scholarly journals The work of evidence in critical global health

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
João Biehl ◽  
Vincanne Adams
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Special Section ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Complex Forms

This special section critically examines the paradigms and values that undergird the ever-expanding field of global health. The richly textured ethnographic think pieces presented here tackle problems of evidence and efficacy as complex forms of ethical and theoretical engagement in contexts of neoliberalism, war, technological innovation, inequality, and structural violence. These works seek to contribute to a people-centered and politically relevant social theory for the twenty-first century.

3D-printed Futures of Manufacturing, Social Change and Technological Innovation in China and Singapore: The Ghost of a Massless Future?

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Heemsbergen ◽  
Angela Daly ◽  
Jiajie Lu ◽  
Thomas Birtchnell
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
First Century ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
Law And Technology ◽  
3D Printed ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Political Economic

This article outlines preliminary findings from a futures forecasting exercise where participants in Shenzhen and Singapore considered the socio-technological construction of 3D printing in terms of work and social change. We offered participants ideal political-economic futures across local–global knowledge and capital–commons dimensions, and then had them backcast the contextual waypoints across markets, culture, policy, law and technology dimensions that help guide towards each future. Their discussion identified various contextually sensitive points, but also tended to dismiss the farthest reaches of each proposed ideal, often reverting to familiar contextual signifiers. Here, we offer discussion on how participants saw culture and industry shaping futures for pertinent political economic concerns in the twenty-first century.

The Next Generation: Research for Twenty-First-Century Public Policy on Children and Advertising

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian Friestad ◽  
Peter Wright
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Adolescent Development ◽  
Special Section ◽  
Child And Adolescent ◽  
First Century ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Twenty First Century

The articles in this special section of Journal of Public Policy & Marketing examine topics that are fundamental to the emerging understanding about how children and adolescents cope with modern marketing practices. The articles take stock of current research about child and adolescent development, and they identify important opportunities for research that are relevant to public policy on preparing children for tomorrow's marketplace.

scholarly journals Double trouble?

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Janina Kehr ◽  
Lukas Engelmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
First Century ◽  
Future Research ◽  
International Public Health ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
Twenty First Century

Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection came to figure as one of the major global health problems at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with multiple attempts to tackle this intricate issue on epidemiological, clinical, and public health levels. In this article, we propose thinking beyond the practical problems caused by co-infections in order to explore medicine’s epistemological attachment to the idea of single diseases, using TB/HIV as an analytical lever. We retrace how TB/HIV co-infection has been problematised in public health discourses since the 1990s, particularly in WHO reports and international public health journals, and show that it has been mainly discussed as a complex biosocial phenomenon in need of more resources. The epistemological interrogation of the concept of co-infection itself – as an entangled object of two or more diseases with different histories and social, political, and scientific identities – is largely missing. To elaborate on this gap, we look at the translational processes between the two diseases and their communities, and suggest concrete historical and ethnographic entry points for future research on this global health phenomenon.

12.14 Global health agenda for the twenty-first century

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Ong ◽  
Mary Kindhauser ◽  
Ian Smith ◽  
Margaret Chan
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Health Agenda

The Promise of Class Analysis in Understanding Nepali National Identity in Darjeeling

2018 ◽  
pp. 177-194
Author(s):  
Swatahsiddha Sarkar ◽  
Babika Khawas
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
First Century ◽  
Primary Factor ◽  
Class Analysis ◽  
National Unity ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Twenty First Century

The class question of Nepali identity in Darjeeling lacks adequate attention, except in the writings of historian Kumar Pradhan. Pradhan has emphasized class as the primary factor that reinforced national unity among the Indian Nepalis (i.e. ‘Gorkhas’) settled in Darjeeling. This chapter explores the interstices between class and culture in order to illustrate how community solidarity rather than class polarization galvanized the pan-ethnic Gorkhas of Darjeeling. The chapter draws on Marxian class analysis with a Weberian tint to conceptually situate the perennial problem of Gorkha identity. Putting Darjeeling, Pradhan’s work, and social theory into dialogue, the chapter shows how the identity question in Darjeeling calls for a new program of research. Situating Pradhan in his life and time, the chapter concludes by asking what lessons one can draw from his proposals in understanding related questions of nationalism, federalism, and pan-ethnic unity across the Indo-Nepal border in the twenty-first century.

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