Call for Papers: MAGic2015. Anthropology and Global Health: interrogating theory, policy, and practice, University of Sussex, UK, 9-11 September 2015
Differences that Matter: Inequalities in Global Health (Panel P14)
Conveners: Sandra Calkins (MPISA) and Emily Yates-Doerr (University of Amsterdam)
Discussant: Simon Cohn (LSHTM)
There is a shared commitment between the fields of global health and medical anthropology that inequalities in health must be eliminated. But how to do so, and what inequality may be are unsettled questions. This panel explores how inequalities come to matter, unpacking the evidentiary practices in global health that mark some concerns as worthy of attention and aid. It asks how anthropologists can intervene in spaces of global health, humanitarianism, development cooperation, and other sites where decision-making is infused with a sense of urgency. Whereas global health practitioners tend to assume the universal applicability of their methods and evidences, medical anthropologists often study how differences materialize in specific therapeutic assemblages. Instead of only pointing out differences and incommensurabilities in global health, how can we use our methods and their strengths to build better worlds?
We invite theoretical and empirical papers that examine:
1) What evidentiary practices are used to qualify health inequalities, compare them, set priorities and propose solutions?
2) How might medical anthropologists interfere in global health decision-making to make a difference? What criteria and normativities mark our knowledge claims?
3) How can we study the un/making of differences in global health in times of urgency without hiding behind standard critical stances? How does this relate to hopes for better futures?
Please submit abstracts by 27 April 2015.
Abstract submission:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3608
Conference website:
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/medical/events/magic2015/index.shtml
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Sandra Calkins
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
& Law, Organization, Science & Technology group, University of Halle
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http://www.eth.mpg.de/cms/de/people/d/calkins/
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