Thandeka Cochrane
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thandeka Cochrane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thandeka |
| FAMILY NAME | Cochrane |
| SIGNATURE | COCHRANE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9271-5390 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Medical Moulages and Models from Mid-20th Century East and Southern Africa
Much has been written about medical models and moulages within European contexts. Medical modeling and moulage making was not, however, confined to Europe: it traveled across imperial networks to European colonies and beyond. This paper examines two sets of medical models from East and Southern Africa: a collection of busts of children afflicted with Burkitt’s lymphoma and a set of feet depicting the progression of a cut from infection to maligna…
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
Cartographic infrastructures
In this article, we explore infrastructures-human, epistemic, and material-that enable the creation of maps and the stories they tell about the world. We develop the concept of 'cartographic infrastructures' to reveal the hidden and fragile political, scientific, and social worlds that undergird the production of maps and the truths they bring into being. To illustrate this, we examine a series of highly influential maps published in the early 19…
The model multiple
Over the past half-century, modelling has come to play an increasingly important role in cancer research. These representational tools frame perceptions of malignant disease, guide public health responses, and help determine which interventions are necessary. But what makes a cancer model a model? What authority do they have? What stories do they tell? And how do they shape our understanding of disease and bodies? To shed light on these questions…
The political stakes of cancer epistemics
We demonstrate a transnationally situated dialogue as a method to bring ethnographic and historical research in Brazil, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), India, Russia and Spain into conversation to show three cancer epistemics sites (research, detection, and care access) where the politics of cancer epistemics are at play. First, in the field of research, we show how certain ways of knowing, and certain questions about and interests in c…
Pedagogy and Indigenous knowing and learning
In 2021, UNESCO released their report on 'Reimagining our Futures Together: the New Social Contract for Education'.They opened the report by boldly stating:our world is at a turning point [. ..] but global disparities -and a pressing need to reimagine why, how, what, where and when we learn -mean that education is not yet fulfilling its promise to help us shape peaceful, just, and sustainable futures (UNESCO, 2021, p. 1).As we face a world in pol…
The power of stories
In this paper, Indigenous and local understandings of the role of storytelling for children (nthanu) are contrasted with the didactic understandings of children’s stories that permeate the formal education frameworks of Malawi; frameworks which are deeply entangled in a colonial and (post)colonial history. For Chitonga speakers, the majority of whom live in rural communities along the northern lakeshore of Malawi, nthanu form a crucial part of wh…
Grammars of Progress and Pathology
The phrase "disease of civilization" and concomitant lexicons, such as "pathologies of modernization," frequently surface across public and global health discourses. This is particularly the case within the framework of cancer research in Africa. In this article, the authors trace the emergence of these grammars of progress at the beginning of the twentieth century as a biomedical lens through which to analyze and frame cancer in Africa. Arguing …
Colonial Entanglements and African Health Worlds
Following Ann Stoler's (2016) idea of colonial and (post)colonial history as recursive, a history which folds back upon itself, emerging in new shapes and forms yet still carrying the formations that they are folded into, and Achille Mbembe's argument that in the (post)colony the 'past and present are entangled in hydra-headed ways' (Mbembe and Hofmeyr 2006), this Review essay puts into conversation three recent publications: Marrku Hokkanen's Me…
The politics of literature in Malawi
In 1932, as Nyasaland (present-day Malawi) was heading to indirect rule, a small vocal community in the north of the country resisted the colonial government's attempts to assign them a Native Authority. Instead, they proposed their own form of government: a council of thirty-two mafumu (chiefs) who would make decisions on an egalitarian basis, the Atonga tribal council. The champion of this alternative form of governance was a Tonga intellectual…
Luke Messac, No More to Spend
Luke Messac’s excellent book takes up a key question that should be asked far more frequently in global health. What makes it so easy for us to accept, and take as inevitable, the health inequalities of the world? Why do we so easily resign ourselves to accepting that certain peoples, in this case the majority of Malawians, should suffer, often enormously, and possibly die from, curable injuries, illnesses and diseases? The central thesis of Mess…
The political stakes of cancer epistemics
