In his contribution to our project “Healthcare for All? Methods, Knowledge, and Agency in Addressing Global Inequalities in Medical Care Using the Example of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” Lawrence N. Y. Oduro-Sarpong examines eurocentric narratives in medical history. Using the development of the smallpox vaccine as an example, the author criticizes the omission of contributions by non-European medical practitioners in dominant historical accounts. The enslaved African Onesimus introduced the knowledge of variolation, an early immunization practice, from West Africa to Boston. While initially met with resistance, this practice was later successfully applied in combating a smallpox epidemic. The contributions of Onesimus…
Author: glokal e.V.
The following recommendations for practice derive from the project “Medical care for all? Methods, knowledge and practice skills on global injustice in medical care using the example of the Corona pandemic” (2023-2024). Based on discourses and practices at political, economic, social and individual levels, many historical continuities of global inequality in relation to medicine can be identified. Medicine played a key role for the European colonial powers in the conquest and exploitation of the African continent; the pharmaceutical industry has used the Global South as an experimental field for medicines for centuries; Western doctors have acted as saviors in the…
As part of the”connecting the dots” project, glokal designed the traveling exhibition “OurVoices! Resistant alternatives to the development myth”. The aim of the exhibition is to show the interconnectedness of historically grown, postcolonial power and domination relations, as well as to present networks and actors of resistance. Our focus is on locating stories about “development” that have been overwritten, silenced, forgotten, or marginalized (for example, anti-colonial resistance). This is illustrated above all by video and audio material from a total of eight interviews with activists from the Global South and North. Based on their biographies, connections are made between different…
This publication presents six methods from political education work.
Bambyle is the title of a 2018 radio play that takes an artistic-documentary approach to the process of creating the 1970 television play “Bambule” and the life of Ulrike Meinhoff.
The radio feature from the series “Zündfunk Generator” deals with new and old strategies of (extreme) right-wing groups (“Alt-Right”) in the USA – in the context of popular culture, pop music and (political) provocation.
This wiki attempts to map the broad political landscape of antifeminism and thus make visible networks of reactionary actors and anti-human argumentation.
This publication contains contributions around the concept of “extremism” – from aspects of its history, its implicit political settings to possible alternatives.
“Why is my curriculum white?”-this question, and also the title of a campaign (video) by students at University College London (UCL), refers to the tacit overrepresentation and dominance of “white” texts and theories in the humanities and social sciences.
The documentary film project with the working title “Interruptio” takes the debate about paragraphs 218 and 219a as a starting point and works on reproductive rights and justice in Germany.
This handbook brings together contributions to the decolonization of everyday thinking – prepared in detailed materials for political youth and adult education.
The documentary film from 2015 tells six stories about sex and sexuality, about people without and people with functional diversity.