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Call for Papers: “How ‘global’ is Global Health? Mobility and
(dis)connectivity in the Global Health enterprise”
Panel on behalf of the Work Group Medical Anthropology at the joing
conference “MAGic2015. Anthropology and Global Health: interrogating
theory, policy, and practice” (EASA Medical Anthropology Network und RAI
Medical Anthropology Committee ), University of Sussex, UK, 9-11
September 2015.
Convenors: Dominik Mattes (Freie Universität Berlin), Hansjörg Dilger
(Freie Universität Berlin), Kristine Krause (University of Amsterdam)
Deadline for Paper Proposals: 27. April 2015
Mobility and connectivity are central elements of the field of Global
Health. Thus, the increasing mobility and connectedness of persons,
pathogens, and politics across national and regional boundaries produce
often novel health conditions of potentially global urgency. The
responses to health issues, in turn, trigger (equally transnational)
flows of finances, policies, and medico-technical interventions
establishing new types of assemblages with an often strong humanitarian
impetus. This panel interrogates how the field of Global Health is
“patterned” by geopolitical power relations, conditions of inequality
and vulnerability, and the agendas and strategies of particular actors.
Workshop submissions should pay special attention to the phenomena of
(dis)connectivity, mobility, directionality, (in)equality and neglect.
They may address why certain health conditions become the target of
global health interventions while others, that are similarly “urgent” in
terms of morbidity and mortality, do not attract the same medical,
political and financial attention? Which (geographic as well as
metaphoric) spaces and types of problems remain unmarked in the Global
Health landscape? How does the “Global North” become part of the Global
Health paradigm, other than intervening in the health crises of the
“Global South”? Do notions of Global Health that pay attention to
“austerity” and “crisis” in the “Global North” simply replace
geographical boundaries by markers of class, ethnicity or race? Finally,
what (new) connectivities are established between the multiple actors of
the Global Health enterprise, and how do they produce new solidarities,
but also hierarchies and power relations in “South-South” or “East-West”
cooperations?
More information:
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/medical/events/magic2015/cfp.shtml
Abstract submission:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3613
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Dominik Mattes
Doktorand/PhD Candidate
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Ethnologie/
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11
14195 Berlin
Germany
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https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/DominikMattes
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dominik_Mattes
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