Global Health and Local Places: what are the relationships

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Global Health and Local Places what are the
relationships?

• William D. Coleman
• University of Waterloo

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Local place (1)
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Local place 2 Nemaska
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Commission on Social Determinants of Health

• 1. Improve Daily Living Conditions
• Improve the well-being of girls and women and the
  circumstances in which their children are born,
  put major emphasis on early child development and
  education for girls and boys, improve living and
  working conditions and create social protection
  policy supportive of all, and create conditions
  for a flourishing older life. Policies to achieve
  these goals will involve civil society,
  governments, and global institutions.

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Social Determinants of Health (2)

• 2. Tackle the Inequitable Distribution of Power,
  Money, and Resources
• it is necessary to address inequities . . . To
  achieve that requires more than strengthened
  government it requires strengthened governance
  legitimacy, space, and support for civil society,
  for an accountable private sector, and for people
  across society to agree public interests and
  reinvest in the value of collective action. In a
  globalized world, the need for governance
  dedicated to equity applies equally from the
  community level to global institutions.

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Manuel Castells

• The Rise of the Network Society (2nd ed., 1999)
• Those who function within the dominant networks
  are said to be part of the space of flows and
  their situation contrasts with the excluded, who
  live in spaces of places
• space of flows the global
• space of places the local

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Roland Robertson

• Glocalization
• What happens locally and what happens globally
  are mutually constitutive
• - By invoking the local, one is already
  thinking of the local as being shaped by the
  global and the potential for the local to change
  the global.

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos

• Modes of production of globalization
• Twin processes
• Globalized localisms processes by which
  particular localisms is globalized.
• Example the fur trade

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Santos cont.

• b. Localized globalisms the specific impact on
  local conditions produced by transnational
  practices and imperatives that arise from
  globalized localisms
• e.g. trading posts, exchange economy, diseases,
  missionaries

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Fort Edmonton

• Fur trade outpost

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Hydro-Quebec Power development pathways

• Map lays out the global localisms dam sites and
  power lines that take hydro-electric power from
  the James Bay area to urban Quebec and New
  England states of the US

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Arturo Escobar

• Territories of difference place, movements,
  life, redes
• Place engagement with and experience of a
  particular location with some measure of
  groundedness (however unstable), boundaries
  (however permeable), and connections to everyday
  life, even if its identity is constructed and
  never fixed

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Escobar continued

• Studying the impacts of global localisms
• Economy
• Ecology
• Culture

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Escobar continued

• the transformation of local diverse economies,
  partially oriented to self-reproduction and
  subsistence, into a monetized, market-driven
  economy. They involve changes of complex
  ecosystems into modern forms of nature . . . And
  they are changing place-based, local cultures
  that increasingly (have to) resemble dominant
  modern cultures . .

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Victor Diamond Mine, de Beers Canada

• Located approximately 90 km west of the coastal
  community of Attawapiskat First Nation

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Conclusion the Quebec Eeyouch

• Creation of the Grand Council of the Cree
  (Eeyouch)
• Collaboration with environmentalist NGOs in
  Canada and the US
• Enlisting the support of the United Nations
  Permanent Forum of Indigenous Peoples

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Conclusion UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples

• Article 24 a new global localism (?)
• 1. Indigenous peoples have the right to their
  traditional medicines and to maintain their
  health practices, including the conservation of
  their vital medicinal plants, animals and
  minerals. Indigenous individuals also have the
  right to access, without any discrimination, to
  all social and health services.
• 2. Indigenous individuals have an equal right to
  the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard
  of physical and mental health . . .

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Commission on Social Determinants of Health

• Is there something missing? Communities? The
  people themselves?
• 1. Improve Daily Living Conditions
• Improve the well-being of girls and women and the
  circumstances in which their children are born,
  put major emphasis on early child development and
  education for girls and boys, improve living and
  working conditions and create social protection
  policy supportive of all, and create conditions
  for a flourishing older life. Policies to achieve
  these goals will involve civil society,
  governments, and global institutions.