Embodied Politics
208 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:13 May 2022
ISBN:9780813589497
Hardcover
Release Date:13 May 2022
ISBN:9780813589503
Embodied Politics
Indigenous Migrant Activism, Cultural Competency, and Health Promotion in California
Rutgers University Press
Embodied Politics illuminates the influential force of public health promotion in indigenous migrant communities by examining the Indigenous Health Project (IHP), a culturally and linguistically competent initiative that uses health workshops, health messages, and social programs to mitigate the structural vulnerability of Oaxacan migrants in California. Embodied Politics reconstructs how this initiative came to exist and describes how it operates. At the same time, it points out the conflicts, resistances, and counter-acts that emerge through the IHP’s attempts to guide the health behaviors and practices of Triqui and Mixteco migrants. Arguing for a structurally competent approach to migrant health, Embodied Politics shows how efforts to promote indigenous health may actually reinforce the same social and political economic forces, namely structural racism and neoliberalism, that are undermining the health of indigenous Oaxacans in Mexico and the United States.
Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future.
Embodied Politics: Health Promotion in Indigenous Mexican Migrant Communities is timely, well-researched, and well-written. It was a pleasure to read and I look forward to using and recommending it in the future.
REBECCA J. HESTER is an assistant professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. She is a co-editor of Translocalities/
Preface
Chapter 1 The Paradoxical Politics of Health Promotion
Chapter 2 Structural Violence, Migrant Activism, and Indigenous Health
Chapter 3 The “Mexican Model” of Health: Examining the Travels and Translations of Health Promotion
Chapter 4 Números, Números, Números: Making Health Programs Accountable
Chapter 5 Cultural Sensitivity Training and the Cultural Politics of Teaching Tolerance
Chapter 6 La Lucha Sigue: Migrant Activism and the Ongoing Struggle to Promote Indigenous Health
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Chapter 1 The Paradoxical Politics of Health Promotion
Chapter 2 Structural Violence, Migrant Activism, and Indigenous Health
Chapter 3 The “Mexican Model” of Health: Examining the Travels and Translations of Health Promotion
Chapter 4 Números, Números, Números: Making Health Programs Accountable
Chapter 5 Cultural Sensitivity Training and the Cultural Politics of Teaching Tolerance
Chapter 6 La Lucha Sigue: Migrant Activism and the Ongoing Struggle to Promote Indigenous Health
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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