Mara Linden

Global health in crisis? Global health politics between economic rationalities, securitization and crisis response

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, health has become a central topic in both policy and research. In her dissertation project, Mara also looks at COVID-19, although she sees the pandemic in line with general developments in global health. In the past few decades, global health politics has been characterized by shifts and restructurings sustainably changing and modifying the field. Under restructurings, such as a securitization as well as economization, health is treated as a biopolitical issue as well as intertwined with economic and political security. COVID-19 as a “burning lens” has emphasized the previous changes: Questions of public health, conditions of globalisation such as trade and tourism, and restrictions in daily life are being negotiated in a new / different form than before.

Global health is here understood as an assemblage framed by different actors, knowledges, rationalities, technologies and practices. In this framework, Mara is posing questions such as: What socio-political rationalities can be observed in global health politics in Germany? How are they framed in socio-technical apparatuses, technologies and regulations – how is global health politics framed, e.g., in strategies and policy papers, and by which decisions is this influenced?

• Linden, Mara (2020) Auswirkungen der Pandemie: Gesundheitskrise, Ökonomie und Ungleichheit. Geographica Helvelvetica 75, S.307–313, https://doi.org/10.5194/gh-75-307-2020.
• Linden, Mara (2020) Globale Gesundheitspolitik und Ökonomie. Beitrag zur Reihe "Sicherheit in der Krise", Soziopolis, https://www.soziopolis.de/beobachten/gesellschaft/artikel/globale-gesundheitspolitik-und-oekonomie/.

• 27.01.2023: „Zeit, Temperatur, Impfstoff: Die sozio-technischen Herausforderungen der COVID-Impfstoffspenden“. Neue Kulturgeographie, 26.-28.01.2023, Halle (Saale). 
• 23.09.2022: „Gesundheitssicherheit, Gesundheitsschutz und Pandemic Preparedness“. Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreis Medizinische Geographie und Geographische Gesundheitsforschung, 22.-24.09.2022, Bonn. 
• 10.06.2022: „Critical Logistics: Vaccine stockpiles, donations and their missing links“. Global Conference on Economic Geography, 7.-10.06.2022, Dublin, Irland.
• 08.10.2021: Gesundheitsschutz oder Gesundheitssicherheit? Rationalitäten und Praktiken der globalen Gesundheit. #GeoWoche2021 (virtuelle Konferenz der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie), 05.-09.10.2021.
• 19.08.2020: Securitizing Global Health - Global Health Politics Between Preparedness, Security and Economy. Joint Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, 18.-21.08.2020, virtuell in Prag.
• 08.07.2020: Globale Gesundheitspolitik zwischen ökonomischer Rationalität und Regieren im Ausnahmezustand (mitPeter Lindner). Online Symposium: COVID-19 als Zäsur? Geographische Perspektiven auf Räume, Gesellschaften und Technologien in der Pandemie, 06.-08.07.2020.
• 29.09.2019: Financial Literacy as Empowerment? The OECD and its promotion of financial literacy for women as a form of coordination between states and markets. Deutscher Kongress für Geographie 2019, 25.-30.09.2019, Kiel.

Summer semester 2023:

• Geographien der Gesundheit
  BA-Seminar Humangeographie
• Birmingham: Britain after Brexit
  Internationale Metropolregionen I & II 

Summer semester 2022:

• Geographien der Gesundheit
  BA-Seminar Wirtschafts-, Stadt oder Sozialgeographie
• Forschungsseminar 1
  BA-Kurs, Teil des Abschlussmoduls 

Winter semester 2021/2022:

• Forschungsseminar 1
  BA-Kurs, Teil des Abschlussmoduls

Summer semester 2021: