Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health”
This article considers a broad perspective of “One Health” that includes local and animal knowledge. Drawing from various colonial efforts to link human, animal, and environmental health, it first shows that the current “One Health” initiative has its roots in colonial engagement and coincides with...
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| description | This article considers a broad perspective of “One Health” that includes local and animal knowledge. Drawing from various colonial efforts to link human, animal, and environmental health, it first shows that the current “One Health” initiative has its roots in colonial engagement and coincides with a need to secure the health of administrators (controlling that of local populations), while pursing use of resources. In our contemporary period of repeated epidemic outbreaks, we then discuss the need for greater inclusion of social science knowledge for a better understanding of complex socio-ecological systems. We show how considering anthropology and allied sub-disciplines (anthropology of nature, medical anthropology, and human-animal studies) highlights local knowledge on biodiversity as well as the way social scientists investigate diversity in relation to other forms of knowledge. Acknowledging recent approaches, specifically multispecies ethnography, the article then aims to include not only local knowledge but also non-human knowledge for a better prevention of epidemic outbreaks. Finally, the conclusion stresses the need to adopt the same symmetrical approach to scientific and profane knowledge as a way to decolonize One Health, as well as to engage in a more-than-human approach including non-human animals as objects-subjects of research. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-afad4ddc2ff3434e9a26cadfb115608f2023-11-02T00:49:08ZengEDP SciencesParasite1776-10422020-01-01275510.1051/parasite/2020055parasite200055Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health”Lainé Nicolashttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-8454-3886Morand Serge0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3986-7659CNRS-ISEM Université de Montpellier CIRAD-ASTRE, Faculty of Veterinary Technology, Kasetsart UniversityThis article considers a broad perspective of “One Health” that includes local and animal knowledge. Drawing from various colonial efforts to link human, animal, and environmental health, it first shows that the current “One Health” initiative has its roots in colonial engagement and coincides with a need to secure the health of administrators (controlling that of local populations), while pursing use of resources. In our contemporary period of repeated epidemic outbreaks, we then discuss the need for greater inclusion of social science knowledge for a better understanding of complex socio-ecological systems. We show how considering anthropology and allied sub-disciplines (anthropology of nature, medical anthropology, and human-animal studies) highlights local knowledge on biodiversity as well as the way social scientists investigate diversity in relation to other forms of knowledge. Acknowledging recent approaches, specifically multispecies ethnography, the article then aims to include not only local knowledge but also non-human knowledge for a better prevention of epidemic outbreaks. Finally, the conclusion stresses the need to adopt the same symmetrical approach to scientific and profane knowledge as a way to decolonize One Health, as well as to engage in a more-than-human approach including non-human animals as objects-subjects of research.https://www.parasite-journal.org/articles/parasite/full_html/2020/01/parasite200055/parasite200055.htmlone health(multispecies) ethnographyknowledgedecolonizationglobal health |
| spellingShingle | Lainé Nicolas Morand Serge Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health” Parasite one health (multispecies) ethnography knowledge decolonization global health |
| title | Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health” |
| title_full | Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health” |
| title_fullStr | Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health” |
| title_full_unstemmed | Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health” |
| title_short | Linking humans, their animals, and the environment again: a decolonized and more-than-human approach to “One Health” |
| title_sort | linking humans their animals and the environment again a decolonized and more than human approach to one health |
| topic | one health (multispecies) ethnography knowledge decolonization global health |
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