更新日:2022/01/21
【Date】 January 21st 2022
【Time】19:00 – 21:00
【Style】 Online, Zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84114456074?pwd=UkNpallJZlZOdmVPTnpXUTdwa2N6QT09
Meeting ID: 841 1445 6074
Pass code: 476451
【Language】 English
【Schedule】
19:00-19:10
Introduction
Akira Takada (Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies (ASAFAS), Kyoto University, Japan)
19:10-20:40
Title: Mining and the Moral and Political Economies of Health in Early
Colonial South-West Africa
Mattia Fumanti (School of Philosophical Anthropological & Film Studies, University of St Andrews, UK)
Abstract:
This paper will focus on the ways in which different colonial actors, mining companies’ manager, colonial administrators, and medical officers helped to shape colonial health policies in the mines of South-West Africa in the first two decades after WWI. Whilst there is an established literature on the ways in which colonial health policies and bio-medicine attempted to capture African bodies and
transform them into an efficient labour work force, and of the African resistance to these policies, little is known of the often contested discourses and practices behind the design and implementation of colonial health policies of labour. In building on archival correspondences between different colonial actors, I will reveal the often contrasting and dissenting voices that characterised the making and unmaking of mining health policies in colonial South West Africa. These dissenting voices reveal nationalist and class distinctions, but also opposing views on what constituted the miners’ well-being and the best health practices in the mines, including how to manage, treat and educate the African workforce. Moreover they illustrate the often tentative and incomplete nature of colonial health policies and of the wider colonial project. In so doing I will bring to bear the complex ways in which colonial discourses and practices of health in the mines reveal not only the emergence of colonial paternalism and exploitative labour practices, but also the contested nature of the moral and political economies of health in early colonial South-West Africa.
20:40-21:00
General discussion
【Notes】
* The talk is given in English, and no translation will be provided.
* Reservation is not required for participating in the Colloquium.
* Admission-free.
