Fakeness, Human-Object Fluidity and Ethnic Suspicion on the Kenyan Pharmaceutical Market

IF 0.9 2区社会学 Q2 CULTURAL STUDIES

Journal of African Cultural Studies Pub Date : 2021-07-03 DOI:10.1080/13696815.2021.1886057

Mathieu Quet

引用次数: 1

Abstract

ABSTRACT The authenticity of things is often seen as an intrinsic characteristic – one that would depend only upon their internal properties. One way of renewing the analysis of fakeness has consisted in showing on the contrary how dependent things are upon external factors such as social and normative contexts. In addition, research has shown the fluidity that results from such an observation: fakeness is not a stable identity, as it is continuously built along social and technical interactions. This article contributes to this analysis by demonstrating how discussions over pharmaceuticals in Kenya have been shaped across time and space. It shows that from colonial history to the grip of global market forces, pharmaceutical fakeness is a recurring manifestation of the never ending circulations between the status of people and the properties of things.

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肯尼亚药品市场的虚假性、人-物流动性与民族猜疑

摘要事物的真实性通常被视为一种内在特征，这种特征只取决于事物的内在特性。更新对虚假性分析的一种方法是相反地表明事物是如何依赖于社会和规范背景等外部因素的。此外，研究表明，这种观察结果具有流动性：虚假并不是一种稳定的身份，因为它是随着社会和技术互动而不断建立的。本文通过展示肯尼亚关于药品的讨论是如何在时间和空间上形成的，为这一分析做出了贡献。它表明，从殖民历史到全球市场力量的控制，制药造假是人的地位和物的性质之间永无止境的循环的反复表现。

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Journal of African Cultural Studies Multiple-

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1.70

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10.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes leading scholarship on African culture from inside and outside Africa, with a special commitment to Africa-based authors and to African languages. Our editorial policy encourages an interdisciplinary approach, involving humanities, including environmental humanities. The journal focuses on dimensions of African culture, performance arts, visual arts, music, cinema, the role of the media, the relationship between culture and power, as well as issues within such fields as popular culture in Africa, sociolinguistic topics of cultural interest, and culture and gender. We welcome in particular articles that show evidence of understanding life on the ground, and that demonstrate local knowledge and linguistic competence. We do not publish articles that offer mostly textual analyses of cultural products like novels and films, nor articles that are mostly historical or those based primarily on secondary (such as digital and library) sources. The journal has evolved from the journal African Languages and Cultures, founded in 1988 in the Department of the Languages and Cultures of Africa at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. From 2019, it is published in association with the International African Institute, London. Journal of African Cultural Studies publishes original research articles. The journal also publishes an occasional Contemporary Conversations section, in which authors respond to current issues. The section has included reviews, interviews and invited response or position papers. We welcome proposals for future Contemporary Conversations themes.