Global Health

Yates‐Doerr, Emily; Maes, Kenneth

doi:10.29164/19ghealth

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“…The charge of irrationality is grounded in colonial histories of governance, and the corresponding focus on individual behavior justifies and naturalizes intervention. Certainly the trope of irrationality is used globally, where irrationality and "individual behavior" are sticky concepts within contemporary approaches to global health, emerging out of -and extending-colonial logics of care and extraction (premised on a notion of colonialism itself as a humanitarian project) (Benton et al, 2017;Kelly et al, 2017Anderson, 2014Yates-Doerr & Maes, 2019). As Benton et al (2017) explain, when thinking about global health within a postcolonial landscape, postcolonial signals "a temporal and spatial specter .…”

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The politics of irrationality

Denyer Willis,

Kayendeke,

Chandler

2023

Med Anthropol Q

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In siloed discussions of antimicrobial resistance, antibiotic use on farms in the Global South has emerged as a key site for intervention. The antibiotic consumption targeted is not all consumption, but “irrational” consumption. This concept of irrationality is neither new, nor true, but rather is a long‐standing form of maintenance work within global health systems. Via an attention to chickens and the antibiotics farmers use to raise them in the suburbs of Kampala, we suggest that claims of irrationality are a central part of constituting what Tania Li has called the ‘deficient subject’. In other words, irrationality, like the chicken and the antibiotic, is itself a humanitarian device that maintains a certain condition of governance where ‘Africans’ are imagined as being in deficit of rationality and good behavior. Claims of irrationality justify (and mask the political nature of) intervention.

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Section: Irrationality and "Individual Behavior"mentioning

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The politics of irrationality

Denyer Willis,

Kayendeke,

Chandler

2023

Med Anthropol Q

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“…Anthropologists have long criticized how the field of global health naturalizes a powerful Western vision of what a global health intervention is and on whom it should be operationalized, questioning global health's hegemony and beneficence (Closser et al 2022, Janes & Corbett 2009, Storeng & Mishra 2014, Yates-Doerr & Maes 2019. "Global health" does not just target "Other" people, as Packard (2016) emphasized, but also shapes wealthy and donor countries (Biehl & Petryna 2013, Lock & Nguyen 2018, Nichter 2008.…”

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Global Health Interventions: The Military, the Magic Bullet, the Deterministic Model—and Intervention Otherwise

Yates‐Doerr

Carruth

Lasco

et al. 2023

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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“Intervention” is central to global health, but the significance and effects of how intervention is practiced are often taken for granted. This review takes interventions into health and medicine as subjects for ethnographic inquiry. We highlight three lines of anthropological contributions: studies of global health interventions that serve imperial and military objectives, studies of “magic bullet” interventions arising from laboratory science, and studies of interventions based on deterministic modeling techniques. We then outline examples of “intervention otherwise,” in which people build relations of solidarity and care through global health programming, design interventions to be interactive and adaptable, and use data and modeling to support health justice. Whereas many global health interventions reproduce western power hierarchies, intervention otherwise draws attention to alternative forms of knowledge, action, and expertise. Our analysis of lively and multivalent practices of intervention has implications for debates about the im/possibility of decolonizing global health. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Anthropology, Volume 52 is October 2023. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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The politics of irrationality

The politics of irrationality

Global Health Interventions: The Military, the Magic Bullet, the Deterministic Model—and Intervention Otherwise

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