Gender, HIV and Risk

Anderson, Emma-Louise

doi:10.1057/9781137316127

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“…Instead of focusing on infrastructures, however, an architectural inversion directly explores the realm of global health governance -to deliberately foreground the vital role played by non-state actors who usually remain politically and epistemically backgrounded because they operate at the margins of (and potentially even in tension with) the established institutional architecture of global health governance: what we call heterodox global health actors. Thus, an architectural inversion shares broad similarities with some existing International Relations (IR) studies -particularly feminist global health scholarship highlighting the agency of those who are mostly invisibilized (Anderson, 2015;Davies, 2010;Harman, 2016Harman, , 2021Wenham, 2021), as well as scholars critiquing the widespread influence of neoliberalism on global health policies (Rushton and Williams, 2012;Schrecker, 2016;Sparke and Williams, 2022). Yet an architectural inversion ultimately also goes beyond any singular category of class, gender or race to expand this analytical sensitivity towards a much more diverse array of heterodox actors operating at the margins of the established global health architecture.…”

Section: An Architectural Inversion Of Global Health Governancementioning

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Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance

Elbe

Vorlíček

Brenner

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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COVID-19 has exposed profound governance challenges that demand more diverse and creative approaches to global health governance moving forward. This article works towards such a pluralization of the field by foregrounding the vital role played by heterodox actors during the pandemic. Heterodox global health actors are backgrounded actors who improve health in different parts of the world, but who remain politically marginalized – and epistemically invisibilized – because they depart in crucial respects from the liberal orthodoxy pervading the field of global health governance. The article analytically foregrounds those heterodox actors through an architectural inversion – a relational approach to the study of global health governance that builds upon recent methodological insights from postcolonial studies, infrastructure studies, and science and technology studies. The article then harnesses that methodological approach to empirically investigate the COVID-19 activities of three different heterodox actors: rebel groups providing public health in the borderlands of Myanmar, a women’s vigilante movement stitching face masks in the Czech Republic, and a maverick scientific platform for the international sharing of viral sequence data. Performing that architectural inversion begins to loosen the dominance of the liberal episteme within the practice and study of global health governance. It further visibilizes how that field is continually co-produced by the background activities of many such heterodox actors. It also lays conceptual foundations for a more heterodox future research agenda on global health governance – and arguably global governance more broadly – in response to the numerous unresolved challenges revealed by COVID-19.

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Section: An Architectural Inversion Of Global Health Governancementioning

confidence: 86%

Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance

Elbe

Vorlíček

Brenner

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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“…The power of structural violence as an idea (e.g. Anderson, 2015; Canning, 2017; Gupta, 2012; Price, 2012; Tremblay and Reedy 2020) is that it reveals how ‘ordinary’ institutions place particular people in harm's way; it also underlines that these oppressive structures are often grounded in historic conquests, spectres of previous or current cultural domination, or enduring normative ways of governing. A related, and in many respects complementary, concept is Nixon’s (2011) idea of slow violence (e.g.…”

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The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design

Broom

Peterie

Kenny

et al. 2022

Critical Social Policy

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Harm is a recurring theme in the social sciences. Scholars in a range of empirical areas have documented the deleterious outcomes that at times emerge from social structures, institutions and systems of governance. Yet these harms have often been presented under the rubric of ‘unintended consequences’. The outcomes of systems are designed to appear devoid of intentionality, in motion without any clear agency involved, and are thus particularly adept at evading accountability structures and forms of responsibility. Drawing insights from decades of social theory – as well as three illustrative examples from Australia's health, welfare and immigration systems – this article argues that many social structures are in fact intended to cause harm, but designed not to appear so. In presenting this argument, we offer a theoretical framework for conceptualising harm as actively administered. We also challenge scholars from across the social sciences to reconsider the partially depoliticising narrative of ‘unintended consequences’, and to be bolder in naming the intended harms that permeate social life, often serving powerful political and economic interests.

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“Even the NGOs Never Talk About Ufiti [Witchcraft]”: a Decolonial and Feminist Cultural Psychological Analysis of Individualized Development Clashing with Communal Ways of Being

Adolfsson

Moss

2021

Hu Arenas

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Conducting a multi-sited psychology study on how Malawian participants perceive Western-oriented non-governmental organizations’ (NGOs) gendered development approaches, it became apparent that perceptions of ufiti (the Malawian term for what loosely translates as witchcraft in English)—and its gendered inclination—was highly relevant. As in many parts of the world, people in Malawi may relate themselves and their social world in connection to spiritual and supernatural dimensions, manifested in practices and discourses often closely linked to communal norms and values. Many international NGOs in Malawi run individualized development initiatives, often particularly focusing on women and girls’ personal empowerment. When local communal ways of experiencing and knowing are not taken account for in the NGOs’ interventions, this indiviualized approach can spur interpersonal resentment, and in worst-case ufiti assaults. This article explores the link between individualized development incentives and perceptions of ufiti. Using decolonial and feminist cultural psychology as a lens, we ask how the individualized focus of the NGOs plays out in Malawi, and what negative and unintended consequences individualized interventions can lead to. Our results indicate the need for contextually grounded and informed development approaches, to avoid that effort to empower individual women and girls lead to their disempowerment, social disruption, and ufiti accusations and assaults. The article speaks to the need for decolonial and feminist cultural psychological approaches that consider subjective intentional worlds.

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Gender, HIV and Risk

Cited by 29 publications

References 103 publications

Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance

Rebels, vigilantes and mavericks: heterodox actors in global health governance

The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design

“Even the NGOs Never Talk About Ufiti [Witchcraft]”: a Decolonial and Feminist Cultural Psychological Analysis of Individualized Development Clashing with Communal Ways of Being

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