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Introduction to social history of public health session: “resource inequalities and health inequities: Connectingthe local and global in global analysis, critique, and best practices.”
Redistributive energy and social welfare policy in historical context Politics of measuring environmental and resource inequalities in local, national, and international/transnational contexts. “Scarcity” and “abundance” and the fictions of "beyond oil" and supply-side solutions. Resource use: how societies across the world have dealt equitably and sustainably with natural resource vicissitudes (oil, land, forests, etc.) through social/indigenous/civil society movements (e.g. movements such as Buen Vivir, etc.) Resource inequality and precarity: Water and water politics across the generations
Public health or related public policy
Public health or related research
Social and behavioral sciences
Learning Objectives:
Compare past and present (and geographically heterogeneous) critical and analytical perspectives which might inform the stance of "Think Local, Act Global: Best Practices Around the World," and the Spirit of 1848 Caucus's emphasis on “The Politics of Global Climate Change: Social Justice, Sustainable Economies & Ecologies, and Health Equity,”
Address the local and the global in the context of energy and natural resource inequality and public health challenges from a historical perspective.
Compare various conceptions of redistributive energy and social welfare policy in historical context.
Discuss and compare the politics of measuring environmental and resource inequalities in local, national, and international/transnational contexts.
Evaluate the historically specific (and contingent) meanings of “Scarcity” and “abundance” and the fictions of "beyond oil" and supply-side solutions.
Compare various regimes of resource use and allocation, thinking about how societies across the world have dealt equitably and sustainably with natural resource vicissitudes (oil, land, forests, etc.) through social/indigenous/civil society movements (e.g. movements such as Buen Vivir, etc.)
Identify various forms of resource inequality and precarity: Water and water politics across the generations.
Keywords: History, Social Justice
Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: Trained (doctorate) in historical methods.
Any relevant financial relationships? No
I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.