[STS-Africa] CfP Differences that Matter: Inequalities in Global Health

[Calkins, Sandra]

Dear all,

a colleague and I are organizing a panel on „Differences that Matter: Inequalities in Global Health“ at the MAGic2015 conference on Anthropology and Global Health (9-11 Sept 2015). Some of you might wish to submit an abstract. Please note that submission is through the conference website only.
Best wishes,
Sandra

Here is the panel description:

Differences that Matter: Inequalities in Global Health (panel 14)
Conveners: Sandra Calkins (MPI for Social Anthropology) and Emily Yates-Doerr (University of Amsterdam)
Discussant: Simon Cohn (LSHTM)

There is a shared commitment between the fields of global health and medical anthropology that inequalities in health must be eliminated. But how to do so, and what inequality may be are unsettled questions. This panel explores how inequalities come to matter, unpacking the evidentiary practices in global health that mark some concerns as worthy of attention and aid. It asks how anthropologists can intervene in spaces of global health, humanitarianism, development cooperation, and other sites where decision-making is infused with a sense of urgency. Whereas global health practitioners tend to assume the universal applicability of their methods and evidences, medical anthropologists often study how differences materialize in specific therapeutic assemblages. Instead of only pointing out differences and incommensurabilities in global health, how can we use our methods and their strengths to build better worlds?

We invite theoretical and empirical papers that examine:

1)    What evidentiary practices are used to qualify health inequalities, compare them, set priorities and propose solutions?
2)    How might medical anthropologists interfere in global health decision-making to make a difference? What criteria and normativities mark our knowledge claims?
3)    How can we study the un/making of differences in global health in times of urgency without hiding behind standard critical stances? How does this relate to hopes for better futures?


Please submit abstracts by 27 April 2015.


Abstract submission:
http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/magic2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3608
Conference website:
http://www.easaonline.org/networks/medical/events/magic2015/index.shtml



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Dr. Sandra Calkins

Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology

& Law, Organization, Science & Technology group, University of Halle

Phone: +49 345 2927 210 |calkins at eth.mpg.de<mailto:calkins at eth.mpg.de> |

http://www.eth.mpg.de/calkins

https://eth-mpg.academia.edu/SandraCalkins








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