / Bagalkot, Naveen; Akbar, Syeda Zainab; Sharma, Swati et al.
CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2022. 286 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Bagalkot N, Akbar SZ, Sharma S, MacKintosh N, Harrington D, Griffiths P et al. Embodied Negotiations, Practices and Experiences Interacting with Pregnancy Care Infrastructures in South India. In CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. 2022. 286. (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). doi: 10.1145/3491102.3501950

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