Title: How to have narrative‐flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America
Abstract: CentaurusVolume 62, Issue 2 p. 354-369 SPOTLIGHT ARTICLE How to have narrative-flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Corresponding Author Anne-Emanuelle Birn [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-0314-5913 Centre for Critical Development Studies and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto Correspondence Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Centre for Critical Development Studies and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada. Email: [email protected] for more papers by this author Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Corresponding Author Anne-Emanuelle Birn [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0002-0314-5913 Centre for Critical Development Studies and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto Correspondence Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Centre for Critical Development Studies and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 3M7, Canada. Email: [email protected] for more papers by this author First published: 27 July 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/1600-0498.12310Citations: 7Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Abstract This piece seeks to elucidate how and why Latin America is neither anecdotal nor peripheral to pandemic preoccupations—nor to larger health and disease narratives—past and present. First, it examines the world's proportionately most destructive pandemic as coterminous with the rise of imperialism. Next, it traces how the impetus for international health cooperation based on regional crises predated and informed efforts elsewhere. Finally, it explores two under-charted narratives: the creative harnessing of data produced under adversity, and alternative health solidarities that bypass reigning hierarchies of "humanitarian" aid. Together, these glimpses underscore a fundamental need for incorporating histories of and from Latin America to overcome the "history-telling injustice" created by the centuries-long Western dismissal of knowledge, practices, experiences, and existential meaning generated in the Global South. In short, these accounts provide a more complex and possibility-filled restructuring of dominant narratives around the diverse trajectories and consequences, as well as varieties of resistance, that shape understandings of pandemics. Citing Literature Volume62, Issue2Spotlight Issue: Histories of epidemics in the time of COVID-19May 2020Pages 354-369 RelatedInformation