Through a Critical Lens

Expertise in Epidemiology for and by Indigenous Peoples

Bibliographic Data

ID5337083
AuthorsE Prussing (0000-0002-5678-2297, University of Iowa, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume45
Issue6
Pages1142-1167
Publication date2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243919887448
OpenAlexW2987501307
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited50

Epidemiology for and by Indigenous peoples uses quantitative and statistical methods to better document Indigenous health concerns, and is oriented around providing data for use in advocacy to promote Indigenous health equity. This advocacy-oriented, technoscientific work bridges the often distinct social worlds of Indigenous communities, professional public health research, and public policy-making. Using examples from a multisited ethnographic study in three settings (Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawai'i, and the continental United States), this paper examines the forms of expertise that researcher/practitioners enact as they conduct research that simultaneously harnesses epidemiology's persuasive power in social worlds like public health and public policy, while also critically challenging legacies of colonialist erasures and misrepresentations of Indigenous health in population statistics. By demonstrating how these continual translations across multiple social worlds enact expertise, this analysis offers a new integration of discussions about both coloniality and expertise within science and technology studies (STS). By focusing on the experiences of technoscientific professionals themselves, this study's findings also pose new questions for broader STS conversations about how activism is shaping the production of knowledge about health in the twenty-first century

Aotearoa · Ethnography · Health equity · Indigenous · Political science · Population · Population health · Public health · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Race, Genetics, and Society