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Existing research interprets the rise of consulting firms in intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) primarily as evidence of the global spread of managerialism. We highlight that consultants are not merely carriers of business-like world cultural norms, but also part of contentious IGO politics...
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The article analyzes the contested concept of global health through the lens of orders of worth. Drawing on pragmatist political and social theory, especially the work of Boltanski and Thévenot, I conceptualize orders of worth as moral narratives that connect visions of universal humankind to...
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This article explores how the role of religion is evaluated in global health institutions, focusing on policy debates in the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank. Drawing on Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot’s pragmatist approach to justification, I suggest that religious...
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Gesundheitssicherheit ist keineswegs ein globales öffentliches Gut, sondern sehr ungleich verteilt. Globale Seuchenkontrolle leidet unter notorischer Ressourcenknappheit, vor allem angesichts schwacher Gesundheitssysteme in Entwicklungsländern, und ist geprägt von Verteilungskonflikten...
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The introduction of digital technology has sparked new debates about the value of community health workers in low- and middle-income countries. This debate offers important insights into the conventions that are relevant in global public health. Community health workers, a workforce that was...
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Wie kann globale Gesundheitssicherheit erreicht werden? Prioritätenkonflikte zwischen Handelsrecht und Gesundheitsschutz sowie zwischen problemspezifischen und strukturellen Gesundheitsmaßnahmen, aber auch die Frage einer universellen Krankenversicherung prägen die Debatten.
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Wie kann globale Gesundheitssicherheit erreicht werden? Prioritätenkonflikte zwischen Handelsrecht und Gesundheitsschutz sowie zwischen problemspezifischen und strukturellen Gesundheitsmaßnahmen, aber auch die Frage einer universellen Krankenversicherung prägen die Debatten.
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What are the boundaries of humanitarianism? This question is controversially debated among humanitarian practitioners and scholars, given ever-changing spaces and temporalities of human suffering. This paper explores an understudied site of this controversy: the domestic humanitarian engagement...
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