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Environmental Injustice Concepts

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Digital collection of resources for understanding and using critical concepts to characterize and respond to environmental injustice. 

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Andreas_Rebmann

This study looks at the connection between structural violence (social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harms way) to the spread of HIV/AIDs in America and abroad. Instead of looking at HIV/AIDs as a disease that is spread due to an individual’s lifestyle and decisions, it approaches the disease as something that aggregates disproportionately in impoverished communities. This same methodology is applied to the prevalence of pediatric aids in Rwanda, looking at which mothers have access to the appropriate healthcare equipment and why.

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Andreas_Rebmann

Andrew Lakoff is a cultural anthropologist at University of Southern California. He studies social theory and medical anthropology.

Stephen Collier is a doctor of philosophy, derpartment of Anthropology, at the University of California Berkeley. He also studies social theory and social policy.

Both have studied policies on medical aid and global health.

Some othe rpublications:

"Vaccine Politics and the Management of Public Reason"

"Global Health Security and the Pathogenic Imaginary"

"Real-Time Biopolitics: The Actuary and the Sentinel in Global Public Health"

"Vital Systems Security: Reflexive Biopolitics and the Government of Emergency"