Specificities: 'The Indians Accept Death as a Normal, Natural Event': Institutional Authority, Cultural Reasoning, and Discourses of Genocide in a Venezuelan Cholera Epidemic

Briggs, Charles L.; Briggs, Clara Mantini

doi:10.1080/13504639752005

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“…Similarly, diseases such as cholera are associated with hygiene and poverty (Briggs,[23]; Rebaudet and Piarroux, [8]). At the Durban conference in South Africa in 2000, poverty was cited as one of the main sources of the spread of HIV/AIDS (Basu, Mate and Farmer, [18]).…”

Section: Determinants Of Health Crises: a Review Of Literaturementioning

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Health Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa

Roméo¹

2017

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The purpose of this article is to identify the macroeconomic determining factors of health crises. In order to reach our purpose, we use a logit model on a panel of 25 countries in sub-Saharan Africa from 1995 to 2012. The main results of this study indicate that international migration flows, the ratio of short-term debt by currency reserves, and the organization of the health care system explain health crises. These results imply that the poor management of information related to unforeseen events, the ability of reimbursement of the short-term debt, and the privatization of health services make most sub-Saharan African countries vulnerable to unforeseen events. This study suggests a better management of information related to unforeseen events, the increase of exportations and the improvement of the access to health services to all people during any unforeseen events outbreak.

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Section: Determinants Of Health Crises: a Review Of Literaturementioning

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Health Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa

Roméo¹

2017

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“…Flagrant acts of labor exploitation, medical malpractice, and police violence-as well as the common understanding that she had been raped by her employer-only figured as evidence in the case against her and never became the subject of legal proceedings in their own right. This highly visible criminal case was read by many persons who consider themselves to be criollos as proving that indígena mothers are incapable of learning how to protect their families from cholera or other diseases and are so callous as to be capable of slaying them (Briggs 1997;Briggs and Mantini-Briggs 2000).…”

Section: Cholera In Delta Amacuro Venezuelamentioning

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Modernity, Cultural Reasoning, and the Institutionalization of Social Inequality: Racializing Death in a Venezuelan Cholera Epidemic

Briggs

2001

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In Love in Times of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez (1985) creates a powerful image of Latin American modernity in the character of Dr. Juvenal Urbino. Urbino is called back from France, where he has studied medicine and embraced European modernity, in order to save the coastal Colombian city in which he was born from that quintessence of the premodern world of ignorance, filth, and backwardness—cholera. García Márquez captures exquisitely the terror that is conjured up by the disease—thousands of bodies wracked by rivers of diarrhea and vomit, cramps, sunken eyes, blue lips, and twisted limbs, many of them dying rapidly. But Urbino is armed with that quintessence of modernity—hygiene. The terror inspired by the epidemic enables Urbino to transform both the urban landscape and bodily practices in keeping with the dictates of Continental biopower, neatly mediated by his own patrician class standing.

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“…If we are to begin to address Canadian Aboriginal claims of genocide, it is necessary to reject a strictly epistemological approach to the question of genocide, one that seeks to identify a guiding legal or sociological definition of genocide that can be applied to multiple cases in a doctrinal manner. This means that the UNGC definition of genocide will not be used here as a ''universal grid'' 7 for classifying human groups and their violent relations. Lost within such generalizations are local understandings of collective life and collective destruction.…”

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Ontological Destruction: Genocide and Canadian Aboriginal Peoples

Woolford¹

2009

Genocide Studies and Prevention

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The impact of colonialism on Aboriginal groups in Canada is often described as ''cultural genocide'' or ''ethnocide.'' In contrast, this article offers a re-reading of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948) that is sensitive to Aboriginal understandings and experiences of group life and group destruction. Through this re-reading, it is argued that genocide must be understood in a culturally contextualized manner so as to avoid modernist and Eurocentric biases. Only by opening up the conception of genocide will we be able to contend adequately with Canadian Aboriginal experiences of colonialism.

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Specificities: 'The Indians Accept Death as a Normal, Natural Event': Institutional Authority, Cultural Reasoning, and Discourses of Genocide in a Venezuelan Cholera Epidemic

Cited by 6 publications

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Health Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa

Macroeconomic Determinants of Health Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa

Modernity, Cultural Reasoning, and the Institutionalization of Social Inequality: Racializing Death in a Venezuelan Cholera Epidemic

Ontological Destruction: Genocide and Canadian Aboriginal Peoples

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