Towards Equity and Decolonization? An Introduction into the Blog Debate on the World Health System after the Pandemic – Contradiction Studies

Contradiction Studies

Towards Equity and Decolonization? An Introduction into the Blog Debate on the World Health System after the Pandemic

Contribution

Lilli Hasche, Jelena von Achenbach & Andreas Fischer-Lescano

2024

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed systemic problems in the global health system. It revealed that the global health system perpetuates global health inequalities rather than effectively reducing them: The international community, particularly the countries of the Global North, failed to make COVID-19 vaccines widely available to the populations of the world’s poorest countries. This blog debate takes stock of the reform debate about a just and decolonizing transformation of the health system. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines, the contributions of this debate ask what a fair global health system could look like and what role the law plays in it.

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DEBATE: The World Health System After the Pandemic: Towards Equity and Decolonization?

DOI: 10.59704/6aede02d2c17cb85

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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

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Bhabha on enlightenment and coloniality

“Homi Bhabha says about the contradiction between the ideals of the enlightenment, claims to democracy and solidarity and simultaneous colonization and ongoing coloniality: ‘That ideological tension, visible in the history of the West as a despotic power, at the very moment of the birth of democracy and modernity, has not been adequately written in a contradictory and contrapuntal discourse of tradition.’”
Kerstin Knopf

sustained engagement

“The history of Western philosophy can be understood as a sustained engagement with contradiction.”
Norman Sieroka

diversity and plurality

“Join us to create more diversity and plurality in knowledge production.”
Gisela Febel

earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff