ABSTRACT
One of the aims of this book is to foreground relationships among local cultural and communicative systems, power, politics, and health inequities and show how such inequities play out on the ground in the lives of those that bear the brunt of these inequities. In this chapter, we, similarly, seek to highlight a CHC praxis that explores how local and global knowledge and communicative systems come into play in a marginalized community as an individual or an organization (from outside the community) facilitates pathways for the transformation of the health and lives of members of the community. Lessons learned from New Light’s and Urmi Basu’s journey with a community of sex workers in Kalighat, Kolkata, are illustrative and instructive in this context. Hopefully, the readers will see how critical health initiatives that aim to transform the lives of the marginalized in meaningful ways came to fruition.
