ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Structural Adjustment, Polio Vaccine, Menopause
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Subjectivities are formed in a particular time and place. In junction with professional knowledge, subjects are formed in the discourse and literature of biopolitics. Inherently other (meaning inherently different than the ones speaking) Represent them as less and not fully human, Social and political effects : denial of medical citizenship, cultivating stigma and racism, detracting attention from historical and political-economic context of ill health. Slippage between social / cultural and biological (and innate) All readings emphasize marganalization and poverty (culturalmake them appear innate) Culturalist discourse works with biological discourse in racizliation e. g. global health experts conflate stereotypes with causal factors as scientific knowledge. Naturalization of poverty-disease by locating in behavior of poor people. Analyze in cultural terms e. g. myths of cholera in venezuela - people were eating crabs. And suggests that it was contaminated which caused cholera. Political economy for the context of whats going on p. 688 he describes the process.
