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SUMMARY:Enclaving global health?  Investment in life and the uneven geogra
 phies of biological citizenship - Professor Matthew Sparke\, University of
  Washington\, Seattle
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DESCRIPTION:This presentation examines the paradoxical problem of spatial 
 enclaving in global health.  It argues that contemporary global health ini
 tiatives have displaced older alignments of national territory with state-
 managed biopolitics.  Even as advances in biomedicine become available in 
 some of the poorest parts of the world - thus extending forms of biologica
 l citizenship that promise post-colonial\, post-racial and post-national i
 nclusion - new global health initiatives have created exclusionary effects
  and newly gradated forms of both sovereignty and citizenship.  These encl
 aving outcomes invite careful geographical analysis and explanation\, not 
 least of all because of their similarity with other examples of enclaving 
 – EPZs\, gated communities\, privatized shopping malls and the like – 
 that geographers have connected with the inequalities and asymmetries of c
 ontemporary globalization.  In the case of global health\, a large number 
 of factors are involved. These include the destructive legacy of debt and 
 structural adjustment policies\, the decimation of local public health inf
 rastructures and systems as well as the reconstructive approach of new 'gl
 obal health initiatives' themselves. 
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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