Paper short abstract:

Recognition from the people studied shape the quality of ethnographic stories and the narrative produced. Credibility becomes a matter of contextual understanding and knowledge, and hence the methods is an powerful tool to continue produce critical thinking.

Paper long abstract:

Recognition shape the quality of ethnographic stories and hence interconnect people and context. Stories that contribute with critical perspectives on how health policies have been developed locally, often consist of practices that show that the intention not necessary correlate with the reality. Power relations, dynamics, different distributions of knowledge and different realization of realities shape different practices. In this paper I will make use of experiences from an interdisciplinary health research in South Africa on living condition and disability to reflect upon how body, subject and interaction shape many faceted stories about disability and how the conceptual understanding of disability is been experienced differently in different context. In one context, characterized as conducive circumstances, disability becomes almost invisible, even though the body is highly visible as impaired. On the other side in a context of poverty disability becomes highlighted as an something people will make visible, negotiated and used as an assets for change. To create an story were disability as phenomena form part of the center for change, embedded within the majority of population becomes particular. The broad perspectives and detailed anthropological description can produce stories that consist of heterogeneity and diversity and hence hope, agency but also suffering, and healing are been enacted at the same time.