Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries

This collection argues that geographical perspectives are essential to bringing new and critical perspectives to bear on the inherent complexities and interconnectedness of global health problems, and its purported solutions. The contributions in this collection are based around five key themes: inclusion and exclusion in evidence and knowledge gathering; practising and producing global health; politics, advocacy and social justice; human and non-human bodies in global health discourse; and the 'absent presences' of global health.

Clare Herrick is a Reader in human geography at King's College London, UK. Her research critically explores the intersections of behavioural risk factors with urban environments across a variety of geographic settings. 　 David Reubi is a Wellcome Trust Fellow at the Department of Global Health & Social Medicine, King's College London, UK. His research explores the knowledges, socialities and material forms that undergird the politics and practices of contemporary global health and medicine. He is currently working on a manuscript on the biopolitics of the African smoking epidemic.

Introduction Global health and Geographical Imaginaries (Clare Herrick and David Reubi) Part I: Global health imaginaries Chapter 1. HIV, AIDS and the global Imaginary (Gerry Kearns) Chapter 2. Temporal and spacial imaginaries of global health: tobacco, non-communicable disease and modernity (David Reubi) Chapter 3. Exemplary or exceptional? the production and dismantling of global health in Botswana (Betsey Brada) Chapter 4. Mixing and fixing: managing and imagining the body in a global world (Sarah Atkinson) Part II: Global health, power and politics Chapter 5. Making ties through making drugs: partnerships for tuberculosis drug and vaccine development (Susan Craddock) Chapter 6. Living well with parasitic worms: a more-than-human geography of global health (Jamie Lorimer) Chapter 7. Resistant bodies, malaria and the question of immunity (Uli Beisel) Chapter 8. A genealogy of evidence at the WHO (Nele Jensen) Part III. When solutions make problems Chapter 9. More than one world, more than one health: re-configuring inter-species health (Stephen Hinchliffe) Chapter 11. Eat your greens, buy some chips: contesting articulations of food and food security in children's lives (Jane Battersby) Chapter 12. Structural violence, capabilities and the experiential politics of alcohol regulation (Clare Herrick)