Ram Kalpana
a Department of Anthropology , Macquarie University , Sydney , Australia.
Cult Health Sex. 2014;16(10):1188-200. doi: 10.1080/13691058.2014.895046. Epub 2014 Apr 16.
This paper uses empirical material from health activists in Tamil Nadu to show that the health discourses that enjoy the greatest continuity and reach in India are also those that presume a radical connection between the health of the individual body and mobilising for a more just social order. The forging of this tradition is traced back to early anti-colonial forms of mobilisation. The transmission of this tradition is then ethnographically traced through various organisations that relay a characteristic set of orientations of thought and action to new generations and groups. The freshness of the synthesis of the tradition effected by each activist is emphasised. Arguing along phenomenological lines, these capacities to synthesise and renew a tradition are located in the capacities of the body. By attending to the unique place of the body in human experience, we may be in a better position to also understand the way in which health discourses that are embedded within wider experiences of injustice are able to circulate with renewed affective force.
本文运用来自泰米尔纳德邦健康活动人士的实证材料，以表明在印度具有最大连续性和影响力的健康话语，也是那些假定个体身体的健康与为更公正的社会秩序而动员之间存在根本联系的话语。这一传统的形成可追溯到早期反殖民动员形式。然后，通过各种组织，从人种志角度追溯这一传统的传承，这些组织将一套独特的思想和行动取向传递给新一代和新群体。强调了每位活动人士对这一传统进行综合所带来的新鲜感。沿着现象学的思路进行论证，这些综合和更新传统的能力存在于身体的能力之中。通过关注身体在人类体验中的独特位置，我们或许能更好地理解那些嵌入更广泛不公正体验中的健康话语如何能够以新的情感力量传播。
