Potential Futures for a Healthy City. Community, Knowledge, and Hope for the Sciences of Life

• Autores: Michael J. Montoya
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 7, 2013 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Potentiality and humanness : revisiting the anthropological object in contemporary biomedicine), págs. 45-55
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper is a community-based case study that is used to explore the potentialities of community knowledge for understanding human well-being. Examining how local expertise is mobilized to transform social inequities of health, I clarify the relationship between the potential and potency of community knowledge, the former oriented toward the future and the latter toward an actionable present. Readers are first introduced to a community-based health initiative in which I now work and play. This is followed by a discussion of the definitions of the two key constructs of this paper, community and knowledge. I conclude by assessing the ways community knowledge is an organic epistemological criticism that counters dystopic characterizations of resource-poor settings while releasing the potentialities for the making of healthful lifeworlds now and in the future.