Rafael Wainer

PhD student
MA in Anthropology at University of British Columbia
Lic. in Anthropology at University of Buenos Aires

Supervisor: Dr. Bill McKellin

Email: rafawa{-at-}interchange.ubc.ca

Research interests:
Rafael's PhD research project explores the relationship between children and death. It investigates the social and medical processes that create, support and surround the relationship among terminally ill children, their families, and their health care providers in a pediatric hospital in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Publications:
2010. Wainer, Rafael. LA BIO-POLÍTICA DE LOS TRASPLANTES O ¿QUÉ ESTÁ DETRÁS DE LA "SALVACIÓN DE VIDAS"? Cuadernos del Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Pensamiento Latinoamericano 22. 2008/2010. 251-254. ISSN 0570-8346 (Note)

2009a. Leslie G. Roman, Steve Noble, Rafael Wainer, and Alannah Earl Young. No Time for Nostalgia: Asylums, Residential Schools, Medicalized Colonialism in British Columbia (1859-1897) and Artistic Praxis for Social Transformation. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 22(1): 17-63.

2009b. Wainer, Rafael. La Bio-Politica de los Trasplantes o ÀQue Esta Detras de la "Salvacion de Vida"? (The Biopolitics of Trasplants or What is Behind the Notion of "Saving Lives"?) Cuadernos del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia y Pensamiento Latinoamericano. No 22. In press.

2007. Wainer, Rafael.  Acompanando a la gente en el ultimo momento de su vida: reflexiones en torno a la construccion paliativista de la dignidad en el final de la vida. (Accompanying People in their Last Period: Reflections on Palliative Construction of Dignity at the End-of-Life) Runa, Jan./Dec. 2007, vol.28, p.111-140. ISSN 1851-9628.

2005a. Wainer, Rafael. "'Yo No Te Puedo Decir Cuanto sino Como.' Construccion y Manejo de la Esperanza en el Final de la Vida, desde la Perspectiva Profesional de un Equipo de Cuidados Paliativos." ("'I Cannot Tell You When But How'. Construction and Manage of Hope at the End of Life from one Palliative Care Team.") In ANUARIO DE ESTUDIOS EN ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL, 2004. Centro de Antropologia Social del IDES y Editorial Antropofagia, Buenos Aires, pp. 187-197. ISSN 1669-5186.

2005b. Wainer, Rafael. Ampliando el campo semantico de los trasplantes o como construir "un lenguaje divergente de la retorica medica de sacrificios, donaciones, altruismo y salvacion de vidas." (Enlarging the semantic field of transplants or how to build "a divergent language unencumbered by the medical rhetoric of scarcities, gifts, altruism and life-saving.") In Revista Potlatch (electronic edition: www.potlatch.com.ar).

Conferences:
2011. Wainer, Rafael. (End of) Children’s Lives: How Does My Fieldwork Affect Everyone? Society for Applied Anthropology. Seattle, April.
 
2010. Requena, ML; Vindrola Padros, C.; Wainer, R. “Vagos” y “chismosos”: reflexiones sobre la labor del antropólogo  dentro de contextos institucionales de salud. ("Lazy" and "Gossips": Reflections Over the Anthropologist's Role within an Institutionalized Health Context) Jornadas de Psicooncología Pediátrica. Fundación Flexer. Buenos Aires, October.

2009a. Wainer, Rafael. A Glimpse of Life: Contributions to a Discussion of the Inter-subjectivity of Bereavement. Panel: Re-thinking Child Death and Parental Bereavement. CASCA/AES Conference. Vancouver, May.

2009b. Vivaldi, Ana and Wainer, Rafael. Mas aca de la representacion: imagenes de 'cuerpos del hambre' en el Chaco, produccion afectiva de publicos y biopoder (Before representation: images of 'bodies of hunger' in the Chaco, affective production of publics and biopower). Panel on Sociology of Emotions and the Body, XXVII Congreso ALAS-Buenos Aires, Latin American Sociological Association. Aug 31-Sept 4.

2008a. Wainer, Rafael. Hope, Fear, Affect and the in-betweenness on dying children. Canadian Anthropological Society Conference, Panel on Hope. Ottawa, May. Conference Proceedings.

2008b. Wainer, Rafael. "Hacia una Antropologia del morir-entre-nosotros o como entender el afecto en el final de la vida en ni–@s." IX Argentine Socio-Anthropological Conference. "Fronteras de la Antropolog’a" - Panel on "Anthropology of Death".  Conference Proceedings.

2007a. Leslie G. Roman, Steve Noble, Rafael Wainer, and Alannah Earl Young. No Time for Nostalgia: Asylum-making and Colonial Eugenics in the British Columbian Imagination (1878-1924). Canadian Disability Studies Association 4th Annual Conference. Mayo 26-27, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

2007b. Leslie G. Roman, Steve Noble, Rafael Wainer, and Alannah Earl Young. Unsettling Education's Pastoral Past: Asylum-making, Nostalgia, and Colonial Eugenics in British Columbia (1878-1924). SSCH Conference, Chicago. Abril 7 y 8.

2007c. Anthropology and            (silence). UBC Graduate Student Conference "Humans: Anthropological Perspecitves on Holism". University of British Columbia, May 16-18, 2007. Conference Proceedings.

2007d. Lascar, Eulalia; Nallar, Martin; Steed, Sonia; Wainer, Rafael; Lopez, Eduardo. Cuidados Paliativos en el "Hospital de Ninos": Una Decada de Trabajo. (Palliative Care in the Children Hospital: One Decade of Work) XXVIII Seminar of the Children Hospital Ricardo Gutierrez. Poster.

2006. Wainer, Rafael. "El morir en ninos: entre la Hegemonia de la Biomedicina y la Marginalidad de los Cuidados Paliativos." ("Dying Children: between the Hegemonic Biomedicine and the Marginal Palliative Care.") IV Meeting of Anthropology, University of Buenos Aires. Conference Proceedings.

2004. Wainer, Rafael. "No importa Àcuando?, sino Àcomo? Manejo de la Esperanza, en el contexto humano del final de la vida, desde la perspectiva profesional de un equipo de Cuidados Paliativos. ("It does not matter when but how" Hope managing in the human end of life context from a palliative care team point of view) VII National Meeting of Anthropology, Villa Giardino, C—rdoba. Conference Proceedings.

2003. Wainer, Rafael. Construccion de la practica paliativa y posicionamiento cultural-profesional frente a la biomedicina. Usos performativos del cuerpo, la palabra y el silencio. (Palliative practice construction and professional-cultural position facing biomedicine. Performative uses of body, speech and silence) First Meeting of Young Researchers in Social Anthropology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires. Conference Proceedings.

2000. Bravo N., Girola F., Goldberg C., Kropff L., Lorenzetti M., Szulc A. , Vivaldi A., Wainer R. La tematica indigena en el Censo Nacional de poblaci—n y Vivienda 2001. (The indigenous issue in the 2001 National Census) V Argentine Conference of Social Anthropology. Conference Proceedings.