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  • Offline: A canon for global...
    Horton, Richard

    The Lancet (British edition), 09/2019, Letnik: 394, Številka: 10201
    Journal Article

    Or Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o who, in Secure the Base (2016), points out how western nations “Keep Africa eternally weak, eternally divided, eternally fighting religious wars, eternally buying weapons of war, eternally using the military against African populations, eternally assuming that the West, Europe in particular, is heaven.” Erin Babnik/Alamy Stock Photo Massimiliano Donati/Awakening/Getty Images Writing, notes Arundhati Roy in her recently published collected non-fiction (My Seditious Heart, 2019), is for her about uncovering “the relationship between power and powerlessness and the endless, circular conflict they’re engaged in”. Over 20 years of writing fiction and non-fiction (her two novels, The God of Small Things 1997 and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness 2017, are investigations into the politics of the personal), Roy has constructed a surprising and compelling contribution to the canon of global health. ...those struggles must take place not in parliaments or courtrooms, but “in the fields, the mountains, the river valleys, the city streets, and university campuses”.