Article ID: CBB333040850

Through a Critical Lens: Expertise in Epidemiology for and by Indigenous Peoples (2020)

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Epidemiology for and by Indigenous peoples uses quantitative and statistical methods to better document Indigenous health concerns, and is oriented around providing data for use in advocacy to promote Indigenous health equity. This advocacy-oriented, technoscientific work bridges the often distinct social worlds of Indigenous communities, professional public health research, and public policy-making. Using examples from a multisited ethnographic study in three settings (Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawai’i, and the continental United States), this paper examines the forms of expertise that researcher/practitioners enact as they conduct research that simultaneously harnesses epidemiology’s persuasive power in social worlds like public health and public policy, while also critically challenging legacies of colonialist erasures and misrepresentations of Indigenous health in population statistics. By demonstrating how these continual translations across multiple social worlds enact expertise, this analysis offers a new integration of discussions about both coloniality and expertise within science and technology studies (STS). By focusing on the experiences of technoscientific professionals themselves, this study’s findings also pose new questions for broader STS conversations about how activism is shaping the production of knowledge about health in the twenty-first century.

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Authors & Contributors
Archer, Seth
Ballester Añón, Rosa
Beattie, James
Brookes, Barbara L.
Brown, Philip C.
Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen
Journals
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Social Studies of Science
American Quarterly
Cold War History
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
History and Anthropology
Publishers
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Yale University
Cambridge University Press
Duke University Press
McGill-Queen's University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Colonialism
Public health
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Public policy
Political activists and activism
Agriculture
People
Fauci, Anthony S.
Nye, Mary Jo
Sabin, Florence Rena
Trump, Donald H.
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Modern
20th century, late
Places
United States
Hawaii (U.S.)
New Zealand
Australia
Canada
India
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