Alexandre White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3769230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexandre White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexandre |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5296-6072 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Review of “Life After Epidemics
Toward a historical sociology of infectious disease governance
This interview explores Alexandre White's contributions to the history of medicine, focusing on his latest work, Epidemic Orientalism: race, capital, and the governance of infectious disease, published by Stanford University Press in 2023. White's extensive research on infectious disease regulation is examined, covering his motivations, ongoing projects, and the pivotal role of comparative methods in the field. His theoretical frameworks are also…
Which History and Social Science Concepts Should Inform Health Professions Education
Teaching and learning patient advocacy in academic health centers requires critical engagement with social, political, and cultural conceptions of racial difference. This article considers understandings of race and racism typically drawn upon in health care and suggests which historical and social science-based approaches should be used in health professions teaching and learning
The Call for Further Research into the Coloniality of French Social Thought in George Steinmetz’s the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
In George Steinmetz's Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, we find a meticulously researched and immensely detailed historical sociology text on the colonial origins of French social thought.In this review, I will discuss significant contributions that I think the book makes, before posing questions aimed not so much at critiquing the book as it stands but rather by making provocations about where sociological inquiry can build from this wo…
Epidemic Orientalism
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
Who can lead the revolution
Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism
Historical linkages
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
The Sociology of Global Health
Over the past two decades, a sociology of global health has emerged. While this new subfield takes up some themes and issues that are familiar to the discipline as a whole—among them organizations, social movements, and the social construction of illness—it has also posed new questions and opened new research pathways by formulating and testing theory in environments radically different from the United States. This work has forced sociologists to…
Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity
The authors seek to connect global historical sociology with racial formation theory to examine how antislavery movements fostered novel forms of self-government and justifications for state formation. The cases of Haiti and Liberia demonstrate how enslaved and formerly enslaved actors rethought modern politics at the time, producing novel political subjects in the process. Prior to the existence of these nations, self-determination by black subj…
Global Risks, Divergent Pandemics
This article explores two simultaneous epidemics that, despite similar pathologies, prompted significantly varying responses from public health actors in 1901 Cape Town: the bubonic plague and smallpox. The Cape Colony responded to the plague with racialized quarantining, forcibly removing all black Africans from certain poor neighborhoods and transferring them to a camp on the outskirts of the city. It was the most significant segregationist act…
Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity
The authors seek to connect global historical sociology with racial formation theory to examine how antislavery movements fostered novel forms of self-government and justifications for state formation. The cases of Haiti and Liberia demonstrate how enslaved and formerly enslaved actors rethought modern politics at the time, producing novel political subjects in the process. Prior to the existence of these nations, self-determination by black subj…
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Global Risks, Divergent Pandemics
This article explores two simultaneous epidemics that, despite similar pathologies, prompted significantly varying responses from public health actors in 1901 Cape Town: the bubonic plague and smallpox. The Cape Colony responded to the plague with racialized quarantining, forcibly removing all black Africans from certain poor neighborhoods and transferring them to a camp on the outskirts of the city. It was the most significant segregationist act…
Who can lead the revolution
Toward a historical sociology of infectious disease governance
This interview explores Alexandre White's contributions to the history of medicine, focusing on his latest work, Epidemic Orientalism: race, capital, and the governance of infectious disease, published by Stanford University Press in 2023. White's extensive research on infectious disease regulation is examined, covering his motivations, ongoing projects, and the pivotal role of comparative methods in the field. His theoretical frameworks are also…
Global Risks, Divergent Pandemics
This article explores two simultaneous epidemics that, despite similar pathologies, prompted significantly varying responses from public health actors in 1901 Cape Town: the bubonic plague and smallpox. The Cape Colony responded to the plague with racialized quarantining, forcibly removing all black Africans from certain poor neighborhoods and transferring them to a camp on the outskirts of the city. It was the most significant segregationist act…
The Sociology of Global Health
Over the past two decades, a sociology of global health has emerged. While this new subfield takes up some themes and issues that are familiar to the discipline as a whole—among them organizations, social movements, and the social construction of illness—it has also posed new questions and opened new research pathways by formulating and testing theory in environments radically different from the United States. This work has forced sociologists to…
Toward a Sociology of Colonial Subjectivity
The authors seek to connect global historical sociology with racial formation theory to examine how antislavery movements fostered novel forms of self-government and justifications for state formation. The cases of Haiti and Liberia demonstrate how enslaved and formerly enslaved actors rethought modern politics at the time, producing novel political subjects in the process. Prior to the existence of these nations, self-determination by black subj…
Historical linkages
Categorisation and Minoritisation
The disproportionate mortality of COVID-19 \nand brutality of protective institutions has \nshifted anti-racism \ndiscourses into the mainstream. \n1 Increased reckoning over categorisations \nof people demonstrate that racial \ncategories, while imprecise, fluid, time and \ncontext-specific, \nembody hierarchical power. \nWe interrogate categorisations used in the \nUK, South Africa and the USA; their origins \nand impact. We emphasise needing t…
Global Historical Sociology of Race and Racism
Who can lead the revolution
Epidemic Orientalism
Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution
Which History and Social Science Concepts Should Inform Health Professions Education
Teaching and learning patient advocacy in academic health centers requires critical engagement with social, political, and cultural conceptions of racial difference. This article considers understandings of race and racism typically drawn upon in health care and suggests which historical and social science-based approaches should be used in health professions teaching and learning
The Call for Further Research into the Coloniality of French Social Thought in George Steinmetz’s the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought
In George Steinmetz's Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought, we find a meticulously researched and immensely detailed historical sociology text on the colonial origins of French social thought.In this review, I will discuss significant contributions that I think the book makes, before posing questions aimed not so much at critiquing the book as it stands but rather by making provocations about where sociological inquiry can build from this wo…
Toward a historical sociology of infectious disease governance
This interview explores Alexandre White's contributions to the history of medicine, focusing on his latest work, Epidemic Orientalism: race, capital, and the governance of infectious disease, published by Stanford University Press in 2023. White's extensive research on infectious disease regulation is examined, covering his motivations, ongoing projects, and the pivotal role of comparative methods in the field. His theoretical frameworks are also…
Review of “Life After Epidemics
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Law (4 works)