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From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries
The concept of Planetary Health has recently emerged in the global North as a concern with the global effects of degraded natural systems on human health. It calls for urgent and transformative actions. However, the problem and the call to solve it are far from new. Planetary health is a colonial ap...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8222522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.637897 |
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author | Baquero, Oswaldo Santos Benavidez Fernández, Mario Nestor Acero Aguilar, Myriam |
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description | The concept of Planetary Health has recently emerged in the global North as a concern with the global effects of degraded natural systems on human health. It calls for urgent and transformative actions. However, the problem and the call to solve it are far from new. Planetary health is a colonial approach that disregards alternative knowledge that over millennia have accumulated experiences of sustainable and holistic lifestyles. It reinforces the monolog of modernity without realizing that threats to “planetary health” reside precisely in its very approach. It insists on imposing its recipes on political, epistemological, and ontological peripheries created and maintained through coloniality. The Latin American decolonial turn has a long tradition in what could be called a “transformative action,” going beyond political and economic crises to face a more fundamental crisis of civilization. It deconstructs, with other decolonial movements, the fallacy of a dual world in which the global North produces epistemologies, while the rest only benefit from and apply those epistemologies. One Health of Peripheries is a field of praxis in which the health of multispecies collectives and the environment they comprise is experienced, understood, and transformed within symbolic and geographic peripheries, ensuing from marginalizing apparatuses. In the present article, we show how the decolonial promotion of One Health of Peripheries contributes to think and advance decentralized and plural practices to attend to glocal realities. We propose seven actions for such promotion. |
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spelling | pubmed-82225222021-06-25 From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries Baquero, Oswaldo Santos Benavidez Fernández, Mario Nestor Acero Aguilar, Myriam Front Public Health Public Health The concept of Planetary Health has recently emerged in the global North as a concern with the global effects of degraded natural systems on human health. It calls for urgent and transformative actions. However, the problem and the call to solve it are far from new. Planetary health is a colonial approach that disregards alternative knowledge that over millennia have accumulated experiences of sustainable and holistic lifestyles. It reinforces the monolog of modernity without realizing that threats to “planetary health” reside precisely in its very approach. It insists on imposing its recipes on political, epistemological, and ontological peripheries created and maintained through coloniality. The Latin American decolonial turn has a long tradition in what could be called a “transformative action,” going beyond political and economic crises to face a more fundamental crisis of civilization. It deconstructs, with other decolonial movements, the fallacy of a dual world in which the global North produces epistemologies, while the rest only benefit from and apply those epistemologies. One Health of Peripheries is a field of praxis in which the health of multispecies collectives and the environment they comprise is experienced, understood, and transformed within symbolic and geographic peripheries, ensuing from marginalizing apparatuses. In the present article, we show how the decolonial promotion of One Health of Peripheries contributes to think and advance decentralized and plural practices to attend to glocal realities. We propose seven actions for such promotion. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8222522/ /pubmed/34178913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.637897 Text en Copyright © 2021 Baquero, Benavidez Fernández and Acero Aguilar. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Public Health Baquero, Oswaldo Santos Benavidez Fernández, Mario Nestor Acero Aguilar, Myriam From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries |
title | From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries |
title_full | From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries |
title_fullStr | From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries |
title_full_unstemmed | From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries |
title_short | From Modern Planetary Health to Decolonial Promotion of One Health of Peripheries |
title_sort | from modern planetary health to decolonial promotion of one health of peripheries |
topic | Public Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8222522/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34178913 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2021.637897 |
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