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Dear all,
One slot became available in our panel
"The Construction of Healthy Spaces: Postcolonial Subjectivities and
Governance"
at the CRSEC "Framing the City" conference, 6-9 September 2011 in
Manchester, http://www.cresc.ac.uk/events/cresc-annual-conference
Panel abstract
The papers of these two combined panels explore the complex relations
between health and space in the postcolonial city. Drawing on historical
and ethnographic research, the papers particularly focus on knowledge
and practices through which health is enacted and governed in cities in
both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
Examining scientific protocols in Tanzania, toxicological analyses in
Senegal, legal definitions of zones in Thailand and the Philippines,
environmental sanitation road blocks in Nigeria, journeys on foot in
Sierra Leone or mobile public health experts in Kenya, we turn our
analytic attention to the specific ways in which healthy spaces and
environments are articulated and constructed. The papers reflect on the
new figures of the subject – the healthcare volunteer; the sanitarian
citizen; the African city dweller – which are subsumed within and arise
from these assemblages of biomedicine, politics and spatial forms.
Through such new figures -their duties and doings- new city zones emerge
that demarcate smokers from non-smokers, remove dirt from ditches, or
map out the circulation of toxins in the city. We show how such
practices not only create particular geographies and definitions of
healthy cities, but also mark a division between the urban and the rural
in both spaces and identities. The papers in these panels discuss how
the construction of health in postcolonial cities often seems to be
identified as an incomplete, unfinished and disrupted process of
development and modernisation.
By exploring the complex rapports between health and space in a
postcolonial context, the papers on these two combined panels contribute
to our understanding of the materialities, environments and
subjectivities that make up the city.
If you are interested in taking part please email asap Uli Beisel
([log in to unmask]).
Thank you,
Uli
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Dr Uli Beisel
Department of Global Health & Development
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place, London WC1H 9SH
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