South Africa-United Kingdom Bilateral Research Chair in Political Theory, University of the Witwatersrand/Centre of African Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Glob Health Promot. 2024 Jun;31(2):43-51. doi: 10.1177/17579759231211828. Epub 2024 Jan 23.
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.
Covid-19 大流行使基于反黑人种族主义、帝国地理制图和生物军国主义暴力语言的先前存在的不平等现象具体化。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、种族化以及全球对大流行的反应的重要性。我考虑了以下问题。首先，世界社会如何为后帝国全球卫生制度的想象发展思想和概念？其次，如果以欧洲中心主义的总体化人类项目的有问题的词汇来框定权力、全球科学进程和知识制度的垄断控制，是否可以想象替代的未来？最后，如果有科学共识认为我们需要替代的未来，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建立在新的生命政治基础上的去殖民化。我提供了四种颠覆帝国全球卫生的典范方法：（一）颠覆帝国全球卫生制度中的生态灭绝；（二）放弃对种族等级和现代性的欧洲中心概念化；（三）解散公共卫生的商品化；（四）通过健康赔偿组织新的世界秩序。
