INTRODUCTION: SUSTAINING THE LIFE OF THE POLIS.

IF 1.2 3区 社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY
Africa Pub Date : 2013-11-01 DOI:10.1017/S0001972013000430
P Wenzel Geissler, Ann H Kelly, John Manton, Ruth J Prince, Noémi Tousignant
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Abstract

How are publics of protection and care defined in African cities today? The effects of globalization and neo-liberal policies on urban space are well documented. From London to São Paulo, denationalization, privatization, offshoring and cuts in state expenditure are creating enclaves and exclusions, resulting in fragmented, stratified social geographies (see Caldeira 2000; Ong 2006; Harvey 2006; Murray 2011). 'Networked archipelagoes', islands connected by transnational circulations of capital, displace other spatial relations and imaginaries. Spaces of encompassment, especially, such as 'the nation' or simply 'society' as defined by inclusion within a whole, lose practical value and intellectual purchase as referents of citizenship (Gupta and Ferguson 2002; Ferguson 2005). In African cities, where humanitarian, experimental or market logics dominate the distribution of sanitation and healthcare, this fragmentation is particularly stark (see, for example, Redfield 2006, 2012; Fassin 2007; Bredeloup et al. 2008; Nguyen 2012). Privilege and crisis interrupt older contiguities, delineating spaces and times of exception. The 'public' of health is defined by survival or consumption, obscuring the human as bearer of civic rights and responsibilities, as inhabitants of 'objective' material worlds 'common to all of us' (Arendt 1958: 52). Is it possible, under these conditions, to enact and imagine public health as a project of citizens, animated in civic space?

导言:维持城邦的生命。
在今天的非洲城市中,保护和护理的公众是如何定义的?全球化和新自由主义政策对城市空间的影响已被充分记录。从伦敦到圣保罗,非国有化、私有化、离岸外包和削减国家开支正在创造飞地和排斥,导致支离破碎、分层的社会地理(见Caldeira 2000;Ong 2006;哈维2006;穆雷2011)。“网络群岛”,由跨国资本流动连接的岛屿,取代了其他空间关系和想象。特别是“国家”或简单的“社会”等被定义为一个整体的包容空间,失去了作为公民身份参考的实用价值和智力购买(Gupta和Ferguson 2002;弗格森2005)。在人道主义、实验或市场逻辑主导卫生和医疗分配的非洲城市,这种碎片化尤为明显(例如,见Redfield 2006年、2012年;Fassin 2007;Bredeloup et al. 2008;阮2012)。特权和危机打断了旧的毗邻,划定了异常的空间和时间。健康的“公众”被定义为生存或消费,模糊了人类作为公民权利和责任的承担者,作为“我们所有人共同”的“客观”物质世界的居民(Arendt 1958: 52)。在这些条件下,是否有可能制定和想象公共卫生作为公民的一个项目,在公民空间中活跃起来?
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Africa
Africa Multiple-
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期刊介绍: Africa is the premier journal devoted to the study of African societies and culture. Editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences. Africa aims to give increased attention to African production of knowledge, highlighting the work of local African thinkers and writers, emerging social and cultural trends ''on the ground'', and links between local and national levels of society. At the same time, it maintains its commitment to the theoretically informed analysis of the realities of Africa''s own cultural categories. Each issue contains six or seven major articles, arranged thematically, extensive review essays and substantial book reviews. Special issues are published annually.
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