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Body Politics A Rights Perspective on Health and Health Communication

Body Politics A Rights Perspective on Health and Health Communication.

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Body Politics A Rights Perspective on Health and Health Communication

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  1. Body Politics A Rights Perspective on Health and Health Communication

  2. voicechoiceinfluenceparticipationlife expectancy discriminationpsycho-social conditions illness inequalityhealth careDemocracypovertyinclusionunfair distributiongood governanceownershipsecuritysustainable environmentrecognition and respect Social Change Health? Rights?

  3. Participation – assertive and/or contested • Citizenship 2.0: Active (agency), empowered, informed/skilled, inclusive • Principles of participation, engagement, ownership, governance, inclusion/inclusive citizenship, rights based approach, socio-eco(l) ect sustainability • Paradigm shift: growth with a human face, triple bottom line (cf CSR) • Globalization - glocalization • Privatization - individualization • Pluralism?

  4. The PoliticalBody Pro-life Pro-choice

  5. The helium is the message

  6. Community radio – voice and recognition • Radio show Mujeres Arriba • 8 girls from’barrio’ Sandino • SRHR focus • Grass root • Participatory • Spin-off

  7. Perrezompopo! Popular music for social change

  8. Voice socially grounded Reflexive agency Embodied process Requires material form Nancy Fraser (2000) criticizes identity model: Builds on perceptions of power ’vulgar’ marxism, culturalism, economism; politics of recognition displaces politics of distribution, vice versa Misrecognition as status subordination: Recognition as a question of social status Recognition not group-specific but regards the ”status of individual group members as full partners in social interaction”. How take the materiality of social life into consideration? Agency = possess the power to formulate, attribute meaning to and operationalize key concepts (repertoire) Voice – politics of recognition

  9. Problems of reification • Reification of identity: id politics model of recognition tends to reify identity, by putting moral pressure on individual members to conform to a given group culture! ”Cultural dissidence”, ”disloyalty” (Fraser, 2000:112) • Simplified group-identity disregarding complexity of people’s lives. • ”Identity model serves as vehicle for misrecognition” (ibid) ”obscuring … the struggles within the group for authority -and the power- to represent it” (ibid) • Denial of Hegelian premisses on which it builds: Identity is dialogical but identity.model ends by valorizing monologism in that the misrecognized should construct id on their own.

  10. Nicaragua • Central America, 5 million population, 1 m. abroad • Colonial past • Revolution 1979 (FSLN) • Civil war 80s • Sandinisterna till makten 2006, Daniel Ortega • Mixed population, heavy segregation • Poverty (40% in extreme poverty) • Abortion banned 2006; nyreligiositet • Alba, link to Venezuela • Complex relationship to USA, EU mm, anti-capitalist/imperialism, • BUT – maquilas, zona franca (sweat shops)

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