ANT358H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Global Health, Herd Immunity, Smallpox Vaccine
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Unintended: things you cant forsee happen (both positive and negative) Replaces politics with the personal. Contributes to the idea that there is no connection with our wealth and their poverty. Suggests that by buying things we are doing these people a favour. Consumption is helping people in poverty - political decisions look like technical solutions to technical problems . Priority on disease and not the relations of production. All the relations behind the product are hidden (where it was made it a biggie) Capitalism depends on all of these things happening. Politics of compassion smoothes over inequalities. Focuses on individual consumption, not public engagement or advocacy. Funds from consumption not taxation. Neoliberal logic informs humanitarian efforts. Leaving the market alone to solve the problems of society (free market) More of a focus on private organizations than public ones. Reduced public sector - individualistic, entrepreneurial, project based. All social interventions have unintended and sometimes instrumental effects.