Rushton, S. (2015) The politics of researching global health politics. A comment on Jeremy Shiffman’s ‘Knowledge, moral claims and the exercise of power in global health'. International Journal of Health Policy and Management.
Abstract
In this comment, I build on Shiffman’s call for the global health community to more deeply investigate structural and productive power. I highlight two challenges we must grapple with as social scientists carrying out the types of investigation that Shiffman proposes: the politics of challenging the powerful; and the need to investigate types of expertise that have traditionally been thought of as ‘outside’ global health. In doing so, I argue that moving forward with the agenda Shiffman sets out requires social scientists interested in the global politics of health to be reflexive about our own exercise of structural and productive power and the fact that researching global health politics is itself a political undertaking.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Kerman University of Medical Sciences. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Global health; Politics; Knowledge; Research; Reflexivity |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Mar 2015 11:37 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 21:45 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.15171/ijhpm.2015.47 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Kerman University of Medical Sciences |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.15171/ijhpm.2015.47 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:84308 |