Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa: Contributions from Anthropology

Front Cover
P. Wenzel Geißler, Richard Rottenburg, Julia Zenker
transcript Verlag, Mar 15, 2014 - Social Science - 292 pages

In the domain of health, the relation between bodies, citizenship, nations and governments has changed beyond recognition over the past four decades, especially in Africa. In many regions, populations are now faced with a total lack of medical care, and the disciplinary regimes of modernity are faint memories. In this situation, new critical insights beyond the critique of old »modernization« and the »disciplinary regimes« of imperial times are needed. How can we keep up our sophisticated criticism of knowledge regimes and our doubts with regard to narratives of development, when so many people in Africa are dreaming about modernity and are envisioning their own renaissance?

 

Contents

fuzzy fringes cracks an undersides neglected backwaters and returning politics ...
7
NOT QUITE DISCIPLINED
21
POLITICS AGAIN
75
INHERENT FAILURE AND CONTRADICTION
117
MISSING THE NATION STATE
159
LONGING FOR CITIZENSHIP
195
References
251
Contributors
289
Copyright

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2014)

P. Wenzel Geißler, geb. 1965, lehrt Sozialanthropologie an der Universität Oslo. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Medizinethnologie und Ethnographie vor allem in Afrika sowie die Wechselwirkungen von Zeitlichkeit und Materialität in ethnographischer Feldforschung.