Rethinking Biomedicine And Governance In Africa
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Rethinking Biomedicine And Governance In Africa
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Author : P. Wenzel Geißler
language : en
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Release Date : 2014-03-31
Rethinking Biomedicine And Governance In Africa written by P. Wenzel Geißler and has been published by transcript Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-31 with Social Science categories.
In the domain of health, the relation between bodies, citizenship, nations and governments has changed beyond recognition over the past four decades, especially in Africa. In many regions, populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, and the disciplinary regimes of modernity are faint memories. In this situation, new critical insights beyond the critique of old »modernization« and the »disciplinary regimes« of imperial times are needed. How can we keep up our sophisticated criticism of knowledge regimes and our doubts with regard to narratives of development, when so many people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and are envisioning their own renaissance?
Rethinking Biomedicine And Governance In Africa
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Author : P. Wenzel Geißler
language : en
Publisher: Transcript Publishing
Release Date : 2012
Rethinking Biomedicine And Governance In Africa written by P. Wenzel Geißler and has been published by Transcript Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Africa categories.
"[B]ased on a workshop organised by the research group Law Organisation Science and Technology (LOST), and held at the Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany, in June 2009"--P. [7].
Documenting Death
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Author : Adrienne E. Strong
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2020-11-03
Documenting Death written by Adrienne E. Strong and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-03 with Social Science categories.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant women.
Making Spaces Through Infrastructure
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Author : Marian Burchardt
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Making Spaces Through Infrastructure written by Marian Burchardt and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with History categories.
Infrastructures are fundamental means through which societies create spaces, but little is known about the precise ways in which this occurs. How have infrastructures animated certain understandings of space? How do infrastructures stabilize, or undermine, the spatial formats in which we live, which shape our everyday practices and which regulate access to services and resources? And, conversely, how do spaces frame the ways infrastructural provision is organized? How do existing spaces shape infrastructural development and the scope and forms of access to vital services such as transport and water? In this volume, historians and sociologists draw on a range of fascinating case studies and provide compelling answers to these questions. Exploring, among others, the provision of irrigation water in nineteenth-century Los Angeles, the invention of airport transit zones, and the infrastructural practices of homeless people in Berlin, the book demonstrates how the making of spaces through infrastructure is deeply political. Intent on revealing uneven geographies of provision and hierarchies of access, the contributors highlight how infrastructures are products of global entanglements.
Protecting The Human Rights Of Sexual Minorities In Contemporary Africa
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Author : Ivy Nyarango
language : en
Publisher: PULP
Release Date : 2017-05-12
Protecting The Human Rights Of Sexual Minorities In Contemporary Africa written by Ivy Nyarango and has been published by PULP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-12 with Africa categories.
Public Health At The Border Of Zimbabwe And Mozambique 1890 1940
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Author : Francis Dube
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-06-29
Public Health At The Border Of Zimbabwe And Mozambique 1890 1940 written by Francis Dube and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-29 with History categories.
This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.
Emerging Orders In The Sudans
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Author : Calkins, Sandra
language : en
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG
Release Date : 2014-10-21
Emerging Orders In The Sudans written by Calkins, Sandra and has been published by Langaa RPCIG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the emergent character of social orders in Sudan and South Sudan. It provides vivid insights into multitudes of ordering practices and their complex negotiation. Recurring patterns of exclusion and ongoing struggles to reconfigure disadvantaged positions are investigated as are shifting borders, changing alliances and relationships with land and language. The book takes a careful and close look at institutional arrangements that shape everyday life in the Sudans, probing how social forms have persisted or changed. It proposes reading the post-colonial history of the Sudans as a continuous struggle to find institutional orders valid for all citizens. The separation of Sudan and South Sudan in 2011 has not solved this dilemma. Exclusionary and exploitative practices endure and inhibit the rule of law, distributive justice, political participation and functioning infrastructure. Analyses of historical records and recent ethnographic data assembled here show that orders do not result directly from intended courses of action, planning and orchestration but from contingently emerging patterns. The studies included look beyond dominant elites caught in violent fights for powers, cycles of civil war and fragile peace agreements to explore a broad range of social formations, some of which may have the potential to glue people and things together in peaceful co-existence, while others give way to new violence.
The Idea Of Development In Africa
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Author : Corrie Decker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10-29
The Idea Of Development In Africa written by Corrie Decker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-29 with Business & Economics categories.
An engaging history of how the idea of development has shaped Africa's past and present encounters with the West.
Humanitarianism And The Quantification Of Human Needs
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Author : Joël Glasman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-01-06
Humanitarianism And The Quantification Of Human Needs written by Joël Glasman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-06 with Social Science categories.
This book provides a historical inquiry into the quantification of needs in humanitarian assistance. Needs are increasingly seen as the lowest common denominator of humanity. Standard definitions of basic needs, however, set a minimalist version of humanity – both in the sense that they are narrow in what they compare, and that they set a low bar for satisfaction. The book argues that we cannot understand humanitarian governance if we do not understand how humanitarian agencies made human suffering commensurable across borders in the first place. The book identifies four basic elements of needs: As a concept, as a system of classification and triage, as a material apparatus, and as a set of standards. Drawing on a range of archival sources, including the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Médecins sans Frontières (MSF), and the Sphere Project, the book traces the concept of needs from its emergence in the 1960s right through to the present day, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s call for “evidence-based humanitarianism.” Finally, the book assesses how the international governmentality of needs has played out in a recent humanitarian crisis, drawing on field research on Central African refugees in the Cameroonian borderland in 2014–2016. This important historical inquiry into the universal nature of human suffering will be an important read for humanitarian researchers and practitioners, as well as readers with an interest in international history and development.
Volunteer Economies
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Author : Ruth Prince
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2016
Volunteer Economies written by Ruth Prince and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Political Science categories.
Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.