We demonstrate a transnationally situated dialogue as a method to bring ethnographic and historical research in Brazil, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), India, Russia and Spain into conversation to show three cancer epistemics sites (research, detection, and care access) where the politics of cancer epistemics are at play. First, in the field of research, we show how certain ways of knowing, and certain questions about and interests in c…
Luke Messac, No More to Spend
Luke Messac’s excellent book takes up a key question that should be asked far more frequently in global health. What makes it so easy for us to accept, and take as inevitable, the health inequalities of the world? Why do we so easily resign ourselves to accepting that certain peoples, in this case the majority of Malawians, should suffer, often enormously, and possibly die from, curable injuries, illnesses and diseases? The central thesis of Mess…
Colonial Entanglements and African Health Worlds
Following Ann Stoler's (2016) idea of colonial and (post)colonial history as recursive, a history which folds back upon itself, emerging in new shapes and forms yet still carrying the formations that they are folded into, and Achille Mbembe's argument that in the (post)colony the 'past and present are entangled in hydra-headed ways' (Mbembe and Hofmeyr 2006), this Review essay puts into conversation three recent publications: Marrku Hokkanen's Me…
The politics of literature in Malawi
In 1932, as Nyasaland (present-day Malawi) was heading to indirect rule, a small vocal community in the north of the country resisted the colonial government's attempts to assign them a Native Authority. Instead, they proposed their own form of government: a council of thirty-two mafumu (chiefs) who would make decisions on an egalitarian basis, the Atonga tribal council. The champion of this alternative form of governance was a Tonga intellectual…
Pedagogy and Indigenous knowing and learning
In 2021, UNESCO released their report on 'Reimagining our Futures Together: the New Social Contract for Education'.They opened the report by boldly stating:our world is at a turning point [. ..] but global disparities -and a pressing need to reimagine why, how, what, where and when we learn -mean that education is not yet fulfilling its promise to help us shape peaceful, just, and sustainable futures (UNESCO, 2021, p. 1).As we face a world in pol…
The power of stories
In this paper, Indigenous and local understandings of the role of storytelling for children (nthanu) are contrasted with the didactic understandings of children’s stories that permeate the formal education frameworks of Malawi; frameworks which are deeply entangled in a colonial and (post)colonial history. For Chitonga speakers, the majority of whom live in rural communities along the northern lakeshore of Malawi, nthanu form a crucial part of wh…
Grammars of Progress and Pathology
The phrase "disease of civilization" and concomitant lexicons, such as "pathologies of modernization," frequently surface across public and global health discourses. This is particularly the case within the framework of cancer research in Africa. In this article, the authors trace the emergence of these grammars of progress at the beginning of the twentieth century as a biomedical lens through which to analyze and frame cancer in Africa. Arguing …
The model multiple
Over the past half-century, modelling has come to play an increasingly important role in cancer research. These representational tools frame perceptions of malignant disease, guide public health responses, and help determine which interventions are necessary. But what makes a cancer model a model? What authority do they have? What stories do they tell? And how do they shape our understanding of disease and bodies? To shed light on these questions…
The political stakes of cancer epistemics
We demonstrate a transnationally situated dialogue as a method to bring ethnographic and historical research in Brazil, East Africa (Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), India, Russia and Spain into conversation to show three cancer epistemics sites (research, detection, and care access) where the politics of cancer epistemics are at play. First, in the field of research, we show how certain ways of knowing, and certain questions about and interests in c…
Medical Moulages and Models from Mid-20th Century East and Southern Africa
Much has been written about medical models and moulages within European contexts. Medical modeling and moulage making was not, however, confined to Europe: it traveled across imperial networks to European colonies and beyond. This paper examines two sets of medical models from East and Southern Africa: a collection of busts of children afflicted with Burkitt’s lymphoma and a set of feet depicting the progression of a cut from infection to maligna…
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
Cartographic infrastructures
In this article, we explore infrastructures-human, epistemic, and material-that enable the creation of maps and the stories they tell about the world. We develop the concept of 'cartographic infrastructures' to reveal the hidden and fragile political, scientific, and social worlds that undergird the production of maps and the truths they bring into being. To illustrate this, we examine a series of highly influential maps published in the early 19…
Sociology (9 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Colonialism (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Global Health and Surgery (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · History (3 works)