The specter of race in global Covid-19 responses: the future is decolonial.

IF 1.7 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Global Health Promotion Pub Date : 2024-06-01 Epub Date: 2024-01-23 DOI:10.1177/17579759231211828

Madalitso Z Phiri

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Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic reified pre-existing inequalities predicated on anti-Black racism, imperial geographical cartography, and the violent language of biomilitarism. In this reflective essay I deploy tools of historical sociology to underscore the importance of race, racism, racialization, and global responses to pandemics. I considerer the following questions. First, how can world society develop ideas and concepts for the imagination of a post-imperial global health regime? Second, can alternative futures be imagined if the monopolistic control of power, global scientific processes and knowledge regime is framed around a problematic lexicography of a Eurocentric totalizing project of being human? Lastly, if there is a scientific consensus that we need alternative futures, what kinds of knowledge is needed to bring about a post-imperial liberated order? The future of global health regime is a decolonial one predicated on a new biopolitics. I provide four paradigmatic approaches to subvert imperial global health: (i) pivoting ecocide in the imperial global health regime; (ii) abandonment of a Eurocentric conceptualization of racial hierarchy and modernity; (iii) disbanding the commodification of public health; and (iv) organizing a new world order through health reparations.

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全球 Covid-19 应对措施中的种族幽灵：非殖民主义的未来。

Covid-19 大流行病重新强化了以反黑人种族主义、帝国地理制图和生物军国主义暴力语言为前提的原有不平等。在这篇反思性文章中，我运用历史社会学的工具来强调种族、种族主义、种族化和全球应对流行病措施的重要性。我思考了以下问题。首先，世界社会如何才能为后帝国时期的全球卫生制度的想象发展思想和概念？其次，如果对权力、全球科学进程和知识体系的垄断性控制是围绕欧洲中心主义的 "人 "的全面化项目这一有问题的词典学来构建的，那么还能想象出其他的未来吗？最后，如果科学界一致认为我们需要另一种未来，那么需要什么样的知识来实现后帝国解放秩序？全球卫生制度的未来是一个以新生物政治学为前提的非殖民化未来。我提出了颠覆帝国全球卫生制度的四种范式方法：(i) 在帝国全球卫生制度中以生态灭绝为中心；(ii) 放弃以欧洲为中心的种族等级和现代性概念化；(iii) 取消公共卫生的商品化；(iv) 通过卫生赔偿组织新的世界秩序。

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