ABSTRACT
This edited volume examines the complex entanglements of human, animal, and environmental health. It assembles leading scholars from the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine to explore existing One Health approaches and to envision a mode of health that is both more-than-human and also more sensitive to, and explicit about, colonial and neocolonial legacies—urging the decolonization of One Health.
While acknowledging the importance of One Health, the volume at the same time critically examines its roots, highlighting the structural biases and power dynamics still at play in this global health regime. The volume is distinctive in its geographic breadth. It travels from Inuit sled dogs in the Arctic to rock hyraxes in Jerusalem, from black-faced spoonbills in Taiwan to street dogs in India, from spittle-bugs on Mallorca’s almond trees to jellyfish management at sea, and from rabies in sub-Saharan Africa to massive culling practices in South Korea. Together, the contributors call for One Health to move toward a more transparent, plural, and just perception of health that takes seriously the role of more-than-humans and of nonscientific knowledges, pointing to ways in which One Health can—and should—be decolonized.
This volume will appeal to researchers and practitioners in the medical humanities, posthumanities, environmental humanities, science and technology studies, animal studies, multispecies ethnography, anthrozoology, and critical public health.
The Open Access version of chapter 1, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003294085, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Funded by the Wellcome Trust.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|72 pages
Situating One Health: Histories and Practice
chapter 4|19 pages
One Health, Surveillance, and the Pandemic Treaty
part II|58 pages
Expanding One Health: Beyond the Human‑Animal-Environment Triad
chapter 5|20 pages
Between Healthy and Degraded Oceans
part III|54 pages
Othering One Health
chapter 8|16 pages
The One Health Initiative and a Deeper Engagement with Animal Health and Wellbeing
chapter 9|20 pages
Can Camaraderie Help Us Do Better than Compassion and Love for Nonhuman Health?
part IV|64 pages
Decolonizing One Health: Toward Postcolonial and Indigenous Knowledges