Governing through Malaria: Biopolitics, Health Discourses, and Mining/Border Communities in Post-Colonial Suriname
| Autor: | Astorga V., Javier E. |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Smith, Lincey |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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| DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.6930326 |
| Popis: | This research work investigated how emerging health discourses on malaria are revamping colonial legacies and turning them into structural violence in contemporary Suriname. By critically surveying the colonial past and ongoing post-colonial transitioning in Suriname, this work uses a biopolitics-theory approach to examine ongoing health discourses and structural violence. It analyzes thirteen medical reports–issued from 2010 to 2014–in order to demonstrate how a discourse of exclusion, inequality, and 'social wrong' endures colonial violence in post-colonial Suriname. Throughout the examination of these contentious medical reports produced by operative medical research units and labs, both inside and outside Suriname, it is challenged the claim 'man-made malaria' as employed by these medical instances to negatively designate some Surinamese mining/border communities, treating them not only as a marginalized and endemic social group but, more problematically, as unsanitary/illegal populations infected with a presumably 'drug-resistant malaria,' an allegation mainly supported upon an elaborated biomedicalized anti-malaria narrative, but finally dismissed by the World Health Organization. After building an analytical category designated 'biopolitical configuration,' in combination with a discourse analysis framework, all medical reports were assessed through a coding matrix to make legible those textual markers that, rhetorically articulated, produce a language of exclusion against the targeted populations. The conclusion presents important and disturbing connections in this emerging biomedical narrative of exclusion, conveying not only post-colonial legacies in Suriname, but also purportedly reproducing racial invisibilation of this Latin American sub-region by global intervening forces related to large biomedical complexes. Field: Latin American Studies Concentrations: Anthropology & Human Rights |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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