The Q Editors
Kathleen Openshaw
Western Sydney University
Kathleen Openshaw is a PhD candidate in the Religion and Society Research Cluster, at Western Sydney University. She has a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Development Studies from Maynooth University, Ireland. She is Western Sydney University’s ANSA Representative. Her main research interests are the globalisation of Pentecostalism from the Global South, local lived religious expressions of transnational Pentecostalisms and material religion. Her PhD research is an ethnography of the Brazilian megachurch The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Liverpool, New South Wales.
Mythily Meher
University of New South Wales
Mythily Meher is a medical anthropologist whose primary research concerns the historical production of medical and scientific knowledge, how this shapes what comes under scrutiny in healthcare, and the grounded (sometimes subtle) practices of ethical and caring otherwise that people enact within healthcare assemblages. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Melbourne in 2018. Her doctoral research with a refugee-run NGO in Australia used affect theory and critical medical ethnography to study negotiations of public medical knowledge about mental illness in conditions of medical pluralism. Her scholarly work has appeared in Ethnos, Anthropology & Humanism and Somatosphere. She is currently teaching in the School of Social Sciences at UNSW.
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