Representation, Re-Presentation, and Resistance

Dr. Ryan J. Petteway is a social epidemiologist and assistant professor in the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health in Portland, OR. His applied research integrates social epidemiology, critical theory, decolonizing methods, and community-based participatory research (CBPR) to examine notions of place, embodiment, and placemaking in community health and development, making use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to democratize research and practice processes.More broadly, his scholarship engages: 1) notions of epistemic, procedural, and distributive justice within public health knowledge production processes—including considerations of power and (mis)representation in data collection, analysis, and use; 2) applications of critical theory to examine dominant discourse/narrative frames of “health equity”, e.g. considerations of power and epistemic equity; and 3) pervading ethical frames of public health law and police powers.Dr. Petteway is also an award-winning poet, including a National Poetry Month Prize, a Paper of the Year Award, and a Pushcart Prize nomination. His works have appeared in both academic journals and traditional poetry presses.He is an alum of the University of Virginia, University of Michigan, and University of California, Berkeley.

• Chapter 1. Refining and (Re)Defining “Place” in Health Research: Interrogating Spatial Knowledges + (Mis)Representations.- Chapter 2. Spatial Knowledge, Representation, + Place-Health Narratives: Youth Photovoice Perspectives on a “Food Desert”.- Chapter 3. Placescapes + Public Housing: Towards a Critical Understanding of ‘Place’ + ‘Placemaking’ in Place-Based Health & Housing Strategies.- Chapter 4. The Real Limits of Imaginary Lines: A Participatory Activity Space Method for Exploring Intergenerational (Dis)Connections Between ‘Place’ and Health.- Chapter 5. Place, Health, and the Geography of Embodiment: Intergenerational Participatory Research for Representation/as Resistance in The Ville.- Chapter 6. Towards Decolonizing Place-Health Research: Placemaking, Power, and the Production of “Place”-Health Knowledge.