Thesis Chapters by Kristin Flemons
This thesis examines the ways in which the African Medical and Research Foundation may be consid... more This thesis examines the ways in which the African Medical and Research Foundation may be considered a ‘mutation’ of medical humanitarianism, across both time (through the course of the organization’s history) and space (from humanitarianism’s birthplace in Europe to its headquarters in East Africa). To this end, the author conducted field research with staff at the Kenya Country Office between June and September, 2012, involving participant observation, field visits, and archival research. In Chapter 1, the Foundation’s commitment to projects of medical, technical and bureaucratic modernity in East Africa is explored, which complicates analyses of humanitarian minimalism. In Chapter 2, the organization’s history is discussed as a reference point for understanding its unique characteristics. In Chapter 3, the organization's research activities are unpacked as additions to, and transgressions of, boundaries between medical humanitarianism and global health.
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Drafts by Kristin Flemons
This essay represents an effort to build a foundation from which to analyze the curious assemblag... more This essay represents an effort to build a foundation from which to analyze the curious assemblages of global health—moral, ethical, technical—and their implications for the global health sector, for anthropology, and for the form of critical analyses that we deploy.
The essay is broken into three sections, each of which investigates the literature from anthropology (and cognate disciplines) on a theme important to my research questions. The first section takes up the figure of neoliberalism, asking how it is we are to define and engage this concept. How has anthropology analyzed and deployed it thus far, and what problems and possibilities have emerged? The second section looks into the anthropological literature on care, asking how and why care became an important concept in the discipline, and how it has challenged some of our familiar analytic paradigms. Does it make sense to think ‘global health’ through the lens of care? Finally, I turn to the question of morality and ethics, in order to begin thinking through the kind of moral fields crystalizing in global health. How has anthropology analyzed moral and ethical fields in the past? And, conversely, how are we to understand the moral and critical project of anthropology itself in relation to something like ‘neoliberal care’?
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This essay examines the emergence of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in global health, and the... more This essay examines the emergence of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in global health, and the analytical, conceptual, and ethical questions that they raise for anthropology. It is the second of three such reviews which form the foundation of my PhD research and proposal.
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This essay examines the history of strategic management consulting as part of the foundation for ... more This essay examines the history of strategic management consulting as part of the foundation for my doctoral research on global health strategy and market-driven interventions. Since the late 1990s and early 2000s, the expertise of management and business has become pivotal not only to the planning and implementation of global health projects, but also to the definition of the ethical and moral principles that undergird global health aid work. This essay explores the history of business expertise as a foundation for thinking about today's changing forms of technical and ethical expertise in global health.
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Conference Presentations by Kristin Flemons
Presented at the Concordia "Hope, Freedom, & Responsibility" conference Spring 2015
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Thesis Chapters by Kristin Flemons
Drafts by Kristin Flemons
The essay is broken into three sections, each of which investigates the literature from anthropology (and cognate disciplines) on a theme important to my research questions. The first section takes up the figure of neoliberalism, asking how it is we are to define and engage this concept. How has anthropology analyzed and deployed it thus far, and what problems and possibilities have emerged? The second section looks into the anthropological literature on care, asking how and why care became an important concept in the discipline, and how it has challenged some of our familiar analytic paradigms. Does it make sense to think ‘global health’ through the lens of care? Finally, I turn to the question of morality and ethics, in order to begin thinking through the kind of moral fields crystalizing in global health. How has anthropology analyzed moral and ethical fields in the past? And, conversely, how are we to understand the moral and critical project of anthropology itself in relation to something like ‘neoliberal care’?
Conference Presentations by Kristin Flemons
The essay is broken into three sections, each of which investigates the literature from anthropology (and cognate disciplines) on a theme important to my research questions. The first section takes up the figure of neoliberalism, asking how it is we are to define and engage this concept. How has anthropology analyzed and deployed it thus far, and what problems and possibilities have emerged? The second section looks into the anthropological literature on care, asking how and why care became an important concept in the discipline, and how it has challenged some of our familiar analytic paradigms. Does it make sense to think ‘global health’ through the lens of care? Finally, I turn to the question of morality and ethics, in order to begin thinking through the kind of moral fields crystalizing in global health. How has anthropology analyzed moral and ethical fields in the past? And, conversely, how are we to understand the moral and critical project of anthropology itself in relation to something like ‘neoliberal care’?