para caminharmos juntos,
passo a passo.

ser-vir

Sou mulher, sou filha, sou mãe.
Sou medica, sou doula.
E, ao mesmo tempo,
não sou nenhuma
destas coisas.

O meu percurso como doula começa com o nascimento da minha sobrinha Lara.
Assistir ao parto da minha irmã e ser testemunha deste nascimento duplo (da mãe e da filha), o privilégio e a honra que foi poder presenciar este momento, foi para mim o início duma viagem que ainda hoje continua.

O fluxo da vida e a sequência natural dos eventos despertaram em mim um crescente interesse e uma genuína curiosidade para o mundo das mulheres. E, quer durante a minha formação de médica, quer no trabalho fora do hospital, fui-me deparando sempre mais com a força e os desafios associados ao feminino.

Em 2021 nasceu a minha filha Alma, e em 2022 nasci eu como Doula.
Acompanho famílias e mulheres na jornada que a gravidez, o parto e o pós-parto representam, a partir dum lugar de presença e escuta e com respeito pelas escolhas de cada uma.

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Lenaai ole Mowuo is a Loita Maasai from Kenya, and belongs to the Ilmeshuki age-group and the Ilaiser clan. He keeps cattle, sheep, goats and bees; grows beans, maize and potatoes; and is also a boda-boda (motorbike taxi) rider. Lenaai has worked as a research assistant and a co-researcher in several research projects since 2007, and features in the film All Eyez on Me! (2021). In the MYNA project, he contributes to the Loita case-study that explores the links between land demarcation, the spread of new churches and cultural change.  

Stanley ole Neboo, 36 years old, married with two children, is a livestock keeper in the Maasai Mara, Narok County, Kenya. Stanley studied business management, tourism, and conservation. He currently works as a freelance safari guide and is the Chairman of the Talek River User Association (Talek WRUA). He is one of the filmmakers in the award-winning participatory documentary “Maasai Voices on Climate Change (and other changes, too”  (2013; Jean Rouch Award for Collaborative Filmmaking). He contributes to the Maasai Mara case study with research on the role and position of Evangelical churches vis-à-vis rapid changes occurring on the land (fencing, climatic instability, land selling, conservation) and in family life.

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Batbuyan Batjav is a social-economic geographer who has worked on nomadic pastoral issues in Mongolia for two decades. A former Director of the Mongolian Institute of Geography, he has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford, Colorado State University, University of Arizona and Cambridge University. He is dedicated to strengthening pastoralism as a viable contemporary livelihood.

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Megan Wainwright has a BA in Anthropology and MSc and PhD in Medical Anthropology. She has worked as an independent research consultant since 2018 and lives in rural Portugal. She is passionate about research methods and the contribution anthropological and qualitative research approaches can make beyond disciplinary boundaries. Her primary role in MYNA is to develop methodologies for multi-sited research and cross-cultural analysis. She also brings to the team expertise in qualitative evidence synthesis and writing-up qualitative research for diverse audiences.

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Zaira Tas graduated from her BA Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges in 2022 and has focused her studies on environmental sustainability and development. She has a particular interest in how the environment and human society interact and affect one another. She joined the MYNA team as a consultant, working on a systematic literature review examining the relationship between religious changes and environmental changes in dryland areas. She also accompanied team members on a recent field trip to Kenya, where she assisted with project management and interviews.

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Angela Kronenburg García is an anthropologist, whose work has focused on resource access and land-use change in African drylands. She contributes to the MYNA project with case-studies in Mozambique and Kenya. In northern Mozambique, she explores how the expansion of Christian commercial farming is changing land use in a region that is partly Muslim and where the local population largely depends on small-scale (subsistent) farming for a living. In Kenya, she studies how the re-start of individual land demarcation, the proliferation of Evangelical churches and changes in Maasai culture connect in Loita.

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Troy Sternberg Extensive travel led to Troy’s interest in desert regions, environments and people. Research focuses on extreme climate hazards (drought, dzud), environments (water, steppe vegetation, desertification) and social dynamics (pastoralists, social-environmental interaction, religion and environmental change, mining and communities).

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Joana Roque de Pinho is an ecologist and environmental anthropologist whose research focuses on changing West and East African sub-humid and dryland social-ecological systems; and how members of rural natural-resource reliant communities experience and understand environmental changes. She is most passionate about collaborating directly with rural community members as collaborative researchers/visual ethnographers through participatory visual research methodologies. For the MYNA project, she explores the intersection of religious transformations with livelihoods, land tenure/use changes and climatic instability. She contributes a multi-sited Kenyan case-study that explores the neglected role of religion Christianity in Maasailand’s social-ecological dynamics, and participates in the Mongolia and Mozambique case studies.

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