Responding to Disaster Without (Further) Militarizing It
Session 4250: "Impact of war and conflict on women, children, veterans and communities"
143rd American Public Health Association annual meeting & expo, Chicago, Nov 2015.
© 2015 A.G. Keller, CC BY-SA.
Outline & Slides
This is an outline of the presentation. Page numbers refer to slides.
Watch or listen to streamed presentation at APHA site.
| 1 What disaster relief does | 4 |
| 1.1 Disaster relief redistributes resources & power | |
| 2 The concept of militarism | 5 |
| 2.1 Claims territory | |
| 2.2 Builds perimeter; prepares to hold territory via coercion | |
| 2.3 Concentrates power/resources up command chain | |
| 3 Militarism in action after Hurricane Sandy | 6 |
| 3.1 Lens: Ethnography of Peoples' Medical Relief | |
| 3.2 PMR's basic practices | |
| 3.3 Three exemplars of militarism | |
| 4 Militarism concept as framework for program evaluation | 11 |
| 4.1 Does a given disaster relief effort | |
| 4.1(a) Consolidate or deconcentrate resources? | |
| 4.1(b) Consolidate or distribute power to decide? | |
| 4.1(c) Suspend or build democratic constitutional law? | |
| 4.2 What hallmarks of DEmilitarization could be used in program evaluation? |
You might also like to download slides (womil-2015nov-web.pdf, 0.7 MB), read the presentation proposal, or read internal and public documents from People's Medical Relief's work after Sandy that I archived at the Medic Stories wiki.
References
- Agamben 2005, State of Exception
- Arendt 2005, The Promise of Politics
- Ambinder & Jennings 2013, The Resilient Social Network. The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate
- Lutz 2007, "Militarization." Nugent & Vincent, eds, A Companion to the Anthropology of Politics, 318-331
- Lutz 2002, Homefront: A Military City and the American Twentieth Century
- Wiist et al. 2014 Jun, "The Role of Public Health in the Prevention of War." AJPH 104(6):e34-e47
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Hesperian Health Guides for allowing me to use illustrations from Werner & Bower's 1981 book Helping Health Workers Learn in my slideshow.
