Rethinking One Health: Emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages

Davis, Alicia; Sharp, Joanne

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113093

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“…More specifically, these two approaches pursue the prevention and control of environmental deterioration and animal diseases that impact human health, to avoid more instability in the capitalist order. As might be expected, the colonial aspects of these proposals have not been unnoticed ( 17 – 19 ), and in this paper, we will contribute by further exploring those aspects.…”

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From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries

Baquero

Fernández

Aguilar

2021

Front. Public Health

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The concept of Planetary Health has recently emerged in the global North as a concern with the global effects of degraded natural systems on human health. It calls for urgent and transformative actions. However, the problem and the call to solve it are far from new. Planetary health is a colonial approach that disregards alternative knowledge that over millennia have accumulated experiences of sustainable and holistic lifestyles. It reinforces the monolog of modernity without realizing that threats to “planetary health” reside precisely in its very approach. It insists on imposing its recipes on political, epistemological, and ontological peripheries created and maintained through coloniality. The Latin American decolonial turn has a long tradition in what could be called a “transformative action,” going beyond political and economic crises to face a more fundamental crisis of civilization. It deconstructs, with other decolonial movements, the fallacy of a dual world in which the global North produces epistemologies, while the rest only benefit from and apply those epistemologies. One Health of Peripheries is a field of praxis in which the health of multispecies collectives and the environment they comprise is experienced, understood, and transformed within symbolic and geographic peripheries, ensuing from marginalizing apparatuses. In the present article, we show how the decolonial promotion of One Health of Peripheries contributes to think and advance decentralized and plural practices to attend to glocal realities. We propose seven actions for such promotion.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 76%

From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries

Baquero

Fernández

Aguilar

2021

Front. Public Health

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“…Despite growing awareness that human and environmental health are interconnected, the international community struggles to transcend a siloed approach to human, animal, and environmental health (Davis and Sharp 2020). For example, viruses and nonpathogenic IAS are considered separately because they constitute "distinct" issue areas (health and biodiversity, respectively).…”

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Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics

Cruz¹,

Johnson²

2022

Global Environmental Politics

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As goods and people more rapidly traverse our interconnected world, invasive alien species (IAS) are increasingly frequent, ecologically damaging, economically significant, and culturally concerning. Through examinations of IAS, global environmental politics (GEP) scholars can more deeply engage long-standing and newly emerging research problems within the three areas of global governance, global political economy, and environmental security. First, GEP scholars can use IAS research to further develop insights about the impact of problem structure on global governance. Second, examining IAS dispersal risks and associated costs, as well as intercountry variation in management responses, can generate insights about North–South power dynamics in the global political economy and how distributive conflict is likely to shape future invasion risk. Third, notions of environmental security in GEP scholarship can be challenged and further developed by examining the conceptualization and operationalization of “biosecurity” amid increasingly diverse multispecies assemblages. Greater research attention to IAS in GEP is long overdue, and we intend for this article to open novel pathways for GEP interdisciplinary research on IAS.

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“…A challenge of inter-disciplinary working is not necessarily finding commonly understood methodologies but shared theoretical (ontological and epistemological) frameworks. This is a theme with which the 'one health' paradigm must grapple if it wishes to understand how infectious disease processes are products of both biological and social relations [9]. In this study, we conceptualise the drivers of AB-resistant UTI infections as part of a complex system of interrelating biological and social entities [10], drawing theoretical inspiration from assemblage theory, which facilitates the incorporation of a range of different material actors/actants (humans, animals, microbes) in a single dynamic system [11].…”

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Protocol for an interdisciplinary cross-sectional study investigating the social, biological and community-level drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Holistic Approach to Unravelling Antibiotic Resistance in East Africa (HATUA)

Asiimwe

Kiiru

Mshana

et al. 2020

Preprint

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IntroductionAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health threat that requires urgent research using a multidisciplinary approach. The biological drivers of AMR are well understood, but factors related to treatment-seeking and the social contexts of antibiotic (AB) use behaviours are less understood. Here we describe the Holistic Approach to Unravelling Antibacterial Resistance in East Africa (HATUA), a multi-centre consortium that investigates the diverse drivers of drug-resistance in urinary tract infections (UTIs) in East Africa.Methods and AnalysisThis study will take place in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. We will conduct geospatial mapping of AB sellers, and conduct mystery client studies and in-depth interviews (IDI) with drug sellers to investigate AB provision practices. In parallel, we will conduct IDIs with doctors, alongside community focus groups. Clinically diagnosed UTI patients will be recruited from healthcare centres, provide urine samples, and complete a questionnaire capturing retrospective treatment pathways, socio-demographic characteristics, attitudes and knowledge. Bacterial isolates from urine and stool samples will be subject to culture and antibiotic susceptibility testing (C&AST). Genomic DNA from bacterial isolates will be extracted with a subset being sequenced. A follow-up household interview will be conducted with 1800 UTI-positive patients, where further environmental samples will be collected. A sub-sample of patients will be interviewed using qualitative tools. Questionnaire data, microbiological analysis and qualitative data will be linked at the individual level. Quantitative data will be analysed using statistical modelling including Bayesian network analysis, and all forms of qualitative data analysed through iterative thematic content analysis.Ethics and DisseminationApprovals have been obtained from all national and local ethical review bodies in East Africa and the UK. Results will be disseminated in communities, with local and global policy stakeholders, and in academic circles. They will have great potential to inform policy, improve clinical practice and build regional pathogen surveillance capacity.

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Rethinking One Health: Emergent human, animal and environmental assemblages

Cited by 55 publications

References 43 publications

From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries

From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries

Invasive Species in Post-2020 Global Environmental Politics

Protocol for an interdisciplinary cross-sectional study investigating the social, biological and community-level drivers of antimicrobial resistance (AMR): Holistic Approach to Unravelling Antibiotic Resistance in East Africa (HATUA)

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