Epistemic dignity

I wrote an essay on this important book for @thelancet.com: Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians, edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith

Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Epistemic dignity

I wrote an essay on this important book for @TheLancet: "Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians" (edited by Courtney Thompson & Kylie Smith).

Please read the review here www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The book is available here www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

In a world in which politically palatable downstream thinking reigns, teaching upstream determination of health inequity can be difficult.

But it’s what "global health” shld be about.

In this paper led by Neha Faruqui we share lessons from our experience & observations!

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Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.

I often reach for this paper when asked to think or talk about promoting the adoption and scale-up of health system innovations.

Its ‘four-by-four’ framework can help you think through institutional barriers, potential strategies, and how learning unfolds in those efforts: doi.org/10.1093/heap...

"We prefer to die by airstrike. But not to watch our families die slowly from hunger."

The conclusion to The Foreign Gaze started and ended in Gaza; with hunger, malnutrition, and starvation on my mind; with famine on my mind.

It's very painful to watch my fears of Israel and its allies fulfilled.

This podcast episode is worth a listen:

Two AI 'people' having a chat about @thewrittenro.bsky.social's
Rethinking Global Health & my The Foreign Gaze youtu.be/Pk0GqnDaD9M?...

Its cheery status quo politics is at odds with the vibe of both books, and it feels like a warning RE AI peer/book review.

If you're in Melbourne, Australia.

Please join us for a book chat about "The Foreign Gaze" — in conversation with Dr Selina Namchee Lo.

Host: Australian Global Health Alliance

Reg: eventbrite.com.au/e/alliance-c...

📖Bring your copy to get it signed! Limited copies will be available at the event.

It's great to see our #realistsynthesis on "Unfair knowledge practices in global health" is the most read & shared HPP article in 2024 blogs.lshtm.ac.uk/hppdebated/2...

Please read it to see the many ways epistemic injustice manifests in how we do (global) health equity work doi.org/10.1093/heap...

How epistemic injustice in research kills:

This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?"

"The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.

Here's my Foreword to The Elgar Companion to Health and the SDGs, based on Bette Midler's song "From a Distance".

The song is on The Foreign Gaze playlist, and this 1.5-page Foreword explains why.

Here's the book: e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/the...

Here's the playlist: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

How might we resist the pull to frame resilience as an outcome, state or attribute — rather than a process that unfolds, whether the outcome is +ve or -ve?

Please read our new essay — led by @sydneyuni.bsky.social PhD researcher @kyawmyatthu.bsky.social — saying: "analyse it as a learning process!"

A chance encounter on my first visit to Japan in December 2017 is the backdrop to my essay in a book by the Swedish government's Expert Group for Aid Studies (EBA).

The book itself is entirely in Swedish eba.se/wp-content/u...

But here's my essay in the original English eba.se/wp-content/u...

“Unfair knowledge practices easily beset our efforts to achieve health equity within & between countries. Enacted by people from a distance & from a position of power…”

Please read our realist synthesis using pose & gaze to make sense of epistemic injustice.

Here: academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out!

You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

To mark the centenary of James Baldwin, I wrote a short essay for @TheLancet. On what he's taught me about responding to pushback.

To beware of "strategic ignorance" and "the imaginary line of selective judgment".

James Baldwin: ignorance, power, justice - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We're collating ethics guidelines, codes, frameworks, & tools crafted to govern health research & other knowledge practices globally.

We’re very interested in those crafted by/for marginalised groups!

Please share links/docs in response to this post, or by email to: dignity.project@sydney.edu.au