Presented by ANU College of Law, Governance & Policy
Seye Abimbola discusses The foreign gaze, his recent essay collection on how power shapes knowledge practices, with a focus on what it means for efforts to transform academic global (public) health.
In his 2024 open access book , Seye Abimbola placed distance, whether physical or social, at the heart of what ails efforts to use research to address long-standing challenges of inequity in health, globally. That is, the physical or social distance between the people who make policy or produce evidence, and the people on whose behalf or for whose supposed benefit policy is made or evidence is produced. Or the distance between the location or the social position from which knowledge is produced (pose), and the location or social position of the audience of that knowledge (gaze).
In conversation with RegNet's and the audience, Seye will explore the implications of this distance for ongoing decolonial and other efforts to transform academic global (public) health.
About the speaker
teaches in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. His writing and research focus on epistemic practices in health systems and global health. He was the founding editor-in-chief of BMJ Global Health (2015-24), and has recently been Prince Claus Chair in Equity and Development at Utrecht University (2020-22), Radulovacki Visiting Scholar in Global Health Studies at Northwestern University (2023-24), and Thinker in Residence at the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems ÐÓ°É´«Ã½ based at the World Health Organisation headquarters in Geneva (2024-25). His book, an essay collection titled "The Foreign Gaze" was published in 2024.
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Image credit: The foreign gaze: essays on global health’ book cover from
Location
8 Fellows Rd, ANU Acton campus
Acton, ACT, 2600
Speakers
- Seye Abimbola
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