"In the US and elsewhere, right-wing populism now coexists with neoliberalism’s isolation of market dynamics from state regulation, inextricably intertwining the moral and political economies of unpaid caregiving." say Alicia Ely Yamin and Solana Yoma
In a matter of weeks, President Trump has upended global governance for health since he took office for the second time. While lives and livelihoods are being lost it smacks of detached privilege to repeat the mantra that crisis is opportunity. But too much is at stake to allow the discourse to be defined by the reckless arsonists and those who merely seek to return to the status quo ante.
The failure of global cooperation during the pandemic and the impacts of debt and austerity have heightened the urgency of expanding our understanding of freedom from violence to include structural violence, writes Collective member Alicia Ely Yamin.
A blog written by members of The Political Determinants of Health Collective, where they discuss how their work contributes to furthering knowledge and research in this area.
