Geography and global health

Brown, Tim; Moon, Graham

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4959.2011.00425.x

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“…In recent years, there have been a number of calls for greater geographical attention to global health (T. Brown 2011T. Brown, Craddock, and Ingram 2012;T. Brown and Moon 2012;Herrick 2014;Herrick and Reubi 2016).…”

Section: Anthropological Ascendency and Geographical Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…This is unfortunate, given the potential of so many geographers to both contribute to global health debates and raise the profile of the discipline within these. This research includes, but is in no way limited to, critical approaches to political economy, scientific knowledge, security and vulnerability, diplomacy and governance, changing paradigms of aid and development assistance, socioeconomic inequity, sustainability, embodiment, social justice, globalization, rights and responsibilities, risk and resilience, urbanization, socionature, and the dialectical relationships between people and places (see T. Brown, Craddock, and Ingram [2012] and T. Brown and Moon [2012] for excellent reviews). This is far from an exhaustive list but gives a sense that the potential for geographical contributions to global health's "existential challenges" (Garrett 2013) goes far beyond health geography alone.…”

Section: Anthropological Ascendency and Geographical Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Global Health, Geographical Contingency, and Contingent Geographies

Herrick

2016

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Health geography has emerged from under the “shadow of the medical” to become one of the most vibrant of all the subdisciplines. Yet, this success has also meant that health research has become increasingly siloed within this subdisciplinary domain. As this article explores, this represents a potential lost opportunity with regard to the study of global health, which has instead come to be dominated by anthropology and political science. Chief among the former's concerns are exploring the gap between the programmatic intentions of global health and the unintended or unanticipated consequences of their deployment. This article asserts that recent work on contingency within geography offers significant conceptual potential for examining this gap. It therefore uses the example of alcohol taxation in Botswana, an emergent global health target and tool, to explore how geographical contingency and the emergent, contingent geographies that result might help counter the prevailing tendency for geography to be side-stepped within critical studies of global health. At the very least, then, this intervention aims to encourage reflection by geographers on how to make explicit the all-too-often implicit links between their research and global health debates located outside the discipline.

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Section: Anthropological Ascendency and Geographical Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Anthropological Ascendency and Geographical Opportunitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Health, Geographical Contingency, and Contingent Geographies

Herrick

2016

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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“…; Philo ), the importance of safe food for survival, identity and wellbeing (Berg et al . ) and the relationships between geography, food safety, biosecurity and global health (Brown and Moon ), the geographical study of the FSAI highlights a key site of food safety securitisation. The FSAI represents a body that makes securitising claims, promotes a discourse of security through its actions and impacts on the landscape of food risk governance in Ireland at both state and non‐territorial human scales.…”

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Spaces of security, surveillance and food safety: interrogating perceptions of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's governing technologies, power and performance

Devaney

2013

Geographical Journal

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Set within a discourse of biosecurity and biopolitics, and noting the rise of neoliberal approaches in food safety governance processes, this paper examines the landscape of Irish food risk governance 10 years on from the formation of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). Utilising a theoretical lens predicated on the interplay between neoliberal and biosecurity ideals and empirical data from qualitative research conducted with food industry stakeholders, the role, motivations, impact and performance of this institution of security are interrogated and assessed. Adding an institutional dimension to broader environmental security debates, this focus on the FSAI also allows the exploration of a complex geography of power and constraints through a discussion of the Authority's scalar relations to other actors in the food risk arena. Expanding existing FSA literature from a focus on establishment to a qualitative evaluation of FSA operating logics, performance and impact, the FSAI appears to represent an institution that is neither wholly neoliberal in its approach nor solely preoccupied with biosecurity concerns. Instead, findings suggest an institution that operates at the interface of these ideals, demonstrating (and fluctuating between) characteristics of both security logics. The paper concludes outlining the need for further comparative research regarding the conditions under which different security logics are employed in (and impact on) food safety securitisation regimes.

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“…Recent critical engagements by geographers with the notion of 'global health' (Brown, 2011;Brown & Moon, 2012) offer potential opportunities to gain greater purchase on mortality in the global South. In this wider context of a more global governance of health, disease has become increasingly geopolitical (Ingram, 2009) as specific 'problems, populations, and spaces are rendered visible and amenable to intervention' (Brown, Craddock, & Ingram, 2012, p. 1183.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Connecting global health interventions and lived experiences: suspending ‘normality’ at funerals in rural Tanzania

Dunn

Mare

Makungu

2015

Social & Cultural Geography

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. (2016) 'Connecting global health interventions and lived experiences : suspending`normality' at funerals in rural Tanzania.', Social and cultural geography., 17 (2). pp. 262-281.Further information on publisher's website: Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Abstract:In this paper we use the funeral space and its liminal nature as a milieu for exploring how a 'modern' health intervention, the mosquito bednet, is negotiated by its recipients in relation to its (non)-usage in such spaces. With a focus on sleeping arrangements at funerals and drawing on empirical data from participants living in rural southern Tanzania, we discuss how the bednet is linked to the notion of being unsympathetic to the death. Viewed as a symbol of modernity and a reflection of wealth and individual pride, the bednet becomes physically and symbolically inappropriate in the more sacred, 'in-between' site of the funeral. We also uncover how risk perceptions regarding malaria transmission are re-cast in funeral spaces, with socio-cultural practices and health-related behaviours being simultaneously 'risky' for individual mourners and reinforcing in terms of group social cohesion. As individual mourners' concerns about malaria risks are suspended, notions of pain and discomfort come to the fore as part of the mourning process and respect for the deceased.

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Geography and global health

Cited by 27 publications

References 55 publications

Global Health, Geographical Contingency, and Contingent Geographies

Global Health, Geographical Contingency, and Contingent Geographies

Spaces of security, surveillance and food safety: interrogating perceptions of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland's governing technologies, power and performance

Connecting global health interventions and lived experiences: suspending ‘normality’ at funerals in rural Tanzania

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