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The field of global health depends on a consolidated evidence-base as much as it does on different health interventions dispersed across the world. However, the knowledge that constitutes this evidence base is inseparable from the conditions of its production, including histories of colonialism, unequal power relations, and forms of domination and control that are often reproduced in the absence of critical scrutiny. As a result, much of the ‘assistance’ and ‘care’ that is deployed by the Global North in the Global South – often through the structures of public-private partnerships and forms of philanthrocapitalism – continues to reproduce the very health inequities it seeks to ameliorate. Knowledge, then, is central to the politics of global health. How we know what we know, where that knowledge is produced and deployed, and by whom, become central questions not only for the efficacy of global health interventions, but also for the pursuit of health equity and, ultimately, social justice. Epistemic Justice thus emerges as a necessary pillar in any effort to achieve healthier and more equitable societies on a global scale.

Drawing together experts based in various locales across the globe, this workshop explores what an epistemically just approach to knowledge production might look like in the global health arena, and how it might restructure health interventions in ways that better promote health equity. Critically, it asks what interests and whose profits stand in the way of realising such an approach in the pursuit of better global health futures.

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Organisers: Alex Broom, Katherine Kenny Nadine Ehlers, Leah Williams Veazey, Michelle Peterie, Stephanie Raymond, Cara McFarlane, & Imogen Harper

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology

Melbourne, Australia | June 25 - July 1, 2023

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XX ISA World Congress of Sociology

Melbourne, Australia | June 25 - July 1, 2023