Yacobi, H;
Ram, M;
(2022)
Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa.
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
10.1080/13530194.2022.2038085.
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Abstract
This article focuses on Israel’s export of medical knowledge to African states during the 1960s. Its aims are twofold. First, to evaluate and discuss the place of medical assistance and health aid within scholarship, examining the relationships between Israel and African states. Second, it will show how a discussion of Israel’s medical and health projects are linked to the regional geopolitics that shape the movement of materials, individuals and knowledge between Africa and the Middle East. By exploring the themes of security and geopolitics, positionality towards Africa, and the movement of knowledge; resources and people this paper unravel how deployment of medical aid and development assistance of health were entwined into the effort to secure Israel’s regional geopolitical objectives to position itself in proximity to different polities in Africa and interchangeably confirmed and challenged Israel’s presence in the continent. Unpacking the place of health and medical knowledge, enables a better understanding of the reciprocal relations between medical knowledge, the spaces this knowledge shapes, and the sites where it is produced.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Zionism in a white coat: Israel’s geopolitics of medical aid development assistance of health to Africa |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13530194.2022.2038085 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2038085 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142036 |
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