** Apologies for cross-posting **
Dear colleagues,
Please consider submitting an abstract for the workshop "Without
alternatives?! Challenging political-economic dogmas in the field of
health and healing" (see abstract below). The workshop is convened by
Claudia Lang (Cermes 3, Paris) and myself on behalf of the Work Group
Medical Anthropology <https://www.medicalanthropology.de/> at the German
Anthropological Society's biennial conference "The end of
negotiations?!"
<https://www.dgska.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CfP.pdf> (University of
Konstanz, 29 September - 2 October 2019). A keynote will be given by
César Abadía-Barrero, University of Connecticut.
Please submit both a long version (max. 1,200 characters including
spaces) and a short version (max. 300 characters including spaces) of
your abstract to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask]
Deadline for submissions is 15 February 2019.*
*Best wishes,
Dominik Mattes & Claudia Lang
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*Without alternatives?! Challenging political-economic dogmas in the
field of health and healing
Human health and well-being are closely contingent upon economic
ideologies and political dogmas, and health professionals as well as
policy makers in all parts of the world have long contended about how to
organize equitable health care. Historically, both excessive neoliberal
agendas and socialist processes of enforced communization have had
disastrous effects on affected people’s physical and mental health. And
more recently, nationalist-oriented actors push for drastic cutbacks of
international (development) aid and prioritize service provision for
particular populations within ‘their own’ countries, thus exacerbating
unequal access to health care ‘at home’ and abroad. Such different
approaches are often presented as being without alternative, i.e. as
unnegotiable in face of previous failures and specific political and
financial constraints. We invite papers that ethnographically explore
how such logics of lacking alternatives are created, conveyed, defended,
and (in)validated. What are the implications for the structuring of
health systems, practices and ethics of caregiving, involved social
relations and moral normativities, and individual experiences of
suffering? How do such logics relate to the notion of health (care) as a
fundamental human right and public good? What are the consequences in
terms of the commodification of health and the (re)distribution of
responsibilities for its maintenance and promotion? Which disparities
regarding access to therapeutic means and innovation do they tackle but
also engender? We further wish to attend to the sites and workings of
resistance to such forms of discursive and practical closure: Where and
how are respective logics contested and practically levered out? How and
to what effect do patients, health practitioners, and policy makers
maintain their openness to think and act alternatively in their endeavor
to sustain and support their own and others’ health and well-being?
--
Dominik Mattes
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Research Associate
Freie Universität Berlin | Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
DFG SFB 1171 "Affective Societies“
Teilprojekt C03 "Verkörperte Emotionen und affektive Zugehörigkeit
im Migrationszusammenhang: Sufizentren und (neue) Pfingstkirchen in Berlin"
Habelschwerdter Allee 45 | 14195 Berlin | Raum JK30/203
Tel. +49 (0)30 838 60528
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