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Posts By: David Reubi
There has been concern about the recent private turn and re-emergence of philanthropies in world health, with many worrying about these philanthropies’ perceived lack of transparency and accountability. In contrast, I argue that while the private turn might have led... View Article
Metrics have become all pervasive in global health today. Instead of highlighting their advantages or shortcomings, this article builds on Hacking’s notion of historical ontology and explores their political, conceptual and material conditions of possibility. Drawing on research on the... View Article
In the last 20 years, global health experts have recognized the importance and encouraged the adoption of sin taxes in the fight against non-communicable diseases in the Global South. These sin taxes are typical of the micro-technologies that have proliferated... View Article
In this introduction to our co-edited volume Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries, we reflect on the place of geography and geographical contributions in the study of global health. To date, geographers, in contrast to anthropologists and political scientists, have not... View Article
This article explores the spatio-temporal logics at work in global health. Influenced by ideas of time–space compression, the global health literature argues that the world is characterised by a convergence of disease patterns and biomedical knowledge. While not denying the... View Article
Please join us for our next KCL-LSHTM Critical Global Health Seminar on Non-Communicable Diseases between Affluence and Neglect, which will take place on Tuesday 21 March 2017, 4-5.30 pm, in room 1.71 in the Francis Wilkes Building at King’s College... View Article
2-3 February 2017, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris | Organisers: David Reubi (KCL), Ilana Lowy (CERMES3, Paris), Hanna Kienzler (KCL) and Ann Kelly (KCL) | Funding: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and King's College London. The notion... View Article
To date, geography has not yet carved out a disciplinary niche within the diffuse domain that constitutes global health. However the compulsion to do and understand global health emerges largely from contexts that geography has long engaged with: urbanisation,... View Article
The Authority & Political Technologies (APT) network at the University of Warwick aims to foster and support work in the critical social sciences that is informed by Foucauldian, Deleuzian and cultural-theory perspectives. In particular, it is interested in work that... View Article
26-27 January 2017, King's College London | Organisers: David Reubi (KCL), Kerry Holden (QMUL), Tobias Rees (McGill) and George Weisz (McGill) | Funding: Wellcome Trust. Metrics and quantification practices have become ubiquitous in the field of global health today. Indeed,... View Article
Professor Richard Rottenburg and the LOST Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Halle, organised a two-day workshops on new global evidentiary practices at the Hotel NH Alexanderplatz in Berlin on 21-22 April 2016. Bringing... View Article
This article tells a different but equally important story about neoliberalism and global health than the narrative on structural adjustment policies usually found in the literature. Rather than focus on macroeconomic structural adjustment policies, this story draws our attention to... View Article
This article explores the internationalisation of tobacco control as a case study in the history of international health regulation. Contrary to the existing literature on the topic, it argues that the history of international anti-smoking efforts is longer and richer... View Article
8 April 2016, University of California San Francisco | Organisers: Vincanne Adams (UCSF), Clare Herrick (KCL), Tobias Rees (McGill) and David Reubi (KCL) | Funding: King’s College London, University of California San Francisco and Wellcome Trust. A recent, somewhat intriguing... View Article
As part of the regular seminars organised by the Research Group on Health, Care and the Body at the Institute for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam, Assistant Professor Emily Yate-Doerr organised a workshop on the different configurations... View Article
Professors Manjari Mahajan (New School) and Andrew Lakoff (USC) organised an exciting panel on the changing forms of expertise and knowledge associated with contemporary global health at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Denver... View Article
In this paper, we explore the emergence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) as an object of political concern in and for countries of the global South. While epidemiologists and public health practitioners and scholars have long expressed concern with the changing... View Article
Indicators and metrics are essential for identifying global health priorities, highlighting deficiencies and guiding interventions. As part of this year's Annual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists at the University of Sussex, Professor Sara Randall (UCL) chaired a... View Article
