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[Sulakshana Nandi]

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*Special issue of Critical Public Health*

*‘Public health activism in changing times: Re-locating collective agency’ *

*Call for abstracts, deadline 1 May 2019. *

https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/public-health-activism-in-changing-times-re-locating-collective-agency/



The special issue will examine emerging new forms of public health
activism, and associated novel sources of collective agency, that are
evolving in the fight for health-enabling conditions. Attention to
structural forms of power, and the strengths and weaknesses of individual
agency have long been cornerstones of critical public health, rooted in a
long-established structure-agency binary. We seek to disrupt this binary by
calling for papers that draw attention to alternative, distributed,
networked, disruptive, prefigurative or bottom-up sources of agency that
characterise emerging new forms of activism.



New and resurgent social movements include attention to issues of
anti-austerity, disability rights, new feminisms, defence of public
services, housing justice, urban regeneration, anti-racism and advocacy
targeting commercial determinants of health. Alternative forms of
health-enhancing agency ‘in the cracks’ are evident in the form of ‘wilful
subjectivities’ (e.g. transgender and queer politics), non-human agency
(e.g. communication technologies, built environment), distributed agency
(e.g. emergence of common causes, new networks, emergent protest),
occupation of space, evidence-based activisms and artistic expressions.
Evident too are efforts to connect grassroots collective agency to
traditional axes of power, e.g. social enterprises using capitalist
business models, or grassroots party political activism. Papers on any of
these, or other, locations of collective agency with potential for
innovative public health activism would all be suited to the special issue.



We invite papers from the full range of public health disciplines,
exploring the possibilities of public health activism in contemporary
conditions, especially papers with strong empirical bases in studies of
recent/contemporary activism. Creative responses to crisis are most often
generated in practice rather than theory, and we particularly welcome
papers rooted in activist and collaborative praxis.



A two-round review process will take place:



Please submit abstracts (250-300 words) to Flora Cornish (
f.cornish at lse.ac.uk).



Abstract submission deadline: May 1, 2019
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