Neoliberalism and Public Health w/ Adia Benton (Unlocked)

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 90 minutes

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This episode was originally a patron exclusive. If you appreciate this episode, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod. Bea and Abby speak with Adia Benton about how neoliberalism constrains what public health interventions are considered possible while simultaneously expanding what political issues can be depoliticized as simply a "public health issue." We also look at some of Adia's statements from early in the pandemic on the role of austerity in shaping the covid response, and discuss how development and NGO work shapes the political economy of health. Adia Benton is a cultural anthropologist who studies global health, biomedicine, and the political economy of humanitarianism. She is a Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at Northwestern University and the author of HIV Exceptionalism: Development through Disease in Sierra Leone. Find Adia's book here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/hiv-exceptionalism Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	So the logic of the model drives the logic of the intervention, which drives, because it is supposed to be like a representation of how people think things at the bottom are.
0:13.7	Who are we to be doing this or to constructing a world, modeling a world for which we also model an intervention,
0:24.9	assuming that that were almost with the assumption, the unspoken assumption that that world
0:30.2	looks a lot like the model that we've constructed of it. I'm going to Welcome to the Doth panel.
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1:15.3	pick up a copy of health communism from your local bookstore, or request it from your local library, and follow us at Death Panel underscore. So today, Abby and I are here with a really
1:21.8	exciting guest. We're really honored to be joined by Adia Benton, a cultural anthropologist
1:27.1	who studies global health,
1:28.6	biomedicine, and the political economy of humanitarianism. She is also a professor of anthropology
1:34.7	and African studies at Northwestern and the author of the book, HIV exceptionalism, published in
1:41.0	2015. Adia, welcome to the death panel. It's so great to finally have you on the show.
1:46.1	Yeah, thanks for the invitation. Thanks for hosting me. So I'm so glad that you joined us today.
1:50.5	You know, when you and I were first discussing what we wanted to have you on to talk about,
1:56.0	we started discussing some of the sort of weird feelings and interesting ideas that can come from looking
2:02.1	back at things that people like you who have really dedicated your life to studying the global
2:07.8	political economy of health brought into the discussion around COVID very early on.
2:13.6	Even now three years in when I think a lot of people have sort of lost hope of a kind of
2:19.3	COVID spurring on some kind of new public health or social policy revolution of some kind.
2:25.6	You know, we're finding ourselves increasingly, I think, on the back foot, really pushing hard
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