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> From: Saida Hodzic <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Saida Hodzic <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: AAA 2008 CFP: Practice and Politics of Transnational
> Medical Research
>
> CFP AAA 2008
> Field of Frictions: The Practice and Politics of Transnational
> Medical
> Research
>
> We invite submission of ethnographically grounded paper proposals that
> analyze the productive aspects of transnational medical and public
> health
> research. We are interested in papers that address research
> collaboration
> across disciplines and national boundaries and that focus on
> contemporary
> social and public health problems. Papers focusing on Africa are
> particularly welcome.
>
> Anthropology of medical research in international health has
> traditionally
> focused on
> ethics and political economy in the encounter between “Western”
> bioscience and subjects/patients in the global South. The rise of
> clinical trial sites
> sponsored by foreign governments and/or corporate entities in low and
> middle-income countries has provoked us to ask who benefits from
> this new
> knowledge and to rethink the epistemological possibility of consent.
> Parallel to this line of inquiry, anthropologists are moving to a
> wider
> field of analysis focused on the complex and uncertain subjectivities,
> relationships, and predicaments of persons involved in the
> transnational
> production of bioscientific knowledge.
>
> This field of frictions – the “unequal, unstable, and creative
> qualities of
> interaction across difference (Tsing) – is shaped by legacies of
> colonialism
> and current structures of neoliberalism. Yet, postcolonial subjects
> occupy
> the roles of researchers, experts, and social engineers as well as
> patients.
> How are knowledge, rights, capital, and survival negotiated as non-
> profit
> and profit industries forge alliances and pharmaceutical industry
> comes
> together with development industry and university researchers? What
> kinds of
> frictions develop in interdisciplinary and transnational research
> projects
> in which epistemes, cultures, and interests converge?
>
> Possible foci include: Representations – of expertise, suffering
> Production – of pathologies, cures, treatments, subjectivities,
> forms of
> sociality
> Social constructions – of new categories of disease
> Collaboration in the context of a donor/recipient relationship
> Medical and scientific “capacity building”
>
> If interested, please email us your abstract draft ASAP. The final
> abstract
> is due March 14.
>
> Organizers:
> Johanna Crane Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Saida Hodžić Women and Gender Studies, George Mason University
> [log in to unmask]
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