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Selected Works of Elizabeth L. Krause

Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Krause’s fine-grained ethnographic studies illuminate important reproductive dynamics connected to economic practices. Research areas include political economy of low fertility; social memory and historical anthropology; economic anthropology; ethnographic writing; immigration; globalization; digital storytelling; Italy and United States. Major projects include lowest-low fertility among Italians, the formation of global households among Chinese migrant fast-fashion workers, and the experiences of young parenting Latinas in Massachusetts.

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Krause’s fine-grained ethnographic studies illuminate important reproductive dynamics connected to economic practices. Research areas include political economy of low fertility; social memory and historical anthropology; economic anthropology; ethnographic writing; immigration; globalization; digital storytelling; Italy and United States. Major projects include lowest-low fertility among Italians, the formation of global households among Chinese migrant fast-fashion workers, and the experiences of young parenting Latinas in Massachusetts.

Present	Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Sociocultural Anthropology, Political Economy of Low Fertility, Cultural Politics of Race, Gender and Class, Social Memory and Historical Anthropology, Ethnographic Writing, Economic Anthropology, Italy and the U.S., and Medical Anthropology

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Articles (17)

Bodies as Evidence: Mapping New Terrain for Teen Pregnancy and Parenting (Aline C Gubrium, Kasey Jernigan and Elizabeth L. Krause) Global Public Health (2016)

Predominant approaches to teen pregnancy focus on decreasingnumbers of teen mothers, babies born to them, and state dollarsspent to support their families. This overshadows the structuralviolence interwoven into daily existence for these young parents.This paper ...

Krause_2015_cambio_fistful of tears.pdf (Elizabeth L. Krause) Cambio (2015)

Abstract: In the made in italy fast-fashion sector, the ultimate flexible workers are Chinese migrants, whose parenting practices include circulating children back to China. This paper draws on collaborative research in Prato, Italy, to grasp ...

Strategic Authenticity and Voice: New Ways of Seeing and Being Seen as Young Mothers through Digital Storytelling (Aline C. Gubrium, Elizabeth L. Krause and Kasey Jernigan) Sexuality Research and Social Policy (2014)

Empty Cradles and the Quiet.pdf (Elizabeth L. Krause) Cultural Anthropology (2013)

This article examines the social context related to the current demographic situation in Italy and has three objectives: (1) to expose the strategies demographers use to frame the birthrate in Italy as a "problem" and ...

[“Calling the Question”] The Politics of Time in a Time of Polarized Politics (Elizabeth L. Krause and Anurag Sharma) Cambio (2013)

In this paper, we examine the role of time in shaping decision-making processes in a town meeting, a type of legislative body common in many New England towns. Town meetings are one of the oldest ...

‘They Just Happened’: The Curious Case of the Unplanned Baby, Italian Low Fertility, and the ‘End’ of Rationality (Elizabeth L. Krause) Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2012)

Even in a country with super-low fertility rates, at least one-quarter of all babies are unplanned. The finding puzzles policymakers. This article uses Italy's “curious case” as a jumping-off point to expose assumptions about rationality. ...

Introduction. Ethnography and Biopolitics: Tracing 'Rationalities' of Reproduction Across the North-South Divide (Elizabeth L. Krause) Anthropology & Medicine (2012)

Sustainability 'Wars' in a New England Town (Elizabeth L. Krause and Anurag Sharma) Futures (2012)

A research project into large group decision-making in a New England Town Meeting surprised us with the degree to which sustainability came to be the axis around which political debate revolved. We identified two very ...

"They Just Happened": The Curious Case of the Unplanned Baby, Italian Low Fertility, and the ‘End’ of Rationality (Elizabeth L. Krause) Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2012)

Even in a country with super-low fertility rates, at least one-quarter of all babies are unplanned. The finding puzzles policymakers. This article uses Italy’s “curious case” as a jumping-off point to expose assumptions about rationality. ...

Session V: Video and Media production as Student Projects - What resources are available? (Elizabeth L. Krause and J C Sawyer) Film and Digital Media in the Classroom (2011)

Instructional Designer and Faculty Support Coordinator JC Sawyer teams up with Anthropology Professor Elizabeth Krause to discuss the reality of integrating student-driven multimedia projects into the curriculum, and what resources and support are available for ...

Manifesto for Voice (Elizabeth L. Krause) Selected Publications of EFS Faculty, Students, and Alumni (2007)

Fertility Politics as ‘Social Viagra’: Reproducing Boundaries, Social Cohesion and Modernity in Italy (Elizabeth L. Krause and Milena Marchesi) American Anthropologist (2007)

Memory and Meaning: Genealogy of a Fertile Protest (Elizabeth L. Krause) Journal of Modern Italian Studies (2007)

Dangerous Demographies: The Scientific Manufacture of Fear (Elizabeth L. Krause) The Corner House (2006)

Encounters with ‘the Peasant’: Memory Work, Masculinity, and Low Fertility in Italy (Elizabeth L. Krause) American Ethnologist (2005)

The peasant in Italy has all but vanished as an exemplar of an economic way of life but as a social figure has relevance to trends such as the transformation to small families. Ethnographic "encounters" ...

‘Empty Cradles’ and the Quiet Revolution: Demographic Discourse and Cultural Struggles of Gender, Race, and Class in Italy (Elizabeth L. Krause) Cultural Anthropology (2001)

‘The Bead of Raw Sweat in a Field of Dainty Perspirers’: Nationalism, Whiteness, and the Olympic Class Ordeal of Tonya Harding (Elizabeth L. Krause) Transforming Anthropology (1998)

Unraveled: A Weaver's Tale of Life Gone Modern, University of California Press (Elizabeth L. Krause) (2009)

Deftly bridging literary conventions, this compelling work exposes the cultural origins of a quiet revolution that occurred over the course of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Krause combines novelistic and ethnographic techniques to illuminate population dynamics ...

A Crisis of Births: Population Politics and Family-Making in Italy (Elizabeth L. Krause) (2005)

This book tells the story of one society's remarkable experience when Italians in the late 1990s attained the lowest birthrate per women of any nation in the world. This case study draws on two years ...

Krause&Bressan_2014_Slow Rites, Fast Wrongs.pdf (Elizabeth L. Krause) TruthOut (1977)

Carnival, a “Sold” Woman, and Wet Economies: Challenges of making peasants the subjects of history (Elizabeth L. Krause) Carnival King of Europe: Power, ritual and the people without history; in honor of Eric R. Wolf (1923-1999). (2009)

While conducting research on fertility decline and its historical and contemporary meanings, I came across a video recording of a “sold” peasant woman. Her story struck me as remarkable yet obscure. She had been coerced ...

Manifesto for Voice (Elizabeth L. Krause) Paper presented in the session Blurred Genres and the Search for Justice. Reviewed by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. 106th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. (2007)

The Turn toward Memory: From History’s "Little People” to Anthropology’s “Others” (Elizabeth L. Krause) Social Science History Association (2007)

Memory, Narrative & Community Course Blog (Elizabeth L. Krause) (2008)