Decolonization and Its Paradoxes
The (Re)envisioning of Health Policy in Bolivia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4500567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brian Johnson (0000-0001-9122-172X, Columbia University, corresponding author), Brian B Johnson (Columbia University) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 139-159 |
| Publication date | 2010-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Perspectives (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0094582x10366535 |
| OpenAlex | W2062131184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 8 |
In one of the most traditionally hierarchical and "colonial" of the Bolivian state apparatuses, the official health sector, attempts since 2006 by Evo Morales and the MAS government at radical restructuring have proved innovative but inconclusive and divisive. Reflecting a series of conflicts and contradictions, a number of often fundamentally competing scenarios are at work: the institutionalization of traditional medicine, the reinterpretation of previous primary health care and community participation models, social and "socialized" medicine, and the durability of a deeply ingrained vertical health system. The challenges and risks inherent in what at heart may be a struggle between cultural and political factions and ideologies among the government's public health authorities and planners are emblematic of many paradoxes in the effort to decolonize the Bolivian state as a whole
Colonialism · Decolonization · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Ideology · Institutionalisation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reinterpretation · Restructuring · Sociology · State (computer science) · Gender, Health, and Social Inequality · Law · Politics and Society in Latin America · Public Administration · Public Health and Social Inequalities
Green Economy or Living Well? Assessing divergent paradigms for equitable eco-social transition in South Korea and Bolivia
Heritage Fever
Inclusion without Representation in Latin America
Bridging Hegemony and Decolonial Epistemology
New Latin American networks of solidarity
Reclaiming the Authority to Plan
Rocking the Cradle
Interlude
Political inclusion of marginalized groups
Ethnographic reflections on communicative inequities, global health relationships, and two decades of HIV in the Bolivian press
Why ‘elevating country voice’ is not decolonizing global health
When Care is a “Systematic Route of Torture”
The work of reform
Postneoliberal Public Health Care Reforms
Material constraints to popular imaginaries
Introduction Bolivia under Morales
It Is Not Natural Anymore
Personal and political histories in the designing of health reform policy in Bolivia
The National Development Plan as a Political Economic Strategy in Evo Morales's Bolivia
Proliferating Policy
There Is No Place Like Home
Travesti Subjectivity and HIV Care
Divergent identities
A Culture of Solidarity
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |