***Reminder***
Call for Papers: MAGic 2015 - Anthropology and global health:
interrogating theory, policy, and practice
University of Sussex, UK, 9 - 11th September 2015
Panel title: Philanthropy and global health
Convener: Tom Widger (Durham University)
Short Abstract
This panel invites critical, ethnographically informed contributions
that advance our understanding of the drivers and impacts of health
philanthropy and philanthrocapitalism 'in and of' the developing world.
Long Abstract
Philanthropy as a funder and provider of global health interventions has
become increasingly important in recent years. Emerging from complex
social, economic, and political conditions, including traditions of
humanitarian engagement, religious gifting, (post-colonial) state
welfare, and (neoliberal) market economies, family foundations, social
businesses, and corporate responsibility programmes all offer a wide
range of health services and programmes alongside, or in place of,
traditional public and private options. This panel invites critical,
ethnographically informed contributions that advance our understanding
of the drivers and impacts of health philanthropy and
philanthrocapitalism 'in and of' the developing world. Thus, papers
might consider the life stories of philanthropists and family
foundations, the modalities of charity, welfare, and enterprise that
mobilise and give vitality to their interventions, or how beneficiaries
incorporate charitable health programmes into existing treatment
behaviours - not to mention how philanthropic interventions might
cultivate particular kinds of health subject. Papers might also consider
the extent to which philanthropic programmes can (or should be)
regulated, where and how accountabilities lie, the extent to which
private benefactors 'care' (or not) about communities of the
marginalised or excluded, and the role philanthropy plays in health
market change. Ultimately, we might ask, does health philanthropy
'distort' or 'correct' national health priorities, and who decides? Can
we simply write off health philanthropy as 'backdoor privatisation,' and
what might our response mean for understanding 'neoliberal' global
health development? What is it, anyway, that makes 'health' (or
particular ailments or illnesses) good to give to?
Participants should submit their abstracts via the conference website by
27th April:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3642
Selected participants will be notified via email shortly afterward.
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Dr Tom Widger
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow
Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Durham, DH1 3LE
Office: 0044 191 334 3300
Mobile: 0044 779 220 3957
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