Blood Rhetorics: Donor campaigns and their publics in contemporary Sri Lanka

Simpson, B

doi:10.1080/00141844.2010.546868

Blood Rhetorics: Donor campaigns and their publics in contemporary Sri Lanka

Simpson, B

Authors

Professor Bob Simpson robert.simpson@durham.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor

Abstract

In this article, I focus on an aspect of voluntary blood donation that has received relatively little attention, namely the spaces – public, moral and political – that connnect individual donors with the recipients of blood. More specifically I focus on five distinct but related modalities of blood donation – internationalism, Buddhism, familism, nationalism and anti-commercialism. These rhetorics are highly significant, yet they are often missed in accounts of the link between donor and recipient and how individuals account for and justify their actions within wider, shared imaginings of family, community and nation.

Citation

Simpson, B. (2011). Blood Rhetorics: Donor campaigns and their publics in contemporary Sri Lanka. Ethnos, 76(2), 254-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2010.546868

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2011
Deposit Date	Feb 20, 2012
Publicly Available Date	Aug 15, 2013
Journal	Ethnos
Print ISSN	0014-1844
Electronic ISSN	1469-588X
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	76
Issue	2
Pages	254-275
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2010.546868
Keywords	Blood donation, Sri Lanka, Bio-economies, Rhetorics, Publics.

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This is an electronic version of an article published in Simpson, B. (2011) 'Blood rhetorics : donor campaigns and their publics in contemporary Sri Lanka.', Ethnos., 76 (2). pp. 254-275. Ethnos is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=0014-1844&volume=76&issue=2&spage=254