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Global Health and Global War: The US Military's Health Engagement in Africa, 1952-2018.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Global Health and Global War: The US Military's Health Engagement in Africa, 1952-2018./
作者:	McCormack, Killian .
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
面頁冊數:	223 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-01A.
標題:	Geography. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27736819
ISBN:	9798662391628

Global Health and Global War: The US Military's Health Engagement in Africa, 1952-2018.
McCormack, Killian .

Global Health and Global War: The US Military's Health Engagement in Africa, 1952-2018. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 223 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2020.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

In this dissertation, I trace the changes in the US military's health engagement practices in Africa from the beginning of the Cold War through to the current global war on terror. My project reveals trends in the overlaps between military and humanitarian networks and highlights how the military's health engagement practices are articulations of a changing American imperialism. Grounded on colonial legacies, the US military's health engagement practices are underpinned by processes of militarization, perpetuate uneven power relations, open up spaces for processes of territorialization, and are connected to larger market-centric processes. Drawing on archival material from the US National Archives and Records Administration and a wider array of documents from across the US national security complex, I focus on three interrelated case studies. First, I trace the history of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research's infectious disease research and surveillance practices on the continent, with a detailed focus on their work in Kenya. Secondly, I look at the changes in the US military's medical civic action practices in Africa from the early Cold War to the current work of US Africa Command. Finally, I explore the US military's response to the 2014 West African Ebola crisis, Operation United Assistance, and the military's role in pandemic response going forward. Each case study brings its own discrete contributions: my study of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research shows how the military has adapted to a changing international development context and is now embedded in a network of global health actors; my analysis of medical civic action demonstrates the ways in which military practices of care are connected to processes of territorialization and war readiness; and my study of Operation United Assistance shows the trajectory of the military's practices in disaster response and its changing role in what are traditionally civilian practices. My project reveals an underexplored history and geography of American imperialism in Africa. In doing so, it makes important contributions to the understanding of the military's changing position in a global humanitarian context, as well as the changing ways humanitarian practices have been co-opted towards military ends.

ISBN: 9798662391628Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.
Subjects--Index Terms:

American Imperialism

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