File Download
  Links for fulltext
     (May Require Subscription)
Supplementary

Article: Critical Health Communication Method as Embodied Practice of Resistance: Culturally Centering Structural Transformation through Struggle for Voice

TitleCritical Health Communication Method as Embodied Practice of Resistance: Culturally Centering Structural Transformation through Struggle for Voice
Authors
Keywordsculture-centered interventions
critical methodology
solidarity
structural transformation
voices
Issue Date2019
PublisherFrontiers Research Foundation. The Journal's web site is located at http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/communication
Citation
Frontiers in Communication, 2019, v. 4, p. article no. 67 How to Cite?
AbstractThe Marxist roots of critical methodology envision method as anchor to an emancipatory politics that seeks structural transformation. Drawing on our negotiations of carrying out culture-centered health communication projects amidst neoliberal authoritarianism, we explore the nature of academic-activist-community collaborations in envisioning democratic infrastructures for socialist organizing of health. Method is thus inverted from the hegemonic structures of Whiteness that construct extractive relationships perpetuating existing and entrenched health inequities to partnerships of solidarity with subaltern communities committed to a politics of “placing the body on the line.” We work through the concept of “placing the body on the line” to depict the ways in which the body of the academic, turned vulnerable and weaponized in active resistance to neocolonial/capitalist structures, disrupts the hegemonic logics of power and control that shape health within these structures. Examples of culture-centered projects at the global margins offer conceptual bases for theorizing embodied practice as resistance to state-market structures that produce health injustices. The body of the academic as a methodological site decolonizes the capitalist framework of knowledge production through its voicing of an openly resistive politics that stands in defiance to the neoliberal structures that produce health inequities. We challenge the communication literature on micro-practices of resistance, interrogating concepts such as “strategic ambiguity,” “pragmatic interventionism” and “practical engagement” to offer method as embodied practice of open/public resistance, as direct antagonism to state-market structures. Through the re-working of method as embodied resistance that is explicitly socialist in its commitment to imagining health, culture-centered interventions imagine and practice Marxist advocacy and activist interventions that disrupt the intertwined hegemonic logics of capital and empire.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/281921
ISSN
2023 Impact Factor: 1.5
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.589
ISI Accession Number ID

 

DC FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorDutta, M-
dc.contributor.authorPandi, A R-
dc.contributor.authorZapata, D-
dc.contributor.authorMahtani, R-
dc.contributor.authorFalnikar, A-
dc.contributor.authorTan, N-
dc.contributor.authorThaker, J-
dc.contributor.authorPitaloka, D-
dc.contributor.authorDutta, U-
dc.contributor.authorLuk, PLP-
dc.contributor.authorSun, K-
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-03T07:23:39Z-
dc.date.available2020-04-03T07:23:39Z-
dc.date.issued2019-
dc.identifier.citationFrontiers in Communication, 2019, v. 4, p. article no. 67-
dc.identifier.issn2297-900X-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/281921-
dc.description.abstractThe Marxist roots of critical methodology envision method as anchor to an emancipatory politics that seeks structural transformation. Drawing on our negotiations of carrying out culture-centered health communication projects amidst neoliberal authoritarianism, we explore the nature of academic-activist-community collaborations in envisioning democratic infrastructures for socialist organizing of health. Method is thus inverted from the hegemonic structures of Whiteness that construct extractive relationships perpetuating existing and entrenched health inequities to partnerships of solidarity with subaltern communities committed to a politics of “placing the body on the line.” We work through the concept of “placing the body on the line” to depict the ways in which the body of the academic, turned vulnerable and weaponized in active resistance to neocolonial/capitalist structures, disrupts the hegemonic logics of power and control that shape health within these structures. Examples of culture-centered projects at the global margins offer conceptual bases for theorizing embodied practice as resistance to state-market structures that produce health injustices. The body of the academic as a methodological site decolonizes the capitalist framework of knowledge production through its voicing of an openly resistive politics that stands in defiance to the neoliberal structures that produce health inequities. We challenge the communication literature on micro-practices of resistance, interrogating concepts such as “strategic ambiguity,” “pragmatic interventionism” and “practical engagement” to offer method as embodied practice of open/public resistance, as direct antagonism to state-market structures. Through the re-working of method as embodied resistance that is explicitly socialist in its commitment to imagining health, culture-centered interventions imagine and practice Marxist advocacy and activist interventions that disrupt the intertwined hegemonic logics of capital and empire.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherFrontiers Research Foundation. The Journal's web site is located at http://journal.frontiersin.org/journal/communication-
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Communication-
dc.rightsThis Document is Protected by copyright and was first published by Frontiers. All rights reserved. It is reproduced with permission.-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.subjectculture-centered interventions-
dc.subjectcritical methodology-
dc.subjectsolidarity-
dc.subjectstructural transformation-
dc.subjectvoices-
dc.titleCritical Health Communication Method as Embodied Practice of Resistance: Culturally Centering Structural Transformation through Struggle for Voice-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailLuk, PLP: pluk@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityLuk, PLP=rp02577-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fcomm.2019.00067-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85087071951-
dc.identifier.hkuros309646-
dc.identifier.volume4-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 67-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 67-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000677613400001-
dc.publisher.placeSwitzerland-
dc.identifier.issnl2297-900X-

Export via OAI-PMH Interface in XML Formats


OR


Export to Other Non-XML Formats