External Philanthropy and Domestic Change in Colombian Health Care: The Role of the Rockefeller Foundation, ca. 1920-1950

Abel, Christopher

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“…The Rockefeller Foundation has a long history with investing in ideas that it, as an organization, has determined to be innovative. As with all philanthropy, the results have been both widely acknowledged for their importance and heavily critiqued for the powerful diffusion and transfer of north-south ideas (e.g., Abel 1995, Jones and Rahman 2009, Youde 2013. The team kept these critiques at the forefront as we shaped the design.…”

Section: Methods: Our Approach To the Fellowship Its Design And Evamentioning

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Navigating emergence and system reflexivity as key transformative capacities: experiences from a Global Fellowship program

Moore¹,

Olsson²,

Nilsson³

et al. 2018

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The distinction between adaptive and transformative capacities is still not well understood, and in this study we aimed to build a transformative learning space to strengthen transformative capacities. We proposed that two capacities will be essential to transformation: the capacity to navigate emergence and cross-scale systems reflexivity. We outline our efforts to design and deliver a Global Fellowship program in social innovation, intended to strengthen these two capacities among practitioners already engaged in socially innovative work. Results indicated that the concepts, frameworks, and experiences introduced through the Fellowship led to four key insights about these capacities. Firstly, individual Fellows and their organizations were able to see some complex system dynamics that were previously invisible, which in turn, allowed Fellows to see the distribution of resources and agency across the system in new ways. Secondly, engaging with diversity is essential in social innovation and transformative change processes, and system reflexivity aided in doing this. Additionally, Fellows indicated they were able to identify different kinds of opportunities and the generative potential that can lie within social-ecological systems. Lastly, the findings demonstrate the challenging nature of crossing scales and how a transformative space, such as a Fellowship, helps to practice the experience of contestation, unpredictability, and the uncontrollable dynamics of transformation and social innovation.

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Section: Methods: Our Approach To the Fellowship Its Design And Evamentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigating emergence and system reflexivity as key transformative capacities: experiences from a Global Fellowship program

Moore¹,

Olsson²,

Nilsson³

et al. 2018

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“…In 1916, Colombia's government invited the RF to undertake a survey of yellow fever in the country. Later in 1920, it invited the IHB to lead in a hookworm campaign in Colombia's countryside (Abel, 1995;Quevedo, Borda and Eslava, 2004). Foundation officials and funds led government efforts on yellow fever and hookworm, aided in the development of laboratories in Barranquilla and Bogotá, promoted research efforts on jungle yellow fever, and helped establish sanitary units following the RF's model of hookworm service offices (Abel, 1995).…”

Section: Rural Health and The Making Of Citizen-campesinosmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Later in 1920, it invited the IHB to lead in a hookworm campaign in Colombia's countryside (Abel, 1995;Quevedo, Borda and Eslava, 2004). Foundation officials and funds led government efforts on yellow fever and hookworm, aided in the development of laboratories in Barranquilla and Bogotá, promoted research efforts on jungle yellow fever, and helped establish sanitary units following the RF's model of hookworm service offices (Abel, 1995). In fact, the NDH in charge of editing and publishing the journal here analysed was heir to the foundation's hookworm eradication efforts, and the journal originally started as the hookworm section's publication before it broadened its scope.…”

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‘A Sick, Weak, and Ignorant People’: Public Health Education and Prevention in Rural Colombia, 1930–1940

Jalil

2017

Bull Latin American Res

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This article analyses Salud y Sanidad (Health and Sanitation), a government journal edited in 1930s Colombia. It examines the state's model of public health, which proposed education and prevention as strategies to guarantee the success of its programmes. It argues that despite the journal's more progressive approaches, editors and contributors reproduced stereotypes about Colombia's rural inhabitants that contradicted state rhetoric and showed the limits of public health models that do not address the underlying social inequities that drive the propagation of poverty and disease in rural areas, and that ultimately continued to blame victims for their illness and misfortune

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“…En este contexto se inició el trabajo de la Fundación Rockefeller en Colombia, un actor importante para el desarrollo del dispositivo higiénico. La presencia de esta Fundación obedeció a la expansión que inició Estados Unidos de su modelo filantrópico, con el propósito de exportar sus modelos institucionales para organizar el conocimiento (Abel 1995). En el caso del suelo, se trataba de la experiencia del programa para la erradicación de la uncinariasis en los Estados del sur.…”

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La disposición del gobierno de la vida: acercamiento a la práctica biopolítica en Colombia

Pedraza

2012

Rev.estud.soc.

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El artículo informa sobre la implementación del principio de gobierno de la vida en Colombia como parte de un análisis sobre las formas de uso social y político del conocimiento, en particular, de la higiene. Se considera que esta disciplina le suministró al Estado recursos útiles para forjar nuevos vínculos con la población, en especial, durante el proceso de su consolidación, desde finales del siglo XIX y hasta mediados del XX. Estas posibilidades permitieron constituir y a la vez controlar el cuerpo de los ciudadanos en varias de sus manifestaciones y entre diversos grupos sociales. El dispositivo higiénico articuló conocimientos científicos de circulación internacional con proyectos regionales de homogenización y necesidades nacionales y locales de diferenciación. Para estudiar estos vínculos, el texto se ocupa de la interacción entre la disciplina de la higiene, sus profesionales, las redes internacionales de intercambio de conocimiento y los principales mecanismos higiénicos introducidos para administrar la población. Por último, reflexiona sobre algunas diferencias entre la situación nacional y las características más distinguidas de la genealogía del biopoder.

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External Philanthropy and Domestic Change in Colombian Health Care: The Role of the Rockefeller Foundation, ca. 1920-1950

Cited by 15 publications

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Navigating emergence and system reflexivity as key transformative capacities: experiences from a Global Fellowship program

Navigating emergence and system reflexivity as key transformative capacities: experiences from a Global Fellowship program

‘A Sick, Weak, and Ignorant People’: Public Health Education and Prevention in Rural Colombia, 1930–1940

La disposición del gobierno de la vida: acercamiento a la práctica biopolítica en Colombia

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