ABSTRACT
This book emphasises the zoonotic pathogens are deeply interwoven into the broader political economies that pervade the modern world. Dynamics of power and politics shape the origin, distribution and consequences of zoonotic infections, as well as the assemblages of research and policy processes that accompany them, in complex and context-specific ways. The diffusion and evolution of a One Health approach to zoonotic disease is especially shaped by different governance and policy regimes. This will require shifting prevailing institutional hierarchies, relationships and norms at multiple levels from the global, regional, national and local which are structured and maintained by broader systems of funding and patronage. One Health must go beyond the rhetoric and develop practical field-based examples, especially those that directly engage with the complex world of political economy. Integrating political economy and community-based participatory analysis, as well as other research methodologies, into the evolving practice of One Health will require learning and adaptation by research and practitioner networks.
